In their final year of the Economics course, students write a dissertation on a topic of their choice. Here are some of the many questions that Christ's students have explored in their dissertations: 

  • Does CEO pay structure push them to take more risks?
  • Do longer-serving politicians get more 'pork' for their constituents? 
  • Who do charities like Oxfam give their money to and why? 
     

Example dissertation

To see one example, click here for the work of Christ's alumnus Sajan Shah, who won the Faculty or Economics Adam Smith prize for Best Dissertation in 2018 for his work 'The price of free education: Extracting the school quality premium in housing using Brighton and Hove's school admission reforms'.
 

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