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  • Paper
September 2026
Why the mortality penalty of smoking is rising over time

Paper in PNAS Nexus by Ralph Lawton, Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Jennifer Beam Dowd, Jonathan Skinner and Ellen Meara

  • Preprint
September 2026
The impact of an ageing population on pandemic risk in England

medRxiv preprint by Nuffield Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Thomas Rawson, Pablo N. Perez-Guzman, Edward S. Knock, Christian Morgenstern, Nuffield Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Daniel Valdenegro, Katy A.M. Gaythorpe, Lilith K. Whittles, Wes Hinsley, Raphael Sonabend, Richard G. FitzJohn, Anne Cori, Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Jennifer Beam Dowd, Jakub Bijak, Neil M. Ferguson and Nuffield Fellow Melinda C. Mills

  • News & Media
September 2026
Research reveals how Russia’s ‘thieves-in-law’ fraternity governs prisons from afar

Sociology Department news story covering the recent paper
Criminal governance in Russian prisons by Elena Racheva and Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Federico Varese

  • News & Media
September 2026
Is 50 the new 60?

Data for Health Substack post by Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Jenn Dowd

07/2026
  • Preprint
How to disrupt a market

arXiv preprint by Nuffield Alumnus Edoardo Gallo, Rebecca Heath, Associate Member (& Alumnus) Jonathan Lusthaus and Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Federico Varese

07/2026
  • Preprint
Tax reform as a constrained optimization problem: a piecewise-linear framework and software implementation

arXiv preprint by Nuffield Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Mark Verhagen, Menno Schellekens and Michael Garstka

07/2026
  • News & Media
Why housing markets fail and how to fix them

University of Oxford news story highlighting the research of Nuffield Senior Research Fellow John Muellbauer

07/2026
  • Preprint
The political consequences of energy price shocks: evidence from Germany

CESifo working paper by Théo Konc et al., including DPhil student Jacob Edenhofer

07/2026
  • Paper
NATO’s Nuclear types: Vulnerability, defense investment, and alliance strategy preferences

Paper in Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies by Stephen Herzog, J. Luis Rodriguez and Nuffield Fellow Lauren Sukin

07/2026
  • Paper
When children shape their families: Evocative effects analysis of 40,000 trios from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study

Paper in PNAS by Associate Member Evelina T. Akimova, Agnes Fauske, Ruth Eva Jørgensen, Alexandra Havdahl, Elizabeth C. Corfield, Nuffield Fellow Melinda C. Mills and Torkild Hovde Lyngstad