Nuffield College Library

02/10/2026

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby

Including:
The dog's gaze: a visual history by Nuffield College alumnus Thomas W. Laqueur
This book will be featured in the upcoming Alumni Book Club https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events-and-seminars/alumni-book-club-event-2026/

02/10/2026

When can we use two-way fixed effects (TWFE)? A comparison of TWFE and novel dynamic difference-in-differences estimators
https://doi.org/10.1177/00811750261484940
Paper in Sociological Methodology by Associate Member Tobias Rüttenauer and Nuffield College Fellow Ozan Aksoy

02/10/2026

Exclusionary backlash to job loss: Evidence from Germany
https://doi.org/10.1086/744128
Paper forthcoming in Journal of Politics by Nuffield College Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow Alexander Trubowitz

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01/10/2026

Damp places, unhappy faces: local authority housing repairs and maintenance expenditure on residents’ wellbeing in England
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2026.2730273
Paper in Housing Studies by Nuffield College student Neftalem Emanuel

28/09/2026

Who is (not) engaging with a digital parenting intervention in
Tanzania? Analysis of predictors using data from a factorial
randomized trial
https://doi.org/10.2196/86129
Paper in JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting by Roselinde Janowski, Nuffield College Fellow Lucie D. Cluver, Joyce Wamoyi, G. J. Melendez-Torres, Jamie M. Lachman, David Stern, Lauren-Jayne van Niekerk and Yulia Shenderovich

25/09/2026

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby

25/09/2026

Is the UK electorate fragmenting? Not so fast
https://www.ft.com/content/28ea6751-90a5-4538-b577-71bb123e81b7
Financial Times article by Nuffield College Research Fellow Marta Miori, with contributions from Nuffield Fellow Jane Green

25/09/2026

Fair equality of opportunity, basic liberty, and the
constitution of the person
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-026-09786-7
Paper in Res Publica by Nuffield College Senior Research Fellow David Miller

Rawlsian fair equality of opportunity requires that ‘those who have the same level of talent and ability and the same willingness to use these gifts should have the same prospects of success regardless of their social class of origin’. How should we understand this principle once we recognize th...

23/09/2026

Why the mortality penalty of smoking is rising over time
https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag280
Paper in PNAS Nexus by Ralph Lawton, Nuffield College Senior Research Fellow Jennifer Beam Dowd, Jonathan Skinner and Ellen Meara

Abstract. The adverse association between smoking and mortality is well known, yet estimated risks for smokers have risen markedly in recent decades. Expla

21/09/2026

The impact of an ageing population on pandemic risk in England
https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.09.11.26362845
medRxiv preprint by Nuffield College Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Thomas Rawson, Pablo N. Perez-Guzman, Edward S. Knock, Christian Morgenstern, Nuffield Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Daniel Valdenegro, Katy A.M. Gaythorpe, Lilith K. Whittles, Wes Hinsley, Raphael Sonabend, Richard G. FitzJohn, Anne Cori, Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Jennifer Beam Dowd, Jakub Bijak, Neil M. Ferguson and Nuffield Fellow Melinda C. Mills