ProfDebra Shepherd
Associate Professor
Economics
Orcid identifier0000-0003-3609-8583
- Associate ProfessorEconomics
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research focuses on applied microeconometrics and development economics, with particular interests in:
- Inequality, poverty, and economic exclusion
- Identity, social comparison, and subjective wellbeing
- Redistribution and political economy
- Labour markets, education, and social mobility
- Applied econometrics and causal inference
- Machine learning and data science for the social sciences
- Economics education and the scholarship of teaching and learning
Across these areas, I seek to generate evidence that improves our understanding of how individuals interact with economic and social institutions, and how policy can foster more inclusive and equitable development.