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Overview

Ian Walker is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several areas within social sciences and economics, with a significant focus on economics, econometrics, and finance. The subfields of study include economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, education, demography, and strategy and management.

The scientist's work centers around main topics such as fiscal policy and economic growth, higher education research studies, labor market dynamics and wage inequality, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, migration, aging and tourism studies, economic growth and productivity, and public-private partnership projects.

Walker has contributed to multiple publication venues. The most frequent venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
  • Labour Economics
  • Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
  • Social Science & Medicine

Recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist include:

  • How much does degree choice matter?, 2022, Labour Economics
  • The Impacts of Free Universal Elderly Care on the Supply of Informal Care and Labour Supply*, 2021, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
  • Allocating Subsidies for Private Investments to Maximize Jobs Impacts, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • COVID-19 vaccination intentions and subsequent uptake: An analysis of the role of marginalisation in society using British longitudinal data, 2023, Social Science & Medicine
  • The Graduate Wage and Earnings Premia and the Role of Non-Cognitive Skills, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

They have also contributed to book publications under the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, including:

  • Honduras Jobs Diagnostic, 2020
  • Allocating Subsidies for Private Investments to Maximize Jobs Impacts, 2020

Frequent collaborators with whom Walker has co-authored multiple works include:

  • Bruce Hollingsworth
  • Asako Ohinata
  • Matteo Picchio
  • David A. Robalino
  • José Manuel Romero Tenorio

Best Publications

  • The Returns to Education: Microeconomics

    Colm Harmon;Hessel Oosterbeek;Ian Walker

  • Estimates of the economic return to schooling for the United Kingdom

    Colm Harmon;Ian Walker

  • Estimates of the economic return to schooling for the United Kingdom

    Ian Walker;Colm Harmon

  • Estimates of the economic return to schooling for 28 countries

    Philip Trostel;Ian Walker;Paul Woolley

  • The impact of parental income and education on the schooling of their children

    Arnaud Chevalier;Colm Harmon;Vincent Oâ Sullivan;Ian Walker

  • The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK

    Ian Walker;Yu Zhu

  • Education and earnings in Europe : a cross country analysis of the returns to education

    Colm Harmon;Ian Walker;Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

  • DOES EDUCATION RAISE PRODUCTIVITY, OR JUST REFLECT IT?*

    Arnaud Chevalier;Colm Harmon;Ian Walker;Yu Zhu

  • A Life-Cycle Consistent Empirical Model of Family Labour Supply Using Cross-Section Data

    Richard Blundell;Ian Walker

  • Differences by degree: Evidence of the net financial rates of return to undergraduate study for England and Wales

    Ian Walker;Yu Zhu

  • Modelling the joint determination of household labour supplies and commodity demands

    Richard Blundell;Ian Walker

  • The welfare effects of lotto: evidence from the UK

    Lisa Farrell;Ian Walker

  • Modelling the Take-up of Means-Tested Benefits: The Case of Housing Benefits in the United Kingdom

    R Blundell;Fry;I Walker

  • A Time Series Analysis of U.K. Lottery Sales: Long and Short Run Price Elasticities

    Lisa Farrell;Edgar Morgenroth;Ian Walker

  • Estimates of the economic return to schooling for the UK

    Harmon Harmon;Ian Walker

  • THE LABOUR SUPPLY, UNEMPLOYMENT AND PARTICIPATION OF LONE MOTHERS IN IN‐WORK TRANSFER PROGRAMMES*

    Paul Bingley;Ian Walker

  • The Returns to the Quantity and Quality of Education: Evidence for Men in England and Wales

    Colm Harmon;Ian Walker

  • Education and Work

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  • Education, earnings and productivity - recent UK evidence

    Ian Walker;Yu Zhu

  • The measurement of household welfare

    Richard Blundell;Ian Preston;Ian Walker

  • The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Schooling of their Children

    Arnaud Chevalier;Colm P. Harmon;Vincent O'Sullivan;Ian Walker

  • Estimates of Economic Return to Schooling in the UK

    Colm Harmon;Ian Walker

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Blundell
Richard Blundell University College London
Anna Vignoles
Anna Vignoles Leverhulme Trust
A. B. P. Lever
A. B. P. Lever York University
Ian Preston
Ian Preston University College London
Greg Kaplan
Greg Kaplan University of Chicago
Lorraine Dearden
Lorraine Dearden University College London
Andrew J. Oswald
Andrew J. Oswald University of Warwick
Francis Kramarz
Francis Kramarz Collège de France
Frank Windmeijer
Frank Windmeijer University of Bristol
Michael Daly
Michael Daly National University of Ireland, Maynooth

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