Oliver Hart and the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge

Professor Oliver Hart wins economics Nobel Prize

10 October 2016

Professor Oliver Hart, a former undergraduate at King’s College (1966), and a former Fellow of Churchill College, has been jointly awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, along with Bengt Holmström of MIT for their work in the field of contracts.

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Congratulations, Graduates!

Big data shows the graduate pay premium is bigger for women

25 September 2015

Anna Vignoles (Faculty of Education), together with colleagues at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Harvard ̽»¨Ö±²¥, authors a study that finds women with degrees earn three times as much as non-graduates within a decade of leaving university.

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Birds evolve ‘signature’ patterns to distinguish cuckoo eggs from their own

18 June 2014

Using new ‘pattern recognition algorithm,’ latest research highlights how birds are ‘fighting back’ against the parasitic Common Cuckoo in what scientists describe as an evolutionary ‘arms race’. They found that birds with the most sophisticated and distinctive egg patterning are those most intensely targeted by the cuckoo’s egg mimicry.

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