Research

Joe is interested in:

• political economy of the welfare state
• politics of age, assets and housing
• labour market policy
• public attitudes to tax and welfare
• basic income
• comparative research

Role 

Joe Chrisp re-joined the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) as a Research Associate in October 2021 on the Economics of Basic income project. This examines the case for basic income from a macroeconomic and political economy perspective, drawing on trends in the labour share, technological change and household debt. The project takes a heterodox approach and leans, in particular, on the recent literature on growth regimes.

Career

Joe previously worked as a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Comparative Politics, University Bergen, as part of the CONSULTEFFECTS project, which examined the spread of stakeholder consultations across Europe in public policymaking. He completed his PhD on the political feasibility of basic income in high-income countries at the IPR, University of Bath. Prior to his PhD, Joe spent two years (2013-15) lecturing at Guangdong University of Finance and Economics on a variety of subjects in English.

Education

Joe completed his PhD at the University of Bath in 2020. He has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Public Policy from the University of Bristol, graduating in 2011 and 2012 respectively.