Cowell, Frank


Professor Frank Cowell  

Department

Position held

Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD)

Department of Economics

Professor of Economics

Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)

Experience keywords:

tax evasion; shadow economy; dynamics; poverty; income distribution; inequality

Languages:

German [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Fluent]; Finnish [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]; Spanish [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Fluent]; Hindi [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]; French [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Italian [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7277

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2013

Hills, John and Bastagli, Francesca and Cowell, Frank and Glennerster, Howard and Karagiannaki, Eleni and McKnight, Abigail (2013) Wealth in the UK: distribution, accumulation, and policy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 978019967830-3

Cowell, Frank A. and Flachaire, Emmanuel and Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra (2013) Reference distributions and inequality measurement. The journal of economic inequality, ISSN 1569-1721

2012

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank and Gaertner, Wulf (2012) Distributional orderings: an approach with seven flavors. Theory and decision, 73 (3). pp. 381-399. ISSN 0040-5833

Costa-i-Font, Joan and Cowell, Frank (2012) Social identity and redistributive preferences: a survey. Public Economics Programme discussion papers, PEP 15. The Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

2011

Cowell, Frank A. and Fiorio, Carlo V. (2011) Inequality decompositions—a reconciliation. The journal of economic inequality, 9 (4). pp. 509-528. ISSN 1569-1721

Cowell, Frank and Kanbur, Ravi (2011) Introduction to the symposium on “Inequality: new directions”. The journal of economic inequality, 9 (3). pp. 315-318. ISSN 1569-1721

Cowell, Frank (2011) Inequality among the wealthy. CASEpapers, CASE/150. Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Flachaire, Emmanuel (2011) Measuring mobility. Public Economics Programme Papers, 09. London School of Economics and Political Science, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK

Cowell, Frank (2011) Measuring inequality. Oxford University Press , Oxford, UK . ISBN 9780199594030

2010

Cowell, Frank (2010) Distributional change. In: Deutsch, Joseph and Silber, Jacques, (eds.) The measurement of individual well-being and group inequalities: essays in memory of Z. M. Berrebi. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415592086

Cowell, Frank and Fleurbaey, Marc and Tungodden, Bertil (2010) The tyranny puzzle in welfare economics: an empirical investigation. Public Economics Programme Papers, 05. STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Bosmans, Kristof and Cowell, Frank (2010) The class of absolute decomposable inequality measures. Economics letters, 109 (3). pp. 154-156. ISSN 0165-1765

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank and Ramos, Xavier (2010) Poles apart: an analysis of the meaning of polarization. Review of income and wealth, 56 (1). pp. 23-46. ISSN 0034-6586

2009

Cowell, Frank and Fiorio, Carlo V. (2009) Inequality decomposition: a reconciliation. Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, DARP 100. The Toyota Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Flachaire, Emmanuel and Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra (2009) Goodness-of-fit: an economic approach. Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, DARP 101. The Toyota Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Bosmans, Kristof and Cowell, Frank (2009) The class of absolute decomposable inequality measures. Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, DARP 99. The Toyota Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Bayer, Ralph and Cowell, Frank (2009) Tax compliance and firms' strategic interdependence. Journal of public economics, 93 (11-12). pp. 1131-1143. ISSN 0047-2727

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank A. and Gaertner, Wulf (2009) To be or not to be involved: a questionnaire-experimental view on Harsanyi’s utilitarian ethics. Social Choice and Welfare, 32 (2). pp. 299-316. ISSN 0176-1714

Cowell, Frank and Witztum, Amos, (eds.) (2009) Lionel Robbins’s essay on the nature and significance of economic science: 75th anniversary conference proceedings. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.

2008

Cowell, Frank (2008) Problems and promise of smart cards in taxation. National Tax Journal, 61 (4). pp. 865-882. ISSN 0028-0283

Cowell, Frank and Ebert, Udo (2008) Inequality and envy. In: Bishop, John and Zheng, Buhong, (eds.) Inequality and Opportunity: Papers from the Second ECINEQ Society Meeting. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Yorkshire, UK, pp. 37-47. ISSN 1049-2585

Cowell, Frank (2008) Income distribution and inequality. In: Davis, John .B and Dolfsma, Wilfred, (eds.) The Elgar companion to social economics. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham , UK, pp. 209-227. ISBN 978184542280

