Curriculum Vitae IAN WALKER Current and past posts Acting Dean, Lancaster University Management School 2011 2013 Head of Department of Economics, LUMS 2009-2013 Professor of Economics, Lancaster University 2008 + Research Fellow, IZA 1997 + Research Felllow, IFS 1980-2008 Professor of Economics, Warwick University 1999-2008 Professor of Economics, Keele University 1988-1999 Lecturer in Economics, Manchester University 1978-1988 Academic qualifications MSc in Economics, Warwick 1977/78 BA in Economics, Liverpool 1973/76 Recent editorial activities Co-editor, Labour Economics 2007-2008 Editor in Chief, Labour Economics 2008+ Editorial Board, Fiscal Studies 1983+ Research Excellence Framework, Economics panel 2013-2014 (REF rates all outputs for all UK academics every 5 years) Recent service activity Member, Doctors and Dentists Remuneration Board, 2010-2013. DDRB is the independent remuneration body that determines rates of pay for all UK doctors and most dentists. Non-Executive Director, Student Loan Company. The SLC runs the national loan programme for all UK (and EU) students at UK universities. Academic Adviser, Gambling Commission - the UK regulator for the gaming industry. Member, Executive Committee of the European Labour Economics Association. PhD supervision: Former students: Costas Meghir (Yale), Jon Seaton (Loughborough U) Colm Harmon (Head of Dept, Sydney U), Paul Bingley (SFI, Copenhagen), Lisa Farrell (RMIT Melbourne), Pedro Martins (Portugese Minister for Employment), Alfonso Diaz (Gironde); Vincent O Sullivan (Senior Research Officer, Trinity College Dublin), Guiseppe Migali (Lancaster and Catanzaro, Italy), Priscillia Hunt (Senior Research Fellow, RAND US), Rea Lydon (Senior Economist, Bank of Ireland), Maureen Paul (DG5, EU Commission); Asako Ohinata (Leicester U), Joanna Quina (Economic Analyst, Ministry of Justice), Silvia Mendolia (Woolongong U), Anwen Zhang (post doc, Cambridge). Current students: Rob Pryce, alcohol demand; Alberto Nunez, health labour markets; Eric Qiao, labour supply; Emma Gorman, education and health. 1
Selected papers published in refereed journals Richard Blundell and Ian Walker, 1982. "Modelling the Joint Determination of Labour Supplies and Commodity Demands," Economic Journal, 92, 351-64. Richard Blundell and Ian Walker 1982. "On the optimal taxation of two person households," Economics Letters, 9, 371-376. Blundell, Richard and Walker, Ian, 1984. "A Household Production Specification of Demographic Variables in Demand Analysis," Economic Journal, 94, 59-68. Richard Blundell, Costas Meghir and Elizabeth Symons and Ian Walker, 1984. "On the reform of the taxation of husband and wife: are incentives important?," Fiscal Studies,5, 1-22. Elizabeth Symons and Ian Walker, 1986. "The reform of personal taxation: a brief analysis," Fiscal Studies, 7, 38-47. Blundell, Richard and Ian Walker, 1986. "A Life-Cycle Consistent Empirical Model of Family Labour Supply," Review of Economic Studies, 53, 539-58. Blundell, Richard and Fry, Vanessa and Walker, Ian, 1987. "Modelling the Take-up of Means-tested Benefits: the Case of Housing Benefits in the United Kingdom," Economic Journal, 98, 58-74. Richard Blundell, Costas Meghir, Elizabeth Symons and Ian Walker, 1988. "Labour supply specification and the evaluation of tax reforms," Journal of Public Economics, 36, 23-52. Elizabeth Symons and Ian Walker, 1989. "The Revenue and Welfare Effects of Fiscal Harmonization for the UK," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 5, 61-75. Ian Walker, 1990. "The effects of income support measures on the labour market behaviour of lone mothers," Fiscal Studies, 11, 55-75. Paul Bingley, Gauthier Lanot, Elizabeth Symons and Ian Walker, 1995. "Child Support Reform and the Labor Supply of Lone Mothers in the United Kingdom," Journal of Human Resources, 30, 256-279. Colm Harmon, and Ian Walker, 1995. "Estimates of the Economic Return to Schooling for the UK" American Economic Review, 85, 1278-86. Jonathan Seaton and Ian Walker, 1997. "Signalling, Disclosure and the Implications of Financial Structure for UK Corporate R&D," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 5, 75-90. Paul Bingley and Ian Walker 1997. "The Labour Supply, Unemployment and Participation of Lone Mothers in In-Work Transfer Programmes," Economic Journal, 107,1375-90. Ian Walker, 1998. "Economic analysis of lotteries," Economic Policy, 13, 357-402. Gauthier Lanot and Ian Walker, 1998. "The union/non-union wage differential: An application of semi-parametric methods," Journal of Econometrics, 84, 327-349. Ian Walker and Ian Preston, 1999. "Welfare measurement in labour supply models with nonlinear budget constraints," Journal of Population Economics, 12, 343-361. Lisa Farrell and Ian Walker, 1999. "The welfare effects of lotto: evidence from the UK," Journal of Public Economics, 72, 99-120. Lisa Farrell, Edgar Morgenroth and Ian Walker, 1999. " A Time Series Analysis of U.K. Lottery Sales: Long and Short Run Price Elasticities," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 61, 513-26. 2
Harmon, Colm and Ian Walker 1999. "The marginal and average returns to schooling in the UK," European Economic Review, 43, 879-887 Ian Walker and Ian Preston, 1999. "Welfare measurement in labour supply models with nonlinear budget constraints," Journal of Population Economics, 12, 343-361. Lisa Farrell and Ian Walker, 1999. "The welfare effects of lotto: evidence from the UK," Journal of Public Economics, 72, 99-120. Lias Farrell, Edgar Morgenroth and Ian Walker, 1999. " A Time Series Analysis of U.K. Lottery Sales: Long and Short Run Price Elasticities," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 61, 513-26. Harmon, Colm and Ian Walker 1999. "The marginal and average returns to schooling in the UK," European Economic Review, 43, 879-887. Colm Harmon and Ian Walker, 2000. "The Returns to the Quantity and Quality of Education: Evidence for Men in England and Wales," Economica, 67, 19-35. Paul Bingley and Ian Walker, 2001. "Housing Subsidies and Work Incentives in Great Britain," Economic Journal, 111, C86-103. Ian Walker and Juliet Young, 2001. "An Economist's Guide to Lottery Design," Economic Journal, 111, F700-722. Paul Bingley and Ian Walker, 2001. "Household Unemployment and the Labor Supply of Married Women," Economica, 68, 57-85. Philip Trostel, Ian Walker, and Paul Woolley 2002. "Estimates of the economic return to schooling for 28 countries," Labour Economics, 9, 1-16 Colm Harmon, Vincent Hogan, and Ian Walker, 2003. "Dispersion in the economic return to schooling," Labour Economics, 10, 205-214. Colm Harmon, Hessel Oosterbeek and Ian Walker, 2003. "The Returns to Education: Microeconomics," Journal of Economic Surveys, 17,115-156. Arnaud Chevalier, Colm Harmon, Ian Walker and Yu Zhu, 2004. "Does Education Raise Productivity, or Just Reflect it?," Economic Journal, 114, F499-F517 Philip Trostel and Ian Walker, 2004. "Sheepskin effects in work behaviour," Applied Economics, 36, 1959-1966. Reamonn Lydon and Ian Walker, 2005. "Welfare to work, wages and wage growth," Fiscal Studies, 26, 335-370. Paul Bingley, Yu Zhu and Ian Walker, 2005. "Education, Work and Wages in the UK," German Economic Review, 6, 395-414. Philip