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His research considers motivators and consequences of (effective) charitable giving and other-regarding behaviour. Other work concerns returns to higher education, strategic behavior by policymakers/traders, and the design and meta-analysis of lab/field experiments. Recent publications: ‘Ex-ante Commitments to “Give if you Win…”(JPubE), ‘Losing Face’, (OEP), ‘Empathic and Numerate Giving…’ (SPPS). Developing open-access collaborative

Ricardo Reis is the A.W. Phillips Professor of Economics at the LSE, where he directs the Centre for Macroeconomics. He won the 2016 Bernacer prize for best young European macroeconomist and the 2017 BdF/TSE prize in monetary economics. His research areas are inflation expectations, unconventional monetary policy, central bank’s balance sheet, disagreement and inattention, business cycle models with inequality, automatic stabilizers, sovereign-bond backed securities, and capital misallocation.

Jen is a Chancellor’s Fellow in the Scottish Centre for Employment Research, University of Strathclyde. Before working in academia she worked in adult health and social care. She is particularly interested in management of long-term ill health and disability in the workplace, and notions of conditionality and deservingness. When not at work, Jen spends as much time as possible up mountains, in boats and/or dancing.

Lucia is Deputy Director of RAND Europe’s Defence, Security and Justice research group. She co-directs RAND’s Centre for Defence Economics and Acquisition and has 12 years’ experience in leading research on UK and European defence market, industrial base, and defence procurement. Lucia has provided evidence and specialist advice to Parliamentary select committees on defence acquisition programmes, the UK defence procurement system and the National Security and Investment Act implementation.

Johan Rewilak is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina and received his PhD at the University of Leicester, UK. Johan is an applied economist specialising in the area of sport. His research focuses on sporting contest design examining how policy changes impact an array of outcomes from league competitiveness, the change in behavioural incentives from competitors and spectator demand. In addition, Johan investigates team performance using observationally abundant sports data.

Simeon is a second year BSc Economics student at the University of Bristol.