Dr Matt Dickson
Research Affiliations
- Research Associate, Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), University of Bristol
- Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
- Research Associate, UCD Geary Institute, Dublin
Profile
Matt joined the University of Bath in October 2012 as a Prize Fellow in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences. Immediately prior to this, he held a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at the UCD Geary Institute, University College Dublin, and has previously been an ESRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bristol.
Matt attained his PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick in February 2009 and also has an MSc in Economics (Warwick, 2003) and a BSc in Economics and Politics (Bristol, 2000).
Research interests
Matt’s research uses applied micro-econometrics and interests include intergenerational mobility, individual decision making, public pay premia and numerous topics within the economics of education.
Current research addresses the complex interactions between education, time- and risk-preferences, mental health outcomes and the transmission of these factors between parents and their children.
- Applied labour economics
- Economics of education
- Intergenerational mobility
- Poverty and Inequality
- Public-private pay gaps
Publications
Articles
Dickson, M., 2013. Forthcoming. The causal effect of education on wages revisited. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Buscha, F. and Dickson, M., 2012. The raising of the school leaving age: returns in later life. Economics Letters, 117 (2), pp. 389-393.
Dickson, M. and Harmon, C., 2011. Economic returns to education: what we know, what we don’t know, and where we are going — some brief pointers. Economics of Education Review, 30 (6), pp. 1118-1122.
Dickson, M. and Smith, S., 2011. What determines the return to education: an extra year or a hurdle cleared? Economics of Education Review, 30 (6), pp. 1167-1176.
Aassve, A., Burgess, S., Propper, C. and Dickson, M., 2006. Employment, family union and childbearing decisions in Great Britain. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 169 (4), pp. 781-804.
Burgess, S., Propper, C. and Dickson, M., 2006. The Analysis of Poverty Data with Endogenous Transitions. Fiscal Studies, 27 (1), pp. 75-98.
