Experts

I am an applied microeconomist and my current work falls broadly into two categories: (i) skill development and parenting and (ii) mental health and features of the school environment. In general, I am interested in exploring mechanisms impacting skill development and mental health among children and adolescence that may be relevant for policy.

Dennis Novy is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and an Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics. He works on international trade, international economics and macroeconomics. Dennis was appointed to the UK Council of Economic Advisers in 2018. He was the Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Ilan Noy is the Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. His research and teaching focus on the economic aspects of hazards, disasters, and climate change, and other related topics. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, a journal published by SpringerNature.

Laurence has worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 2020 as a Research Economist in the Retirement, Saving and Ageing sector. He currently works on projects related to pension savings over the lifecycle and the labour market activity of older workers. Prior to joining the IFS, he worked as a research professional at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Martin is Deputy Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and heads the Consumption Sector. His research focuses on public economics, industrial organisation and applied microeconometrics. He has published several articles on the effects and design of public policy aimed at altering consumer and firm behaviour.

Morten is a macroeconomist who has interests both in applied macroeconomics and in macroeconomic theory. Recent work has been concerned with a wide range of topics surrounding monetary and fiscal policy, aggregate business cycles, inequality and incomplete markets, and using external instruments for identification in macroeconometrics. I am a professor of economics at University College London, research fellow of the CEPR, board member of the Danish National Research Foundation and a founding