Sarah graduated from the University of Hull in 1989 and gained her MA in Economics at the University of Warwick in 1990 and her PhD from the University of Loughborough and was appointed to a lectureship there in 1994. Sarah was promoted to a Senior Lectureship in 2001 at the University of Leicester and took up a Chair in Economics at the University of Sheffield in 2005 and was Head of Department from 2006 to 2011. She has been a member of the Steering Committee of the U.K. Department of Work and Pensions sponsored Work and Pensions Economics Study Group since 2001. Sarah is currently a member of the Royal Economic Society's Steering Group of the Conference of Heads of University Departments of Economics and the Royal Economic Society Council.
She has published in a wide range of journals including: Economics of Education Review; Economic Inquiry; Economics Letters; Industrial and Labor Relations Review; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Population Economics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A); and the Southern Economic Journal. Her research interests include applied microeconometrics, the economics of education, labour economics and household finance.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2008. In March 2015, Sarah was appointed as an Independent Member of the Low Pay Commission

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6191
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2014, 45, 197-212
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5621
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 40, 43-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5457
published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 113 (1), 88-91
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5447
published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2011, 20 (3), 925-955
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4804
published in: Applied Economics, 2011, 44 (35), 4639-4650
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4424
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (1), 97-110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3986
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 73 (1), 40-58
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3981
published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (3), 276-279
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