Dr Cristina Sechel
School of Economics
Lecturer in Economics
+44 114 222 6105
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School of Economics
Room D37
Elmfield Building
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 2TU
- Profile
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Cristina joined the School of Economics in October 2016, having previously been a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen. She worked as a Research Associate for the School before being appointed as a Lecturer in 2022.
She is a 2023 UKRI Policy Fellow in the Joint Work and Health Directorate, hosted by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), where she is leading a project looking at the relationship between health, work and benefits receipt, using a novel linked dataset that includes mental health records and DWP benefits data.
Her recent research centres around the relationships between health and labour market, with a particular focus on mental health and disability. She is currently working on Unpacking the Disability Employment Gap, a project funded by the Nuffield Foundation aimed at understanding the factors that contribute to the disability employment gap in the UK. Previously, she worked on a project aimed at estimating the causal impact of health status on labour market outcomes, which was part of the social and economic value of health programme funded by The Health Foundation. She has also worked on urban location choices and gender issues in economics.
In addition to producing academic research, Cristina is interested in producing accessible materials that help to communicate research findings to policy makers and the wider public, and to improve public understanding of economic concepts. See, for example, the video below explaining different measures of labour market status that are frequently used in economics research (and especially salient now considering recent changes in the UK labour market) but often misunderstood.
Cristina is the School's Student Experience Academic Lead. She creates and supports opportunities that elevate student voice and build learning communities within the programmes we offer in the School of Economics. She also works closely with the Employability Hub and Career Services to help embed employability skills across our programmes in all years of study.
- Qualifications
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- BA Hons (Economics and English) 2006, McMaster University
- MA (Economics) 2007, McMaster University
- PhD (Economics) 2016, University of York
- Research interests
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Cristina's research interests are in applied microeconomics and applied econometrics.
Her PhD focused on the use of Subjective Well-Being information in Economics. It proposed a methodology for measuring aggregate Subjective Well-Being across nations motivated by Cognitive Dissonance Theory, and examined the evidence for cognitive dissonance in reported life satisfaction data using objective indicators of well-being.
She is broadly interested in issues surrounding the interaction between health and labour market decisions/outcomes, as well as the economics of well-being.
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Exploring mental health disability gaps in the labour market: the UK experience during COVID-19. Labour Economics, 102253-102253.
- Mental health and employment: a bounding approach using panel data. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. View this article in WRRO
- Measuring research excellence amongst economics lecturers in the UK. Bulletin of Economic Research. View this article in WRRO
- The share of satisfied individuals : a headcount measure of aggregate subjective well-being. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 186, 373-394. View this article in WRRO
- Job satisfaction amongst academic economists in the UK. Economics Letters, 182, 55-58. View this article in WRRO
- Pay and Job Rank amongst Academic Economists in the UK: Is Gender Relevant?. British Journal of Industrial Relations. View this article in WRRO
- Household location in English cities. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 75, 120-135. View this article in WRRO
- The role of education in the disability employment gap. Oxford Economic Papers.
Working papers
- Mental health and productivity: evidence for the UK. The Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series (SERPS), 2022023.
All publications
Journal articles
- Exploring mental health disability gaps in the labour market: the UK experience during COVID-19. Labour Economics, 102253-102253.
- Mental health and employment: a bounding approach using panel data. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. View this article in WRRO
- Measuring research excellence amongst economics lecturers in the UK. Bulletin of Economic Research. View this article in WRRO
- The share of satisfied individuals : a headcount measure of aggregate subjective well-being. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 186, 373-394. View this article in WRRO
- Job satisfaction amongst academic economists in the UK. Economics Letters, 182, 55-58. View this article in WRRO
- Pay and Job Rank amongst Academic Economists in the UK: Is Gender Relevant?. British Journal of Industrial Relations. View this article in WRRO
- Household location in English cities. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 75, 120-135. View this article in WRRO
- The role of education in the disability employment gap. Oxford Economic Papers.
Reports
- A feasibility study for building a health and work model. Report prepared for Public Health England
Working papers
- The geography of the disability employment gap: Exploring spatial variation in the relative employment rates of disabled people. The Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series (SERPS), 2024002.
- The Role of Education in the Disability Employment Gap. The Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series, 2023010.
- Mental health and productivity: evidence for the UK. The Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series (SERPS), 2022023.
- Mental health and employment : a bounding approach using panel data. The Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series (SERPS), 2020006. View this article in WRRO
- Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK: Is Gender Relevant?. IZA Discussion Papers, No. 12397.
- Happier than them, but more of them are happy: Aggregating subjective well-being. The Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series (SERPS), 2019008. View this article in WRRO
- Household location in English cities. View this article in WRRO
- Exploring mental health disability gaps in the labour market: the UK experience during COVID-19. Labour Economics, 102253-102253.
- Teaching activities
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Cristina teaches second year undergraduate Public Economics (ECN21001).