Dr Tanya Wilson

  • Senior Lecturer (Economics)
  • Associate (School of Health & Wellbeing)

email: Tanya.Wilson@glasgow.ac.uk

University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Building, Office 6122, 2 Discovery Place, Glasgow, G11 6EY

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-2299

Biography

Dr Tanya Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn. She joined the University in 2018, following an Early Career Fellowship at the University of Stirling, and was awarded her PhD in Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2015.

Tanya’s research lies primarily in Family and Labour Economics, with interests in how labour market conditions, education, and social policy shape individual and household outcomes. Her work has examined the impact of local labour markets on domestic violence, the influence of education on early motherhood and marital sorting, and the role of financial constraints and gender in entrepreneurship decisions. More recently, she has studied the long-term effects of exposure to universal healthcare and the dynamics of low-paid employment. Her recent Nuffield Foundation-funded project “Women in Multiple Low-Paid Employment” investigates how low-paid women combine multiple jobs and care responsibilities and the implications for wellbeing and economic security.

Tanya has contributed expert evidence to Scottish Parliament Inquiries on the gender pay gap, Scotland’s economic performance, and ethnicity pay gap reporting. She is President-Elect of the Scottish Economic Society, Associate Editor of the Scottish Journal of Political Economy, and recipient of the Royal Economic Society Prize (2016) and the Sir Alec Cairncross Prize (2017). Her research and commentary have featured in media, including the BBC, STV, The Conversation, and major newspapers.

Personal website: Tanya Wilson

CV: Tanya Wilson

 

 

Research interests

Tanya is a member of the School's Applied Economics research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

  • Family economics
  • Labour economics
  • Applied economics
  • Economics of crime
  • Economics of education
  • Economics of gender
  • Policy evaluation

 

Publications

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2024

Braakmann, Nils, Chevalier, Arnaud and Wilson, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-2299 (2024) Expected returns to crime and crime location. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16(4), pp. 144-160. (doi: 10.1257/app.20220585)

Lawson, Louise, Kearns, Ade ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3198-8392, Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X and Wilson, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-2299 (2024) Women in Multiple Low-paid Employment: Pathways Between Work, Care and Health. Final Report. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.326795).

2022

Braakmann, Nils, Chevalier, Arnaud and Wilson, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-2299 (2022) Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location. Discussion Paper. IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany. (doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4204339).

2019

Anderberg, Dan, Bhaskar, V., Bagger, Jesper and Wilson, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-2299 (2019) Marriage Market Equilibrium, Qualifications, and Ability. Discussion Paper. IZA: Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn.

2017

Bell, D. et al. (2017) Healthy Ageing in Scotland: the pilot survey. Project Report. Stirling Management School.

Bell, David and Wilson, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-2299 (2017) The Gender Pay Gap in Scotland. Other. Scottish Parliament.

2016

Anderberg, Dan, Rainer, Helmut, Wadsworth, Jonathan and Wilson, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-2299 (2016) Unemployment and domestic violence: theory and evidence. Economic Journal, 126(597), pp. 1947-1979. (doi: 10.1111/ecoj.12246)

Sauer, Robert M. and Wilson, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-2299 (2016) The rise of female entrepreneurs: new evidence on gender differences in liquidity constraints. European Economic Review, 86, pp. 73-86. (doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.10.010)

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Number of items: 8.

Articles

Braakmann, Nils, Chevalier, Arnaud and Wilson, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-2299 (2024) Expected returns to crime and crime location. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16(4), pp. 144-160. (doi: 10.1257/app.20220585)

Anderberg, Dan, Rainer, Helmut, Wadsworth, Jonathan and Wilson, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-2299 (2016) Unemployment and domestic violence: theory and evidence. Economic Journal, 126(597), pp. 1947-1979. (doi: 10.1111/ecoj.12246)

Sauer, Robert M. and Wilson, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-2299 (2016) The rise of female entrepreneurs: new evidence on gender differences in liquidity constraints. European Economic Review, 86, pp. 73-86. (doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.10.010)

Research Reports or Papers

Lawson, Louise, Kearns, Ade ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3198-8392, Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X and Wilson, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-2299 (2024) Women in Multiple Low-paid Employment: Pathways Between Work, Care and Health. Final Report. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.326795).

Braakmann, Nils, Chevalier, Arnaud and Wilson, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-2299 (2022) Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location. Discussion Paper. IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany. (doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4204339).

Anderberg, Dan, Bhaskar, V., Bagger, Jesper and Wilson, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-2299 (2019) Marriage Market Equilibrium, Qualifications, and Ability. Discussion Paper. IZA: Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn.

