Dr Monica Costa-Dias
BSc, MSc, PhD
Expertise
Current positions
Professor of Economics
School of Economics
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Research interests
My research interests are in the fields of labour, family and public economics, and applied econometrics. I study how inequalities build over the course of life and are transmitted across generations, how policy interacts with the formation of inequalities and how it can be designed to ameliorate poverty and its long lasting impacts. In my work, I use applied economic theory and applied econometrics, which I often combine in structural models of economic behaviour, to gain a better understanding of individual choices, how they interact in markets and how they respond to economic incentives.
My research has been funded by, among others, the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and the European Commission, and has been published in leading academic journals such as Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, Quantitative Economics, Journal of Labor Economics or the Journal of Human Resources.
Here are links to my CV, Google Scholar profile and REPEC/IDEAS page.
Publications
Recent publications
04/01/2022Inequality and the Covid crisis in the United Kingdom
Inequality and the Covid crisis in the United Kingdom
Inequality and the COVID-19 Crisis in the United Kingdom
Annual Review of Economics
The gender pay gap in the UK
Oxford Review of Economic Policy
The impact of health on labor supply near retirement
Journal of Human Resources
Wages, experience, and training of women over the life cycle
Journal of Labor Economics