Dr Olena Nizalova
Never Stop Learning
I use econometric methods and utility maximisation framework to study how people make choices with regards to their health, work and families in ageing societies and post-Soviet countries in order to contribute to the development of sustainable ways of our comfortable life on Earth.
Short Bio
I am an Associate Professor (Senior Research Fellow) in Health Economics at the University of Kent, which I joined in August 2013. I received my doctoral degree in Econometrics at Michigan State University (USA) in 2006. My research interests are in the fields of labour and health economics, economics of aging, and policy evaluation. I look into the interplay between labour market, health and family obligations, be it the provision of informal care to elderly parents in the USA and Europe or the wage penalty for motherhood (Ukraine), or the impact of labour market outcomes on health and wellbeing. European Commission, Wellcome Trust, MRC, UKAid, ESRC, World Bank, Global Development Network, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, ERSTE Foundation (Austria), Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (University of Michigan), and the Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) supported my research through various projects.