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Frank Cowell

Current Positions
- Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
- Director of Distributional Analysis Research Programme
- Editor, Economica
- Associate Editor, Hacienda Publica Espanola/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
- 1985-1994 Reader in Economics, LSE
- 1988-2001 Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economics
- 1994- Professor of Economics, LSE

Recent publications

	Cowell, F. A. and Davidson, R. and Flachaire, E. (2011) "Goodness of fit: an axiomatic approach" Working Paper, 2011/18, Greqam, .
	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, forthcoming.
	Cowell, F. A. (2013) "UK Wealth Inquality 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. () "Do We Value Mobility?" Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper, 17, STICERD, LSE, .
	Chen, Y. and Cowell, F. A. () "Mobility in China" Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper, 18, STICERD, LSE, .

Recent Funded Projects

	2009: Social Identity and the Formation of Preference, STICERD (with Joan Costa-i-Font).
	2010: Growing Inequalities Impacts, EU Frameowrk Programme 7 (with Wiemer Salverda & others).
	2011: Effective and Efficient Corporate Tax Enforcement, Australian Research Council (with Ralph Bayer, Rupert Sausgruber).