Bell, D. et al. (2017) Healthy Ageing in Scotland: the pilot survey. Project Report. Stirling Management School.

Bell, David and Wilson, Tanya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-2299 (2017) The Gender Pay Gap in Scotland. Other. Scottish Parliament.

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Grants

  • 2025: Scottish Economic Society - £2,000
  • 2020: Nuffield Foundation - £391,986
  • 2017: British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant - £10,000
  • 2016: Stirling Crucible grant - £2,000
  • 2016: University of Stirling SEED Funding - £1,500
  • 2015: Scottish Institute of Research in Economics (SIRE) Activities Grant - £5,000
  • 2012: Helen Robinson Award
  • 2011: Nuffield Foundation - £2,000 

Supervision

Available for supervision on topics within Applied Economics, such as:

  • Policy Evaluation
  • Economics of Education
  • Economics of the Family
  • Economics of Gender
  • Economics of Ageing
  • Economics of Crime

Current supervision

Teaching

  • ECON 5094: Topics in Applied Microeconomics
  • ECON 4020: Microeconomic Analysis

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2017: Sir Alec Cairncross Prize (Scottish Economic Society)
  • 2016: Royal Economic Society Prize (Royal Economic Society)
  • 2012: Helen Robinson Prize (Work and Pensions Economic Group (WPEG))

Grant committees & research advisory boards

  • 2025: Nuffield Foundation, How can low earners afford a commensurate retirement income?
  • 2022 - 2024: Dekaban-Liddle Fellowship, Dekaban-Liddle Fellowship Committee
  • 2021: UKRI, Future Leaders Fellow Peer Review College
  • 2019 - 2021: Nuffield Foundation, Class Size and Human Capital Accumulation Advisory Board
  • 2020 - 2020: Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Government, Roundtable on Structural Funds
  • 2018 - 2019: Royal Society of Edinburgh, The Retention and Promotion of Women in STEM Occupations Working Group
  • 2017 - 2018: Royal Society of Edinburgh, The Gender Pay Gap in Scotland working group

Editorial boards

  • 2022: Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Professional & learned societies

  • 2023: President-Elect, Scottish Economic Society
  • 2020 - 2023: Honourary Treasurer, Scottish Economic Society
  • 2016 - 2020: Council Member, Scottish Economic Society

Selected international presentations

  • 2025: Econometric Society Winter Meeting (Nicosia, Cyprus)
  • 2022: Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference (Glasgow, UK)
  • 2021: Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference (Online, UK)
  • 2019: Royal Society of Edinburgh-Flemish Academy Symposium: Women in STEM (Edinburgh, UK)
  • 2019: American Economic Association Annual Meeting (Atlanta, USA)
  • 2019: Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics Annual Conference (Singapore)
  • 2019: Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference (Perth, UK)
  • 2019: Society of Labor Economists (Arlington, USA)
  • 2018: Institute of Labor Economics World Labor Conference (Berlin, Germany)
  • 2018: European Economic Association Annual Congress (Cologne, Germany)
  • 2018: European Society of Population Economics Annual Conference (Antwerp, Belgium)
  • 2018: Administrative Data Research Network International Conference (Belfast, UK)
  • 2018: National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute (Boston, USA)
  • 2018: Essen Health Conference (Essen, Germany)
  • 2018: Science and the Parliament (Edinburgh, UK)
  • 2017: Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference (Perth, UK)
  • 2017: Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Annual Annual Conference (Stirling, UK)
  • 2016: Royal Economic Society Annual Conference (Sussex, UK)
  • 2016: Society of Labor Economists (Seattle, USA)
  • 2016: European Society of Population Economics Annual Conference (Berlin, Germany)
  • 2016: Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference (Perth, UK)
  • 2015: European Economic Association Annual Congress (Mannheim, Germany)
  • 2015: National Academy of Sciences - Economics of Entrepreneurship (Washington DC, USA)
  • 2015: European Society of Population Economics Annual Conference (Izmir, Turkey)
  • 2015: World Meeting of Society of Labor Economists & European Association of Labour Economists (Montreal, Canada)
  • 2014: Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference (Perth, UK)
  • 2014: Royal Economic Society Annual Conference (Manchester, UK)
  • 2014: European Society of Population Economics Annual Conference (Braga, Portugal)
  • 2014: International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (Catanzaro, Italy)
  • 2014: European Association of Labour Economists Annual Conference (Ljubjana, Slovenia)
  • 2013: Royal Economic Society Annual Conference (London, UK)
  • 2013: European Society of Population Economics Annual Conference (Aarhus, Denmark)
  • 2013: European Economic Association Annual Congress (Gothenberg, Sweden)

