Professor David Bell
Professor of EconomicsBackground
M.A. (Aberdeen), M.Sc. (LSE), Ph.D. (Strathclyde)Lecturer at St. Andrews 1974-75, Research Fellow at Strathclyde 1975-83, Senior Research Fellow at Warwick 1983-85, Lecturer at Glasgow 1985-89, Senior Lecturer 1989-90, Professor at Stirling 1990-
Research Interests
Economics of social care, economics of subjective well-being, the scottish economy, economics of education.Selected Publications
Bell, D.N.F. and Blanchflower, D.G. (accepted: 8-03-2011). ‘Youth Unemployment in Europe and the United States’, Swedish Economic Policy Review
Bell, D.N.F. and Blanchflower, D.G. (2011). ‘Underemployment in the Great Recession’, National Institute Economic Review, 215, January,
Bell, D.N.F. and Blanchflower, D.G. (2010). ‘The UK Labour Market in the Great Recession’, National Institute Economic Review, 214, October
Bell, D.N.F and McVicar, D. (2010). ‘Disability, Welfare and Labour Force Participation of Older Workers in Europe’, Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, 5, No 3
Bell, D.N.F and Blanchflower D.G. (2010). ‘Recession and unemployment in the OECD’, CESifo Forum, Issue 1, March, pp.14-21
Bell, D.N.F., Heitmueller , A. (2009). ‘The Disability Discrimination Act in the UK: Helping or Hindering Employment Amongst the Disabled?’, Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28, 465-480
Bell, D.N.F. and Blanchflower, D.(2007) The Scots May be Brave: But They’re Neither Healthy nor Happy, Scottish Journal of Political Economy (March 2007)
Bowes, A. and Bell, D.N.F (2007) Free Personal Care for Older People in Scotland: Issues and Implications, Social Policy & Society 6:3, 1–11
Bell, D.N.F, Elliott, R., Ma, A. and Scott, A. “The Pattern of Geographical Wage Differences in the Public and Private Sector in Great Britain”, Manchester School (May 2007)
Bell, D.N.F, Elliott, R., Ma, A., Roberts, E. and Scott, A. “Geographically Differentiated Pay in the Labour Market for Nurses”, Journal of Health Economics (May 2007)
Teaching
BFIP13 Quantitative Methods in FinanceECN111 Introductory Microeconomics
ECN3LB Labour Economics
SPSP06 Economics of Sport

