I am a political economist working on issues related to risk and insurance, inequality, distributional conflict and voting behaviour in Europe and the United States in the post-war period. My work uses administrative, historical and public opinion data to capture individuals’ experiences, and, relying on experiments or quasi-experiments, identifies their impact on voters’ economic and political behaviour.

I am an Associate Professor in Political Behaviour in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. I am also an Associate Member at Nuffield College.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the LSE and an Affiliate at its US Centre. I earned a DPhil in Political Science from Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

You can get in touch with me at raluca.pahontu [at] kcl.ac.uk