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.

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.