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Postal address:	Department of Social Policy and STICERD, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK
Workplace:	Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex, (more information at EDIRC) DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) (German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)), (more information at EDIRC) Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), (more information at EDIRC) Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD), (more information at EDIRC) Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung "Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP)" (Research Infrastructure "Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)"), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) (German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)), (more information at EDIRC) Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), (more information at EDIRC) Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics (LSE), (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

1999

Documentation for derived current and annual net household income variables, BHPS waves 1-7
ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research View citations (6)
Measurement of the income distribution: an academic user's view
ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research
Modelling household income dynamics
ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research View citations (6)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Population Economics (2000)
Poverty among British children: chronic or transitory?
ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research View citations (4)
The dynamics of lone mothers' incomes: public and private income sources compared: report to the Department of Social Security
ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research
Trends in the UK income distribution
ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research

1997

Housing adjustment in later life: evidence from the British Household Panel Study
ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research
Marital Splits and Income Changes: Evidence for Britain
Innocenti Occasional Papers, Economic Policy Series, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre View citations (12)
Also in ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research (1997) View citations (2)
New Men and New Women? A Comparison of Paid Work Propensities from a Panel Data Perspective
CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (1)
See also Journal Article in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (1999)

1996

Changing places: income mobility and poverty dynamics in Britain
ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research View citations (9)
New men and new women: is there convergence in patterns of labour market transition?
ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research View citations (7)
Trends in real income in Britain: a microeconomic analysis
ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research
See also Journal Article in Empirical Economics (1997)
Where in the world is the middle class?: a cross- national comparison of the vanishing middle class using kernel density estimates
ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research View citations (5)

1995

Assessing income distribution trends: what lessons from the UK?
ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research
Child care costs and lone mothers' employment rates: UK evidence
ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research
See also Journal Article in Manchester School (2001)
Did the middle classes shrink during the 1980's? UK evidence from kernel density estimates
ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research View citations (6)
See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (1995)
Poverty dominance, poverty gaps, and poverty lines
ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research View citations (2)

1994

How much inequality can we explain? A methodology and an application to the USA (Now published in The Economic Journal, vol.105, no.429 (March 1995), pp. 421-430)
STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE

1992

Noncash Income, Living Standards, Inequality and Poverty: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study
Discussion Papers, University of New South Wales, Social Policy Research Centre

1988

EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENT OF HORIZONTAL INEQUITY
Working Papers, Australian National University - Department of Economics View citations (9)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1988)
INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT USING 'NORM INCOMES': WERE GARVEY AND PAGLIN ONTO SOMETHING AFTER ALL?
Working Papers, Australian National University - Department of Economics
See also Journal Article in Review of Income and Wealth (1989)
THE MEASUREMENT OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
Working Papers, Australian National University - Department of Economics View citations (22)

Undated

"Three 'I's of Poverty" Curves: TIPs for Poverty Analysis
Discussion Papers, Department of Economics, University of York View citations (1)
Fitting functional forms to distributions, using -ml-
German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2004, Stata Users Group
Horizontal Inequity Measurement: A Basic Reassessment
Discussion Papers, Department of Economics, University of York View citations (11)

Journal Articles

2012

Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the United States: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94, (2), 371-388 View citations (1)
The impact of questioning method on measurement error in panel survey measures of benefit receipt: evidence from a validation study
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2012, 175, (1), 289-308

2011

Estimating trends in US income inequality using the Current Population Survey: the importance of controlling for censoring
Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9, (3), 393-415 View citations (2)
See also Working Paper (2008)
Financial capability and psychological health
Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, 32, (5), 710-723
HAS THE INSTABILITY OF PERSONAL INCOMES BEEN INCREASING?
National Institute Economic Review, 2011, 218, (1), R33-R43
Measuring inequality using censored data: a multiple‐imputation approach to estimation and inference
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2011, 174, (1), 63-81
Robert Moffitt and Peter Gottschalk’s 1995 paper ‘Trends in the covariance structure of earnings in the US: 1969–1987’
Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9, (3), 433-437

