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Frank Cowell

Current Positions
- Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
- Co-Director of Public Economics Research Programme
- Director, Undergraduate Programme, LSE
- Associate Editor, Hacienda Pública Española/Revista de Economia Publica
- Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Inequality
Education
- 1962-1967, Ardingly College, Sussex
- 1968-1974, Trinity College Cambridge
- BA (1971), MA (1975), PhD (1977)
Career
- 1974-1977 Lecturer in Economics, University of Keele
- 1977-1985 Lecturer in Economics, LSE
- 1983-2015 Editor, Economica
- 1985-1994 Reader in Economics, LSE
- 1988-2001 Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economics
- 1994- Professor of Economics, LSE
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Publications

	Cowell, F. A. (1973) "Income tax progression and optimal economic growth" Public Economics Workshop Paper, 15, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex.
	Cowell, F. A. (1975) "Income tax incidence in an ageing population" European Economic Review, 6, 343-367.
	Cowell, F. A. (1975) "On the estimation of lifetime income - a correction" Journal of the American Statistical Association, 70, 588-589.
	Cowell, F. A. (1975) "Some notes on progression and risk-taking" Economica, 42, 313-318.
	Cowell, F. A. and Kuga, K. (1976) "Inequality measures and the integrability problem" Department of Economics Discussion Paper, 11, University of Keele, Keele, Staffs..
	Cowell, F. A. (1977) Measuring Inequality (first edition), Philip Allan, Oxford.
	Cowell, F. A. (1979) "The Definition of Lifetime Income" Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Paper, 566-79, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
	Cowell, F. A. (1979) "Income and incentives for the working poor" Three Banks Review, , 32-48.
	Cowell, F. A. (1980) "Generalized Entropy and the Measurement of Distributional Change" European Economic Review, 13, 147-159.
	Cowell, F. A. (1985) "Limits to Redistribution: a commentary" in (ed.) Proceedings of the Colston Symposium, Colston Research Society, London.
	Cowell, F. A. (1980) "On the structure of additive inequality measures" Review of Economic Studies, 52, 521-531.
	Cowell, F. A. and Kuga, K. (1981) "Additivity and the Entropy concept: An axiomatic approach to inequality measure" Journal Economic Theory, 25, 131-143.
	Cowell, F. A. and Kuga, K. (1981) "Inequality measurement: an axiomatic approach" European Economic Review, 15, 287-305.
	Cowell, F. A. (1981) "Income maintenance schemes under wage-rate uncertainty" American Economic Review, 71, 692-702.
	Cowell, F. A. (1981) "Taxation and labour supply with risky activities" Economica, 48, 365-379.
	Cowell, F. A. and Mehta, F. (1982) "The estimation and interpolation of inequality measures" Review of Economic Studies, 49, 273-290.
	Atkinson, A. B. and Cowell, F. A. (1983) Panel Data on Incomes, ICERD, LSE,London.
	Cowell, F. A. (1984) "The structure of American income inequality" Review of Income and Wealth, 30, 351-375.
	Cowell, F. A. (1986) "Family splits and income inequality" ESRC Research Programme in Taxation, Incentives and the Distribution, 77, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. (1985) "'A fair suck of the sauce bottle'-or what do you mean by inequality?" Economic Record, 6, 567-579.
	Cowell, F. A. (1985) "The economic analysis of tax evasion: a survey" Bulletin of Economic Research, 37, 163-193.
	Cowell, F. A. (1985) "Overview" in Volker, P. (ed.) The structure and duration of unemployment: Conference overview, Bureau of Labour Market Research, Canberra, Australia.
	Cowell, F. A. (1985) "Multilevel decomposition of Theil's index of inequality" Review of Income and Wealth, 31, 201-205.
	Cowell, F. A. (1986) "Public policy and tax evasion: some problems" in Gaertner, W. and Wenig, A. (ed.) The Economics of the Shadow Economy, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
	Cowell, F. A. (1985) "Tax evasion with labour income" Journal of Public Economics, 26, 19-34.
	Cowell, F. A. (1985) "The measurement of distributional change: an axiomatic approach" Review of Economic Studies, 52, 135-151.
	Cowell, F. A. (1986) Microeconomic Principles, Philip Allan, Oxford.