Cowell, Frank (2008) Inequality: measurement. In: Durlauf, Steven N and Blume, Lawrence. E, (eds.) The new Palgrave dictionary of economics. Palgrave Macmillan , Hampshire, UK. ISBN 09780333786765

Cowell, Frank (2008) Gini, deprivation and complaints. In: Betti, Gianni and Lemmi , Archille, (eds.) Advances on income inequality and concentration measures . Routledge, Oxford, UK, pp. 25-44. ISBN 9780415443371

Cowell, Frank (2008) Modelling Lorenz curves: robust and semi-parametric issues. In: Chotikapanich, Duangkamon, (ed.) Modeling income distributions and Lorenz curves. Springer, New York, USA, pp. 241-245. ISBN 9780387727561

Ameil, Yoram and Cowell, Frank and Davidovitz, Liema and Polovin, Avraham (2008) Preference reversals and the analysis of income distributions. Social choice and welfare, 30 (2). pp. 305-330. ISSN 0176-1714

2007

Cowell, Frank and Flachaire, E. (2007) Income distribution and inequality measurement: the problem of extreme values. Journal of econometrics, 141 (2). pp. 1044-1072. ISSN 0304-4076

Cowell, Frank (2007) Income distribution and inequality. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank and Gaertner, Wulf (2007) Distributional orderings: an approach with seven flavours. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (2007) On the measurement of polarisation: a questionnaire study. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Victoria-Feser, M.P. (2007) Robust stochastic dominance: a semi-parametric approach. Journal of economic inequality, 5 (1). pp. 21-37. ISSN 1569-1721

Cowell, Frank and Victoria-Feser, M.P. (2007) Modelling Lorenz curves: robust and semi-parametric issues. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra and Cowell, Frank (2007) Modelling vulnerability in the UK. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Amiel, Yoram (2007) Social welfare and individual preferences under uncertainty: a questionnaire-experimental approach. In: Bishop, John and Amiel, Yoram, (eds.) Inequality and poverty: papers from the Society for the Study of Economic Inequalities Inaugural Meeting. Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 345-364. ISBN 0762313749

2006

Cowell, Frank and Ebert, U (2006) Inequality and envy. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Studies, London, UK

Cowell, Frank (2006) Inequality: measurement. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Victoria-Feser, M.P. (2006) Distributional dominance with trimmed data. Journal of business and economics statistics, 24 (3). pp. 291-300. ISSN 0735-0015

Cowell, Frank and Fiorio, Carlo V. (2006) Rethinking inequality decomposition: comment. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Bayer, R and Cowell, Frank (2006) Tax compliance and firms' strategic interdependence. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra and Cowell, Frank (2006) Vulnerable households and variable incomes. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank and Gaertner, W (2006) To be or not to be involved: a questionnaire-experimental view on Harsanyi's utilitarian ethics. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank (2006) Gini, deprivation and complaints. Suntory and Toyota International Research Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Barcena, E and Cowell, Frank (2006) Static and dynamic poverty in Spain, 1993-2000. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank (2006) Microeconomics: principles and analysis. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 0199267774

Cowell, Frank (2006) Theil, inequality indices and decomposition. Research on economic inequality, 13 pp. 341-356. ISSN 1049-2585

Barcena, E and Cowell, Frank (2006) Static and dynamic poverty in Spain, 1993-2000. Hacienda pública española, 179 pp. 51-77. ISSN 1133-9470

2004

Cowell, Frank and Ebert, Udo (2004) Complaints and inequality. Social choice and welfare, 23 (1). pp. 71-89. ISSN 0176-1714

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank and Slottje, Dan J (2004) Why do people violate the transfer principle : evidence from educational sample surveys. Research on economic inequality, 11 pp. 1-16. ISSN 1049-2585

Cowell, Frank and Cruces, Guillermo A (2004) Perceptions of inequality and risk. Research on economic inequality, 12 pp. 97-133. ISSN 1049-2585

Cowell, Frank (2004) Carrots and sticks in enforcement. In: Aaron, H J and Slemrod, J, (eds.) The crisis in tax administration. The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, pp. 230-275. ISBN 0-815701233

2003

Cowell, Frank and Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia (2003) Distribution-free inference for welfare indices under complete and incomplete information. Journal of economic inequality, 1 (3). pp. 191-219. ISSN 1569-1721

Cowell, Frank (2003) Theil, inequality and the structure of income distribution. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 67, 67. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

