We’ve asked our #DataImpactFellows to share a day in their life.
Ben BrindleOver the past few months, Ben Brindle has been spending around half of each week working as a research assistant for the labour market economist Jonathan Wadsworth at the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (CEP). He takes us through a typical day.
On those one or two days a week when turkey rcs data I make the journey to the London School of Economics, my alarm greets me only a little earlier than usual, but early enough for me to thank the heavens that I don’t have to reach the office in Central London until 10am.
“Who on earth are these people that commute into London from Brighton every day for 9am?” I think to myself, before remembering that in just a few weeks I’ll start working at the Department for Work and Pensions in Whitehall and will be doing exactly that.
A beautiful spot to work
Any Southern Rail delays aside, I arrive at my desk in the wonderful Lincoln’s Inn Field building and have up to an hour before Jonathan arrives. This gives me some time to make some last minute changes and clarifications to the code I’ve been writing and amending for a study that uses British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society data to investigate the consumption effects of an increase in the UK minimum wage on minimum wage households.