Thanos Mergoupis
PhD supervision
Interested in supervising students studying:
- Labour market discrimination
- Urban public finance
- Applied microeconometrics
Profile
Dr Thanos Mergoupis joined the department in February 2004 from Queen’s University Belfast. Previously he has held posts at the London School of Economics and Rutgers University.
He is Director of Studies for the MSc Economics & Finance.
Research interests
- Labour economics
- Political economy
Teaching
Undergraduate
- ES10003: Core skills for economists: introduction to statistics (Moodle course University of Bath only)
- ES30041: Economics of Work (Moodle Course University of Bath only)
- ES30039 & ES50052: Welfare Economics and Distributive Justice (Moodle course University of Bath only)
Publications
Book Sections
Mergoupis, T., 2007. Trends in Poverty, Employment, and Wages: White, Black, and Hispanic Women in the US, 1988-2002. In: Kim, M., ed. Race and Economic Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge, pp. 250-270.
Mergoupis, T., 2003. Income and Utilization of Health Services in Greece. In: D, V. and C, P., eds. Social Policy in Greece: Challenges and Prospects. Athens: Ellinika Grammata, pp. 293-332.
Articles
Brown, G. K. and Mergoupis, T., 2011. Treatment interaction with non-experimental data in Stata. Stata Journal, 11 (4), pp. 545-555.
Dowding, K. and Mergoupis, T., 2003. Fragmentation, fiscal mobility, and efficiency. Journal of Politics, 65 (4), pp. 1190-1207.
Mergoupis, T. and Steuer, M., 2003. Holiday taking and income. Applied Economics, 35 (3), pp. 269-284.
Reports/Papers
Mergoupis, T. and Nandeibam, S., 2011. Wage discrimination and population composition. Discussion Paper. SSRN.
Brown, G. K. and Mergoupis, T., 2010. Treatment interaction with non-experimental data in Stata. Working Paper. Bath, UK: Department of Economics, University of Bath. (Bath Economics Research Working Papers; 10/10)
Mergoupis, T., 2007. Black and White Women’s Employment Rates: Disaggregated Decomposition in Probit and Linear Probability Models. Working Paper.
Dowding, K., John, P. and Mergoupis, T., 2001. Residential Mobility and Urban Government in Metropolitan England. Discussion Paper. London: London School of Economics Public Policy Group.
Mergoupis, T. and Dowding, K., 2001. Fiscal Mobility and the Performance of Local Governments: The Case of the Missing Links. Discussion Paper. London: Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSE.
Conference or Workshop Items
Dawson, P. and Mergoupis, T., 2011. Year-long internships and skill formation in post-secondary education. In: Western Economic Association International 86th Annual Conference, 2011-06-29 - 2011-07-03, San Diego.
Mergoupis, T., 2009. What do English local governments do? In: Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, 2009-04-02 - 2009-04-05, Athens.
Dowding, K. and Mergoupis, T., 2001. Anatomy of premeditated exits: fiscal conditions and planned exits from a jurisdiction. In: European Public Choice Society Annual Conference, 2001-04-01, Paris.