2010

Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes: evidence for Germany
Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23, (3), 1073-1103
See also Working Paper (2006)
Scheidungskinder rauchen mehr
DIW Wochenbericht, 2010, 77, (34), 2-7
THE GENDER GAP IN PRIVATE PENSIONS
Bulletin of Economic Research, 2010, 62, (4), 343-363 View citations (1)
See also Working Paper (2004)
The effect of lone motherhood on the smoking behavior of young adults
Health Economics, 2010, 19, (11), 1377-1384 View citations (1)
See also Working Paper (2009)
The impact of macroeconomic conditions on income inequality
Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8, (2), 221-240 View citations (3)

2009

DISTRIBUTIONALLY-SENSITIVE INEQUALITY INDICES AND THE GB2 INCOME DISTRIBUTION
Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55, (2), 392-398 View citations (9)
USING THE P90-P10 INDEX TO MEASURE U.S. INEQUALITY TRENDS WITH CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY DATA: A VIEW FROM INSIDE THE CENSUS BUREAU VAULTS
Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55, (1), 166-185 View citations (7)
See also Working Paper (2007)

2008

Die internationale Einbettung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) im Rahmen des Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF)
Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 2008, 77, (3), 110-129 View citations (2)
Estimating low pay transition probabilities accounting for endogenous selection mechanisms
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, 2008, 57, (2), 165-186 View citations (15)
Review of Applied Health Economics by Jones, Rice, Bago d’Uva, and Balia
Stata Journal, 2008, 8, (1), 122-128

2007

European Data Watch: The Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) and its Member Country Household Panel Studies
Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science Studies / Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, 2007, 127, (4), 627-654 View citations (2)

2006

Calculation of multivariate normal probabilities by simulation, with applications to maximum simulated likelihood estimation
Stata Journal, 2006, 6, (2), 156-189 View citations (28)
See also Working Paper (2006)
Einfluss der Familienform auf den Schulerfolg von Kindern nicht nachweisbar
DIW Wochenbericht, 2006, 73, (13), 165-169
Patterns of consent: evidence from a general household survey
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2006, 169, (4), 701-722 View citations (10)
See also Working Paper (2005)
Stata tip 32: Do not stop
Stata Journal, 2006, 6, (2), 281
Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth, and income mobility
Oxford Economic Papers, 2006, 58, (3), 531-548 View citations (14)
See also Working Paper (2003)
Variance Estimation for Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices: the Complex Survey Data Case
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 68, (3), 371-383 View citations (5)

2005

A framework for the decomposition of poverty differences with an application to poverty differences between countries
Empirical Economics, 2005, 30, (2), 331-358 View citations (9)
Accounting for income distribution trends: A density function decomposition approach
Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3, (1), 43-61 View citations (14)
See also Working Paper (2004)

2004

Modelling low income transitions
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004, 19, (5), 593-610 View citations (51)
See also Working Paper (2002)
The Relationship between Unemployment Benefits and Re-employment Probabilities: Evidence from Spain
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 66, (2), 239-260 View citations (9)

2003

Multivariate probit regression using simulated maximum likelihood
Stata Journal, 2003, 3, (3), 278-294 View citations (120)
See also Working Paper (2003)
Review of Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Stata by Gould, Pitblado, and Sribney
Stata Journal, 2003, 3, (4), 440-444
To what extent do fiscal regimes equalize opportunities for income acquisition among citizens?
Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87, (3-4), 539-565 View citations (45)
See also Working Paper (2003)
Why Are Child Poverty Rates Higher in Britain than in Germany?: A Longitudinal Perspective
Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38, (2) View citations (10)

2002

Einkommensarmut von Kindern: ein deutsch-britischer Vergleich für die 90er Jahre
DIW Wochenbericht, 2002, 69, (5), 77-80
Who Stays Poor? Who Becomes Poor? Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
Economic Journal, 2002, 112, (478), C60-C67 View citations (29)

2001

Child Care Costs and Lone Mothers' Employment Rates: UK Evidence
Manchester School, 2001, 69, (2), 121-47 View citations (9)
See also Working Paper (1995)
Generalized Lorenz curves and related graphs: an update for Stata 7
Stata Journal, 2001, 1, (1), 107-112 View citations (1)
Modelling household income dynamics
Journal of Population Economics, 2000, 13, (4), 529-567 View citations (40)
See also Working Paper (1999)
Renaming variables: changing suffixes
Stata Technical Bulletin, 2001, 10, (59)

