Patrick Bennett

Patrick Bennett is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Liverpool's Department of Economics, part of the University of Liverpool Management School. He holds affiliations with the FAIR-CELE Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality, and Rationality; CESifo; the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS); and IZA as a Research Fellow since 2023. His research focuses on labor economics, educational economics, and the economics of crime, with recent work exploring automation’s impact on non-college workers, intergenerational mobility, and clean energy transition costs.

Dr. Bennett earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Copenhagen Business School in 2016. His research spans policy analysis, urban labor markets, and inequality drivers, with contributions to understanding economic shocks’ long-term effects on gender disparities and crime. Key themes include labor market transitions, skill upgrading, and the role of education in mitigating adverse outcomes.

His publications address topics like pay transparency laws, energy-intensive industries’ job displacement, and the heterogeneous effects of education on crime. Bennett’s work bridges empirical analysis and policy implications, emphasizing cross-country comparisons and microdata-driven insights.