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Overview

John Knight was affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spanned multiple fields within economics, social sciences, and psychology.

They contributed to several main fields of study, including:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Within these broader areas, their subfields of focus included:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Accounting
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

Their research covered a range of topics, notably:

  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Sports, Gender, and Society

John Knight published papers in various academic venues. Frequently published venues included:

  • Review of Income and Wealth
  • Society and Animals
  • Organic Process Research & Development
  • Journal of Sport History
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among the recent papers authored by Knight were:

  • "Why has China's Inequality of Household Wealth Risen Rapidly in the Twenty-First Century?" (2021), published in Review of Income and Wealth
  • "How to Chase a Monkey: Reforming the Oiharai Response to Crop-Feeding Macaques in Japan" (2020), published in Society and Animals
  • "Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece by Zinon Papakonstantinou" (2020), published in Journal of Sport History

Frequent collaborators included:

  • Shi Li
  • Haiyuan Wan
  • Sylvain Guizzetti
  • James A. Schwindeman
  • David S. B. Daniels

Best Publications

  • Subjective well-being and its determinants in rural China

    John Knight;Lina Song;Ramani Gunatilaka

  • The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China

    John Knight;Lina Song

  • Great expectations? The subjective well-being of rural-urban migrants in China.

    John Knight;Ramani Gunatilaka

  • Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society

    Geeta Gandhi Kingdon;John Knight

  • Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises: Three perspectives

    John Knight;Lina Song;Jia Huaibin

  • The Puzzle of Migrant Labour Shortage and Rural Labour Surplus in China.

    John Knight;John Knight;Quheng Deng;Shi Li

  • Labor Retrenchment in China: Determinants and Consequences

    Simon Appleton;John Knight;Lina Song;Qingjie Xia

  • Towards a Labour Market in China

    John Knight;Lina Song

  • The role of education in facilitating risk-taking and innovation in agriculture

    John Knight;Sharada Weir;Tassew Woldehanna

  • The Rural–Urban Divide in China: Income but Not Happiness?

    John Knight;Ramani Gunatilaka

  • Caste discrimination in the Indian urban labour market

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  • Increasing urban wage inequality in China

    John Knight;Lina Song

  • Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth

    A. Gelb;J. B. Knight;R. H. Sabot

  • Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China

    John Knight;Linda Yueh

  • Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China

    John Knight;Ramani Gunatilaka

  • EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND THE RURAL‐URBAN DIVIDE IN CHINA

    John Knight;Li Shi

  • Towards a labour market in China

    John Knight;Lina Song

  • China as a Developmental State

    John B. Knight

  • The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high

    Geeta Kingdon;John Knight

  • Income, aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a poor society

    John B Knight;Ramani Sonali Gunatilaka

  • The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China

    John Knight;Lina Song

Frequent Co-Authors

Geeta Kingdon
Geeta Kingdon University College London
Sidney Ruth Schuler
Sidney Ruth Schuler Family Health International 360
Jere R. Behrman
Jere R. Behrman University of Pennsylvania
Paul Collier
Paul Collier University of Oxford
Alessandra Guariglia
Alessandra Guariglia University of Birmingham
Xiaolan Fu
Xiaolan Fu University of Oxford
John Hoddinott
John Hoddinott Cornell University

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