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The Department provides a focus for a very diverse and internationally renowned group of academic economists, many of whom have made major recent contributions to modern economic analysis. With 78.5 full-time equivalent researchers, Oxford Economics was by far the largest group of economists submitted to the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise conducted jointly by the UK Higher Education Funding Councils. Within a large group, 95 percent of all research activities were classified as internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour (3* or better), with 40 percent of activities regarded as world leading (4*). This places Oxford with more 4* research activities in total than any other UK Economics Department, see RAE viewer. Research Fortnight also ranks Oxford Economics first for research power, a measure that takes into account of both the quality and the quantity of research submitted.
The Department is committed to excellence in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level. For the second consecutive year, Oxford Economics is ranked first in the UK for the study of economics by the Guardian University Guide, the Complete University Guide and the Times Good University Guide.
Series associated with Department of Economics
Centre for the Study of African Economies - Seminars & Workshops
Centre for the Study of African Economies Conference
CSAE Research Podcasts
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| 48 | Creative Commons | An Adaptive Targeted Field Experiment: Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan | How can different kinds of policy help refugees and other displaced populations find work? This project focuses on three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes for Syrian refugees and local jobseekers in Jordan. | Stefano Caria, Max Kasy, Simon Quinn | 22 Feb 2024 |
| 47 | Cash Transfer Grants in South Africa during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Work Behind the ESRC Outstanding Public Policy Impact Award 2023 | The CSAE's Kate Orkin has won the ESRC award for Outstanding Public Policy Impact 2023. Stefan Dercon talks to Kate about the work behind the cash grant programme in South Africa during the Covid-19 pandemic that reached an extra 26.2 million people. | Stefan Dercon, Kate Orkin | 28 Nov 2023 | |
| 46 | Creative Commons | AI and Services-led Growth: Evidence from Indian Job Adverts | Online job adverts show that the demand for AI related skills has grown rapidly in countries around the world since 2015. This project examines the demand for AI skills in India's service sector, using a new dataset of online job adverts. | Alex Copestake, Max Marczinek, Ashley Pople, Katherine Stapleton | 30 Aug 2023 |
| 45 | Creative Commons | Anticipatory Cash Transfers in Climate Disaster Response | Billions of dollars are spent annually on humanitarian support to households in crisis. Researchers discuss a large-scale evaluation that tests the impact of anticipatory cash transfers in response to floods in Bangladesh. | Ben Brunckhorst, Stefan Dercon, Ruth Hill, Ashley Pople | 02 Jun 2023 |
| 44 | Creative Commons | Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large Scale Randomised Trials in Five Countries | Education systems need to withstand shocks that routinely close schools. Researchers discuss results from randomised trials evaluating the provision of education in emergency settings across 5 countries. | Noam Angrist, Claire Cullen, Thato Letsomo, Michael Ainomugisha | 11 May 2023 |
| 43 | Creative Commons | Applying Wise Interventions around the World | Dr Greg Walton and Dr Kate Orkin discuss 'wise interventions', and how social science can use this psychologically approach to understand the major problems in social life - poverty, social exclusion, child abuse, and discrimination. | Kate Orkin, James Walsh, Greg Walton | 30 May 2022 |
| 42 | Strengthening Professionalism and Accountability within the Ghana Police Service using Identity Norms and Narratives | How do we change a corrupt norm? This project looks to address this question through a policy intervention, working with the Ghana Police Service, to try to change the behaviour of the traffic police through an innovative ethics training programme. | Donna Harris, Oana Borcan, Bruno Schettini, Danila Serra | 02 Mar 2022 | |
| 41 | Urbanisation in China and Africa | Can Africa learn from the Chinese urbanisation project? In the next 30 years, African cities need to make zoom for roughly 500 million more citizens, roughly tripling the current urban population. | Astrid Haas, Sebastian Kriticos, Nicolas Lippolis | 22 Jan 2022 | |
