Joe Spearing

CV

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My full CV is available as a PDF: download CV.

Non-academic writing

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Feds pushed student loans: they should forgive all of them (with Kali Thompson), The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 2022

Opinion: Feds pushed student loans; they should forgive all of them (ajc.com)
Joe Biden’s unconventional climate gambit may be what the US needs, Financial Times, July 2021
We need to look beyond the market to beat climate change, Financial Times, July 2021

Awards: Winner of the UK Political Economy Club’s Bicentenary Essay Competition.

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Research

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Selected Publications

“The causal effects of workplace autonomy on mental health.” (2025) Economics and Human Biology Working Paper Accepted for Publication Replication Files

This paper explores the relationship between work-related autonomy and mental health. Using Understanding Society data from the United Kingdom, I assess the association between mental health and autonomy, defined across five different dimensions, using a range of different controls, including person and occupation fixed effects. I find low work-related autonomy consistently associates with poor mental health. The degree of selection bias on observable controls is small. Finally, I bound causal effects under assumptions about the degree of confoundedness of unobservables, and assess the possibility of reverse causality.

Teaching

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Instructor of record

Principles of Microeconomics ( teaching evaluations)

Guest lecturer

The Economics of Currency and the Eurozone, University of Georgia at Oxford

Teaching assistant

Undergraduate Economics of Trade
Undergraduate Labor Economics
Graduate Econometrics