Cowell, Frank and Cruces, Guillermo (2003) Perceptions of risk : an experimental approach using internet questionnaires. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 70, DARP 70. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank and Davidovitz, Leima and Polovin, Avraham (2003) Preference reversals and the analysis of income distributions. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 66, 66. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank (2003) Sticks and carrots. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 68, 68. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

Cowell, Frank (2003) The economics of poverty and inequality. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. ISBN 1-840645679

2002

Abul Naga, Ramses H. and Cowell, Frank (2002) Intergenerational mobility in Britain : revisiting the prediction approach of Dearden, Machin and Reed. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 62, 62. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Flachaire, Emmanuel (2002) Sensitivity of inequality measures to extreme values. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 60, 60. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

Cowell, Frank and Ebert, Udo (2002) Complaints and inequality. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 61. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (2002) Attitudes towards risk and inequality : a questionnaire-experimental approach. In: Andersson, Fredrik and Holm, Hakan J, (eds.) Experimental economics : financial markets, auctions and decision making. Kluwer Academic, Boston, Mass., pp. 85-115. ISBN 0-792376412

Cowell, Frank and Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia (2002) Welfare rankings in the presence of contaminated data. Econometrica, 70 (3). pp. 1221-1234. ISSN 0012-9682

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (2002) Inequality, welfare and monotonicity. Research on economic inequality, 9 pp. 35-46. ISSN 1049-2585

Cowell, Frank and Jenkins, Stephen P (2002) Estimating welfare indices : household weights and sample design. Research on economic inequality, 9 pp. 147-172. ISSN 1049-2585

2001

Cowell, Frank and Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia (2001) Distributional dominance with dirty data. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 51, 51. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (2001) Risk and inequality perceptions. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 55, 55. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia (2001) Robust Lorenz curves : a semi-parametric approach. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 50, DARP 50. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank A. and Schokkaert, Erik (2001) Risk perceptions and distributional judgements. European economic review, 45 (4-6). pp. 941-952. ISSN 0014-2921

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank and Polovin, A (2001) Risk perceptions, income transformations and inequality. European economic review, 45 (04-Jun). pp. 964-976. ISSN 0014-2921

2000

Cowell, Frank and Jenkins, Stephen P (2000) Estimating welfare indices : household weights and sample design. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 48, 48. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (2000) Attitudes towards risk and inequality : a questionnaire-experimental approach. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 56, 56. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

Cowell, Frank (2000) Measurement of inequality. In: Atkinson, Anthony B and Bourguignon, Francois, (eds.) Handbook of income distribution. North Holland, Amsterdam. ISBN 0-444816313

1999

Cowell, Frank and Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia (1999) Statistical inference for welfare under complete and incomplete information. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 47, 47. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

Cowell, Frank and Gardiner, Karen (1999) Welfare weights. Office of Fair Trading, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Litchfield, Julie and Mercader-Prats, Magda (1999) Income inequality comparisons with dirty data: the UK and Spain during the 1980s. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 45, 45. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Mercader-Prats, Magda (1999) Equivalence scales and inequality. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 27, 27. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank (1999) Estimation of inequality indices. In: Silber, Jacques, (ed.) Handbook on income inequality measurement. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht ; London. ISBN 0-792385748

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (1999) Income transformations and income inequality. In: Slottje, Daniel J, (ed.) Advances in econometrics, income distribution and scientific methodology. Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 209-232. ISBN 3-790812269

Cowell, Frank and Amiel, Yoram (1999) Thinking about inequality. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York, NY. ISBN 0-52-146131-6

Cowell, Frank and Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia (1999) Distributional analysis : a robust approach. In: Atkinson, Tony and Glennerster, Howard and Stern, Nicholas, (eds.) Putting economics to work. London School of Economics and Political Science, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London. ISBN 0-75301399-1

Cowell, Frank and Mercader-Prats, M (1999) Equivalence scales and inequality. In: Silber, Jacques, (ed.) Handbook on income inequality measurement. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht ; London. ISBN 0-792385748

1998

Cowell, Frank and Schluter, Christian (1998) Measuring income mobility with dirty data. CASE paper; CASE 16, 16. Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank (1998) Measurement of inequality. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 36, 36. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Schluter, Christian (1998) Income mobility : a robust approach. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 37, 37. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia (1998) Statistical inference for Lorenz curves with censored data. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 35, 35. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank (1998) Inheritance and the distribution of wealth. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 34, 34. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (1998) Poverty perceptions and the poverty line. In: Jenkins, S P and Kapteyn, A and Van Praag, B, (eds.) Distribution of welfare and household production : an international perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 179-193. ISBN 0-521623022

