The College congratulates Fellow in Economics Dr Dennis Egger who has been awarded a Future Leader Fellowship by the UKRI.
UKRI’s flagship Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) are designed to enable universities and businesses to develop their most talented early career researchers and innovators and to attract new people to their organisations, including from overseas.
Dr Egger is a development economist interested in labour and trade, using large scale experiments and administrative data sets to conduct empirical research on migration, networks, and spatial linkages between economic agents in general equilibrium. His current work focuses on Kenya, Malawi, Ethiopia, China and Switzerland.
The FLF will enable Dr Egger to set up an interdisciplinary research group and ecosystem to study the nationwide impacts of large unconditional cash transfers to people living below $2.15 per day in Rwanda and Malawi. To do this, Dr Egger and his team will develop a macro-experimental approach to development, combining the rigour of experimentation at-scale with structural macroeconomic modelling.
He said:
I am beyond excited about this agenda. It is the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that every academic dreams of: to bring cutting edge research to development at-scale, impacting the lives of millions.