2000

Generalized Lorenz curves and related graphs
Stata Technical Bulletin, 2000, 9, (49)
Also in Stata Technical Bulletin, 1999, 8, (48) (1999)

1999

Analysis of income distributions
Stata Technical Bulletin, 1999, 8, (48) View citations (3)
Creation of bivariate random lognormal variables
Stata Technical Bulletin, 1999, 8, (48) View citations (1)
Fitting Singh-Maddala and Dagum distributions by maximum likelihood
Stata Technical Bulletin, 1999, 8, (48)
New Men and New Women? A Comparison of Paid Work Propensities from a Panel Data Perspective
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1999, 61, (2), 167-97 View citations (8)
See also Working Paper (1997)
Retirement and housing adjustment in later life: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
Labour Economics, 1999, 6, (2), 311-333 View citations (12)

1998

Discrete time proportional hazards regression
Stata Technical Bulletin, 1998, 7, (39) View citations (14)
How Much Income Mobility Is There in Britain?
Economic Journal, 1998, 108, (447), 428-43 View citations (53)

1997

Gender Differentials in Domestic Work, Market Work, and Total Work Time: UK Time Budget Survey Evidence for 1974/5 and 1987
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 1997, 44, (2), 153-64 View citations (1)
Low income dynamics in 1990s Britain
Fiscal Studies, 1997, 18, (2), 123-142 View citations (7)
Three 'I's of Poverty Curves, with an Analysis of UK Poverty Trends
Oxford Economic Papers, 1997, 49, (3), 317-27 View citations (38)
Trends in Real Income in Britain: A Microeconomic Analysis
Empirical Economics, 1997, 22, (4), 483-500 View citations (5)
See also Working Paper (1996)

1996

Household Income Plus Household Production: The Distribution of Extended Income in the U.K
Review of Income and Wealth, 1996, 42, (4), 401-19 View citations (10)
Recent Trends in the UK Income Distribution: What Happened and Why?
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 1996, 12, (1), 29-46 View citations (8)

1995

Accounting for Inequality Trends: Decomposition Analyses for the UK, 1971-86
Economica, 1995, 62, (245), 29-63 View citations (18)
Did the middle class shrink during the 1980s? UK evidence from kernel density estimates
Economics Letters, 1995, 49, (4), 407-413 View citations (9)
See also Working Paper (1995)
Easy Estimation Methods for Discrete-Time Duration Models
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1995, 57, (1), 129-38 View citations (102)
How Much Inequality Can We Explain? A Methodology and an Application to the United States
Economic Journal, 1995, 105, (429), 421-30 View citations (36)
Modelling Domestic Work Time
Journal of Population Economics, 1995, 8, (3), 265-79 View citations (4)

1994

Dwarfs and giants in the 1980s: trends in the UK income distribution
Fiscal Studies, 1994, 15, (1), 99-118
Earnings discrimination measurement: A distributional approach
Journal of Econometrics, 1994, 61, (1), 81-102 View citations (35)
Parametric Equivalence Scales and Scale Relativities
Economic Journal, 1994, 104, (425), 891-900 View citations (37)

1993

Ranking Income Distributions When Needs Differ
Review of Income and Wealth, 1993, 39, (4), 337-56 View citations (48)

1992

Differences in Needs and Assessment of Income Distributions
Bulletin of Economic Research, 1992, 44, (2), 77-124 View citations (45)
Equivalence Scale Relativities and the Extent of Inequality and Poverty
Economic Journal, 1992, 102, (414), 1067-82 View citations (87)
Lone Mothers' Employment and Full-Time Work Probabilities
Economic Journal, 1992, 102, (411), 310-20 View citations (6)

1991

Income Inequality and Living standards: Changes in the 1970s and 1980s
Fiscal Studies, 1991, 12, (1), 1-28 View citations (1)

1990

'Adverse selection' features of poverty amongst lone mothers
Fiscal Studies, 1990, 11, (2), 76-89 View citations (1)
The Distribution of Wealth: Measurement and Models
Journal of Economic Surveys, 1990, 4, (4), 329-60 View citations (6)

1989

Inequality Measurement Using 'Norm Incomes': Were Garvy and Paglin onto Something after All?
Review of Income and Wealth, 1989, 35, (3), 265-82 View citations (1)
See also Working Paper (1988)

