Dr Angus Holford Research Fellow, University of Essex
- ajholf@essex.ac.uk
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I’m an economist based in the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex. I collected and am now analysing a unique longitudinal survey of undergraduates for a ground-breaking study of student life and outcomes from Higher Education. I have recently published on undergraduate students’ decisions to gain extra-curricular experience, unpaid work and access to science professions, the returns to part-time employment among teenagers.
Research Agenda: My research agenda is focused on the mechanisms in determining gender, socio-economic and ethnic differences in educational attainment and early labour market outcomes. At present, this means one strand of work focusing on the impacts of Universal Free School Meal programmes, and another on access and returns to Higher Education.
I’m 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 I 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: I deliver the course Introduction to Impact Evaluation annually through the National Centre for Research Methods
I am 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 Tomasso Sartori, and co-supervised Joshua Fullard to completion. I’m available to discuss proposals for potential PhD supervision.
Latest Blog Posts
Publications
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Access and returns to unpaid graduate work experience
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Graduates’ labour market and training expectations during COVID-19
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Impact of the Universal Infant Free School Meal policy
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Impact of the Universal Infant Free School Meal policy
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Academic and non-academic investments at university: the role of expectations, preferences and constraints
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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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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
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