Nationality British Name Anthony Shorrocks | Fields Development economics | |
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Born 30 October 1946 (age 77) ( 1946-10-30 ) Alma mater London School of Economics Education London School of Economics and Political Science Books Spatial Decomposition of Inequality | ||
Researching and reporting on global wealth an interview with anthony shorrocks
Anthony F. Shorrocks (born 30 October 1946), is a British development economist.
Contents
- Researching and reporting on global wealth an interview with anthony shorrocks
- Researching global inequality an interview with anthony shorrocks
- Academic career
- Education
- Shorrocks index
- Professional Recognition
- Books
- Chapters in books
- Journal articles
- References
Researching global inequality an interview with anthony shorrocks
Academic career
Between January 2001 and April 2009 he was Director of UNU-WIDER. Prior to that he was Professor at the London School of Economics and before that he worked at the University of Essex. He has also had several visiting appointments in the US, Canada, Italy, and Russia.
He has many publications in leading economic journals on income and wealth distribution, inequality, poverty, and mobility.
Education
His first degree was a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Sussex. This was followed by a Masters in Economics from Brown University. He took his Ph.D. in Economics at the London School of Economics in 1973 (being awarded the Bowley Prize in 1975).
Shorrocks index
In 1978, he introduced a measure based on income Gini coefficients to estimate income mobility. This measure, generalized by Maasoumi and Zandvakili, is now generally referred to as Shorrocks index, sometimes as Shorrocks mobility index or Shorrocks rigidity index. It attempts to estimate whether the income inequality Gini coefficient is permanent or temporary, and to what extent a country or region enables economic mobility to its people so that they can move from one (e.g. bottom 20%) income quantile to another (e.g. middle 20%) over time. In other words, Shorrocks index compares inequality of short-term earnings such as annual income of households, to inequality of long-term earnings such as 5-year or 10-year total income for same households.
Professional Recognition
He has been elected to be a Fellow of the Econometric Society.