Dr Daniel Gray
School of Economics
Senior Lecturer in Economics
+44 114 222 9653
Full contact details
School of Economics
Room C42
Elmfield Building
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 2TU
- Profile
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Daniel graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2009 with a BSc in Economics and Mathematics and then went on to obtain an MSc Economics in 2010, also from the University of Sheffield.
He completed his PhD in 2014, again at Sheffield, where his thesis explored the relationship between household finances and individual well-being by analysing a variety of nationally representative household surveys.
After completing his PhD, Daniel worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Economic Analysis of Decision-making (InstEAD) and he was appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Sheffield in 2016 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2024. He is currently the School Director of Education.
- Research interests
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Daniel’s research interests include the area of subjective well-being with a particular focus on the role of the household’s financial position.
In addition, he is currently interested in household financial portfolio allocation and the effects of education on financial decision making.
More generally he is interested in applied microeconometrics and, in future, he would like to further explore these areas in addition to developing new research interests.
Daniel is looking to supervise PhD students in the area of household finances and applied microeconometrics.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Nudging for prompt tax penalty payment: Evidence from a field experiment in Indonesia. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 224, 548-579.
- Portfolio allocation and borrowing constraints. The European Journal of Finance, 30(9), 915-948. View this article in WRRO
- Household saving, health, and healthcare utilization in Japan. Oxford Economic Papers, 74(2), 473-497.
- Household portfolio allocation, uncertainty, and risk. Journal of Empirical Finance, 63, 96-117.
- Saving behaviour and health: A high-dimensional Bayesian analysis of British panel data. The European Journal of Finance, 27(16), 1581-1603.
- Election outcomes and individual subjective well-being in Great Britain. Economica, 88(351), 809-837. View this article in WRRO
- Does education improve financial behaviors? Quasi-experimental evidence from Britain. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 183, 481-507.
- Credit supply shocks and household leverage: evidence from the US banking deregulation. Journal of Financial Stability, 43, 97-115.
- Household Finances and Well-Being in Australia: An Empirical Analysis of Comparison Effects. Journal of Economic Psychology, 53, 17-36. View this article in WRRO
- Employee trust and workplace performance. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 116, 361-378. View this article in WRRO
- The relative income hypothesis: A comparison of methods. Economics Letters, 130, 47-50. View this article in WRRO
Working papers
- Does education improve financial outcomes? Quasi-experimental evidence from Britain. The Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series (SERPS), 201701. View this article in WRRO
- Nudging for prompt tax penalty payment: Evidence from a field experiment in Indonesia. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 224, 548-579.
- Teaching activities
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I am currently part of the teaching team for ECN222: Economic Decision Making, a second-year option module. In this module, we study economic theory and evidence related to decision-making across a range of contexts, with a view to understanding human decision-making and how it deviates from standard notions of economic rationality. In this module, there is an emphasis on critical evaluation and the discord between theoretical predictions and observed behaviour.