Will is Reader in Policy Evaluation at Manchester Metropolitan 'University. Prior to his academic career he was an economic adviser in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit.
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.
His research focuses on Labour economics, economics of education, health economics, applied econometrics.

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University

Education

  • 2014 
    University of Manchester, PhD Social Statistics

Publications

  • 2020
    School disruption and pupil academic outcomes – evidence from the 2001 foot and mouth disease epidemic in England, Covid Economics
  • 2019
    The effect of personalised weight feedback on weight loss and health behaviours: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design, Health Economics

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