Stephen P. Jenkins is Professor of Economic and Social Policy at LSE. He is an applied economist and quantitative generalist with most of his research about topics related to income inequality and poverty. He also has interests in quantitative research methods including statistical graphics, and the use of survey and administrative record data.
Stephen is President of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), 2021-23. He was President of the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth, 2006–8, and of the European Society for Population Economics, 1998. Stephen was named as a Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists in July 2019. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Inequality, 2014–17. He is a Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA), Bonn.
This presentation was given by Stephen Jenkins at the PEPA workshop "Are you sure that's the answer? Robust inference and policy evaluation" on 9 October 2013.
Given the last two decades' changes in the income distribution, is society as a whole now better off or worse off? This is an important question, but it is not immediately obvious that there is a straightforward and clear-cut answer to it.
