Selected Projects - Nuffield College Oxford University

Our academics undertake a wide range of research and are driven not only to advance knowledge in the social sciences but also to engage widely beyond the realms of academia in order to spread the benefits and impacts of their findings.

Please browse our selection of projects through the links below.

The British Election Study

The British Election Study (BES) is one of the longest running election studies worldwide and the longest running social science survey in the UK.

International NGOs and the Long Humanitarian Century

Legacy, Legitimacy, and Leading into the Future

Auction theory

Using auction theory to support financial stability

Social change and everyday life

Modelling the activity sequences that constitute everyday life

Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy

What explains comparative long-run growth performance?

Prenatal sex-selection

Understanding the driving forces of prenatal sex-selection in the Southern Caucasus

Dependence of Random Variables

An economically-grounded ordering of dependence of random variables: Theory and applications

Politics of wealth inequality

The Politics of Wealth Inequality and Mobility in the Twenty-First Century

Discontinuities in household

Discontinuities in Household and Family Formation (DisCont)

Economic Modelling

Developing robust methods of economic modelling and forecasting.

Family size matters

Family size matters: How low fertility affects the (re)production of social inequalities

Public opinion on Brexit

Fixed, Crystallising or Diverging: Attitude formation and change in the run-up to Brexit

Female Genital Cutting

Understanding the causes and consequences of female genital cutting (FGC).

Genes and reproductive behaviour

Unravelling the genetic influences of reproductive behaviour and gene-environment interaction (Sociogenome)

A Millennium of Macro- economic Data

A broad set of macroeconomic and financial data for the UK from the 13th century.

The New Class War

The New Class War: the marginalisation of the working class in British politics

Physical capital formation

Physical capital formation in Britain and Holland in the long run

UK public spending control

The history of UK public spending control 1993-2015

Politics of the future

The Politics of the Future? Negotiating Tomorrow’s Uncertainties in Diverse Political Conditions

The Capitalizing of Central Banks

A study of the economic and political consequences of central bank policy

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