Students and Post-Docs

Current Doctoral Students

Hubert Wu. Hubert is a third year on the M/DPhil program. Amongst a number of projects he is working on nonparametric methods to improve multilateral index number methods.

Stefania Merone. Stefania is a third year on the M/DPhil program working on information encoding in choice under risk. I supervise Stefania jointly with Miguel Ballester.

Recent Doctoral Students

Emily Oehlsen. Emily defended her thesis in July 2024. She leads the Global Health and Well-being work at Open Philanthropy.

Sam Altmann. Sam defended his thesis in 2023 has a lectureship at Queen Mary University of London.

Merrilyn Groom. Merrilyn successfully defended her thesis in April 2023 and works at RAND Europe.

Jess Milligan. Jess defended her thesis in 2021. She is a consultant for Frontier Economics (Paris).

Daniel Kaliski. Daniel took up a lectureship at Birkbeck in September 2019.

Josh Lanier. Josh defended his thesis in June 2018. He initially did a post-doc at ULB and is now Assistant Professor of Economics at the China Center for Behavioral Economics and Finance at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China.

Eileen Tipoe. Eileen completed her doctorate in July 2017. She is a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London.

Abi Adams. Abi completed in 2013. Having been a post-doc at Yale she is now a Statutory Professor of Economics at Oxford.

Teaching & Admin

I am Group Chair of the Economics Group at Nuffield College and Assoc. Head for Resources (Deputy Head of Department) in the Economics Department.

I supervise DPhil and MPhil theses, teach Advanced Empirical Research Methods to students on the M/DPhil in Economics, Quantitative Methods to students on the MSc in Economics for Development and Introduction to Probability & Statistics and Introduction to Microeconomics to undergraduate students reading Philosophy, Politics & Economics, Economics & Management and History & Economics.