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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
77
Citations
23106
World Ranking
324
National Ranking
33

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Stephen P. Jenkins is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences, with a strong focus on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability, Finance, as well as Management Science and Operations Research.

Jenkins' main research topics cover areas like Income, Poverty, and Inequality, Labor market dynamics and wage inequality, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, and demographic modeling and climate adaptation.

Several recent scholarly papers illustrate their ongoing contributions. Examples include:

  • Comparing distributions of ordinal data (2020) published in The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata
  • Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data (2020) published in Review of Income and Wealth
  • Reconciling reports: modelling employment earnings and measurement errors using linked survey and administrative data (2023) published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)
  • Top-income adjustments and official statistics on income distribution: the case of the UK (2022) published in The Journal of Economic Inequality
  • Modelling errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings: Sensitivity to the fraction assumed to have error-free earnings (2020) published in Economics Letters

Their frequent coauthors include Nicolas Hérault, Roger Wilkins, Nicholas J. Cox, Fernando Ríos-Avila, and Fernando Rios Avila. This collaboration pattern highlights interdisciplinary engagement within social sciences and economics.

Jenkins has published extensively across various venues, with notable publication counts in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (20 publications)
  • The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata (8 publications)
  • Review of Income and Wealth (4 publications)
  • Economics Letters (2 publications)
  • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) (1 publication)

Their work addresses measurement and modeling challenges related to income distribution, labor earnings, and survey data, blending methodological rigor from statistics with applied topics in economic inequality and labor market research.

Best Publications

  • Multivariate probit regression using simulated maximum likelihood

    Lorenzo Cappellari;Stephen P. Jenkins

  • Easy Estimation Methods for Discrete‐Time Duration Models

    Stephen P. Jenkins

  • Multilevel Modelling of Country Effects: A Cautionary Tale

    Mark L. Bryan;Stephen P. Jenkins

  • Accounting for Inequality Trends: Decomposition Analyses for the UK, 1971-86

    Stephen P. Jenkins

  • Equivalence scale relativities and the extent of inequality and poverty

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

  • The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income

    Stephen P. Jenkins;Andrea Brandolini;John Micklewright;Brian Nolan

  • Modelling household income dynamics

    Stephen P. Jenkins

  • THREE ‘I’S OF POVERTY CURVES, WITH AN ANALYSIS OF UK POVERTY TRENDS

    Stephen P. Jenkins;Peter J. Lambert

  • An anatomy of economic inequality in the UK: report of the National Equality Panel

    John Hills;Mike Brewer;Stephen Jenkins;Ruth Lister

  • The Measurement of Income Inequality

    Stephen Jenkins

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

    Frank A. Cowell;Stephen P. Jenkins

  • Modelling low income transitions

    Lorenzo Cappellari;Lorenzo Cappellari;Stephen P. Jenkins

  • POVERTY, TNEQUALTTY, AND FAMTLY LIVING STANDARDS IMPACTS ACROSS SEVEN NATIONS: THE EFFECT OF NONCASH SUBSIDIES FOR HEALTH, EDUCATION AND HOUSING

    Timothy M. Smeeding;Peter Saunders;John Coder;Stephen Jenkins

  • Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data

    Richard V. Burkhauser;Shuaizhang Feng;Stephen P. Jenkins;Jeff Larrimore

  • Social Segregation in Secondary Schools: How Does England Compare with Other Countries? *

    Stephen P. Jenkins;John Micklewright;Sylke Viola Schnepf

  • DIFFERENCES IN NEEDS AND ASSESSMENT OF INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS

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

  • Parents and children: incomes in two generations.

    A. B. Atkinson;Alan Maynard;Chris Trinder;J. Corlyon

  • INEQUALITY IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONAL INCOME IN THE WORLD: HOW IT IS CHANGING AND WHY *

    T. Paul Schultz

  • Calculation of multivariate normal probabilities by simulation, with applications to maximum simulated likelihood estimation

    Lorenzo Cappellari;Stephen P. Jenkins

  • Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth, and income mobility

    Stephen P. Jenkins;Philippe Van Kerm

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard V. Burkhauser
Richard V. Burkhauser Cornell University
John Micklewright
John Micklewright University College London
Frank A. Cowell
Frank A. Cowell London School of Economics and Political Science
Marco Francesconi
Marco Francesconi University of Essex
Markus Jäntti
Markus Jäntti Stockholm University
Gert G. Wagner
Gert G. Wagner German Institute for Economic Research
Timothy M. Smeeding
Timothy M. Smeeding University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mark P. Taylor
Mark P. Taylor Washington University in St. Louis
Johan Fritzell
Johan Fritzell Karolinska Institute
Brian Nolan
Brian Nolan University of Oxford

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