We are delighted to announce that Dennis Egger has been selected to receive the UKRI Future Leader Fellowship (FLF). The highly selective fellowship supports talented early career researchers to tackle ambitious and challenging research and innovation across all fields and will last for four (and up to seven) years.
The FLF will enable Dr Egger to set up an interdisciplinary research group and ecosystem to study the nationwide impacts of large unconditional cash transfers to people living below $2.15 per day in Rwanda and Malawi. To do this, Dr Egger and his team will develop a macro-experimental approach to development, combining the rigour of experimentation at-scale with structural macroeconomic modelling.
Commenting on this, Dr Egger has said, ‘I am beyond excited about this agenda. It is the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that every academic dreams of: to bring cutting edge research to development at-scale, impacting the lives of millions.’