	Cowell, F. A. (1986) "Welfare benefits and the economics of takeup" ESRC Research Programme in Taxation, Incentives and the Distribution, 89, STICERD, LSE, STICERD, London School of Economics.
	Cowell, F. A. (1987) "The economic analysis of tax evasion" in Hey, J. D. and Lambert, P. (ed.) Surveys in The Economics of Uncertainty, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
	Cowell, F. A. and Gordon, J. P. F. (1988) "Unwillingness to pay: tax evasion and public good provision" Journal of Public Economics, 36, 305-321.
	Cowell, F. A. (1988) "Inequality decomposition - three bad measures" Bulletin of Economic Research, 40, 309-312.
	Cowell, F. A. (1988) "On the distribution of lifetime income in a lognormal model" in Hagfors, R. (ed.) Essays on Income Distribution, Economic Welfare and Taxation, ETLA, Helsinki.
	Cowell, F. A. (1988) "Poverty Measures, Inequality and Decomposability" in Bös, D. and Rose, M. and Seidl, C. (ed.) Welfare and Efficiency in Public Economics, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 149-166.
	Cowell, F. A. (1989) "Analysis of income distributions using microcomputer technology" Research on Economic Inequality, 1, 249-267.
	Cowell, F. A. (1989) "Honesty is sometimes the best policy" European Economic Review, 33, 605-617.
	Cowell, F. A. (1989) "Sampling variance and decomposable inequality measures under alternative informational assumptions" Journal of Econometrics, 48, 27-41.
	Cowell, F. A. (1989) "The consequences of progressive income taxation for the shadow economy" in Bös, D. and Hofreiter, M. (ed.) The Political Economy of Progressive Taxation, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
	Cowell, F. A. and Gordon, J. P. F. (1990) "On Becoming a Ghost" ESRC Research Programme in Taxation, Incentives and the Distribution of Income, 127, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. (1990) Cheating the Government, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	Cowell, F. A. (1990) "Tax Sheltering and the cost of evasion" Oxford Economic Papers, 42, 231-243.
	Cowell, F. A. (1991) "Grouping bounds for inequality measures under alternative informational assumptions" Journal of Econometrics, 48, 1-14.
	Cowell, F. A. (1991) "Tax-evasion experiments: an economist's view" in Webley, P. and Robben, H. and Elffers, H. and Hessing , K. (ed.) Tax Evasion: An Experimental Approach, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (1992) "Measurement of Income Inequality: Experimental test by Questionnaire" Journal of Public Economics, 47, 3-26.
	Coulter, F. A. E. and Cowell, F. A. and Jenkins, S. P. (1992) "Differences in Needs and Assessement of Income Distributions" Bulletin of Economic Research, 44, 77-124.
	Coulter, F. A. E. and Cowell, F. A. and Jenkins, S. P. (1992) "Equivalence Scale Relativities and the Extent of Inequality and Poverty" The Economic Journal, 102, 1067-1082.
	Cowell, F. A. (1992) "Tax evasion and Inequity" Journal of Economic Psychology, 13, 521-543.
	Cowell, F. A. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (1993) "Robustness Properties of Inequality Measures: The Influence Function and the Principle of Transfers" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 1, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. (1993) "What's wrong with going underground?" International Economic Insight, 15 (Nov/Dec).
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (1994) "Inequality Changes and income Growth" in Eichhorn, W. (ed.) Models and measurement of welfare and inequality, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 3-26.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (1994) "Monotonicity, dominance and the Pareto principle" Economics Letters, 45, 447-450.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (1994) "Income Inequality and Social Welfare" in Creedy, J. (ed.) Taxation, Poverty and Income Distribution, Edward Elgar, U.K., 193-219.
	Coulter, F. A. E. and Cowell, F. A. and Jenkins, S. P. (1994) "Family fortunes in the 1970s and the 1980s" in Blundell, R. W. and Preston, I. and Walker, I. (ed.) The Measurement of Household Welfare, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge U.K., 215-246.
	Coulter, F. A. E. and Cowell, F. A. and Jenkins, S. P. (1994) "Equivalence Scale Relativities and the Extent of Inequality and Poverty" in Creedy, J. (ed.) Taxation, Poverty and Income Distribution, Edward Elgar, U.K..
