Gailius Praninskas

Gailius is a PhD Economics candidate in the Department of Economics. His research is concerned with the causes and consequences of economic and political inequality.

Gailius is on the job market in 2026/27.

He is particularly interested in the relationship between political power and wealth, as well as the interaction between redistributive forces and political outcomes, and does much of his work with Ellen Munroe, a fellow PhD Economics candidate in the Department of Economics. Their current projects study these questions in the United Kingdom from 1858 to today, relating individual-level wealth data for a large part of the population in England and Wales to the political process.

Before starting his PhD, he was a consultant at the World Bank Bureaucracy Lab, where he worked on impact evaluation.

Gailius holds a MASc in Development, Data and Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BSc in Economics from the University of Amsterdam.

Supervisors
Tim Besley
Jeremiah Dittmar

Find out about Gailius' research on his personal website.