Professor Frijters is currently a Professor in Wellbeing Economics at the LSE, teaching the Masters Course in Wellbeing and Public Policy. He specializes in applied micro-econometrics, including labour, happiness, and health economics, though he has also worked on pure theoretical topics in macro and micro fields. Professor Frijters currently advises the UK government and others on how to implement wellbeing policies at the national and regional level.
London School of Economics and Political Science
Paul Frijters
Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
Laura Fumagalli
Laura is an applied economist, working on topics related to education, health, and development economics. Currently, most of her research agenda is centred around the study of well-being and adolescents’ behaviour.
LSE
Jet G. Sanders
Jet is a behavioural scientist, trained in experimental psychology and real world implementation of laboratory evidence using randomised controlled trials in field to improve health and wellbeing on a population level. Currently she is focused on how everyday time perception affects risk tolerance, decision making and behaviour on a population level. Her research shows that the experiential fluctuation of weekly cycle influences our risk-taking behaviour, with serious consequences for health care,
King's College London
Caitjan Gainty
Caitjan Gainty is a historian of 20th century health and healthcare. She is the PI of the Wellcome-funded project Healthy Scepticism, which reconsiders the role of evidence and expertise in medical knowledge-making processes, and her first book, in preparation, considers the early-twentieth century industrial origins of American healthcare. Her commitment to offering historical perspective on contemporary healthcare has recently led a series of articles on COVID-19.
University of Kent
Yannis Galanakis
Yannis Galanakis is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Economics at the University of Kent. His research interests lie in Labour and Applied Economics. His recent work focuses on firm creation, mismatch and gender inequalities in the labour market.
Bocconi University
Vincenzo Galasso
Vincenzo Galasso is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan; Research Fellow at CEPR, London at CES-Ifo, Munich, and at IGIER, Milan. He is the Director of the Research Unit “APE, Analysis in Pension Economics” at Baffi Center. He is co-Editor of the European Journal of Political Economy, and of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance. His research deals with political economics, aging, social security and the welfare state.