| 40 | Under the Hood: Randomised Control Trials on Distance Education During Covid-19 in Botswana | A discussion about some of the first experimental evidence on distance education during the covid-19 pandemic in Botswana. | Noam Angrist, Claire Cullen, Thato Letsomo, Moitshepi Matsheng | 15 Dec 2021 | |
| 39 | Asset-based Microfinance for Microenterprises in Pakistan | Standard microcredit contracts seem to have modest if any effects on the performance of small firms and no effects on household consumption. Could we construct a better design product to improve on the standard contract? | Faisal Bari, Kashif Malik, Pramila Krishnan, Muhammad Meki | 16 Nov 2021 | |
| 38 | CSAE Conference 2017 - Parallel Session 1 Health 1 | Presentations from Parallel Session 1 on the topic of Health. | Yuya Kudo, Pauline Rossi, Cobus Burger, Rulof Burger | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 37 | CSAE Conference 2017 - Parallel Session 2 Time Preferences 1 | Presentations from Parallel Sessions 2 on the topic of Time Preferences. | Rachel Cassidy, Elizabeth Nanziri, David Kunst | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 36 | CSAE Conference 2017 - Plenary 1 African Refugees and Migrants | Presentations and panel discussion from the Opening Plenary of the CSAE Conference 2017. | Isabel Ruiz, Philip Verwimp, Tuesday Reitano | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 35 | CSAE Conference 2017 - Keynote Reflections on evidence in the age of fake news and discredited expertise | Keynote Speech Reflections on evidence in the age of fake news and discredited expertise. | Macartan Humphreys | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 34 | CSAE Conference 2017 - Parallel Session 3 Macroeconomics 2 | Presentations from Parallel Session 3 on the topic of Macroeconomics. | Giovanni Melina, Marina Mendes Tavares, Tim Willems | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 33 | CSAE Conference 2017 - Parallel Session 5 Rural Households 3 | Presentations from Parallel Session 5 on the topic of Rural Households. | Onkokame Mothobi, Nigussie Abadi Mistru, Viviana Perego, Niklas Buehren | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 32 | CSAE Conference 2017 - Parallel Session 6 Firms 5 | Presentations from Parallel Session 6 on the topic of Firms. | Markus Goldstein, Michael Koelle, Victor Pouliquen | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 31 | CSAE Conference 2017 - Parallel Session 7 Labour 5 | Presentation from Parallel Session 7 on the topic of Labour. | Stefano Caria, Rulof Burger, Andrew Kerr, Ababacar Gueye | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 30 | CSAE Conference 2017 - Parallel Sessions 8 Education 5 | Presentations from Parallel Session 8 on the topic of Education. | Berk Özler, Yared Seid, Dirk Van de gaer, Tassew Woldehanna | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 29 | CSAE Conference 2017 - Interview with Philip Verwimp | Plenary speaker Philip Verwimp provides a short overview of his talk at the CSAE Conference 2017 | Philip Verwimp | 28 Sep 2017 | |
| 28 | Creative Commons | CSAE Conference 2016 - Interview with Doug Gollin | Doug Gollin, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of African Economies, provides a brief history of the journal and a short overview of the 25th Anniversary JAE Panel held at the CSAE Conference 2016 | Douglas Gollin | 07 Jun 2016 |
| 27 | CSAE Conference 2016 - Interview with Adrian Wood | Plenary speaker Adrian Wood provides a short overview of his presentation at the CSAE Conference 2016 | Adrian Wood | 07 Jun 2016 | |
| 26 | CSAE Conference 2016 - Interview with Maggie McMillan | Plenary speaker Maggie McMillan provides a short overview of her presentation at the CSAE Conference 2016 | Margaret McMillan | 07 Jun 2016 | |
| 25 | CSAE Conference 2016 - Interview with Augustin Fosu | Plenary speaker Augustin Fosu provides a short overview of his presentation in the JAE 25th Anniversary Panel at the CSAE Conference 2016 | Augustin Fosu | 07 Jun 2016 | |
| 24 | CSAE Conference 2016 - Interview with Steve O'Connell | Plenary speaker Steve O'Connell provides a short overview of his presentation at the CSAE Conference 2016 | Stephen O'Connell | 07 Jun 2016 | |
| 23 | CSAE Conference 2016 - Interview with Helen Hai | Plenary speaker Helen Hai provides a short overview of her presentation at the CSAE Conference 2016 | Helen Hai | 07 Jun 2016 | |
