Dr Laurence Roope
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Laurence Roope
BSc (Hons) MSc PhD
Senior Researcher
Laurence joined the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) in January 2013, after completing a PhD in Economics at the University of Manchester.
Laurence’s research interests lie broadly within development economics, with particular interests in poverty, inequality, health, and human capital. Much of his work has involved developing and analysing indicators of societal wellbeing and deprivation.
He is especially interested in the relationship between economic growth and inequality, and how to make economic growth more inclusive.
His work on global inequality was featured in the United Nations Human Development Report 2016. He has also recently developed interests in behavioural economics and in the economics of antimicrobial resistance. He is currently engaged in several projects in these areas funded by the NIHR and the ESRC.
Laurence has worked as a consultant for the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), is a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) and an External Associate at the Global Development Institute (GDI, University of Manchester).
Prior to working in academia Laurence was a professional econometrician in the private sector.
He also holds a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Durham and an MSc in Econometrics from the University of Manchester.
Recent publications
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Lottery or Triage? Multi-country survey-based experiment evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic on public preferences for allocation of scarce medical resources
Duch R., (2025), Medical decision making
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Accuracy of online surveys in predicting COVID-19 uptake and demand: A cohort study investigating vaccine sentiments and switching in 13 countries from 2020 to 2022.
Abel ZDV. et al, (2025), Vaccine, 62
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Inequality in COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and uptake: A repeated cross-sectional analysis of COVID vaccine acceptance and uptake in 13 countries.
Abel ZD. et al, (2025), Health Policy, 153
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Inequalities in geographic barriers and patient representation in lymphoma clinical trials across England.
Jones DA. et al, (2025), Br J Haematol, 206, 531 - 540
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How, why and when are delayed (back-up) antibiotic prescriptions used in primary care? A realist review integrating concepts of uncertainty in healthcare
Mcleod M. et al, (2024), BMC Public Health, 24
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Access to healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional analysis of income and user-access across 16 economically diverse countries.
Abel ZDV. et al, (2024), BMC Public Health, 24
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Overcoming challenges in the economic evaluation of interventions to optimise antibiotic use
ROOPE L. et al, (2024), Communications Medicine
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Assessing the relationship between coverage of essential health services and poverty levels in low- and middle- income countries
ROOPE L. et al, (2024), Health Policy and Planning
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Author Correction: Financial incentives for COVID-19 vaccines in a rural low-resource setting: a cluster-randomized trial.
Duch R. et al, (2023), Nature medicine
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Health Poverty among people with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) in Malaysia
Parra-Mujica F. et al, (2023), Social Science and Medicine