	Coulter, F. A. E. and Cowell, F. A. and Jenkins, S. P. (1994) "Equivalence scales and assessment of income distribution" in Ekert-Jaffé, O. (ed.) Standard of Living and Families: Observation and Analysi, Eurotext, Paris, 345-365.
	Cowell, F. A. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (1994) "Robustness Properties of Poverty Indices" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 8, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Jenkins, S. P. (1994) "Dwarfs and giants in the 1980s: The UK Income Distribution and How it Changed" Fiscal Studies, 15, 99-118.
	Jenkins, S. P.and Cowell, F. A. (1994) "Parametric equivalence scales and scale relativities" The Economic Journal, 104, 891-900.
	Cowell, F. A. and Gordon, J. P. F. (1995) "Auditing with ghosts" in Fiorentini, G. and Peltzman, S. (ed.) The Economics of Organised Crime, Cambridge University Press and CEPR, Cambridge and London U.K., 185-196.
	Cowell, F. A. and Jenkins, S. P. (1995) "How much inequality can we explain? A methodology and an application to the USA" The Economic Journal, 105, 421-430.
	Cowell, F. A. (1995) Engañar al Estado, Alianza Editorial, Madrid.
	Cowell, F. A. (1995) Measuring Inequality (second edition), Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (1995) "The measurement of poverty: an experimental questionnaire investigation" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 5, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A.and Jenkins, S. P. and Litchfield, J. A. (1996) "The Changing Shape of the UK Income Distribution: Kernel Density Estimates" in Hills, J. R. (ed.) New Inequalities: the Changing Distribution of Income and Wealth in the United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge U.K., 49-75.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. and Polovin, A. (1996) "Inequality among the Kibbutzim" Economica, 63, S63-S85.
	Cowell, F. A. (1996) "Family Instability, Family Incomes and Inequality" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 12, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (1996) "Welfare judgements in the presence of contaminated data" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 13, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (1996) "Distributional orderings and the transfer principle: A Re-examination" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 14, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A.. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (1996) "Robustness Properties of Inequality Measures" Econometrica, 64, 77-101.
	Cowell, F. A.. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (1996) "Poverty Measurement with Contaminated Data: A Robust Approach" European Economic Review, 40, 1761-1771.
	Cowell, F. A. and Ferreira, F. H. G. and Litchfield, J. A. (1996) "Income Distribution in Brazil 1981-1990. Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 21, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (1997) "Income transformations and income inequality" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 24, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. (1997) "Estimation of inequality indices" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 25, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Mercader-Prats, M. (1997) "Equivalence scales and inequality" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 27, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (1997) "Inequality, welfare and monotonicity" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 29, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (1997) "The measurement of poverty: an experimental questionnaire investigation" Empirical Economics, 22, 571-588.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (1998) "Distributional orderings and the transfer principle: a re-examination" Research on Economic Inequality, 8, 195-215.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (1998) "Poverty Perceptions and the poverty Line" in Jenkins, S. P. and Kapteyn, A. And Van Praag, B. (ed.) Distribution of Welfare and Household Production:an International Perspective, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge U.K., 179-193.
	Champernowne, D. G. and Cowell, F. A. (1998) Economic Inequality and Income Distribution, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge U.K..
	Cowell, F. A. (1998) "Inheritance and the Distribution of Wealth" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 34, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Schluter, C. (1998) "Measuring Income Mobility with Dirty Data" CASE Paper, 16, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (1998) "Statistical Inference for Lorenz Curves with Censored Data" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 35, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. (1998) "Measurement of Inequality" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 36, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Schluter, C. (1998) "Income Mobility: A Robust Approach" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 37, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Ferreira, F. H. G. and Litchfield, J. A. (1998) "Income Distribution in Brazil 1981-1990. Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches" Journal of Income Distribution, 8, 63-76.
	Cowell, F. A. and Litchfield, J. A. and Mercader-Prats, M. (1999) "Income Inequality Comparisons with Dirty Data: The UK and Spain During the 1980s" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 45, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. (1999) "Estimation of inequality indices" in Silber, J. (ed.) Handbook on Income Inequality Measurement, Kluwer, Dewenter.
	Cowell, F. A. and Mercader-Prats, M. (1999) "Equivalence scales and inequality" in Silber, J. (ed.) Handbook on Income Inequality Measurement, Kluwer, Dewenter.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (1999) Thinking about Inequality, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge U.K..
