Anthony F. Shorrocks is a British

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Academic career

Between January 2001 and April 2009 he was Director of UNU-WIDER. Prior to that he was Professor at the London School of Economics and before that he worked at the

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. He has also had several ''visiting'' appointments in the US, Canada, Italy, and Russia. He has many publications in leading economic journals on income and wealth distribution, inequality, poverty, and mobility.OPHI biography.
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Education

His first degree was a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

. This was followed by a Masters in Economics from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

. He took his Ph.D. in Economics at the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

in 1973 (being awarded the Bowley Prize in 1975).

Shorrocks index

In 1978, he introduced a measure based on income Gini coefficients to estimate income mobility. This measure, generalized by Maasoumi and Zandvakili, is now generally referred to as Shorrocks index, sometimes as Shorrocks mobility index or Shorrocks rigidity index. It attempts to estimate whether the income inequality Gini coefficient is permanent or temporary, and to what extent a country or region enables economic mobility to its people so that they can move from one (e.g. bottom 20%) income quantile to another (e.g. middle 20%) over time. In other words, Shorrocks index compares inequality of short-term earnings such as annual income of households, to inequality of long-term earnings such as 5-year or 10-year total income for same households.

Professional Recognition

He has been elected to be a Fellow of the

Econometric Society The Econometric Society is an international society of academic economists interested in applying statistical tools to their field. It is an independent organization with no connections to societies of professional mathematicians or statisticians. ...

Noted works

Books

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Chapters in books

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References

External links

UNU-WIDER: Anthony Shorrocks
Profile page for Anthony Shorrocks at

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. 1946 births Alumni of the London School of Economics Alumni of the University of Sussex Brown University alumni British development economists Fellows of the Econometric Society Living people {{UK-economist-stub