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (1998) Distributional orderings and the transfer principle : a re-examination. Research on economic inequality, 8 pp. 195-215. ISSN 1049-2585

Cowell, Frank and Ferreira, Francisco H G and Litchfield, Julie A (1998) Income distribution in Brazil 1981-1990 : parametric and non-parametric approaches. Journal of income distribution, 8 (1). pp. 63-76. ISSN 0926-6437

Champernowne, DG and Cowell, Frank (1998) Economic inequality and income distribution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York, NY. ISBN 0-52-158055-2

1997

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (1997) Inequality, welfare and monotonicity. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 29, 29. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (1997) Income transformation and income inequality. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 24, 24. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

1996

Cowell, Frank (1996) Estimation of inequality indices. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 25, 25. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank (1996) Family instability, family incomes and inequality. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 12, 12. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Ferreira, Francisco H G and Litchfield, Julie (1996) Income distribution in Brazil 1981-1990: parametric and non-parametric approaches. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 21, 21. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (1996) Distributional orderings and the transfer principle : a re-examination. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 14, 14. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia (1996) Poverty measurement with contaminated data : a robust approach. European economic review, 40 (9). pp. 1761-1772. ISSN 0014-2921

Cowell, Frank and Jenkins, S P and Litchfield, J A (1996) The changing shape of the UK income distribution : kernel density estimates. In: Hills, John, (ed.) New inequalities : the changing distribution of income and wealth in the United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 49-75. ISBN 0-521553261

Cowell, Frank and Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia (1996) Robustness properties of inequality measures. Econometrica, 64 (1). pp. 77-101. ISSN 0012-9682

Cowell, Frank and Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia (1996) Welfare judgements in the presence of contaminated data. Distributional Analysis Research Programme; DARP 13. London School of Economics and Political Science, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London

1995

Cowell, Frank (1995) Measuring inequality. Prentice Hall ; Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead. ISBN 0-134343662

Cowell, Frank and Jenkins, Stephen P. (1995) How much inequality can we explain?: a methodology and an application to the United States. Economic journal, 105 (429). pp. 421-430. ISSN 0013-0133

Cowell, Frank and Gordon, J P F (1995) Auditing with ghosts. In: Fiorentini, G and Peltzman, S, (eds.) The economics of organised crime. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 185-196. ISBN 0-521629551

Cowell, Frank (1995) Enganar al estado. Alianza Editorial, Madrid.

1994

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (1994) The measurement of poverty: an experimental questionnaire investigation. DARP, 5. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia (1994) Robustness properties of poverty indices. DARP, 8. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Jenkins, Stephen P (1994) How much inequality can we explain? A methodology and an application to the USA. DARP, 7. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Coulter, F A E and Cowell, Frank and Jenkins, S P (1994) Equivalence scale relativities and the extent of inequality and poverty. In: Creedy, John, (ed.) Taxation, poverty and income distribution. Edward Elgar, Aldershot. ISBN 1-852789131

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (1994) Income inequality and social welfare. In: Creedy, John, (ed.) Taxation, poverty and income distribution. Edward Elgar, Aldershot, pp. 193-219. ISBN 1-852789131

Coulter, F A E and Cowell, Frank and Jenkins, S P (1994) Family fortunes in the 1970s and the 1980s. In: Blundell, Richard and Preston, Ian and Walker, Ian, (eds.) The measurement of household welfare. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 215-246. ISBN 0-521451957

Coulter, F A E and Cowell, Frank and Jenkins, S P (1994) Equivalence scales and assessment of income distribution. European journal of population, ISSN 0168-6577

Jenkins, SP and Cowell, Frank (1994) Dwarfs and giants in the 1980s : trends in the UK income distribution. Fiscal studies, 15 (1). pp. 99-118. ISSN 0143-5671

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (1994) Inequality changes and income growth. In: Eichhorn, Wolfgang, (ed.) Models and measurement of welfare and inequality. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 3-26. ISBN 0-387580514

Jenkins, SP and Cowell, Frank (1994) Parametric equivalence scales and scale relativities. Economic journal, 104 (425). pp. 891-900. ISSN 0013-0133

