Research
A new study, co-authored by Professor Anant Sudarshan, shows that doorstep delivery of water is a highly cost-effective way of enabling near universal adopti...
A new study, co-authored by Professor Anant Sudarshan, shows that doorstep delivery of water is a highly cost-effective way of enabling near universal adopti...
Dr Amrita Kulka and Dr Nikhil Datta have analysed billions of UK homebuyer searches, rental and sales listings, actual build patterns, and planning applicati...
The Centre for the Analysis of Taxation (CenTax), jointly founded and led by Warwick Economics Professor Arun Advani, is a key member of a coalition of think...
Professor Sascha Becker was formally inducted as a Fellow of the Econometric Society at its 2025 World Congress by Society President Larry Samuelson.
A new study, co-authored by Professor Anant Sudarshan, shows that doorstep delivery of water is a highly cost-effective way of enabling near universal adopti...
Dr Amrita Kulka and Dr Nikhil Datta have analysed billions of UK homebuyer searches, rental and sales listings, actual build patterns, and planning applicati...
The Centre for the Analysis of Taxation (CenTax), jointly founded and led by Warwick Economics Professor Arun Advani, is a key member of a coalition of think...
Professor Sascha Becker was formally inducted as a Fellow of the Econometric Society at its 2025 World Congress by Society President Larry Samuelson.
Professor Arun Advani and the CenTax team attended the Labour and Conservative party conferences again this year, hosting a total of four panels alongside th...
Rules banning multibuy deals on foods and drinks high in fat, salt, or sugar – including buy one get one free (BOGOF) deals come into force today after...
Congratulations to Dr Bhaskar Chakravorty. Dr Nikhil Datta, Dr Amrita Kulka and Dr Marta Santamaria on their success in the Policy Support Fund 2025 round.
The government has announced a new “Pride in Place” programme – empowering communities to buy up boarded shops, reclaim derelict pubs, and ...
Professor James Fenske is one of 63 new Fellows appointed this week to the Academy of Social Sciences, the national academy of academics, practitioners and l...
Professor Francesco Squintani has been appointed to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029 Econometrics and Economics sub-panel following an open recru...
The first evidence-based assessment of how the Government’s Inheritance Tax (IHT) reform would affect farm estates has been published by the Centre for...
Autonomy – the feeling of control over how, when and where work gets done - has become recognised as a key driver of employee satisfaction and producti...
New analysis by an international team including Professor Sonia Bhalotra of Warwick Economics and CAGE finds a strong link between job loss and domestic viol...
Does access to real-time information about air pollution levels change how people feel about living close to a recycling plant?
Commenting on the recommendations of the Tackling Violence against Women and Girls inquiry, to which she submitted written evidence, Professor Sonia Bhalotra...
May’s local elections saw a surge in support for the right-wing populist party Reform. What might be driving this swing away from mainstream parties? D...
The UK’s biofuels policy has been quietly pushing up pump prices and making them more volatile, but the resulting environmental gains are found to outw...
Evidence submitted by Professor Thiemo Fetzer to the Public Accounts Committee’s inquiry into the Use of AI in Government has been cited in the Committ...
The THRIVING Food Futures project, a consortium of researchers including Professor Thijs van Rens of the University of Warwick, has been awarded a five-year ...
A new study finds that reducing users’ exposure to toxic content on major social media platforms reduces their engagement across a variety of metrics, ...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves MP has delivered a major policy speech outlining a number of changes to UK planning law, including a pledge to "int...
Mark Zuckerberg has announced changes to moderation on Meta platforms, including an end to independent fact-checking on its platforms, increases in the amoun...
This report, by Teve Markson, was first published in Civil Service World on 20 December 2024.
Italian higher education leader Professor Giovanna Iannantuoni visited Warwick University and the Department of Economics last month as part of her mission t...
Professor Stefano Caria has recently featured in the VoxDevTalks podcast series, discussing new work in the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Pol...
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...