Tiernan Evans
Hello!
I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE). I am on the 2024-25 academic job market.
I am a labo(u)r economist working on education choices, spatial inequality, and geographic mobility within high-income countries.
My job market paper uses administrative data to explore how the education choices of students in England are shaped by the skills required in the local labour market in which they grow up.
Research
Selected work in progress
Local Labour Markets and Skill Acquisition [JMP] Paper coming soon!
Educational attainment varies widely and persistently across England. I combine establishment-level administrative data on local labour market demand, with individual-level education choice data to document the spatial variation of skill demand, identify the role that existing differences in skill demand play in educational attainment, and derive an elasticity of the supply of skills to local skill demand. The responsiveness of education to skill demand has implications for labour market adjustments to economic shocks, the persistence of local economic outcomes, and the effectiveness of local economic policies.
Familial Persistence of Geographic Mobility
Publications
Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline, with Per-Anders Edin, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnäs, and Guy Michaels
Economic Journal, August 2023, 133(654): 2178–2209
Contact and CV
My CV can be found here. Please feel free to contact me via email at t.evans2@lse.ac.uk.