1993

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (1993) Monotonicity and the Pareto principle. DARP, 6. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cowell, Frank and Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia (1993) Robustness properties of inequality measures : the influence function and the principle of transfers. DARP, 1. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Jenkins, Stephen P and Cowell, Frank (1993) Dwarfs and giants in the 1980s : The UK income distribution and how it changed. University College Swansea. Department of Economics discussion paper; 93-03. University College of Swansea, Department of Economics, Swansea

Cowell, Frank (1993) What's wrong with going underground? International economic insights, 15 ISSN 1050-8481

1992

Cowell, Frank (1992) Tax evasion and inequity. Journal of economic psychology, 13 (4). pp. 521-543. ISSN 0167-4870

Amiel, Yoram and Cowell, Frank (1992) Measurement of income inequality : experimental test by questionnaire. Journal of public economics, 47 (1). pp. 3-26. ISSN 0047-2727

Coulter, FAE and Cowell, Frank and Jenkins, SP (1992) Equivalence scale relativities and the extent of inequality and poverty. Economic journal, 102 (414). pp. 1067-1082. ISSN 0013-0133

Coulter, Fiona A. E. and Cowell, Frank and Jenkins, Stephen P. (1992) Differences in needs and assessment of income distributions. Bulletin of economic research, 44 (2). pp. 77-124. ISSN 0307-3378

1991

Cowell, Frank (1991) Grouping bounds for inequality measures under alternative informational assumptions. Journal of econometrics, 48 (01-Feb). pp. 1-14. ISSN 0304-4076

Cowell, Frank (1991) Tax-evasion experiments : an economist's view. In: Webley, Paul ... [et al.], (ed.) Tax evasion : an experimental approach. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521374596

Cowell, Frank (1991) Tax sheltering and the cost of evasion. In: Sinclair, P J N, (ed.) Taxation, private information and capital. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 231-243. ISBN 0-19-828729-1

1990

Cowell, Frank (1990) Tax sheltering and the cost of evasion. Journal of common market studies, 42 (1). pp. 231-243. ISSN 0021-9886

Cowell, Frank (1990) Cheating the government : the economics of evasion. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. ISBN 0-26-203153-1

1989

Cowell, Frank and Gordon, J P F (1989) On becoming a ghost. ESRC research programme in taxation, incentives and the distribution of income; 127, 127. London School of Economics and Political Science, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London

Cowell, Frank (1989) Analysis of income distributions using microcomputer technology. In: Slottje, Daniel, (ed.) Research on economic inequality. JAI Press, Stamford, Conn, pp. 249-267. ISBN 0892329386

Cowell, Frank (1989) Sampling variance and decomposable inequality measures. Journal of econometrics, 42 (1). pp. 27-41. ISSN 0304-4076

Cowell, Frank (1989) Honesty is sometimes the best policy. European economic review, 33 (02-Mar). pp. 605-617. ISSN 0014-2921

Cowell, Frank (1989) The consequences of progressive income taxation for the shadow economy. In: Bös, Dieter and Felderer, Bernhard and Liberty, Fund and Carl-Menger, Institut, (eds.) The political economy of progressive taxation. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany. ISBN 3540515542

1988

Cowell, Frank (1988) Inequality decomposition: three bad measures. Bulletin of economic research, 40 (4). pp. 309-312. ISSN 0307-3378

Cowell, Frank and Gordon, FP (1988) Unwillingness to pay : tax evasion and public good provision. Journal of public economics, 36 (3). pp. 305-321. ISSN 0047-2727

Cowell, Frank (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.

1987

Cowell, Frank (1987) Analysis of income distribution using microcomputer technology. Information technology. London School of Economics and Political Science, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London

Cowell, Frank (1987) Poverty measures, inequality and decomposability. Taxation, incentives and the distribution of income; no 99. London School of Economics and Political Science, London

Cowell, Frank (1987) The economic analysis of tax evasion. In: Hey, John D and Lambert, Peter J, (eds.) Surveys in the economics of uncertainty. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 173-203. ISBN 0-631153357

1986

Cowell, Frank (1986) Public policy and tax evasion : some problems. In: Gaertner, Wulf and Wenig, Alois, (eds.) The economics of the shadow economy. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 0-387150951

Cowell, Frank (1986) Family splits and income inequality. ESRC research programme in taxation, incentives and distribution; 77, 77. London School of Economics and Political Science, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK

Cowell, Frank (1986) Microeconomic principles. Philip Allen, Oxford. ISBN 0-860031721

