Dr Alexander Krauss
a.krauss@lse.ac.uk
Areas of specialisation
Science
of science, Development economics, Economics of science, Philosophy of
science
Academic positions
London School of Economics,
UK; 2015 – present
-Research Associate, 2019 – present
-Marie Curie Research Fellow, 2017
– 2019
-Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2015
– 2017
Spanish
National Research Council, Spain; 2022 – present
-Assistant
Professor / Ramón y Cajal researcher (tenure-track)
University
of Barcelona, Spain; Research Fellow, 2019 –
2022
University
College London, UK; Adjunct Lecturer, 2015
– 2017
Select publications
Articles – in science of science, and economics
of science
Krauss, Alexander. What drives scientific discovery. Under
review.
Krauss, Alexander. The emergence
of new scientific fields: Evidence and theory. In draft.
Krauss,
Alexander. Evolution or revolution in science? The highly cumulative nature
of scientific progress. PNAS Nexus - revise and resubmit.
Krauss, Alexander. 2024. Science’s greatest discoverers: a
shift towards greater interdisciplinarity, top universities and older age. Nature, Humanities and Social
Sciences Communications, 11, 272.
Krauss, Alexander; Lluís Danús; Marta Sales-Pardo. 2023. Early-career factors largely determine the future impact of
prominent researchers: Evidence across eight scientific fields. Nature,
Scientific Reports.
Danús, Lluís; Carles Muntaner; Alexander Krauss; Marta
Sales-Pardo; Roger Guimerà. 2023. Differences
in collaboration structures
and impact among prominent researchers in Europe and North America. EPJ Data Sci. 12, 12.
Krauss, Alexander. 2023. Multi-studies: A Novel Approach to Addressing Irreplicability in
RCTs. In: A Medical Educator's Guide to Thinking
Critically about Randomised Controlled Trials: Deconstructing the "Gold
Standard" (ed. Margaret MacDougall). Springer Press.
Krauss, Alexander; Matteo Colombo.
2020. Explaining public understanding of the concepts of climate change,
nutrition, poverty and effective medical drugs: An international experimental
survey. PLOS One, 15(6).
Krauss, Alexander. 2018. Why
all randomised controlled trials produce biased results. Annals of Medicine, 50, 4, pp. 312-322.
Articles – in economics, economic methodology,
and behavioural sciences
Krauss, Alexander. 2016. Understanding child labour beyond the standard economic
assumption of monetary poverty.
41, 2, pp. 545-574, Cambridge Journal of Economics,
Oxford University Press.
Krauss, Alexander. 2016. How natural gas tariff increases can influence poverty:
Results, measurement constraints and bias.
60, pp. 244-254, Energy Economics.
Krauss, Alexander. 2015. The scientific limits of understanding the (potential)
relationship between complex social phenomena: the case of democracy and
inequality.
23, 1, pp. 97-109, Journal of Economic Methodology.
Krauss, Alexander; Carol Graham.
2013. Subjective wellbeing in Colombia: Some insights on
vulnerability, job security, and relative incomes.
pp. 233-260, International Journal of Happiness and Development.
Krauss, Alexander. 2013. Understanding child labour beyond poverty: The structure of
the economy, social norms, and no returns to rural basic education.
Washington: World Bank (earlier version of paper published by Cambridge Journal
of Economics).
Articles – in philosophy of science, history of
science, and cognitive science
Krauss, Alexander. 2023. Homo methodologicus
and the origin of science and civilisation.
Heliyon, 9, 10.
Peters, Uwe; Alexander Krauss;
Oliver Braganza. 2022. Generalization bias in science.
Cognitive Science, 46: e13188.
Krauss, Alexander. 2021. Assessing the overall
validity of randomised controlled trials.
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
Hoefer, Carl; Alexander Krauss.
2021. Measures of
effectiveness in medical research: Reporting both absolute and relative
measures. Studies in History and Philosophy
of Science Part A, 88.
Books
Krauss, Alexander. 2013. External influences and the educational landscape: Analysis
of political, economic, geographic, health and demographic factors in Ghana.
New York: Springer Press,
pp. 1-143.
Book chapters
Krauss, Alexander. 2014. Fundamentals. in: East Asia Pacific At Work: Employment, Enterprise, and
Well-being. Washington: World Bank; World
Development Report on Jobs. Chapter 4, pp. 65-94.
Previous research employment
World Bank – 5 years
Conducted research in economics and
behavioural sciences, in particular quantitative and qualitative evaluations of
the causal effects of public policies and reforms (on health, poverty
reduction, education, labour, energy topics etc.) for countries across the
world – with the research used to inform the design of government policies and
improve their effectiveness; conducted a range of other data analyses and
analytical work on inequality, distribution and ethical topics; conducted
workshops on ‘Monitoring and evaluation
of public policies using experimental data’ for academics and government
officials; and prepared dozens of government policy reports (including their
design, data analysis and write-up) to inform public policy decisions on a
range of topics – e.g. skills
in Cambodia, education
in Ghana, female
empowerment in Latin America and employment
in the Republic of Congo
Teaching
Foundations of Philosophy of Science (University of
Barcelona)
Applied Development Economics, Interdisciplinarity and Methodology (UCL)
Development
Economics and Policy (UCL)