Supplementary

  • Royal Economic Society - Diversity in Undergraduate Economics - working group member 2019-2020; Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Germany) 2023- ; Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Germany) 2017-2023; Member - Women in Enterprise Cross Party Group - Scottish Parliament 2024 -;

Additional information

Awards

  • Royal Economic Society prize (2016)
  • Sir Alec Cairncross Prize (2017)
  • Helen Robinson Prize (2012)

Impact and knowledge exchange

  • Scottish Parliament – Member of Women in Enterprise Cross Party Group (2024 - )
  • Royal Economic Society Annual Public Lecture schools programme (2022, 2023, 2024)
  • British Heart Foundation: International Women’s Day webinar - Mind the Gap (2022)
  • Scottish Government Consultation: Developing an ethnicity pay gap strategy (2021)
  • Scottish Economics Teachers CPD Conference (2021, 2022)
  • Scottish Parliament Inquiries
    • Disabled Employment Gap Inquiry (2023)
    • Gender Pay Gap in Scotland (2017)
    • Scotland’s Economic Performance (2017)
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh working groups
    • The Gender Pay Gap in Scotland (2017)
    • The Retention and Promotion of Women in STEM Occupations (2018)
  • Healthy Ageing in Scotland (HAGIS) Pilot Launch (2017) - Co-organiser and Editor
  • Scottish Institute for Research Exchange (SIRE) workshop “Using Administrative Data for Economic Research” – Organiser

Work in progress

  • Long-run Health and Mortality Effects of Exposure to Universal Health Care at Birth (with M. Luhrmann)
  • The Equilibrium Marriage Market Effect of a Major Educational Reform: The Role of Unobserved Ability (with D. Anderberg, J. Bagger and V. Bhaskar)
  • Compulsory Schooling and Teenage Motherhood 
  • Marital Age Gaps and Educational Homogamy - Evidence from a Compulsory Schooling Reform in the UK (with T. Hener)
  • Financial Literacy and Financial Inclusion Amongst Older Adults: A Cross-Country Comparison (with D. Bell, E. Douglas and M. Moro)
  • The Impact of the Education Maintenance Allowance on Teenage Fertility Rates
  • Do Prison Industries Steal Private Sector Jobs (with I. Trapeznikova)
  • Mortality and Life-cycle Health Impacts of Early Life Nutritional Environments (with M. Luhrmann)
  • Daily Nutrition, Muscle Mass and Mobility in an Ageing Population (with R. Crockett, E. Douglas and L. Hamilton)

Media coverage

  • 2025: STV Evening News (16/07/25)
  • 2024: Daily Express (22/02/24), BBC Radio Scotland (29/05/24); BBC (The Nine - 29/05/24); University of Glasgow Spotlight podcast
  • 2023: BBC (The Nine - 21/09/23); ITV(Representing Border - 22/11/23); University of Glasgow Spotlight podcast
  • 2022: STV Evening News (04/08/22); BBC Radio Scotland (12/08/22); The Conversation (02/11/22); propertychronicle.com (08/11/22); TV7 Kazakhstan (25/11/22)
  • 2021: Discover Economics podcast
  • 2020: The Fraser of Allander Institute Podcast (29/05/20); BBC Radio Scotland (10/09/20; 17/12/20)
  • 2019: BBC Radio Scotland (20/02/19; 17/09/19; 29/10/19); Mail on Sunday (10/11/19)
  • 2018: BBC (Timeline - 08/03/18)
  • 2017: BBC Radio Scotland (06/10/17 and 10/11/17)
  • 2016: Mail Online (30/08/16); sciencenewsline.com (30/08/16); thisismoney.co.uk (30/08/16); Health Medicine Network (30/08/16); EurekAlert (30/08/16); Newswise (31/08/16); Noodls (31/08/16);
    The Metro (01/09/16); The Conversation (22/09/16); biznews.com (23/09/16); myinforms.com (23/09/16); startupsmart.com (24/09/16); Yahoo Finance (26/09/16); World Economic Forum (28/09/16)
  • 2014: CentrePiece, Vol. 18 Issue 3; sciencedaily.com (25/02/14)
  • 2013: The Observer (07/04/13); BBC Radio Berkshire (24/04/13); theatlantic.com (06/08/13)

Tanya Wilson