Biography

Dr Jack Blundell works as a commercial data scientist and is an Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance. He has worked on the UK's gender pay gap reporting policy, intergenerational mobility, income dynamics and the labour market effect of Covid-19. Jack's research has been highlighted in the Guardian, Telegraph and Financial Times, and his expertise has been drawn on by UK policymakers and international organisations. Jack holds a PhD from Stanford University and an MPhil from Oxford university, both in Economics.

Current areas of research include:

• The way in which the valuations of different skills in the labour market are affected by technological change
• The production technology with which different skills and parental investments interact throughout childhood to determine cognitive ability and health status
• Explaining the growth and excellence of cities in recent decades by investigating sorting patterns

Publications

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