Dr Aurelie Charles
Other responsibilities
- Director of Studies/Doctoral Pathway Coordinator Global Political Economy
- International Director of the /Association for Social Economics
- Member of the editorial board for the Review of Social Economy
Profile
Aurelie is lecturer in Global Political Economy and received a Master degree in Economics and Development, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Leeds, UK. She was also awarded the 2008 William R. Waters Research Grant and the 2010 Helen Potter Award from the Association for Social Economics, and the 2009 Kenneth Koford Memorial Prize from the Eastern Economic Association.
Research interests relate to the measurement of social norms, and their effect on individual decision-making and well-being, by combining critical theories with an innovative use of quantitative methods. Latest publications cover multi-disciplinary areas of research such as financialisation and the "Great Recession", fairness and efficiency wages, identity discrimination and entitlements, norms and beliefs, in different geographical and cultural areas such as Mexico, India, China, USA and Italy.
Research interests
- Income distribution and inequality
- Identity well-being
- Capability Approach
- Social norms and beliefs
- Stratification Economics
- Cointegration analysis
Teaching
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
- SP50225: Political Economy of Globalisation
- XX50205: Global transformations: Issues and Trajectories
- XX50135: Quantitative Methods 2
Publications
Book/s
Charles, A., 2012. Exchange entitlement mapping: theory and evidence. New York, U. S. A.: Palgrave Macmillan. (Perspectives from Social Economics)
Articles
Charles, A., 2011. Fairness and wages in Mexico's maquiladora industry: an empirical analysis of labor demand and the gender wage gap. Review of Social Economy, 69 (1), pp. 1-28.
Charles, A., Fontana, G. and Srivastava, A., 2011. India, China and the East Asian Miracle: a human capital development path to high growth rates and declining inequalities. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 4 (1), pp. 29-48.
Charles, A. and Fontana, G., 2011. A critical assessment of the financialisation process and its impact on the US labour force during the great recession. International Journal of Public Policy, 7 (1/2/3), pp. 97-111.
Charles, A., 2011. The Great Recession and Ethnic Inequalities in the US Labour Force. History of Economic Ideas, 19 (2), pp. 163-176.
Conference or Workshop Items
Arestis, P., Charles, A. and Fontana, G., 2011. Social norms meet financialisation: fair-wage constraints and gender and race stratification in the US labour market. In: Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Evolution of Social Norms, 2011-12-15 - 2011-12-16, Henley Business School, University of Reading.
Charles, A., 2011. Gender and Norms: Testing the Optimal Resource Allocation within Households in Benevento. In: 8th International Conference on Developments in Economic Theory and Policy, 2011-07-01, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao.
Charles, A., Arestis, P. and Fontana, G., 2011. Social norms, fair-wage and earnings inequality in the US labour force. In: Conference in Honour of G.C. Harcourt: The Future of Capitalism, 2011-06-01, Robinson College, University of Cambridge,.
Charles, A., 2011. The role of social norms on well-being, wages and inequality. In: Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, 2011-03-01, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Charles, A., 2011. Financialisation, the ‘Great Recession’ and the Stratification of the US Labour Market. In: Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) Meetings, Association for Social Economic, 2011-01-01, Denver.
Charles, A., 2010. A Critical Assessment of the Financialisation process and its effects on the US Labour Force during the Great Recession. In: Economic Policy: In Search of an Alternative Paradigm, 2010-12-01, Middlesex University.
Charles, A., 2010. Measuring Social Norms within the Household through Perceived Entitlements: Comparative Study between Mexican and Italian Households. In: 13th World Congress of Social Economics, 2010-06-01, Concordia University, Montreal.
Charles, A., 2010. India, China and the East Asian Miracle: a Human Capital Approach to Inequalities. In: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Workshop: 20 years of the Human Development Index, 2010-01-01, St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.
Charles, A., 2009. A Fair-wage Approach to Human Capital Development in India and China. In: 6th International Conference on Developments in Economic Theory and Policy, 2009-07-01, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao.
Charles, A., 2009. Fair-wage and Effort-related capabilities in the maquiladora industry. In: Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference, 2009-02-01, New York.
Charles, A., 2009. Fairness and Capabilities in Mexico: an empirical analysis on labour demand and the gender wage gap in the maquiladora industry. In: Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) Meetings, Association for Social Economics, 2009-01-01, San Francisco.
Charles, A., 2008. Interdependence, Capabilities and Happiness: Evidence from Mexican Household. In: International Workshop on Happiness and Capability, 2008-08-01, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Charles, A., 2005. Exchange-Entitlement Mapping: A Theoretical Framework. In: 5th International Conference of the Human Development and Capability Association, 2005-09-01, UNESCO headquarters, Paris.
