Dr Sunčica Vujić
Office Hours
- Wednesdays 14:15-16:15
Recent activities
- Towards Sustainable & Equitable Financing of Higher Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia
- Presentation of the results of the project "Gender pay gap in the Western Balkan countries: Evidence from Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia"
- Young researchers in social science win places at the South West Crucible 2013
- Gender pay gap project presentation in Macedonia
- Women in Montenegro earn less than men
- Gender pay gap in the Western Balkan Countries: Evidence from Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia
- University of Bath at EALE
- Investing in preschool education in Serbia is cost-effective and universal coverage is possible (UNICEF)
- The Economist economics focus: The mean streets of Guildford
- Social Entrepreneurs as Lead Users of Service Innovation (SELUSI) project
Profile
Sunčica Vujić joined the Department of Economics at the University of Bath as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics in summer 2011.
Sunčica received a BSc degree from the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, an MSc degree from the Economics Department at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, an MPhil degree from the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam, and a PhD degree from the Economics and Econometrics Departments at the VU University in Amsterdam.
Before joining the Department of Economics at the University of Bath, Sunčica held positions at:
- Department of Management at the London School of Economics (LSE)
- Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics (LSE)
- Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB)
- ORTEC Finance Consultancy in Amsterdam & Rotterdam
She also held lectureship positions at the VU University in Amsterdam and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and the University of Freiburg in Germany, where she taught applied econometrics, economics of education, and statistics courses.
Research interests
Sunčica’s research interests are in the field of applied labour economics, with focus on crime, education, health, gender, poverty and inequality. Recent research interests also include economic and pro-social behaviour within organisations (social businesses) and returns to entrepreneurship. Additionally, she focuses on transition and emerging market economies, particularly Western Balkans.
Sunčica’s research empirically tests theories on human and social capital formation and evaluates different labour market policies. Methodologically, she uses a rich set of econometric tools applied to multi-source (survey and recorded) and multi-dimensional (cross-sectional, panel, time series) data.
Overview of Sunčica’s research interests (potential PhD supervision):
- Applied labour economics
- Economics of education
- Economics of crime
- Health economics
- Poverty and inequality
- House prices
- Social entrepreneurship and pro-social behaviour
- Returns to entrepreneurship
- Transition and emerging market economies (Western Balkans)
Teaching
Undergraduate
Publications
Book/s
Avlijaš, S., Ivanović, N., Vladisavljević, M. and Vujić, S., 2013. Gender pay gap in the western Balkan countries: Evidence from Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Belgrade: FREN - Foundation for the Advancement of Economics.
Articles
Souto-Otero, M., Huisman, J., Beerkens, M., de Wit, H. and Vujić, S., 2013. Barriers to international student mobility: evidence from the Erasmus program. Educational Researcher, 42 (2), pp. 70-77.
Webbink, D., Koning, P., Vujić, S. and Martin, N. G., 2013. Why are criminals less educated than non-criminals? Evidence from a cohort of young Australian twins. The Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 29 (1), pp. 115-144.
Machin, S., Marie, O. and Vujić, S., 2012. Youth Crime and Education Expansion. German Economic Review, 13 (4), pp. 366-384.
Noailly, J., Vujić, S. and Aouragh, A., 2012. The effects of competition on the quality of primary schools in the Netherlands. Environment and Planning A, 44, pp. 2153-2170.
Webbink, D., Vujić, S., Koning, P. and Martin, N. G., 2012. The effect of childhood conduct disorder on human capital. Health Economics, 21 (8), pp. 928-945.
Vujić, S., Koopman, S. J. and Commandeur, J., 2012. Economic trends and cycles in crime: a study for England and Wales. Journal of Economics and Statistics / Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 232 (6), pp. 652-677.
Machin, S., Marie, O. and Vujić, S., 2011. The crime reducing effect of education. The Economic Journal, 121 (552), pp. 463-484.
Reports/Papers
Machin, S., Marie, O. and Vujić, S., 2012. Youth Crime and Education Expansion. Discussion Paper. Bonn, Germany: IZA Institute for the Study of Labor.
Vujić, S., Commandeur, J. and Koopman, S. J., 2012. Structural Intervention Time Series Analysis of Crime Rates: The Impact of Sentence Reform in Virginia. Discussion Paper. Amsterdam: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers.
Machin, S., Marie, O. and Vujić, S., 2010. The Crime Reducing Effect of Education. Discussion Paper. Maastricht, The Netherlands: Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market.
Machin, S., Marie, O. and Vujić, S., 2010. The Crime Reducing Effect of Education. Discussion Paper. Bonn: The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
Machin, S., Marie, O. and Vujić, S., 2010. The Crime Reducing Effect of Education. Working Paper. Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Webbink, D., Vujić, S., Koning, P. and Martin, N. G., 2010. The Effect of Childhood Conduct Disorder on Human Capital. Discussion Paper. Bonn: The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
Francke, M. K., Vujić, S. and Vos, G. A., 2009. Evaluation of house price models using an ECM approach: The case of the Netherlands. Working Paper. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: ORTEC Finance Research Center.
Noailly, J., Vujić, S. and Aouragh, A., 2009. The effects of competition on the quality of primary schools in the Netherlands. Discussion Paper. The Hague, the Netherlands: CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. (CPB discussion paper; 120)
Webbink, D., Vujić, S., Koning, P. and Martin, N. G., 2008. The effect of childhood conduct disorder on human capital. Discussion Paper. The Hague, the Netherlands: CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
Webbink, D., Koning, P., Vujić, S. and Martin, N. G., 2008. Why are criminals less educated than non-criminals? Evidence from a cohort of young Australian twins. Discussion Paper. The Hague, the Netherlands: CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
Sridharan, S., Vujić, S. and Koopman, S. J., 2003. Intervention Time Series Analysis of Crime Rates. Discussion Paper. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers.
Conference or Workshop Items
Vujić, S., 2011. Introducing SELUSI Conceptualization of a Social Enterprise and SELUSI Methodology of Gathering Data on Social Enterprises. In: Social Enterprise and Social Business Innovation in Europe: Final Project Conference, 2011-10-06 - 2011-10-07, Brussels.
Vujić, S., 2011. Values, Management Practices and Organisational Performances. In: Social Enterprise and Social Business Innovation in Europe: Final Project Conference, 2011-10-06 - 2011-10-07, Brussels.
Machin, S., Marie, O. and Vujić, S., 2010. The Crime Reducing Effect of Education. In: Symposium "Causality in Educational Research", 2010-07-14 - 2010-07-16, Jena.
Vujić, S. and Koopman, S. J., 2007. Intervention Time Series Analysis of Crime Rates. In: Conference on Contemporary Challenges of Theory and Practice in Economics, 2007-09-27 - 2007-09-28, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade.
Thesis
Vujić, S., 2009. Econometric Studies to the Economic and Social Factors of Crime. Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)). VU Amsterdam.