Cowell, Frank (1986) Welfare benefits and the economics of takeup. ESRC research programme in taxation, incentives and distribution; 89, 89. London School of Economics and Political Science, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK

1985

Cowell, Frank (1985) The measurement of distributional change: an axiomatic approach. Review of economic studies, 52 (1). pp. 135-151. ISSN 0034-6527

Cowell, Frank (1985) Limits to redistribution: a commentary. In: Neilson, G. W. and Enderby, J. E., (eds.) Water and aqueous solutions: proceedings of the Thirty-seventh Symposium of the Colston Research Society, held in the University of Bristol in April 1985. A. Hilger, Bristol, UK. ISBN 0852745761

Cowell, Frank (1985) "A fair suck of the sauce bottle" or what do you mean by inequality? Economic record, 61 (2). pp. 567-579. ISSN 0013-0249

Cowell, Frank (1985) Tax evasion with labour income. Journal of public economics, 26 (1). pp. 19-34. ISSN 0047-2727

Cowell, Frank (1985) The economic analysis of tax evasion. Bulletin of economic research, 37 (3). pp. 163-193. ISSN 0307-3378

Cowell, Frank (1985) Overview. In: Volker, P, (ed.) The structure and duration of unemployment : conference overview. Bureau of Labour Market Research, Canberra.

Cowell, Frank (1985) Multilevel decomposition of Theil's index of inequality. Review of income and wealth, 31 (2). pp. 201-205. ISSN 0034-6586

Cowell, Frank (1985) Measures of distributional change : an axiomatic approach. Review of economic studies, 52 (1). pp. 135-151. ISSN 0034-6527

1984

Cowell, Frank (1984) The structure of American income inequality. Review of income and wealth, 30 (3). pp. 351-375. ISSN 0034-6586

1983

Atkinson, Anthony B. and Cowell, Frank (1983) Panel data on incomes : a selection of the papers presented at a conference on the analysis of panel data on incomes 24/25 June 1982 at the International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines. London School of Economics and Political Science, London.

1982

Cowell, Frank and Mehta, F (1982) The estimation and interpolation of inequality measures. Review of economic studies, 49 (2). pp. 273-290. ISSN 0034-6527

1981

Cowell, Frank and Kuga, K (1981) Additivity and the Entropy concept : an axiomatic approach to inequality measure. Journal of economic theory, 25 (1). pp. 131-143. ISSN 0022-0531

Cowell, Frank (1981) Income maintenance schemes under wage-rate uncertainty. American economic review, 71 (4). pp. 692-703. ISSN 0002-8282

Cowell, Frank and Kuga, K (1981) Inequality measurement : an axiomatic approach. European economic review, 15 (3). pp. 287-305. ISSN 0014-2921

Cowell, Frank (1981) Taxation and labour supply with risky activities. Economica, 48 (192). pp. 365-379. ISSN 0013-0427

1980

Cowell, Frank (1980) On the structure of additive inequality measures. Review of economic studies, 47 (3). pp. 521-531. ISSN 0034-6527

Cowell, Frank (1980) Generalized entropy and the measurement of distributional change. European economic review, 13 (1). pp. 147-159. ISSN 0014-2921

1979

Cowell, Frank (1979) The definition of lifetime income. Institute for Research on Poverty discussion paper, 566-79. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Cowell, Frank (1979) Income and incentives for the working poor. Three banks review, pp. 32-48. ISSN 0040-649X

1977

Cowell, Frank (1977) Measuring inequality. Philip Allen, Oxford. ISBN 0-860031187

Cowell, Frank (1977) Measuring inequality : techniques for the social sciences. Wiley, Chichester. ISBN 0-470993499

1976

Cowell, Frank and Kuga, K (1976) Inequality measures and the integrability problem. Department of Economics discussion paper, 11. University of Keele, Keele, Staffs

1975

Cowell, Frank (1975) Some notes on progression and risk-taking. Economica, 42 (167). pp. 313-318. ISSN 0013-0427

Cowell, Frank (1975) On the estimation of a lifetime income : a correction. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 70 (351). pp. 588-589. ISSN 0162-1459

Cowell, Frank (1975) Income tax incidence in an ageing population. European economic review, 6 (4). pp. 343-367. ISSN 0014-2921

1974

Cowell, Frank (1974) Income tax incidence in an ageing population : an examination of the measurement of income redistribution. University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire. ISBN 9780900770579

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