Hector is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics at the 我要吃瓜 School of Management.
He holds a number of roles internally and externally: BA (Hons) Economics Programme Co-Director, PhD convenor for the Economics Division, SGSSS Economics Pathway Representative at Stirling, SGSSS Pathway Convenor, SGPE PhD Co-Director, Fellow of the Global Labor Organization.
As an Applied Microeconomist, Hector's research interests lie at the intersection of labour, political economy, development and historical economics. His current research focuses on labour market institutions and outcomes, historical income inequality, and nutrition.
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Labour Economics, Development Economics, Political Economics, and Economic History, Applied Econometrics.
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Household structure, labour participation and economic inequality in Britain, 1937-61
Gazeley I, Newell A, Reynolds K & Rufrancos H (2023) Household structure, labour participation and economic inequality in Britain, 1937-61. Economic History Review.
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Does the depth of informality influence welfare in urban Sub-Saharan Africa?
Egger E, Poggi C & Rufrancos H (2023) Does the depth of informality influence welfare in urban Sub-Saharan Africa?. Oxford Economic Papers. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpac052
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Gazeley I, Holmes R, Newell A, Reynolds K & Rufrancos HG (2022) Escaping from hunger before WW1: the nutritional transition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century. Cliometrica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-022-00259-4
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How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain?
Gazeley I, Newell A, Reynolds K & Rufrancos H (2022) How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain?. The Economic History Review, 75 (1), pp. 80-110. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13079
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The impact of University reopenings on COVID-19 cases in Scotland
Gutierrez Rufrancos H, Moro M & Moore E (2021) The impact of University reopenings on COVID-19 cases in Scotland. Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-time Papers, Issue 80. Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/content/covid-economics#block-block-8
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Welfare and the depth of informality: Evidence from five African countries
Egger E, Poggi C & Rufrancos H (2021) Welfare and the depth of informality: Evidence from five African countries. UNU WIDER Working Paper Series, 25/2021. UNU WIDER Working Paper Series. https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2021/963-1
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Are There Gains to Joining a Union? Evidence from Mexico
Gutiérrez Rufrancos H (2019) Are There Gains to Joining a Union? Evidence from Mexico. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 57 (3), pp. 676-712. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12463
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Gazeley I, Gutierrez Rufrancos H, Newell A, Reynolds K & Searle R (2017) The poor and the poorest, 50 years on: evidence from British Household Expenditure Surveys of the 1950s and 1960s. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 180 (2), pp. 455-474. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12202