Dr Angus Holford Research Fellow, University of Essex
- ajholf@essex.ac.uk
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Angus Holford is an economist based in the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex. He is currently collecting a unique longitudinal survey of Essex undergraduates for a ground-breaking study of student life and outcomes from Higher Education, and has recently produced work on unpaid work and access to science professions, and the returns to part-time employment among teenagers.
Research Agenda: Angus' research agenda is focused on the mechanisms determining human capital investments in and by children and young people. He research interactions with peers and parents and the formation and updating of preferences and expectations in home, school and higher education (HE) settings, and works to evaluate the importance of these mechanisms in determining gender and socio-economic differences in educational attainment and early labour market outcomes.
Angus is also a Research Affiliate with the IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) and was a Research Fellow at the Behavioural Insights Team ('Nudge Unit') at the Cabinet Office, Oct 2012-Jan 2013, where he produced verbal and written policy advice and research reports, and was involved in randomised control trials for evidence-based policy.
Research Interests: Evidence-based policy; randomised control trials; peer effects; microeconometrics; family economics; education inequalities.
Teaching: Angus is the course convenor and lead lecturer on the MSc module "EC969: Applications of Data Analysis" run jointly with the Department of Economics. This is a compulsory module for the MSc Applied Economics and Data Analysis and optional for MSc Economics.
Supervision: I am co-supervisor for two PhD students, Sonkurt Sen and Joshua Fullard. I am available as an MSc dissertation supervisor, and am willing to discuss proposals for potential PhD supervision.
Latest Blog Posts
Publications
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Youth employment, academic performance and labour market outcomes: production functions and policy effects
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Going universal - the impact of free school lunches on child body weight outcomes
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Unpaid work and access to science professions
Auriel M.V. Fournier, Angus Holford, Alexander L. Bond, et al.
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How did universal infant free school meals affect children's bodyweight?
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Student preferences over fees, grants and loans
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What explains ethnic and SES gaps in degree class and dropout?
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Student preferences over fees, grants and loans
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Fewer school children have part-time jobs
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It's not how much you work but how. The production function for performance among university students
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Access to and returns from unpaid graduate internships
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Access to and returns from unpaid graduate internships
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Do parents tax their children? Teenage labour supply and financial support
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Do parents tax their children? Teenage labour supply and financial support
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Take-up of Free School Meals: price effects and peer effects
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Saturday jobs ‘can damage GCSE exam results’
Media
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Free school dinners ‘led to fall in childhood obesity rates’
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A bad deal for early-career researchers
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Experience versus salary
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The case for universal infant free school meals
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What I wish I’d known before my unpaid internship
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Internships cost job seekers £1,000 a month in London and £827 in Manchester
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Death of part-time job for teenagers: number of youngsters who take on Saturday work falls by a fifth
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Teenagers ditch Saturday jobs amid rising exam stress
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Are Saturday jobs less popular among UK children now?
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Students with BTECs do worse at university – here's how we close the gap
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Prácticas no remuneradas afecta futuro profesional de los jóvenes
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Interns lose out later
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Graduate interns earn less after three years than those who shun unpaid work, study finds
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Graduates who take unpaid internships end up £3,500 worse off compared to those who go straight into work