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Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 9 May, 2023

Research by Lin Peng, a Visiting Professor and Director of Research in Faculty of Economics has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.

Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 6 December, 2022

The traditional site of Jesus College, which was established in 1496, saw a much younger anniversary than many it has seen, with the tenth birthday of the Keynes Fund this autumn.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 8 June, 2022

The Faculty's Prof. Chryssi Giannitsarou has sent out a survey in Qualtrics Cambridge for her ongoing research project on Covid-19 and academic productivity in economics research. Please do respond if you receive an invite.

Economics News | Published on Monday, 7 March, 2022

It shows how Indians View Gender Roles in Families and Society and indicates Indians accept women as political leaders, but many favour traditional gender roles in family life.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 1 November, 2021

Dr. Christopher Rauh and Karin Kimbrough (Chief Economist, LinkedIn) discuss women’s exodus from the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic with Bloomberg’s Lizzy Burden at the Bloomberg Equality Summit.

Economics News | Published on Wednesday, 13 October, 2021

The Janeway Institute will be primarily funded by Weslie and William Janeway. William Janeway is an alumnus of the PhD programme at Cambridge and has played an active role in the Faculty over the last decade.

Economics News | Published on Thursday, 9 September, 2021

Research by Dr Christopher Rauh, a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, has found that those in poorer, less stable occupations have much less access to employer provided sick pay.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 21 July, 2021

In the first weeks of the pandemic, the submission of articles to journals by women, fell dramatically more than their male counterparts.

Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 13 July, 2021

A new report from the Royal Economics Society (RES) reveals signs of “stagnation and retreat” in the closing of gender gaps across the study of economic, according to Dr Victoria Bateman. Female intake relative to male appears to be falling at both undergraduate and master’s levels over the last two decades.

Economics News | Published on Thursday, 17 June, 2021

A world-wide pandemic could have started at any point in the past century since Spanish Flu circled the globe. However, as Dr Toxvaerd explains; “To a certain extent the world ‘got lucky’, and the world was almost lulled into a false sense of security; it was thought we could contain a virus as well as we did SARS. This turned out to be wrong.”

Economics News | Published on Friday, 30 April, 2021

“We have looked at what happened in lockdown, and there is a widening gender gap in mental health which cannot be explained by what we would regard as normal reasons,” says Dr Christopher Rauh, a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. “The people we studied are working less and hence earning less than usual or even losing their job.”

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 15 April, 2021

Times Higher Education has quoted the research by Dr. Amano-PatiñoDr. FaragliaDr.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 5 March, 2021

As part of International Women's Day, Dr. Chryssi Giannitsarou will be a guest speaker at the University College Dublin (UCD) webinar, "Bridging the gender gap: Research and responses to COVID-19". The online event will take place on Monday 8th March 2021 at 11.00am.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 18 February, 2021

Dr. Chryssi Giannitsarou and Sarah Smith (University of Bristol) have written an article for the Royal Economic Society, that says the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and intensified inequalities in many areas of our life, including academic life.

Economics News | Published on Tuesday, 9 February, 2021

The government must assess equality impact of every policy or risk turning the clock back, according to a new report by Women and Equalities Committee.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 18 September, 2020

Dr Noriko Amano Patino was interviewed for the Cambridge Centre for International Research's Ideas & Innovation Talk Series about her joint paper with Elisa Faraglia, Chryssi Giannitsarou and Zeina Hasna titled

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 29 May, 2020

Dr Noriko Amano Patino's VOXeu article and paper (joint with Elisa Faraglia, Chryssi Giannitsarou and Zeina Hasna), entitled "Who is doing new research in the time of COVID-19?

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 29 May, 2020

Dr Noriko Amano Patino's VOXeu article and paper (joint with Elisa Faraglia, Chryssi Giannitsarou and Zeina Hasna), entitled "Who is doing new research in the time of COVID-19?

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 29 May, 2020

Dr Noriko Amano Patino's VOXeu article and paper (joint with Elisa Faraglia, Chryssi Giannitsarou and Zeina Hasna), entitled "Who is doing new research in the time of COVID-19?

Economics News | Published on Monday, 18 May, 2020

The Athena SWAN Charter is an initiative established by the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) designed to recognise

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 4 May, 2020

Dr Noriko Amano-Patiño, Dr Elisa Faraglia, Dr Chryssi Giannitsarou and PhD candidate Zeina Hasna have published an article for VOXeu titled "

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 6 March, 2020

Professor Sanjeev Goyal, Dr. Anja Prummer (former Cambridge-INET Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London) and Dr.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 6 March, 2020

Professor Sanjeev Goyal, Dr. Anja Prummer (former Cambridge-INET Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London) and Dr.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 11 October, 2019

Dr Victoria Bateman was interviewed by the New York Times about the gender gap in economics and her recent book: The Sex Factor - How Women Made the West Rich.

Economics News | Published on Monday, 29 April, 2019
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 11 January, 2019

Professor Sanjeev Goyal's research (co-authored with Anja Prummer) into how risk aversion plays a role in female academic economists having smaller and more clustered networks of co-authors, has been quoted in an article by The Economist.

Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 13 October, 2017

Dr Victoria Bateman and economics undergraduates Clara Starrsjo (Gonville and Caius College) and Paulin Nusser (Magdalene College) were featured on the BBC World Service programme - Business Daily. The subject of the programme was the lack of women in economics.