John Micklewright

John Micklewright is a Professor of Economics and Social Statistics at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Career

He has previously worked as 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.

Areas

At UNICEF Micklewight compared living standards (using data on child poverty, child injury death, teenage pregnancy, and educational disadvantage) in both OECD members and transition economies of Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the former USSR.

He works 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 donations, especially for development.

Professional Activities

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

Publications

Micklewight has published many academic articles and books including:

• Unemployment Benefit and Unemployment Duration, STICERD Occasional Paper 6, LSE (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)