Gailius is a PhD Economics candidate in the Department of Economics. His research is concerned with the causes and consequences of economic and political inequality. He is particularly interested in the relationship between political power and wealth, as well as the interaction between redistributive forces and political outcomes. 

Gailius does much of his work with Ellen Munroe, a fellow PhD Economics candidate in the Department of Economics. Their current projects study these questions in the United Kingdom from 1858 to today, relating individual-level wealth data for a large part of the population in England and Wales to the political process. 

He holds a MASc in Development, Data and Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BSc in Economics from the University of Amsterdam. Before starting his PhD, he was a consultant at the World Bank Bureaucracy Lab, where he worked on impact evaluation. Throughout his studies, he has tutored in economics and related subjects.

Research Interests
Political Economics, Labour Economics,  Public Economics, Economic History

Supervisors
Tim Besley 
Jeremiah Dittmar