John Micklewright
| John Micklewright | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 June 1957 |
| Institution | University College London |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics |
| Doctoral advisor |
Tony Atkinson |
John Micklewright (born 20 June 1957) is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Social Statistics at UCL Institute of Education, University College London.
Micklewright studied at the University of Exeter (BA in Geography and Economics with First Class Honours) 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, and Professor of Economics at the European University Institute in Florence and at Queen Mary, University of London.
In 2015, he walked across France, starting at Ouistreham in Normandy and ending in Italy at Courmayeur, a journey described in ‘The Long March’.
His research focuses on:
At UNICEF Micklewight 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 Innocenti Report Card series on child wellbeing in the OECD.
He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), (Bonn), a past member of the ESRC Training and Development Board and a former Associate Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A).
Micklewright's publications include the following books, as well as many journal articles:
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