John Micklewright

John Micklewright is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Social Statistics at UCL Social Research Institute, University College London.

Career

Micklewright studied at the University of Exeter 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, 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, Professor of Economics at the European University Institute in Florence, and Lecturer, Reader and then Professor of Economics at Queen Mary, University of London.
He is the editor, together with , of Tony Atkinson's last book, published posthumously in 2019, , Princeton University Press.
In 2015, he walked across France, from Normandy to the Alps, a journey described in a blog at the time ‘’ and subsequently in a book, , Matador, 2021.

Areas

His research focuses on:

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

At UNICEF Micklewright 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 series on child wellbeing in the OECD.

Professional activities

He is a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor,.

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
Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Distribution of Income, Cambridge University Press, 1992
Household Welfare in Central Asia, Macmillan, 1997
The Welfare of Europe’s Children: Are EU Member States Converging? The Policy Press, 2000
The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries, Cambridge University Press, 2001
Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined, Oxford University Press, 2007
The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income, Oxford University Press, 2012
Family Background and University Success, Oxford University Press, 2016
The Opening Country: A Walk through France, Matador, 2021