Professor Stephen Jenkins Visiting Professor, University of Essex

Email

stephenj@essex.ac.uk

Telephone

0207 9556527

Office

Personal homepage

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy/whosWho/academicStaff.aspx

Research interests

Research on applied micro-economics with particular reference to the distribution of income and its redistribution through taxation, social security and the labour market. Including inequality and poverty measurement; income mobility and poverty dynamics; modelling labour supply and social security benefit spell durations; survival analysis

Stata materials

• Survival Analysis Using Stata
• Workshops on - 'Audit trails, reproducibility and output processing' and 'Effective use of Stata graphics'
• Inequality, poverty and social welfare: estimation and comparisons

Additional downloadable materials

• Comparisons of BHPS and HBAI distributions of net household income: 1994-2006 (371.8 KB application/pdf)
• "Getting a Job = Getting a Life? British Evidence on the Relationship Between Getting a Job and Changes in Income, Well-Being, and Social Participation" (New Zealand Treasury General Lecture, 2001) (132.2 KB application/pdf)

Publications

Displaying publications 1 - 15 of 303 in total

1. How valid are synthetic panel estimates of poverty dynamics?

   Nicolas Hérault and Stephen P. Jenkins

   Journal Article, Journal of Economic Inequality - Mar 2019

2. A different perspective on the evolution of UK income inequality

   A.B. Atkinson and Stephen P. Jenkins

   Journal Article, Review of Income and Wealth - 04 Mar 2019
   1. Households
   2. Economics
   3. Income Dynamics

3. Perspectives on poverty in Europe

   Stephen P. Jenkins

   Research Paper, IZA Discussion Papers, 12014 - Dec 2018
   1. Economics
   2. Poverty
   3. Public Policy

4. Survey under-coverage of top incomes and estimation of inequality: what is the role of the UK’s SPI adjustment?

   Richard V. Burkhauser, Nicolas Hérault, Stephen P. Jenkins, et al.

   Journal Article, Fiscal Studies - Jun 2018
   1. Statistical Analysis
   2. Income Dynamics
   3. Taxation
   4. Surveys

5. How valid are synthetic panel estimates of poverty dynamics?

   Nicolas Hérault and Stephen P. Jenkins

   ISER Working Paper Series, 2018-05 - 18 Apr 2018 - download  

6. Top incomes and inequality in the UK: reconciling estimates from household survey and tax return data

   Richard V. Burkhauser, Nicolas Hérault, Stephen P. Jenkins, et al.

   Journal Article, Oxford Economic Papers - Apr 2018
   1. Households
   2. Economics
   3. Income Dynamics
   4. Taxation

7. Tony Atkinson and his legacy

   Rolf Aaberge, François Bourguignon, Andrea Brandolini, et al.

   Journal Article, Review of Income and Wealth - Sep 2017

8. Survey under-coverage of top incomes and estimation of inequality: what is the role of the UK’s SPI adjustment?

   Richard V. Burkhauser, Nicolas Hérault, Stephen P. Jenkins, et al.

   ISER Working Paper Series, 2017-08 - 22 Jun 2017 - download  
   1. Statistical Analysis
   2. Income Dynamics
   3. Taxation
   4. Surveys

9. Anthony B. Atkinson (1944-)

   Stephen P. Jenkins

   Book Chapter, The Palgrave Companion to Cambridge Economics, No. 52 - 2017
   1. General Reference Works
   2. History
   3. Economics
   4. Higher Education

10. How does attrition affect estimates of persistent poverty rates? The case of EU SILC

    Stephen P. Jenkins and Philippe Van Kerm

    Book Chapter, Monitoring Social Inclusion in Europe, No. 22 - 2017
    1. Social Inclusion
    2. Poverty
    3. Survey Methodology

11. Pareto models, top incomes, and recent trends in UK income inequality

    Stephen P. Jenkins

    Journal Article, Economica - Apr 2017
    1. Statistical Mathematics
    2. Households
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Taxation
    5. Surveys

12. Assessing individual income growth

    Stephen P. Jenkins and Philippe Van Kerm

    Journal Article, Economica - Oct 2016
    1. Households
    2. Income Dynamics

13. Pareto models, top incomes, and recent trends in UK income inequality

    Stephen P. Jenkins

    ISER Working Paper Series, 2016-07 - 04 Aug 2016 - download  
    1. Statistical Mathematics
    2. Households
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Taxation
    5. Surveys

14. Multilevel modelling of country effects: a cautionary tale

    Mark L. Bryan and Stephen P. Jenkins

    Journal Article, European Sociological Review - Feb 2016

15. What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? Answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data

    Richard V. Burkhauser, Nicolas Hérault, Stephen P. Jenkins, et al.

    ISER Working Paper Series, 2016-03 - 08 Feb 2016 - download  
    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Taxation
    5. Surveys

Media

Displaying media publications 1 - 15 of 110 in total

1. Bankruptcies rising fastest amongst middle-aged women

   Media - 08 Nov 2010

2. Bankruptcies rise fastest among middle-aged women: jumps 37% over last year

   Media - 05 Nov 2010

3. Bankruptcies rise fastest among middle-aged women: jumps 37% over last year

   Media - 04 Nov 2010

4. Middle-aged females suffer most in credit crunch

   Media - 03 Nov 2010

5. Debt is a feminist issue

   Media - 25 Jul 2010

6. Science, love, fidelity and small rodents

   Media - 18 Jul 2010

7. Can we afford family breakdown?

   Media - 18 May 2010

8. Tories discover poverty at least, but is it all in the family?

   Media - 05 May 2010

9. Why feminism favours men

   Media - 25 Feb 2010

10. Who 'wins' in a divorce, mom or dad?

    Media - 07 Feb 2010

11. Inequality in the UK: the data behind the National Equality

    Media - 27 Jan 2010

12. We owe children a good education

    Media - 14 Jan 2010

13. Divorce makes men the richer sex

    Media - 06 Jan 2010

14. Children to be educated on how to avoid debt

    Media - 04 Jan 2010

15. Primary school children to be given compulsory lessons on avoiding debt

    Media - 03 Jan 2010