Rasmus Duret

Hi! I am a 1st year MRes/PhD student in Economics at the London School of Economics.

Education

• MRes/PhD Economics, LSE
• MSc Economics, LSE (2024)
• BSc Economics, UCL (2023)

Research

My research areas span Public Economics and Political Economy: I am interested in how governments can design, evaluate, and adapt policies to promote innovation and social mobility, and how this interacts with voter preferences to shape political outcomes.

Experience

• 2024-25: Predoctoral Fellow, Public Economics group at LSE. Investigated health inequality in the Netherlands using administrative data.
• 08/2024: Summer Student, Institute for Fiscal Studies. Analysed the socioeconomic effects of social housing in the UK.
• 2022-25: Researcher, CORE Economics. Contributed a case study on Denmark’s flexicurity system to the CORE Economy 2.0 textbook.
• 2022-23: Research Assistant, UCL.

My CV is available here.

Contact

• Email: r.duret@lse.ac.uk