Professor Stephen Jenkins

Stephen Jenkins studied economics at the University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand) from 1974 to 1977 and then at the University of York (United Kingdom) from 1978 to 1983, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1983. He then worked first as a lecturer at the University of Bath (United Kingdom) and then as Professor of Applied Economics at the University Wales Swansea (United Kingdom) from 1991 to 1994. From 1994 to 2010 he was Professor of Economics at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex (United Kingdom) and also Director of the Institute of the same name from 2006 to 2009. Since 2011, Jenkins has been Professor of Economic and Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

His research interests are analysis of the distribution of income and its redistribution through taxation, social security and the labour market, trends in inequality and poverty, income mobility and poverty dynamics, social security benefit receipt and labour supply, quantitative research methods for analysis of income distribution, and applied microeconomics, especially analysis of survival time and limited dependent variable data.