| 22 | CSAE Conference 2016 - Interview with Nebil Kellow | Plenary speaker Nebil Kellow provides a short overview of his presentation at the CSAE Conference 2016 | Nebil Kellow | 07 Jun 2016 | |
| 21 | CSAE Conference 2016 - Interview with Mthuli Ncube | Keynote speaker Mthuli Ncube provides a short overview of his speech at the CSAE Conference 2016 | Mthuli Ncube | 07 Jun 2016 | |
| 20 | CSAE Conference 2016 - Interview with Stefan Dercon | Stefan Dercon, CSAE Director, provides a short overview of the Centre for the Study of African Economies | Stefan Dercon | 07 Jun 2016 | |
| 19 | CSAE Conference 2016 - Vox Pops | Find out a little about the 2016 Conference and hear what some of our participants think | Julia Coffey | 07 Jun 2016 | |
| 18 | CSAE Conference 2015 - Interview with Nava Ashraf | Keynote speaker Nava Ashraf provides an overview of her presentation at the CSAE Conference 2015 | Nava Ashraf | 12 Jun 2015 | |
| 17 | CSAE Conference 2015 - Interview with Michael Clemens | Plenary speaker Michael Clemens provides a short overview of his presentation at the CSAE Conference 2015 | Michael Clemens | 12 Jun 2015 | |
| 16 | CSAE Conference 2015 - Interview with Melanie Morten | Plenary speaker Melanie Morten provides a short overview of her presentation at the CSAE Conference 2015 | Melanie Morten | 12 Jun 2015 | |
| 15 | CSAE Conference 2015 - Interview with Doug Gollin | Plenary speaker Doug Gollin provides a short overview of his presentation at the CSAE Conference 2015 | Douglas Gollin | 12 Jun 2015 | |
| 14 | CSAE Conference 2015 - Vox Pops | Find out a little about the 2015 Conference and hear what some of our participants think | Julia Coffey | 12 Jun 2015 | |
| 13 | CSAE Conference 2014 - Interview with Leonard Wantchekon | Keynote speaker Leonard Wantchekon provides an overview of his presentation at the CSAE Conference 2014 | Leonard Wantchekon | 16 Jun 2014 | |
| 12 | CSAE Conference 2014 - Interview with Kieran Holmes | Plenary speaker Kieran Holmes provides a short overview of his presentation at the CSAE Conference 2014 | Kieran Holmes | 16 Jun 2014 | |
| 11 | CSAE Conference 2014 - Interview with Ignacio Mas | Plenary speaker Ignacio Mas provides a short overview of his presentation at the CSAE Conference 2014 | Ignacio Mas | 16 Jun 2014 | |
| 10 | CSAE Conference 2014 - Interview with William Jack | Plenary speaker William Jack provides a short overview of his presentation at the CSAE Conference 2014 | William Jack | 16 Jun 2014 | |
| 9 | CSAE Conference 2014 - Vox Pops | Find out a little about the 2014 Conference and hear what some of our participants think | Julia Coffey | 06 Jun 2014 | |
| 8 | CSAE Conference 2013 - Vox Pops | Find out a little about the 2013 Conference and hear what some of our participants think | Julia Coffey | 16 May 2014 | |
| 7 | Creative Commons | 7. Is public housing a public bad? Externalities of Chicago's public housing demolitions | Danielle H Sandler (UC Davis) provides a summary of the paper she presented during the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012. | Danielle H sandler | 25 Jun 2012 |
| 6 | Creative Commons | 6. Housing policy in Latin America: Ten myths | Alan Gilbert (University College, London) provides a summary of the paper he presented at the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012. | Alan Gilbert | 25 Jun 2012 |
| 5 | Creative Commons | 5. Scaling up housing finance in Africa | Maria Hoek-Smit (Wharton) provides a summary of her presentation at the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012. | Maria Hoek-Smit | 25 Jun 2012 |
| 4 | Creative Commons | 4. Living conditions, rents and their determinants in the slums of Nairobi and Dakar | Sumila Gulyani (World Bank) provides a summary of the paper she presented during the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012. | Sumila Gulyani | 25 Jun 2012 |
| 3 | Creative Commons | 3. What can we learn from history? | Dr Tim Leunig (Department of Economic History, London School of Economics) provides a summary of his presentation at the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012. | Tim Leunig | 25 Jun 2012 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | 2. Housing the Kenyan urban population: Challenges and policy options | Eric Aligula (Kenyan Institute for Public Policy Research) provides a summary of the paper he presented at the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012. | Eric Aligula | 25 Jun 2012 |
| 1 | Creative Commons | 1. Research on Urban Mass Housing | Paul Collier (Director, CSAE) provides a general background and aims for the 'Research on Urban Mass Housing' workshop, CSAE, 2012. | Paul Collier | 25 Jun 2012 |