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (1999) "Income transformations and income inequality" in Slottje, D. (ed.) Advances in Econometrics, Income Distribution and Scientific Methodology, Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, 209-232.
	Cowell, F. A. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (1999) "Distributional Analysis: A Robust Approach" in Atkinson, A. B. and Glennerster, H. and Stern, N. (ed.) Putting Economics To Work, STICERD, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (1999) "Statistical Inference for Welfare Indices under Complete and Incomplete Information" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 47, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, Frank A. and Gardiner, K. A. (1999) "Welfare Weights" OFT Economic Research Paper, 202, Office of Fair Trading, London.
	Cowell, F. A. (2000) "Measurement of Inequality" in Atkinson, A.B. and Bourguignon, F. (ed.) Handbook of Income Distribution, North Holland, Amsterdam.
	Cowell, F. A. and Jenkins, S. P. (2000) "Estimating Welfare Indices: Households Weights and Sample Design" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 48, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (2001) "Robust Lorenz Curves: A semi-parametric approach" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 50, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (2001) "Distributional Dominance with Dirty Data" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 51, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (2001) "Risk and Inequality Perceptions" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 55, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (2001) "Attitudes to Risk and Inequality: A New Twist on the Transfer Principle" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 56, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. and Polovin, A. (2001) "Risk Perceptions, Income Transformations and Inequality" European Economic Review, 45, 964-976.
	Cowell, F. A. and Schokkaert, E. (2001) "Risk Perceptions and Distributional Judgments" European Economic Review, 45, 941-952.
	Cowell, F. A. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (2002) "Welfare Rankings in the Presence of Contaminated Data" Econometrica, 70, 1221-1233.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (2002) "Attitudes towards Risk and Inequality: A Questionnaire-Experimental Approach" in Andersson, F. and Holm, H. J. (ed.) Experimental Economics: Financial Markets, Auctions, and Decision Making, Kluwer, Dewenter. Chapter 9, 85-115.
	Cowell, F. A. and Flachaire, E. (2002) "Sensitivity of Inequality Measures to Extreme Values" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 60, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Ebert, U. (2002) "Complaints and Inequality" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 61, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Jenkins, S. P. (2003) "Estimating Welfare Indices: Households Weights and Sample Design" Research on Economic Inequality, 9, 147-172.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (2003) "Inequality, welfare and monotonicity" Research on Economic Inequality, 9, 35-46.
	Abul Naga, R. and Cowell, F. A. (2002) "Intergenerational Mobility in Britain: Revisiting the Prediction Approach of Dearden, Machin and Reed" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 62, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. (2003) The Economics of Poverty and Inequality, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.
	Amiel, Y., Cowell, F. A., Davidovitz, L. and Polovin, A. (2003) "Preference Reversals and the Analysis of Income Distributions" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 66, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. (2003) "Theil, Inequality and the Structure of Income Distribution" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 67, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. (2003) "Sticks and Carrots" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 68, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (2003) "Distribution-free inference for welfare indices under complete and incomplete information" Journal of Economic Inequality, 1, 191-219.
	Amiel, Y., Cowell, F. A. and Slottje, D. J. (2004) "Why Do People Violate the Transfer Principle? Evidence from Educational Sample Surveys" Research on Economic Inequality, 11, 1-16.
	Cowell, F. A. and Cruces, G. A. (2004) "Perceptions of inequality and risk" Research on Economic Inequality, 12, 99-132.
	Cowell, F. A. and Ebert, U. (2004) "Complaints and Inequality" Social Choice and Welfare, 23, 71-89.
	Cowell, F. A. (2004) "Carrots and Sticks in Enforcement" in Aaron, H. J. and Slemrod, J. (ed.) The Crisis in Tax Administration, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 230-275.
	Bárcena, E. and Cowell, F. A. (2005) "Static and Dynamic Poverty in Spain, 1993-2000" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 77, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Bandyopadhyay, S. and Cowell, F. A. (2005) "Vulnerable Households and Variable Incomes" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 79, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Bayer, R. and Cowell, F. A. (2005) "Tax Compliance and Firms' Strategic Interdependence" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 81, STICERD,LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. (2005) "Gini, Deprivation and Complaints" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 84, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. (2006) Microeconomics: Principles and Analysis, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
	Bandyopadhyay, S. and Cowell, F. A. (2006) "Vulnerable Households and Variable Incomes" Research on Economic Inequality, 13, 3-30.
