Biography
Nina joined the Department of Political Economy in October 2019. Her research focuses on prosocial preferences and economic inequalities. Specifically, she is interested in how procedural fairness concerns affect preferences and behaviours.
She is a recipient of the 1+3 Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership studentship award and holds a BSc in Political Economy (2014-2017) and an MA in Political Economy (2018-2019) from KCL. Nina has previously worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) Nuffield at the University of Oxford alongside her PhD and is now a teaching assistant at the department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
You can view Nina's website here: www.ninasophieweber.com
Research interests
- Behavioural and experimental economics
- Economic inequality and social mobility
- Distributive justice
- Preferences for redistribution
- Applied econometrics
Doctoral Research
Essays on procedural fairness and distributive preferences.
Supervisors
Professor Shaun Hargreaves Heap and Dr Konstantinos Matakos
Research Groups
- Quantitative Political Economy
- Economics at King’s
- Public Policy and Regulation
Research
Public Policy and Regulation Research Group
Public Policy and Regulation (PPR) is the home for theoretically and empirically grounded research which analyses policy and regulatory responses to important political, social and economic issues, and (individual-level) responses to these policies.
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School's inaugural awards sees staff and students honoured
Students and staff from across the School of Politics and Economics were honoured at an annual awards ceremony.
Study looks at the factors behind support over tax cuts for wealthiest
Why do a significant number of ordinary Americans support tax cuts for the rich – and what may change their minds?
Vaccine is good news for science but bad news for governments
Trust in governments and elected politicians actually fell following the announcement of positive vaccine results from pharmaceutical giants Pfizer/BioNTech.
COVID-19: Americans overwhelmingly support economic policy reset based on wealth taxes
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s political preferences could pave the way for Joe Biden to introduce lasting changes in US economy policy.
Go carefully on relaxing lockdown as majority put health before wealth, new research finds
Policy makers must tread carefully when relaxing lockdown measures as three quarters of Britons put health before wealth, a paper has found.
Projects focused on Covid-19 pandemic receive funding
Academics from the School of Politics and Economics (SPE) feature among several project teams to have been backed with funding to investigate different...
Features
Informing the public debate on COVID-19
Academics from across the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy are helping us all better understand the huge societal shifts created by the COVID-19...
Research
Public Policy and Regulation Research Group
Public Policy and Regulation (PPR) is the home for theoretically and empirically grounded research which analyses policy and regulatory responses to important political, social and economic issues, and (individual-level) responses to these policies.
Status not setNews
School's inaugural awards sees staff and students honoured
Students and staff from across the School of Politics and Economics were honoured at an annual awards ceremony.
Study looks at the factors behind support over tax cuts for wealthiest
Why do a significant number of ordinary Americans support tax cuts for the rich – and what may change their minds?
Vaccine is good news for science but bad news for governments
Trust in governments and elected politicians actually fell following the announcement of positive vaccine results from pharmaceutical giants Pfizer/BioNTech.
COVID-19: Americans overwhelmingly support economic policy reset based on wealth taxes
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s political preferences could pave the way for Joe Biden to introduce lasting changes in US economy policy.
Go carefully on relaxing lockdown as majority put health before wealth, new research finds
Policy makers must tread carefully when relaxing lockdown measures as three quarters of Britons put health before wealth, a paper has found.
Projects focused on Covid-19 pandemic receive funding
Academics from the School of Politics and Economics (SPE) feature among several project teams to have been backed with funding to investigate different...
Features
Informing the public debate on COVID-19
Academics from across the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy are helping us all better understand the huge societal shifts created by the COVID-19...