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Giovanni Razzu

Professor Giovanni Razzu

Director - Masters in Public Policy

Areas of interest

Economic inequality with a particular focus on gender and the labour market; poverty and social mobility. Labour Economics and economics of gender. I apply a range of approaches, including within macro and microeconomics, econometrics, and experimental economics.

I am interested in supervising research in the areas above, but particularly in gender inequality in the labour market and intergenerational social mobility. I am also interested in the economic rationality of duty-motivated choices and applications of the capabilities approach as applied to inequality, particularly its operationalisation and measurement frameworks and issues of autonomy, particularly related to gender inequality.

Postgraduate supervision

I am currently supervising the following PhD students:

  • Lillian Mookodi, on intergenerational education mobility and poverty transmission in Botswana;
  • Portia Benson, on effects of social norms and gender on tax morale
  • Shorooq Alotaibi, on women’s labour supply in Saudi Arabia
  • Yanshu Wang, on Income Composition Inequality Changes during the Period of Growth with Equity in East Asia

Students who completed their PhD studies:

  • Ayago Wambile, on intergenerational mobility in Africa (now at the World Bank)
  • Anisa Butt, on decomposition of income inequality in the UK by gender and ethnicity (now at NIESR)
  • Zhe Wang , on Effects of Macroeconomic shocks o unemployment rates across the Euro area (now at University of Surrey)
  • Abdulaleem Isiaka, on the disitributional impact of fiscal policies in middle-income countries

Background

Before joining the University, I have been a Government Economist in various Departments including the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Cabinet Office and the Government Equalities Office (GEO). I have been Lead Analyst for the independent Equalities Review, which produced the report "Fairness and Freedom" and launched a new Equality Measurement Framework based on the capabilities approach. I have also been Acting Chief Economist in GEO from its establishment until 2008 and have led the Secretariat to the National Equality Panel from 2008 to 2010, which produced the influential "An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK".

I have been the UK representative on the Expert Group of the European Institute for Gender Equality and on various Institute's working groups; a member of the UKRI Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory panel. I am now the chair of the Royal Economic Society Conference Committee (until June 2015) and a member of the Board of the Royal Economic Society.

Academic qualifications

  • Laurea Quadriennale (MSc equivalent), Universita Bocconi, Italy
  • MSC, London School of Economics, UK

Publications

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