	Cowell, F. A. (2006) "Theil, Inequality Indices and Decomposition" Research on Economic Inequality, 13, 345-360.
	Amiel, Y., Cowell, F. A. and Gaertner, W. (2006) "To Be or not To Be Involved: A Questionnaire-Experimental View on Harsanyi’s Utilitarian Ethics" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 85, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. (2006) "Inequality: Measurement" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 86, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (2006) "Distributional Dominance With Trimmed Data" Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 24, 291-300.
	Cowell, F. A. and Ebert, U. (2006) "Inequality and Envy" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 88, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Amiel, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (2007) "Social Welfare and Individual Preferences under Uncertainty: A Questionnaire-Experimental Approach" Research on Economic Inequality, 14, 347-364.
	Cowell, F. A. and Flachaire, E. (2007) "Income Distribution and Inequality Measurement: The Problem of Extreme Values" Journal of Econometrics, 141, 1044-1072.
	Bárcena, E. and Cowell, F. A. (2007) "Static and Dynamic Poverty in Spain, 1993-2000" Hacienda Pública, 179, 51-77.
	Cowell, F. A. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (2007) "Robust Stochastic Dominance: A Semi-Parametric Approach" Journal of Economic Inequality, 5, 21-37.
	Bandyopadhyay, S. and Cowell, F. A. (2007) "Modelling vulnerability in the UK" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 89, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Amiel, Y., Cowell, F. A. and Ramos, X. (2007) "On the Measurement of Polarisation: A questionnaire study" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 90, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Victoria-Feser, M.-P. (2007) "Modelling Lorenz Curves: robust and semi-parametric issues" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 91, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Amiel, Y., Cowell, F. A. and Gaertner, W. (2007) "Distributional orderings: an approach with seven flavours" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 93, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. (2007) "Income Distribution and Inequality" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 94, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Ebert, U. (2008) "Inequality and Envy" Research on Economic Inequality, 16, 37-47.
	Cowell, F. A. (2008) "Gini, Deprivation and Complaints" in Betti, G. and Lemmi, A. (ed.) Advances in income inequality and concentration measures, Routledge, London. Chapter 3.
	Cowell, F. A. and Victoria-Feser (2008) "Modelling Lorenz Curves: robust and semi-parametric issues" in Chotikapanich, D. (ed.) Modelling Income Distributions and Lorenz Curves: Essays in Memory of Camilo Dagum, Springer, New York. Chapter 13.
	Amiel, Y., Cowell, F. A., Davidovitz, L. and Polovin, A. (2008) "Preference Reversals and the Analysis of Income Distributions" Social Choice and Welfare, 30, 225-243.
	Cowell, F. A. (2008) "Income Distribution and Inequality" in Davis, J. B. and Dolfsma, W. (ed.) The Elgar Companion To Social Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. Chapter 13.
	Cowell, F. A. (2008) "Inequality: Measurement" in Durlauf, S. N. and Blume, L. E. (ed.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
	Amiel, Y., Cowell, F. A. and Gaertner, W. (2009) "To Be or not To Be Involved: A Questionnaire-Experimental View on Harsanyi’s Utilitarian Ethics" Social Choice and Welfare, 32, 299-316.
	Cowell, F. A. (2008) "Problems and Promise of Smart Cards in Taxation" National Tax Journal, 61, 865-882.
	Bosmans, K. and Cowell, F. A. (2009) "The Class of Absolute Decomposable Inequality Measures" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 99, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A. and Fiorio, C. V. (2009) "Inequality Decompositions: A Reconciliation" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 100, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Cowell, F. A., Flachaire, E. and Bandyopadhyay, S. (2009) "Goodness-of-Fit: An Economic Approach" Distributional Analysis Discussion Paper, 101, STICERD, LSE, Houghton St., London, WC2A 2AE.
	Bayer, R. and Cowell, F. A. (2009) "Tax Compliance and Firms' Strategic Interdependence" Journal of Public Economics, 93, 1131-1143.
	Cowell, F. A. and Witztum, A. (2009) Lionel Robbins’s essay on the nature and significance of economic science, STICERD, London School of Economics.
