Professor John Micklewright

School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Telephone: (023) 8059 2167
Email: jm4@soton.ac.uk

Biography

I joined Southampton in 2002 following six years as head of research in the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence. Prior to that, I was Professor of Economics at the European University Institute and at Queen Mary, University of London. I did my PhD at LSE and was then Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.

Research interests

My current interests are in four areas: (a) poverty, inequality and the measurement of living standards, (b) labour market flows and behaviour, (c) educational achievement and social segregation in schools, and (d) charitable donations, especially for development.

Unicef Output

Much of my work at UNICEF compared living standards across OECD members and across the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Click here for details of published reports. (See below for my academic publications.) You can download comparisons of OECD countries' records on child poverty, child injury death, teenage pregnancy, and educational disadvantage, and a review of social conditions after a decade of transition in the CEE/FSU countries.

Work in progress

See under 'Working Papers' for my most recent output. This includes work from an ESRC grant for 2006-8 on charitable giving for international development which forms part of the ESRC Non-Governmental Public Action programme.

Roles

Professor of Social Statistics, Deputy Director of S3RI

Selected publications

Books
	J. Micklewright and K. Stewart 2000 The Welfare of Europe's Children: Are EU Member States Converging?. Bristol, UK: The Policy Press. On-line article, (ISBN: 1861342268)
	A. B. Atkinson and J. Micklewright 1992 Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Distribution of Income. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press., (ISBN: 0521433290)

Edited books and volumes
	S. P. Jenkins and J. Micklewright (eds) 2007 Inequality and Poverty Re-examined. Oxford UK: Oxford: Oxford University Press., (ISBN: 0-19-921812-9)
	B. Bradbury, S. Jenkins and J. Micklewright (eds) 2001 The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press., (ISBN: 0521803101), Details and introductory chapter
	J. Falkingham, J. Klugman, S. Marnie and J. Micklewright (eds) 1997 Household Welfare in Central Asia. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press., (ISBN: 0-333-67433-2)

Chapters in books
	J. Micklewright and S.V. Schnepf 2007 Inequality in learning in industrialised countries. In S. P. Jenkins and J. Micklewright (eds), Inequality and Poverty Re-examined. Oxford: Oxford University Press., (ISBN: 0-19-921812-9)
	S. P. Jenkins and J. Micklewright 2007 New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty. In S. P. Jenkins and J. Micklewright (eds), Inequality and Poverty Re-examined (pp. 3-33). Oxford: Oxford University Press., (ISBN: 0-19-921812-9)
	J. Micklewright & A. Wright 2005 Private Donations for International Development. In A. B. Atkinson (ed.), New Sources of Development Finance (pp. 132-155). Oxford UK: Oxford University Press. On-line article, (ISBN: 0199278555)
	J. Micklewright 2002 Social Exclusion and Children: A European View for a US Debate. In A. J. Kahn and S. B. Kamerman (eds), Beyond Child Poverty: The Social Exclusion of Children (pp. 89-130). The Institute for Child and Family Policy, Columbia University. On-line article, (ISBN: 0972258906)
	J. Micklewright and K. Stewart 2001 Child Well-Being in the EU - and Enlargement to the East. In K. Vleminckx and T. M. Smeeding (eds), Child Well-Being, Child Poverty and Child Policy in Modern Nations (pp. 99-128). Bristol, UK: The Policy Press. On-line article, (ISBN: 1861342535)
	J. Flemming & J. Micklewright 2000 Income Distribution, Economic Systems, and Transition. In A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds), Handbook of Income Distribution (pp. 843-918). North-Holland. On-line article, (ISBN: 0444816313)

Articles in journals
	John Micklewright and Sylke V. Schnepf to be published How Reliable are Income Data Collected with a Single Question? Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A) On-line abstract On-line article
	J. Micklewright and S.V. Schnepf 2009 Who Gives for Overseas Development? Journal of Social Policy, 38(2) , 317-341 . On-line abstract On-line article
	S. P. Jenkins, J. Micklewright and S. V. Schnepf 2008 Social Segregation in Secondary Schools: How does England compare with other countries? Oxford Review of Education, 34(1), 21-38. On-line abstract On-line article
	G. Brown, J. Micklewright, S. V. Schnepf, and R. Waldmann 2007 International Surveys of Educational Achievement: How Robust are the Findings? Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), 170(3), 623-46. On-line abstract On-line article
	J Micklewright & S Marnie 2005 Targeting Social Assistance in a Transition Economy: The Mahallas in Uzbekistan. Social Policy and Administration, vol 39 no 4, 431-447. On-line abstract, (ISSN: 0034-6586)
	J. Micklewright 2002 Measuring Functional Literacy and Numeracy in the European Union. Politica Economica, 2002, no. 1, 105-108. On-line article
	J. Micklewright & G. Nagy 2002 The Informational Value of Job Search Data and the Dynamics of Job Search: Evidence from Hungary. Acta Oeconomica On-line article
	J. Micklewright & K. Stewart June 2001 Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe. New Economy On-line article
	J. Micklewright & S. Ismail March 2001 What Can Child Anthropometry Reveal About Living Standards And Public Policy? An Illustration From Central Asia. Review of Income and Wealth, Series 47 no 1, 65-80. On-line article
	J. Micklewright 1999 Education, Inequality and Transition. Economics of Transition On-line article
	J. Micklewright & Gy. Nagy 1999 Living Standards and Incentives in Transition: The Implications of Exhausting UI Entitlement in Hungary. Journal of Public Economics On-line article
	J. Micklewright & K. Stewart 1999 Is the Well-Being of Children Converging in the European Union? Economic Journal On-line article

Working papers
	A.B. Atkinson, P. G. Backus, J. Micklewright, C. Pharoah, S. V. Schnepf 2008 Charitable Giving For Overseas Development: UK Trends Over a Quarter Century. S3RI Applications and Policy Working Papers. Southampton: University of Southampton. On-line article
	J. Micklewright and G. Nagy October 2005 Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial On-line abstract On-line article
	J. Micklewright March 2005 Child Poverty in English-Speaking Countries On-line article
	G. Brown & J. Micklewright October 2004 Using International Surveys of Achievement and Literacy: A View from the Outside. UNESCO. On-line article, This paper comments on PISA, TIMSS, and IALS and was written for UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Montreal
	J. Micklewright, S. Coudouel and S. Marnie March 2004 Targeting and Self-Targeting in a New Social Assistance Programme On-line article, This paper models knowledge, applications and awards to a social assistance programme in Uzbekistan
	J. Micklewright & S. V. Schnepf 2004 Educational Achievement in English-speaking Countries: Do Different Surveys tell the Same Story?' On-line article, Written for a conference on 'Cross-National Comparisons of Expenditures on Children', Princeton
	J. Klugman, J. Micklewright and G. Redmond March 2002 Poverty in Transition: Social Expenditures and the Working Age Poor On-line article

Reports
	J. Micklewright and S.V. Schnepf 2006 Response Bias in England in PISA 2000 and 2003. Department for Education and Skills, Research Report 771. On-line article, (ISBN: 1 84478 764 8)
	J. Micklewright 2001 Should the UK Government measure poverty and social exclusion with a composite index? Report to Indicators of Progress: Approaches to monitor the Government's strategy to tackle poverty and social exclusion, CASE report 13. LSE. On-line article

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