PhD Areas and Topics in Economics

Administration
Director of Taught Masters in Economics
Postgraduate Admission Tutor
Member of Teaching and Learning Committee
Member of the Postgraduate Committee
Member of Chairs and Readerships Committee

Other Roles:
Research Fellow Institute for Labor Studies IZA (Bonn) www.iza.org

Publications Since 2000

• Asian-White Male Wage Differentials in the United States (With Jie Wang). Forthcoming: APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS.
• Foreign Aid and the Question of Fungibility - The Case of Bangladesh (With R Titumir). Forthcoming: THE BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS.
• Returns to Schooling in Kazakhstan: OLS and Instrumental Variable Approach (with a Mussorov). ECONOMICS OF TRANSITION, 2007, vol 15 (2), pp. 341-364.
• Variations in Gay Pay in the UK and USA, (With Alan Marin and Jonathan Jadsworth), in SEXUAL ORIENTATION DISCRIMINATION: AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH, Lee Badgett and Jeff Frank (eds.), Routledge. Forthcoming: 2007.
• If Not Computers Then What? Returns to Computer Use in the UK Revisited, (With Alan Marin). APPLIED ECONOMICS, 2006, vol 38 (21) pp. 2462-2467.
• Gay Pay in the UK (with A Marin and J Wadsworth), CentrePiece, Summer 2006, pp. 17-19.
• Changes in Human Capital and Earnings Inequality: Recent Evidence from Brazil (With Andrew Henley and F.G. Carneiro). JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, vol 42(5), 2006, pp. 837-867.
• Gay Pay in the UK (with Alan Marin and Jonathan Wadsworth). ECONOMICA, vol. 72, 2005, pp. 333-347.
• In the Pink: Homosexual-Heterosexual Wage Differentials in the UK (With A. Marin and J. Wadsworth). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER, vol 25 (3-4), 2004, pp. 343-354.
• The Impact of Computer Use on Earnings in the UK (With Javad Emami and Alan Marin). THE SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, vol. 15(1), 2004, pp. 82-94.
• Leff Was Right After All: New Evidence on Dependency Rates and Savings Rates (With M. Cowling). THE BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS, 3(1), 2003, pp. 17-22.
• From Farashia to Military Uniform (With Lamine Manfor). ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURAL CHANGE, 50(4), 2002, pp. 1007-1021.
• The Economic Impact of Tourism in Peru . (With A. Delgado) THE BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS, 2(3), 2002, pp. 31-43.
• Non-Linearities in Returns to Education in Libya (With Lamine Manfor). EDUCATION ECONOMICS, 9 (2), 2001, pp. 139-144.
• Self-Selectivity Bias with a Continuous Variable: Potential Pitfalls in a Common Procedure (With Alan Marin). APPLIED ECONOMICS, 33, 2001, pp. 1903-1910.
• Farewell to Arms: Returns to Education in Tajikistan , (With Altay Mussurov). Published in ‘Contemporary Issues of Education and Science in the Beginning of the Centaury: International Scientific-Practical Conference Dedicated to the 10th Anniversary of the Independence of Kazakhstan ’, August 2001, pp. 6-12.
• And a Vision Appeared Unto Them of a Great Profit: Evidence of Self-Deception Among the Self-Employed (With David de Meza, John Maloney and Bernard Pearson). ECONOMICS LETTERS, 67, 2000, pp. 35-41.
• Male-Female Earnings Differentials in an Islamic Country: The Case of Highly Educated Egyptians, EDUCATION ECONOMICS, 8(2), 2000, pp. 129-138.
• Stability of the Estimates of the Compensation for Danger, (With A.  Marin), JOURNAL OF RISK AND UNCERTAINTY, 20(3), 2000, pp. 247-269.