I am a Research Fellow at the Erasmus School of Economics. My research focuses on inequality, social preferences and distributive justice; and draws on experimental, health and welfare economics.

I design experiments which confront people with difficult moral dilemmas relating to: inequality, self-interest and impartiality. I develop behavioural models to explain people’s decisions and estimate social preferences which can be used to inform public policy. I also conduct applied econometric research on inequality and multidimensional poverty, in health and development.

Currently, I work at Erasmus University Rotterdam, with Owen O’Donnell and Tom Van Ourti. Previously, I was at the University of York, where I did a postdoc, with Richard Cookson and Tim Doran, and my doctorate, with John Bone and John Hey. I also conducted research for the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford, and cofounded the Interdisciplinary Research Network for Economists and Philosophers (IRNEP).

If you would like to get in touch, please feel free to email me at: robson@ese.eur.nl