	Amiel, Y., Cowell, F. A. and Ramos, X. (2010) "Poles apart? An analysis of the meaning of polarization" Review of Income and Wealth, 56, 23-46.
	Cowell, F. A. (2010) "Distributional Change" in Silber, J. and Deutsch, Y. (ed.) The Measurement of Individual Well-being, Routledge, London.
	Bosmans, K. and Cowell, F. A. (2010) "The Class of Absolute Decomposable Inequality Measures" Economics Letters, 109, 154-156.
	Cowell, F. A., Fleurbaey, M. and Tungodden, B. (2010) "The Tyranny Puzzle in Welfare Economics: An empirical investigation" Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper, 5, STICERD, LSE, .
	Cowell, F. A. (2011) Measuring Inequality (third edition), Oxford University Press, Oxford.
	Cowell, F. A. and Fiorio, C. V. (2011) "Inequality Decompositions: A Reconciliation" Journal of Economic Inequality, 9, 509-528.
	Cowell, F. A. and Flachaire, E. (2011) "Measuring Mobility" Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper, 9, STICERD, LSE, .
	Cowell, F. A. and Davidson, R. and Flachaire, E. (2011) "Goodness of fit: an axiomatic approach" Working Paper, 2011/18, Greqam, .
	Amiel, Y., Cowell, F. A. and Gaertner, W. (2012) "Distributional orderings: an approach with seven flavors" Theory and Decision, 73, 381-399.
	Costa-i-Font, J. and Cowell, F. A. (2012) "Social Identity and Redistributive Preferences: A Survey" Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper, , STICERD, LSE, .
	Cowell, F. A. (2012) "Bequests, Taxation and the Distribution of Income and Wealth" Hacienda Pública, 200, 75-93.
	Cowell, F. A., Karagiannaki, .E. and McKnight, A. (2012) "Mapping and Measuring The Distribution of Household Wealth: A Cross-Country Analysis" GINI Discussion Paper, 71, University of Amsterdam, .
	Cowell, F. A., Karagiannaki, .E. and McKnight, A. (2012) "Accounting for Cross-Country Differences in Wealth Inequality" LWS Working Paper, 13, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg, .
	Cowell, F. A., Flachaire, E. and Bandyopadhyay, S. (2013) "Reference distributions and inequality measurement" Journal of Economic Inequality, 11, 421-437.
	Cowell, F. A. (2013) "UK Wealth Inequality in International Context" in Hills, J. (ed.) Wealth in the UK, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
	Amiel, Y., Bernasconi, M., Cowell, F. A. and Dardanoni, V. (2013) "Do We Value Mobility?" Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper, 17, STICERD, LSE, .
	Chen, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (2013) "Mobility in China" Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper, 18, STICERD, LSE, .
	Costa-i-Font, J. and Cowell, F. A. (2013) "Measuring Health Inequality with Categorical Data: Some Regional Patterns" Research on Economic Inequality, 21, 53-76.
	McKnight, A. and Cowell, F. A. (2014) "Social impacts: Health, Housing and Intergenerational Mobility" in Salverda, W. et al (ed.) Changing Inequalities in Rich Countries, Oxford University Press, Oxford..
	Cowell, F. A. (2014) "Piketty in the long run" British Journal of Sociology, 65, 708-720.
	Amiel, Y., Bernasconi, M., Cowell, F. A. and Dardanoni, V. (2015) "Do We Value Mobility?" Social Choice and Welfare, 44, 231-255.
	Cowell, F. A. and Davidson, R. and Flachaire, E. (2015) "Goodness of fit: an axiomatic approach" Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 33, 54-67.
	Cowell, F. A. and Flachaire, E. (2015) "Statistical Methods for Distributional Analysis" in Atkinson, A.B. and Bourguignon, F. (ed.) Handbook of Income Distribution, North Holland, Amsterdam, 359-466.
	Costa-i-Font, J. and Cowell, F. A. (2015) "Social Identity and Redistributive Preferences" Journal of Economic Surveys, 29, 357-374.
	Cowell, F. A., Fleurbaey, M. and Tungodden, B. (2015) "The Tyranny Puzzle in Welfare Economics: An empirical investigation" Social Choice and Welfare, 45, 765-792.
	Cowell, F. A. and Van Kerm, Philippe (2015) "Wealth Inequality: A Survey" Journal of Economic Surveys, 29, 671-710.
