Anthony Shorrocks#Shorrocks index
{{short description|British development economist}}
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Terence Gorman
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Anthony F. Shorrocks is a British development economist.
Academic career
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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 University of Essex. He has also had several visiting appointments in the US, Canada, Italy, and Russia.{{cite web|title=Anthony Shorrocks: Former Director|url=http://www.wider.unu.edu/aboutus/people/Former-staff/former-directors/en_GB/shorrocks-anthony/|publisher=World Institute for Development Economics Research|access-date=4 October 2014}}
He has many publications in leading economic journals on income and wealth distribution, inequality, poverty, and mobility.[http://www.ophi.org.uk/pubs/OPHI%20Robustness%20workshop%20participant%20bios.pdf OPHI biography.]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|title=Appendix, biographies of the authors: Anthony Shorrocks|url=https://www.credit-suisse.com/upload/news-live/000000022234.pdf|website=www.credit-suisse.com|publisher=Credit Suisse|access-date=4 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231001/https://www.credit-suisse.com/upload/news-live/000000022234.pdf|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status = dead}}
Education
His first degree was a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Sussex. This was followed by a Masters in Economics from Brown University. He took his Ph.D. in Economics at the London School of Economics in 1973 (being awarded the Bowley Prize in 1975).{{cite web|title=UK Prof. Anthony Shorrocks appointed UNU/WIDER director|url=http://www.unu.edu/media/archives/2000/pre-34.00.html| format = press release|publisher=United Nations University|date= 19 December 2000|access-date=4 October 2014}}
Shorrocks index
In 1978, he introduced a measure based on income Gini coefficients to estimate income mobility.{{Cite journal | last = Shorrocks | first = Anthony | title = Income inequality and income mobility | journal = Journal of Economic Theory | volume = 19 | issue = 2 | pages = 376–393 | doi = 10.1016/0022-0531(78)90101-1 | date = December 1978 }} This measure, generalized by Maasoumi and Zandvakili,{{Cite journal | last1 = Maasoumi | first1 = Esfandiar | last2 = Zandvakili | first2 = Sourushe | title = A class of generalized measures of mobility with applications | journal = Economics Letters | volume = 22 | issue = 1 | pages = 97–102 | doi = 10.1016/0165-1765(86)90150-3 | date = 1986 }} 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
Noted works
= Books =
- {{cite book | last1 = Shorrocks | first1 = A.F. | last2 = Blackorby | first2 = C. | title = Collected works of W.M. Gorman | publisher = Clarendon Press Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780198285212 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Shorrocks | first1 = A.F. | last2 = van der Hoeven | first2 = Rolph | author-link2 = Rolph van der Hoeven | title = Perspectives on growth and poverty | publisher = United Nations University Press | location = Tokyo New York | year = 2003 | isbn = 9789280810912 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Shorrocks | first1 = A.F. | last2 = van der Hoeven | first2 = Rolph | author-link2 = Rolph van der Hoeven | title = Growth, inequality, and poverty: prospects for pro-poor economic development | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780199268658 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/growthinequality0000unse }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Shorrocks | first1 = Anthony | last2 = Mavrotas | first2 = George | title = Advancing development: core themes in global economics | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan in association with the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research | location = Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire New York | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780230019027 }}
= Chapters in books =
- {{Citation | last1 = Shorrocks | first1 = Anthony | last2 = Wan | first2 = Guanghua | author-link2 = Wan Guanghua | contribution = Ungrouping income distributions: synthesizing samples for inequality and poverty analysis | editor-last1 = Kanbur | editor-first1 = Ravi | editor-last2 = Basu | editor-first2 = Kaushik | editor-link1= Ravi Kanbur | editor-link2 = Kaushik Basu | title = Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen | Volume I: Ethics, welfare, and measurement | pages = 414–434 | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780199239115 }}
= Journal articles =
- {{Cite journal | last = Shorrocks | first = Anthony | title = Income inequality and income mobility | journal = Journal of Economic Theory | volume = 19 | issue = 2 | pages = 376–393 | doi = 10.1016/0022-0531(78)90101-1 | date = December 1978 }}
- {{Cite journal | last1 = Shorrocks | first1 = Anthony | last2 = Wan | first2 = Guanghua | author-link2 = Wan Guanghua | title = Spatial decomposition of inequality | journal = Journal of Economic Geography | volume = 5 | issue = 1 | pages = 59–81 | doi = 10.1093/jnlecg/lbh054 | date = January 2005 | url = http://collections.unu.edu/view/UNU:4662 | hdl = 10419/52738 | hdl-access = free }}
References
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External links
- [https://www.wider.unu.edu/expert/anthony-shorrocks UNU-WIDER: Anthony Shorrocks]. Profile page for Anthony Shorrocks at UNU-WIDER.
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