Dr Angus Holford
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Email
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Location
2N2.4.25, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Angus Holford is an economist based in the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex. He collected and is now analysing a unique longitudinal survey of Essex undergraduates for a ground-breaking study of student life and outcomes from Higher Education, and has recently produced work on access to and returns from unpaid graduate internships, and the returns to part-time employment among teenagers. Research Agenda: Angus' research agenda is focused on the mechanisms determining human capital investments in and by children and young people. He research interactions with peers and parents and the formation and updating of preferences and expectations in home, school and higher education (HE) settings, and works to evaluate the importance of these mechanisms in determining gender and socio-economic differences in educational attainment and early labour market outcomes. Angus serves on the UK Government’s ‘Evaluation and Trials Advice Panel‘, to support the design and implementation of robust, high-quality evaluations of new government policies. Angus is also a Research Affiliate with the IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) and was a Research Fellow at the Behavioural Insights Team ('Nudge Unit') at the Cabinet Office, Oct 2012-Jan 2013, where he produced verbal and written policy advice and research reports, and was involved in randomised control trials for evidence-based policy. Research Interests: Evidence-based policy; randomised control trials; peer effects; microeconometrics; family economics; education inequalities.
Qualifications
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PhD Economics University of Essex, (2015)
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Applications of Data Analysis (EC969)
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Economics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 10/6/2022
Degree subject: Economics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 4/8/2021
Publications
Journal articles (9)
Holford, A. and Rabe, B., (2024). Universal free school meals and children’s bodyweight. Impacts by age and duration of exposure. Journal of Health Economics. 98, 102937-102937
Morando, G., Costas-Fernández, J. and Holford, A., (2023). The Effect of Foreign Students in Higher Education on Native Students’ Outcomes. European Economic Review. 160, 104595-104595
Delavande, A., Del Bono, E. and Holford, A., (2022). Academic and non-Academic Investments at University: the Role of Expectations, Preferences and Constraints. Journal of Econometrics. 231 (1), 74-97
Holford, A. and Rabe, B., (2022). Going universal. The impact of free school lunches on child body weight outcomes. Journal of Public Economics Plus. 3, 100016-100016
Holford, A., (2021). Access and Returns to Unpaid Graduate Work Experience. Labour. 35 (3), 348-377
Holford, A., (2020). Youth employment, academic performance and labour market outcomes: Production functions and policy effects. Labour Economics. 63, 101806-101806
Fournier, AMV., Holford, AJ., Bond, AL. and Leighton, MA., (2019). Unpaid work and access to science professions. PLoS One. 14 (6), e0217032-e0217032
Holford, A., (2015). The labour supply effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its implications for parental altruism. Review of Economics of the Household. 13 (3), 531-568
Holford, A., (2015). Take‐up of Free School Meals: Price Effects and Peer Effects. Economica. 82 (328), 976-993
Scholarly Editions (4)
Holford, AJ., Youth Employment and Academic Performance: Production Functions and Policy Effects
Holford, AJ., Do Parents Tax Their Children? Teenage Labour Supply and Financial Support
Holford, AJ. and Pudney, S., Survey Design and the Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing: An Experimental Analysis
Holford, AJ., Access to and Returns from Unpaid Graduate Internships
Grants and funding
2024
NIHR ARC Contract extension
National Institute for Health Research
Adapt-Ed: co-designing adaptations to a whole school intervention to improve the uptake and impact of food provision in special schools
National Institute for Health Research
Impact of school breakfast programmes
Nuffield Foundation
2023
Free School Meals, Diet Quality and Food Insecurity in Secondary School Pupils: a Mixed Methods Study
National Institute for Health Research
2021
Impact of the Universal Infant Free School Meal policy (2)
Nuffield Foundation
2020
Mind the Gap: Educational Inequalities during Covid-19
Economic and Social Research Council
2019
The Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC)
Economic and Social Research Council
2017
Impact of the Universal Infant Free School Meal policy
Nuffield Foundation
2015
Inequality in Higher Education Outcomes in the UK: Subjective expectations, preferences, and access
Economic & Social Research Council
2014
The Research Centre for Micro-Social Change (MiSoC)
Economic & Social Research Council