	Chen, Y. and Cowell, F. A. (2015) "Mobility in China" Review of Income and Wealth, forthcoming.
	Costa-i-Font, J. and Cowell, F. A. (2015) "European Identity and Redistributive Preferences" Working Paper, 5412, CESifo, .
	Bayer, R. and Cowell, F. A. (2016) "Tax Compliance by Firms and Audit Policy" Research in Economics, 70, 38-52.
	Cowell, F. A. (2016) "Inequality and Poverty Measures" in Adler, M. and Fleurbaey, M. (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Well-Being And Public Policy, Oxford University Press, . Chapter 4.
	Cowell, F. A., Karagiannaki, E. and McKnight, A. (2017) "Accounting for cross-country differences in wealth inequality" Review of Income and Wealth, forthcoming.

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Funded Projects

	1978: The Distribution of lifetime income., ICERD.
	1979: Research on Income Dynamics., SSRC (with A.F. Shorrocks).
	1981: Income Distribution and Income Dynamics., SSRC.
	1985: Research on panel data and income dynamics., Nuffield Foundation.
	1987: Luxembourg Income Study project., ESRC.
	1989: The structure of the Income Distribution., ESRC (with S.P. Jenkins).
	1990: STICERD (LSE) European Visitors Scheme, EC, SPES fund.
	1991: Changes in Income Distribution in an International Perspective., Nuffield Foundation.
	1991: Analysis of Large Datsets using Optical Disk Media., STICERD.
	1992: Inequality amongst the Kibbutzim., Leverhulme Trust.
	1992: Microsimulation Modelling Unit, ESRC (with A.B. Atkinson and H. Sutherland).
	1992: Comparative Social Policy and Taxation Modelling., EU Human Capital Mobility fund (with A.B. Atkinson and H. Sutherland).
	1992: Family Instability, Income Dynamics and Inequality., STICERD.
	1993: Luxembourg Income Study, Phase 2, ESRC.
	1993: International Comparative Study of data truncation., LSE Research Initiative Fund.
	1993: Family Instability and Income Inequality., Nuffield foundation.
	1994: Poverty, Discrimination and Social Policy., EU MedCampus programme.
	1994: Income distribution and redistribution., EU Human Capital Mobility fund.
	1995: Distributional Analysis with Sample Data, ESRC.
	1995: Income Distribution in Brazil., Leverhulme Trust.
	1997: Robust statistical methods for comparisons of income distributions, ESRC.
	1998: Risk Perceptions and Distributional Judgments., European Science Foundation.
	1998: Luxembourg Income Study, Phase 3, ESRC.
	1998: Living Standards, Inequality and Taxation., EU Training and Mobility of researchers.
	1999: Risk Perceptions and Distributional Judgements, STICERD.
	2000: Parents and Children: Intergenerational Income Mobility in the UK and USA., Nuffield Foundation.
	2001: Attitudes to Social Equity: An Internet Approach, European Science Foundation.
	2001: Risk Perceptions: an Internet Approach, Centre for Analysis of Risk Research.
	2001: Development Of a System of Indicators on Competitiveness and Fiscal Impact on Enterprise Performance, EU: Information Society Technologies Programme (with Paolo Roberti (ISTAT) & others).
	2002: Equilibrium Theory, Belgian Science Foundation (with E. Schokkaert).
	2004: Luxembourg Income Study, Phase 4, ESRC.
	2005: International Review of Data Resources and Needs, ESRC.
	2007: Economic Policy And Finance In The Global Economy, Belgian Science Foundation (with E. Schokkaert).
	2007: The dynamics of relative inequality measures and application to inequality and growth measurement, British Academy (with S. Bandyopadhyay).
	2007: Lionel Robbins's "Essay" Income Fluctuations in Distributional Analysis, STICERD (with A. Witztum).
	2007: The changing distribution of wealth: Trends, drivers and policy implications, Nuffield foundation (with J. Hills & others).
	2008: Luxembourg Income Study, ESRC.
	2009: Social Identity and the Formation of Preference, STICERD (with Joan Costa-i-Font).
	2010: Growing Inequalities Impacts, EU Framework Programme 7 (with Wiemer Salverda & others).
	2011: Effective and Efficient Corporate Tax Enforcement, Australian Research Council (with Ralph Bayer, Rupert Sausgruber).

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