Latest
  • 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

05/2026
  • Paper
The generational health drift: A systematic review of evidence from the British birth cohort studies

Paper in Population Studies by Laura Gimeno et al., including Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Jennifer B. Dowd

05/2026
  • Preprint
Child development in unequal contexts: Cognitive trajectories of children born to adolescent mothers in South Africa

Preprint by Katherine Morse et al., including Nuffield Fellow Lucie Cluver, and Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Janina Jochim

05/2026
  • News & Media
Populism and the billionaire backlash

Episode of the Oxford Policy Pod featuring Nuffield Fellow Pepper Culpepper

05/2026
  • Paper
Leveraging high-frequency digital data to analyze forced displacement dynamics: A case study from the Gaza Strip

Paper in Population and Development Review by Edith Darin, Nuffield Fellow Ridhi Kashyap and Associate Member Douglas R. Leasure

05/2026
  • Report
Time is money: How regulators can support growth

Report from the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee citing evidence from Nuffield Warden Julia Black

05/2026
  • Paper
Bounding treatment effects by pooling limited information across observations

Paper in Journal of Econometrics by Sokbae Lee and Nuffield Fellow Martin Weidner