
Dr Markus Gehrsitz
Reader
Economics
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Area of Expertise
- Health Economics
- Economics of Crime
- Labor Economics
- Environmental Economics
- Applied Microeconometrics
Prize And Awards
Qualifications
2012-2016: Ph.D in Economics at the City University of New York Graduate Center (USA)
2012-2016: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
2005-2011: BA and MA in Economics at the University of Cologne (Germany)
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Publications
- Rurality, socio-economic disadvantage and educational mobility : a Scottish case study
- Borbely Daniel, Gehrsitz Markus, McIntyre Stuart, Rossi Gennaro, Roy Graeme
- British Educational Research Journal, pp. 1-21 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3917
- Early-years multi-grade classes and pupil attainment
- Borbely Daniel, Gehrsitz Markus, McIntyre Stuart, Rossi Gennaro, Roy Graeme
- Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, pp. 1-25 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12561
- Does a spoonful of sugar levy help the calories go down? An analysis of the UK soft drinks industry levy
- Dickson Alexander, Gehrsitz Markus, Kemp Jonathan David
- Review of Economics and Statistics (2023)
- Rurality, Socio-economic Disadvantage and Educational Mobility : a Scottish Case Study
- Borbely Daniel, Gehrsitz Markus, McIntyre Stuart, Rossi Gennaro, Roy Graeme
- (2022)
- Jobs, crime and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany
- Gehrsitz Markus, Ungerer Martin
- Economica Vol 89, pp. 592-626 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12420
- Does the Provision of Universal Free School Meals Improve School Attendance and Behaviour?
- Borbely Daniel, Gehrsitz Markus, McIntyre Stuart, Rossi Gennaro
- (2022)
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Teaching
Applied Microeconometrics
Economics of Human Resources (Labor, Health, Crime)
Microeconomics
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Research Interests
In particular I am interested in applied research in the following fields:
- Health Economics
- Economics of Crime
- Labor Economics
- Environmental Economics
Professional Activities
- IZA Wolrd of Labor - Pass-through and consumer responses to alcohol tax increases
- Recipient
- 4/10/2022
- Quantitative education research works
- Speaker
- 17/6/2022
- Invited Seminar Speaker, Cornell University's VERB Seminar
- Speaker
- 4/4/2022
- Invited Seminar Speaker, University of St. Andrews
- Speaker
- 17/2/2022
- LSE Blog - How the UK Soft Drinks Levy reduced the population’s calorie intake
- Recipient
- 13/8/2021
- IZA Newsroom - UK sugar levy effectively reduced calorie intake from soft drinks
- Recipient
- 5/8/2021
Projects
- Class Size and Human Capital Accumulation
- Gehrsitz, Markus (Principal Investigator) McIntyre, Stuart (Co-investigator) Roy, Graeme (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 28-Jan-2021
- Econometric Evaluation of HIE and SE Grants
- McIntyre, Stuart (Principal Investigator) Gehrsitz, Markus (Co-investigator) Roy, Graeme (Co-investigator)
- 02-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2019