Christian Siegel is a Senior Lecturer in Macroeconomics at the University of Kent. He holds a Diplom from the University of Mannheim, as well as a MRes and a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests lie in the intersection of macroeconomics, especially economic growth, and labour economics. His work has been published in the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Review of Economic Dynamics, and the Journal of Demographic Economics