Michael Vlassopoulos is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Southampton. He holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia. His main research interests lie in the area of applied microeconomics, in particular, public and development economics. Current work focuses on a theoretical and experimental investigation of the sources and implications of pro-social motivation, and on identifying the long-run effects of climate on economic development. His research has been funded by the ESRC and the British Academy.

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The influence of neighbourhoods on early childhood development
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- Education 
- Poverty and Income Inequality
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Do social incentives matter? Evidence from an online real effort experiment
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- Frontiers of economic research 
- Labour Markets 
- Productivity and Innovation
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Are workers motivated by the greater good? Evidence from a field experiment
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- Labour Markets
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Three centuries of climatic variation and the world income distribution
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- Environment