Anthony Shorrocks

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Academic career

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He has many publications in leading economic journals on income and wealth distribution, inequality, poverty, and mobility.[2][3]

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Shorrocks together with Tarja Halonen, then President of Finland

Education

His first degree was a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Sussex. This was followed by a Masters in Economics from Brown University. He took his Ph.D. in Economics at the London School of Economics in 1973 (being awarded the Bowley Prize in 1975).[4]

Shorrocks index

In 1978, he introduced a measure based on income Gini coefficients to estimate income mobility.[5] This measure, generalized by Maasoumi and Zandvakili,[6] is now generally referred to as Shorrocks index, sometimes as Shorrocks mobility index or Shorrocks rigidity index. It attempts to estimate whether the income inequality Gini coefficient is permanent or temporary, and to what extent a country or region enables economic mobility to its people so that they can move from one (e.g. bottom 20%) income quantile to another (e.g. middle 20%) over time. In other words, Shorrocks index compares inequality of short-term earnings such as annual income of households, to inequality of long-term earnings such as 5-year or 10-year total income for same households.

Professional recognition

He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1996.[7]

Noted works

Books

Chapters in books

Journal articles

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Anthony Shorrocks: Former Director". World Institute for Development Economics Research. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  2. ^ OPHI biography.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Appendix, biographies of the authors: Anthony Shorrocks" (PDF). www.credit-suisse.com. Credit Suisse. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."UK Prof. Anthony Shorrocks appointed UNU/WIDER director" (press release). United Nations University. 19 December 2000. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shorrocks, Anthony (December 1978). "Income inequality and income mobility". Journal of Economic Theory. 19 (2): 376–393. doi:10.1016/0022-0531(78)90101-1.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Zandvakili, Sourushe (1986). "A class of generalized measures of mobility with applications". Economics Letters. 22 (1): 97–102. doi:10.1016/0165-1765(86)90150-3.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fellows of the Econometric Society (Current Fellows)". The Econometric Society. Retrieved 2 December 2024.

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