1988

Empirical measurement of horizontal inequity
Journal of Public Economics, 1988, 37, (3), 305-329 View citations (10)
See also Working Paper (1988)
Reranking and the Analysis of Income Redistribution
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 1988, 35, (1), 65-76 View citations (5)

1987

Interdependent decision-making in non-profit industries: A simultaneous equation analysis of English provincial theatre
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1987, 5, (2), 149-174 View citations (7)
The Implications of "Stochastic" Demographic Assumptions for Models of the Distribution of Inherited Wealth: Correction
Bulletin of Economic Research, 1987, 39, (2), 185

1985

A Multiperiod Model of Nonprofit Enterprises
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 1985, 32, (2), 119-34 View citations (3)
The Implications of 'Stochastic' Demographic Assumptions for Models of the Distribution of Inherited Wealth
Bulletin of Economic Research, 1985, 37, (3), 231-44

1984

The Steady-State Assumption and the Estimation of Distributional and Related Models
Journal of Human Resources, 1984, 19, (3), 358-376

1982

Tools for the Analysis of distributional Models
The Manchester School of Economic & Social Studies, 1982, 50, (2), 139-50

Books

2011

Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain
OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (7)

Edited books

2010

The Distribution of Welfare and Household Production
Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press

2007

Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined
OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (1)

2001

The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries
Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (14)
The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries
Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (14)

1998

The Distribution of Welfare and Household Production
Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (6)

Software Items

2012

BETAFIT: Stata module to fit a two-parameter beta distribution
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
GB2FIT: Stata module to fit Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distribution by maximum likelihood
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
GUMBELFIT: Stata module to fit a two-parameter Gumbel distribution
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2011

GAMMAFIT: Stata module to fit a two-parameter gamma distribution
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
INVGAMMAFIT: Stata module to fit a two-parameter inverse gamma distribution
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2010

DIRIFIT: Stata module to fit a Dirichlet distribution
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
INEQDEC0: Stata module to calculate inequality indices with decomposition by subgroup
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
Also in Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics (2010)
INEQRBD: Stata module to calculate regression-based inequality decomposition
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
PARETOFIT: Stata module to fit a Type 1 Pareto distribution
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2009

DSGINIDECO: Stata module to compute decomposition of inequality change into pro-poor growth and mobility components
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
INEQFAC: Stata module to calculate inequality decomposition by factor components
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)

2008

FISKFIT: Stata module to fit a Fisk distribution by ML to unit record data
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
GLCURVE: Stata module to derive generalised Lorenz curve ordinates
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)
POVDECO: Stata module to calculate poverty indices with decomposition by subgroup
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
SAMPLEPPS: Stata module to draw a random sample with probabilities proportional to size
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2007

DAGUMFIT: Stata module to fit a Dagum distribution by maximum likelihood
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
LOGNFIT: Stata module to fit lognormal distribution by maximum likelihood
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
SMFIT: Stata module to fit a Singh-Maddala distribution by maximum likelihood
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
WEIBULLFIT: Stata module to fit a two-parameter Weibull distribution
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2006

HSHAZ: Stata module to estimate discrete time (grouped data) proportional hazards models
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
HUTCHENS: Stata module to calculate the Hutchens `square root' segregation index with optional decompositions by subgroup
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
INVGAUSSFIT: Stata module to fit a two-parameter inverse Gaussian distribution
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
MVPROBIT: Stata module to calculate multivariate probit regression using simulated maximum likelihood
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (3)
SUMDIST: Stata module to calculate summary statistics for income distributions
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
SVYLORENZ: Stata module to derive distribution-free variance estimates from complex survey data, of quantile group shares of a total, cumulative quantile group shares
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2005

SVYGEI_SVYATK: Stata module to derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (4)

2004

GLCURVE7: Stata module to derive generalised Lorenz curve ordinates with unit record data (version 7)
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
PGMHAZ8: Stata module to estimate discrete time (grouped data) proportional hazards models
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2001

GEIVARS: Stata module to calculate Generalized Entropy inequality indices
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
SPSURV: Stata module to fit split population survival ('cure') model
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

1999

MKBILOGN: Stata module to create bivariate lognormal variables
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
XFRAC: Stata module to produce tabulation using categories defined by fractions of a cut-off value
Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics