Dr Jo Blanden
Lecturer in Economics
Qualifications: BSc (Hons) Economics, MSc Economics, PhD Economics
Email: j.blanden@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 2770
Room no: 19 AD 00
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Biography
Jo Blanden graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1998, she then studied for a Masters degree in Economics at University College London. From 2000 to 2005 she was a full-time researcher in the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and completed her PhD at UCL over this time. She joined the Department of Economics at Surrey in October 2005 and is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE.Research Interests
Jo’s research interests lie broadly in the fields of labour and family economics. Jo’s PhD was on the topic of intergenerational income mobility. Her work with Paul Gregg and Steve Machin on ‘Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain’ found that the relationship between family income and children’s adult earnings has strengthened for those born in 1970 compared to those born in 1958; this finding has attracted a large amount of policy and media interest.
Jo has continued to write about intergenerational mobility. She has published work on international comparisons and on how using different measures of mobility changes conclusions. In addition she has looked at how obtaining qualifications in adulthood affects individuals' earnings.
Her current projects continue to explore the topic of social mobility in the UK (with Lindsey Macmillan) and also explore the extent to which wellbeing is transmitted intergenerationally (with the Wellbeing research group at CEP). She has recently been awared a grant to look at the impact of nursery attendance on children's outcomes (with Sandra McNally and Kirstine Hansen).
Publications
Journal Articles
Intergenerational Mobility in the United States and Great Britain: A Comparative Study of Parent-Child Pathways with Robert Haveman, Tim Smeeding and Kathryn Wilson, accepted Review of Income and Wealth.
‘Measuring the returns to lifelong learning’ with Franz Buscha, Patrick Sturgis and Peter Urwin Economics of Education Review, in press doi: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2011.12.009
‘Cross-national rankings of intergenerational mobility: a comparison of approaches from economics and sociology’ Journal of Economic Surveys. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6419.2011.00690.x
‘The Economic Cost of Growing Up Poor’ with Kirstine Hansen and Stephen Machin, Fiscal Studies, September 2010, Vol. 31, No 3.
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Current Working Papers
Book Chapters
‘Persistent Inequality? A comparison of the impact of family background on children’s outcomes in the UK and Australia’ with Ilan Katz and Gerry Redmond in John Ermisch Markus Jantti, Tim Smeeding and James Wilson (eds) in From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2012.
‘Understanding the mechanisms behind intergenerational persistence: A comparison between the United States and Great Britain’ with Robert Haveman, Tim Smeeding and Kathryn Wilson in Tim Smeeding, Robert Erikson and Markus Jantti (eds) The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2011.
‘Intergenerational mobility’with Lindsey Macmillan in P. Gregg and J. Wadsworth (eds) The Labour Market in Winter: the State of Working Britain, Oxford University Press 2011 .
‘Social Mobility: Concepts and Measurement’ in V. Uberoi, A. Coutts, D. Halpern, and I. McLean, Options for Britain II: Cross Cutting Policy Issues – Changes and Challenges (2010), Wiley-Blackwell in association with The Political Quarterly.
‘Education and Inequality’ with Stephen Machin in H. Levin and M. Cornoy The International Encyclopaedia of Education, Elsevier, 2010‘Intergenerational Income Mobility in a Comparative Perspective’ in P. Dolton , R. Apslund and E. Barth Education and Inequality Across Europe, Edward Edgar, 2009.
Teaching
Autumn semester: Contemporary Issues in Economics
Spring semester: Public Economics, Applied Economic Workshop