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John Micklewright


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Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Distribution of Income

A conversation with john micklewright professor of economics and social statistics


John Micklewright (born 20 June 1957) is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Social Statistics at UCL Institute of Education, University College London.

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Career

Micklewright studied at the University of Exeter (BA in Geography and Economics with First Class Honours) and then completed a PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics. He did post-doctoral work as a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. Before joining UCL Institute of Education, he was Professor of Social Statistics in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton, head of research in the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, and Professor of Economics at the European University Institute in Florence and at Queen Mary, University of London.

In 2015, he walked across France, starting at Ouistreham in Normandy and ending in Italy at Courmayeur, a journey described in ‘The Long March’.

Areas

His research focuses on:

  1. poverty, inequality and the measurement of living standards
  2. labour market flows and behaviour
  3. educational achievement and social segregation in schools
  4. charitable giving, especially for development.
  5. survey methods

At UNICEF Micklewight compared living standards of children in both OECD members and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former USSR. He was one of the team that started the Innocenti Report Card series on child wellbeing in the OECD.

Professional Activities

He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), (Bonn), a past member of the ESRC Training and Development Board and a former Associate Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A).

Publications

Micklewright's publications include the following books, as well as many journal articles:

  • Unemployment Benefit and Unemployment Duration, STICERD Occasional Paper 6, LSE, 1985 (with A.B. Atkinson)
  • Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Distribution of Income, Cambridge University Press, 1992 (with A.B. Atkinson)
  • Household Welfare in Central Asia, Macmillan, 1997 (edited with J. Falkingham, J. Klugman and S. Marnie)
  • The Welfare of Europe’s Children: Are EU Member States Converging? The Policy Press, 2000 (with K. Stewart)
  • The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries, Cambridge University Press, 2001 (edited with B. Bradbury and S. Jenkins)
  • Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined, Oxford University Press, 2007 (edited with S. Jenkins)
  • The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income, Oxford University Press, 2012 (edited with S. Jenkins, A. Brandolini and B. Nolan)
  • Family Background and University Success, Oxford University Press, 2016 (with C. Crawford, L. Dearden and A. Vignoles)

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