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2023

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
50
Citations
12482
World Ranking
1370
National Ranking
152

Political Science

D-Index
49
Citations
11960
World Ranking
259
National Ranking
41

Frank A. Cowell publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frank A. Cowell sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 283 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Frank A. Cowell D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frank A. Cowell sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Frank A. Cowell is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly focuses on social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance, with significant contributions in the intersections of health and inequality.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Their work spans various subfields, notably:

  • General Health Professions
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Finance
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Health

Research topics explored by Frank A. Cowell include:

  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

Among the frequently co-authored collaborators are Joan Costa-Font, Xuezhu Shi, Emmanuel Flachaire, Miqdad Asaria, and Morten Nyborg Støstad. Notably, Joan Costa-Font has coauthored 16 papers with Cowell.

Key publication venues for Frank A. Cowell's work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Economic Inequality
  • Review of Income and Wealth
  • Social Choice and Welfare
  • Health Economics

Selected recent publications demonstrate the focus and range of their research:

  • Inequality Measurement and The Rich: Why Inequality Increased More Than We Thought, 2023, Review of Income and Wealth
  • How does exposure to COVID-19 influence health and income inequality aversion?, 2023, Social Choice and Welfare
  • How Does Exposure to COVID-19 Influence Health and Income Inequality Aversion?, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Inequality as an Externality: Consequences for Tax Design, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Measuring pure health inequality and mobility during a health insurance expansion: Evidence from Mexico, 2021, Health Economics

Frank A. Cowell's body of work addresses complex issues relating to economic inequality, health disparities, and policy impacts on welfare and fiscal systems. Their collaborations and publications reflect multidisciplinary approaches bridging economic theory, health metrics, and social policy analysis.

Best Publications

  • Measurement of inequality

    Frank Cowell

  • Cheating the Government: The Economics of Evasion

    Frank A. Cowell

  • On the Structure of Additive Inequality Measures

    Frank A. Cowell

  • Equivalence scale relativities and the extent of inequality and poverty

    Fiona A. E. Coulter;Frank A. Cowell;Stephen P. Jenkins

  • Measuring Inequality

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  • Income distribution and inequality measurement: the problem of extreme values

    Frank A. Cowell;Emmanuel Flachaire

  • Economic Inequality and Income Distribution

    David Gawen Champernowne;Frank A. Cowell

  • How Much Inequality Can we Explain? A Methodology and an Application to the United States

    Frank A. Cowell;Stephen P. Jenkins

  • Thinking about Inequality: Personal Judgment and Income Distributions

    Yoram Amiel;Frank Cowell

  • Unwillingness to pay: Tax evasion and public good provision

    Frank A. Cowell;James P.F. Gordon

  • DIFFERENCES IN NEEDS AND ASSESSMENT OF INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS

    Fiona A. E. Coulter;Frank A. Cowell;Stephen P. Jenkins

  • Measurement of income inequality : experimental test by questionnaire

    Yoram Amiel;Frank A. Cowell

  • Additivity and the entropy concept: An axiomatic approach to inequality measurement

    Frank A Cowell;Kiyoshi Kuga

  • Robustness properties of inequality measures

    Frank A. Cowell;Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

  • Thinking about Inequality

    Yoram Amiel;Frank Cowell

  • THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF TAX EVASION

    Frank A. Cowell

  • Tax evasion and inequity

    Frank Cowell

  • Tax evasion with labour income

    Frank A. Cowell;Frank A. Cowell

  • Inequality measurement : an axiomatic approach

    Frank A. Cowell;Kiyoshi Kuga

  • Parametric equivalence scales and scale relativities

    Stephen P. Jenkins;Frank A. Cowell

  • Distribution of Personal Wealth in Britain.

    Robert J. Lampman;A. B. Atkinson;A. J. Harrison

  • Generalized entropy and the measurement of distributional change

    Frank A. Cowell

  • Sampling variance and decomposable inequality measures

    Frank A. Cowell

  • Thinking about Inequality: Inequality analysis: a summary of concepts and results

    Yoram Amiel;Frank Cowell

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. Jenkins
Stephen P. Jenkins London School of Economics and Political Science
Joan Costa-Font
Joan Costa-Font London School of Economics and Political Science
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Francisco H. G. Ferreira London School of Economics and Political Science
John Hills
John Hills London School of Economics and Political Science
Howard Glennerster
Howard Glennerster London School of Economics and Political Science
Marc Fleurbaey
Marc Fleurbaey Paris School of Economics
Bertil Tungodden
Bertil Tungodden Norwegian School of Economics
Russell Davidson
Russell Davidson McGill University
Ravi Kanbur
Ravi Kanbur Cornell University

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