John Micklewright


John Micklewright is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Social Statistics at UCL Institute of Education, 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 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, 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, .
In 2015, he walked across France, from Normandy to the Alps, a journey described in ‘’.

Areas

His research focuses on:
  1. poverty, inequality and the measurement of living standards
  2. labour market flows and behaviour
  3. educational achievement and segregation in schools
  4. charitable giving, especially for development.
  5. 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: