Research
After four decades of dedicated service, Professor Wiji Arulampalam, a distinguished member of the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, is r...
After four decades of dedicated service, Professor Wiji Arulampalam, a distinguished member of the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, is r...
The recent COP29 discussions in Baku have drawn attention once more to an underlying tension - climate campaigners tend to regard metals and minerals, as wel...
A project led by Professor Thiemo Fetzer has won one of this year’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) Research Excellence Awards.
Dr Ludovica Gazze, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, has been awarded a significant research grant by the Nuffield Foundation to...
After four decades of dedicated service, Professor Wiji Arulampalam, a distinguished member of the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, is r...
The recent COP29 discussions in Baku have drawn attention once more to an underlying tension - climate campaigners tend to regard metals and minerals, as wel...
A project led by Professor Thiemo Fetzer has won one of this year’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) Research Excellence Awards.
Dr Ludovica Gazze, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, has been awarded a significant research grant by the Nuffield Foundation to...
Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury James Murray MP was the keynote speaker at a Parliamentary reception held on 11 November 2024 to officially launch the ne...
Professor Sonia Bhalotra organized a two-day workshop bringing together economists from the UK, Europe, America and India to share ongoing research and its i...
The ESRC Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), based in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, has been awarded &...
Professor Giovanni Ricco has been nominated to the Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee (EABCD). Founded in 2003, the committee works to map and date re...
Warwick Economics alumnus and honorary graduate Professor James Robinson (Honorary Doctorate 2015, MA Economics 1985-86) is one of three economists jointly a...
Workers on zero-hour contracts (ZHC) face lower wages and significantly higher turnover rates, yet such jobs have 25% more applicants than a permanent positi...
Affordable home ownership is at its lowest for 30 years with house prices now eight times higher than the average salary.
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from UK universities, government health agencies and the NHS focused on reducing the harm caused by lead in our envir...
In the popular imagination, a marketplace is somewhere you can expect to be cheated – so much so that the English language has several idioms, from buy...
Low-performing, disadvantaged schools notoriously struggle to attract and retain high-quality teachers.
Local artists, schoolchildren and their families in Radford, members of Coventry City Council and University of Warwick researchers have teamed up for a uniq...
Two members of the Department are taking on leadership roles in the University’s Research Spotlight programme, a new programme designed to promote coll...
A new research project launched today by a partnership including the University of Warwick will explore how shoppers can be encouraged to make more sustainab...
Delegating tax-and-spend powers to local government risks limiting the ability of local authorities to respond to environmental disasters, according to new r...
Historical experience of battles fought with physically-demanding weapons created a preference for sons over daughters which persists to the present day, acc...
Advice given by Professor Dennis Novy to the London Assembly Economy Committee has been reflected in the Committee’s formal recommendations to Mayor of...
Many factors contribute to the persistence of pay disparities between women and men in the workplace, from unequal responsibility for caring for children to ...
Arun Advani, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, has been appointed as a member of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (O...
A new study from Warwick Economics has revealed that a region trades with itself much more than with other regions in the same country, or with regions in di...
Dr Nathan Canen joined the Department of Economics in April 2023. Here he discusses his work in the areas of political economy and econometrics, and what att...
A behavioural experiment led by researchers from the University of Warwick and University College London has revealed how poorer people are willing to contri...
Research from Warwick Economics and the University of Munich has offered a new explanation for why tax systems have failed to address rising levels of inequa...
The Department of Economics was this year's host for the Economic History Society (EHS) Annual Conference. Founded in 1926, the EHS is a registered charity a...
The Department congratulates recent PhD graduate Ozge Demirci, who has won the CESifo Distinguished Affiliate Award for her research in the economics of digi...
People in their midlife are disproportionately more likely to suffer from clinical depression, take their own lives, become dependent on alcohol, have troubl...
Homes in conservation areas may be responsible for between 3 and 4million tons of avoidable CO2 emissions every year.
New research led by the Department of Economics has shed light on how eating and exercise habits changed during lock-down – or, in fact, how they chang...
New research co-authored by Dr Nikhil Datta of Warwick Economics, CAGE and the LSE hit the headlines last week with its key finding that leaving the European...
A new paper from Dr Anant Sudarshan, co-authored with Dr Eyal Frank of the University of Chicago, studies the impact on human well-being of the sudden collap...
A new study reveals the growing influence of wealthy individuals in political affairs, particularly in the affairs of the Conservative party. The report also...
Do pre-election opinion polls simply record voting intentions, or can they actually influence voters’ choices?
Professor Sascha Becker, who divides his time between Warwick and Monash University, Australia, has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sci...
In the UK, small and medium size firms (SMEs - firms with less than 250 employees) are very important to the economy: they account for three fifths of the em...
Residents of Coventry and Warwickshire were able to hear from Professor Omer Moav about a 17-year research project which has challenged conventional ways of ...
Professor Stefano Caria has been awarded a 2022 Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust in recognition of his outstanding work and future promise.
People's assessment of their own feelings on a numerical scale has no objective basis but is a better predictor of major life changes such as moving house, l...
Research by Warwick Economics PhD student Karmini Sharma has demonstrated the effectiveness of training interventions in reducing sexual harassment behaviour.
Research from Warwick economists and collaborators, published in the World Development journal, has revealed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young mig...
A new study from the University of Warwick, University of Bari and University of Birmingham suggests that local governments are restricted from effectively a...
The tenth edition of the Warwick Economics PhD Conference was held on 8th-9th June 2022 at the Department of Economics. The event was organised by PhD studen...
New University of Warwick research shows consumers are paying 40% more than marginal cost for fruit and vegetables
New research from the Department of Economics shows that right-wing populist political parties have a significant negative impact on climate change policy &n...
Global maternal mortality rates rise and fall depending on which political party is in power in the US, a new study shows.
We congratulate Thiemo Fetzer, Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and CAGE Research Theme Leader, on his appointment to the Editorial Board ...
We are delighted to announce that Sascha Becker, Professor of Economics, has become Associate Editor at the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
