Isabel Ruiz

University of Oxford

Isabel Ruiz is an Associate Professor and Fellow in Economics at Harris Manchester College and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. She is also an Associate Editor for the Oxford Review of Economic Policy (OxREP).

She works on areas of labour, development, and political economy. Her most recent work focuses on the economics of migration – with an emphasis on forced migration. She is co-convener of the Economics of Forced Migration project, Econforced, a research initiative that provides quantitative evidence on the impacts of displacement on host communities, the displaced, and the communities of origin.

She is currently working on a research project using conjoint experiments to increase our understanding of the factors that affect individual policy preferences towards migration in the context of south-south migration.