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Staff Biography
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Dr Abigail MCKNIGHT
Associate Director and Associate Professorial Research Fellow, CASE |
Email: abigail.mcknight@lse.ac.uk
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Biography:
Abigail McKnight is an Associate Professorial Research Fellow and Associate Director of Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at LSE where she has worked since 1999. Her research interests include inequality, poverty, wealth, social mobility and employment policy.
Research Interests:
Current Research Projects:
Selected Publications:
- Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries: Thirty Countries' Experiences(co-edited with B Nolan, W Salverda, D Checchi, I Marx, IG Toth and HG van de Werfhorst), Oxford University Press (2014)
- Changing Inequalities in Rich Countries: Analytical and Comparative Perspectives(co-edited with W Salverda, B Nolan, D Checchi, I Marx, IG Toth and HG van de Werfhorst), Oxford University Press (2014)
- Wealth in the UK: Distribution, Accumulation and Policy(with J Hills, F Bastagli, F Cowell, H Glennerster and E Karagiannaki), Oxford University Press (2013)
- (with J Goldthorpe) The economic basis of social classin S Morgan, D Grusky and G Fields (eds.) Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of research from sociology to economics, Stanford University Press (2005)
- (with C Lucifora and W Salverda) Low wage employment in Europe: A review of the evidenceSocio-Economic Review, 3: 259-292 (2005)
- Higher education outcomes, graduate employment and university performance indicators(with M Bratti, R Naylor and J Smith), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 167(3): 475-496 (2004)
- Earnings Inequality and Earnings Mobility, 1977-1997: The impact of mobility on long term inequalityEmployment Relations Research Series No.8, Department of Trade and Industry (2000)
- Graduate employability: Policy and performance in higher education in the UK(with J. Smith and R. Naylor) Economic Journal, 110 (2000)
STICERD/CASE Publications:
- A fresh look at an old question: is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?
Abigail McKnight,
July 2015
Paper No' CASE/191:
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- The Coalition’s Record on Employment: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015
Abigail McKnight,
March 2015
Paper No' CASE/187:
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- The Coalition's Record on Employment: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015
Abigail McKnight,
January 2015
Paper No' SPCCWP15:
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- The Coalition's Social Policy Record: Policy Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015
Tania Burchardt,
Amanda Fitzgerald,
John Hills,
Ruth Lupton,
Abigail McKnight,
Polina Obolenskaya,
Kitty Stewart,
Stephanie Thomson,
Rebecca Tunstall,
Polly Vizard,
January 2015
Paper No' SPCCRR04:
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- Disabled People’s Financial Histories: Uncovering the disability wealth-penalty
Abigail McKnight,
April 2014
Paper No' CASE/181:
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- Wealth distribution, accumulation and policy
Francesca Bastagli,
Frank A Cowell,
Howard Glennerster,
John Hills,
Eleni Karagiannaki,
Abigail McKnight,
May 2013
Paper No' CASEbrief 33:
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- Accounting for cross-country differences in wealth inequality
Frank A Cowell,
Eleni Karagiannaki,
Abigail McKnight,
March 2013
Paper No' CASE/168:
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- Mapping and measuring the distribution of household wealth: A cross-country analysis
Frank A Cowell,
Eleni Karagiannaki,
Abigail McKnight,
November 2012
Paper No' CASE/165:
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- Estimates of the asset-effect: The search for a causal effect of assets on adult health and employment outcomes
Abigail McKnight,
June 2011
Paper No' CASE/149:
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- The changing pattern of earnings: employees, migrants and low-paid families
Richard Dickens,
Abigail McKnight,
March 2009
Paper No' CEPCP272:
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- The Impact of Policy Change on Job Retention and Advancement
Richard Dickens,
Abigail McKnight,
October 2008
Paper No' CEPOP23:
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- Assimilation of Migrants into the British Labour Market
Richard Dickens,
Abigail McKnight,
October 2008
Paper No' CEPOP22:
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- Changes in Earnings Inequality and Mobility in Great Britain 1978/9-2005/6
Richard Dickens,
Abigail McKnight,
October 2008
Paper No' CEPOP21:
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- The Impact of Policy Change on Job Retention and Advancement
Richard Dickens,
Abigail McKnight,
October 2008
Paper No' CASE/134:
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- Assimilation of Migrants into the British Labour Market
Richard Dickens,
Abigail McKnight,
October 2008
Paper No' CASE/133:
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- Changes in earnings inequality and mobility in Great Britain 1978/9-2005/6
Richard Dickens,
Abigail McKnight,
October 2008
Paper No' CASE/132:
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- Tracking Income: How working families' incomes vary through the year
John Hills,
Abigail McKnight,
Rachel Smithies,
March 2006
Paper No' CASEreport 32:
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- The Economic Basis of Social Class
John H Goldthorpe,
Abigail McKnight,
February 2004
Paper No' CASE 080:
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- Sheer Class? The Extent and Sources of Variation in the UK Graduate Earnings Premium
Abigail McKnight,
Robin Naylor,
Jeremy Smith,
March 2002
Paper No' CASE 054:
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