Aleksejs Belasovs
Aleksejs Belasovs
Aleksejs Belasovs
Data & AI Scientist
👋 About Me

I am a data scientist with a strong interest in applying econometric methods to questions of economic policy. My work spans labour economics, impact evaluation, and the intersection of public policy and data science. At my core, I am interested in using rigorous statistical methods to answer questions that matter: how do markets allocate wages, who gets left behind by policy decisions, and what is the true economic cost of under-investment in public services?

Growing up in a working class household shaped how I think about these questions. I saw first-hand how policy decisions, often made far away and with little nuance, affect the everyday lives of real people. That experience made me want to understand the mechanisms behind inequality and opportunity, and to use data rigorously rather than selectively. I am drawn to research questions where the evidence is more complicated than the headlines suggest.

I built this page to share that work and to make it as accessible as possible. The methods we use to evaluate policy interventions and model economic behaviour have real implications for how decisions get made, and I want to help bridge that gap between rigorous analysis and clear communication.

If my approach resonates with you, or if you would like to discuss research, methodology, or potential collaborations, I would love to hear from you.

🎓 Education
💼 Work Experience
🛠 Skills & Tools
Python SQL R SAS STATA C VBA JavaScript Flask Pandas GeoPandas Folium / Leaflet.js Mesa ABM Power BI Power Automate HTML / CSS Git REST APIs Office Suite
🌐 Languages
🇬🇧 English (Fluent)
🇷🇺 Russian (Fluent)
🇩🇪 German (Basic)
Interests & Charity
🧗 Climbing ⛰ Mountaineering 📈 Finance 🤖 Machine Learning 📊 Royal Statistical Society 🚂 Transportation
💻 Projects
🗻 Scotland Railway Map — Interactive Station & Line Explorer
Full-stack data visualisation app built with Python, Flask, Folium and Leaflet.js. Live departures and arrivals for 350+ Scottish stations via the National Rail LDBWS APIs, with colour-coded performance metrics and 37 periods of historical trend data.
📊 Levenmouth Rail ABM — Economic Impact Analysis
Research project combining Difference-in-Differences econometrics and a Mesa agent-based model (3,700 resident agents, 60 businesses) to measure the employment effect of the Levenmouth Rail Link, reopened June 2024 after a 55-year closure. Includes an interactive simulation dashboard and long-form research article.
📈 Health and Hourly Wages in the UK Labour Market
Academic paper estimating the wage penalty associated with limiting health conditions using 7,372 permanent employees from the UK Labour Force Survey. Applies OLS, Heckman two-step selection correction, and bootstrap inference to show the gap reflects selective hiring rather than pay discrimination.