Staff profile
Dr David Chivers
Associate Professor in Economics
BSc, MSc, PhD

Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Associate Professor in Economics in the Business School | MHL 522 | |
Associate Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study |
Biography
David Chivers is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Durham. Before this post he was a Lecturer at University of Oxford and completed his PhD from the University of Manchester under the supervision of Professor Keith Blackburn and Professor Anne Villamil. He has also worked for the Home Office examining the efficacy of the Drugs Interventions Programme as part an ESRC funded internship scheme. His research interests focus broadly on the macroeconomics of growth, inequality and development.
Mini Biography
David Chivers is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Durham specialising in the macroeconomics of growth, inequality and development.
Research interests
- Macroeconomics of Labour Markets
- Macroeconomics of Growth and Development
Research groups
Publications
Authored book
- Chivers, David & Chivers, Tom (2021). How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them). W&N.
Journal Article
- Chivers, D. (2017). Success, Survive or Escape? Aspirations and Poverty Traps. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 143: 116-132.
- Chivers, D., Feng, Z. & Villamil, A. (2017). Employment-based health insurance and misallocation: Implications for the macroeconomy. Review of Economic Dynamics 23: 125-149.
- Blackburn, K. & Chivers, D. (2015). Fearing the worst: the importance of uncertainty for inequality. Economic Theory 60(2): 345-370.
Working Paper
Supervision students
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