Trostel and Ian Walker, 2006. "Education and Work," Education Economics, 14, 377-399. Hogan, Vincent and Ian Walker, 2007. "Education choice under uncertainty: Implications for public policy," Labour Economics, 14, 894-912. Ian Walker and Y Zhu, 2007, "Child Support and Partnership Dissolution, Economic Journal, 116, C93-C109. Ian Walker and Yu Zhu, 2008. "The College Wage Premium and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 110, 695-709. Dan Anderberg, Florence Kondylis, and Ian Walker, 2009. "Partnership Penalties and Bonuses Created by UK Welfare Programs," CESifo Economic Studies, 54, 1-21 3
Ian Walker and Zhu, Yu, 2011. "Differences by Degree: Evidence of the net financial rates of return to undergraduate study for England and Wales," Economics of Education Review, 30, 1177-1186. José Alberto Molina, María Navarro, and Ian Walker, 2011. "Intergenerational Well- Being Mobility in Europe, Kyklos, 64, 253-270. Laura Blow, Ian Walker, and Yu Zhu, 2012, "Who Benefits from Child Benefit?," Economic Inquiry, 50,153-170. R. Hartley, G. Lanot, and I. Walker, 2013, "Who Really Wants to be a Millionaire? Estimating Risk Aversion from Gameshow Data", Journal of Applied Econometrics Paul Bingley and Ian Walker, "Labour Supply Effect of In-Kind Transfers, 2013, IZA Journal of Labour Economics. Paul Bingley and Ian Walker, 2013, "There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Altruism and Agency in Household Responses to Child Nutrition Programs, Review of Economics of the Household. Patricia Apps, Silvia Mendolia, and Ian Walker, 2013, "The Impact of Pre-School on Adolescents' Outcomes," Economics of Education Review. Arnaud Chevalier, Colm Harmon, Vincent O'Sullivan and Ian Walker, 2014, "The Impact of Parental Background on the Educational Attainment of their Children," IZA Journal of Labour Economics. Silvia Mendolia and Ian Walker, forthcoming, The Effect of Non-Cognitive Skills on Health Behaviours in Adolescence, Health Economics. Books Richard Blundell and Ian Walker (eds), 1981. Labour Supply, Search and Unemployment, Cambridge UP. Andrew Dilnot and Ian Walker, 1991, The Economics of Social Security, Oxford University Press. Richard Blundell, Ian Preston and Ian Walker (eds), 1996, The Measurement of Household Welfare, Cambridge UP. Colm Harmon, Ian Walker, and Niels Westergaard-Nielsen (eds), 2001. Education and Earnings in Europe, Edward Elgar. Selected chapters in edited volumes R Blundell, C Meghir, E Symons, and I Walker, 1985, A Labour Supply Model for the Simulation of Tax and Benefit Reforms in R. Blundell and I Walker (eds.), Labour Supply, Search and Unemployment, Cambridge University Press 1985. Y-S Chiao and Ian Walker, 1992, The Labour Market Behaviour of Prime Age Individuals in New Zealand in M. Prebble and P. Rebstock (eds.) Incentives and Labour Supply: Modelling Taxes and Benefits, Institute for Policy Studies, NZ. Ian Walker, 1997, R&D in UK Quoted Companies: the Effects of Disclosure and Finance in A Belcher et al (eds.) R&D Decisions, Routledge. 4
Nina Smith, Ian Walker and Niels Westergard-Nielsen, 1993, The labor-market behaviour of Danish lone mothers, in H Bunzel, P. Jensen, and N. Westergard- Nielsen (eds), Panel Data and Labour Market Dynamics, Springer-Verlag. Arnaud Chevalier and Ian Walker, 2002, Further Estimates of the Returns to Education in the UK, in C Harmon, I Walker and N Westergard-Nielsen (eds), The Returns to Education across Europe, Edward Elgar. Ian Walker and Yu Zhu, 2007, Do Dads Matter? Or Is It Just Their Money that Matters?, in J. A. Molina (ed) Household Economic Behaviours, Springer-Verlag. 5