Manuel Bagues

I am a Professor at the University of Warwick, and a Research Fellow at CEPR, IZA@LISER, RFBerlin and J-PAL. My research interests lie primarily in Labour Economics, with a focus on Personnel Economics, Gender Economics, Economics of Education, and Economics of Science. I also work on political economy, and in particular on the determinants of voting behaviour. My work has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Economic Theory, Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics and Demography, among others. You can find a list of my papers on my research page, and my current modules on my teaching page. You may also find some short articles written for a broader, non-academic audience in the popular writing section. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any suggestions or comments.

Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You