Dr William Cook
Senior Lecturer in Economics
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Biography
Will holds a PhD in quantitative social science from the University of Manchester, a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge, a bachelor’s degree from the University of Manchester, and was a visiting research fellow at Harvard University in 2012.
Prior to his academic career, he worked for four years as an economic adviser to the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit and the Home Office. He has also worked in the government and public sector practice at PwC and for GHK Consulting and has conducted a number of externally commissioned research projects in partnership with the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) where he is an associate research fellow.
Expert reviewer for external funding bodies
Nuffield Foundation
British Academy
Membership of professional associations
Member of the Royal Economic Society
Personal website address
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&pli=1&user=6bGbjbcAAAAJ
Research outputs
Labour economics, economics of education, health economics, applied econometrics.