I am a Fiscal Analyst at the Scottish Fiscal Commission and an economist working on public finance, labour markets, and inequality. My role focuses on Scottish income tax and supports the Commission’s independent economic and fiscal forecasts and assessments of the Scottish Budget.
My wider work uses quantitative economic modelling, UK microdata, text-based methods, and historical data to examine how human capital, wealth constraints, technological change, and institutions shape economic opportunities. Recent projects cover graduate skills and occupational sorting, financial constraints in firms, multiculturalism and house prices, and the medium-run effects of pandemic risk.
Recent update: The time sensitivity of aspirational interventions: evidence from a role-modeling RCT has been published in PLOS ONE.
Max Schroeder 