Frank Alan Cowell

Institution: London School of Economics (LSE)

Primary Field: Theory (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://darp.lse.ac.uk/Cowell.htm

First Publication: 1975

Most Recent: 2025

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.02: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	S (4x)	A (2x)	B (1x)	C (½x)	Total	Percentile
Last 5 Years	0.00	2.02	0.67	0.84	3.53	72%
Last 10 Years	0.00	2.02	1.68	1.68	5.38	74%
All Time	28.26	25.56	10.43	8.07	72.32	99%

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 39

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 46.45

Publications (39)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2025	Condorcet Was Wrong, Pareto Was Right: Families, Inheritance and Inequality	Journal of Public Economic Theory	C	2
2024	Inequality as an externality: Consequences for tax design	Journal of Public Economics	A	2
2023	How does exposure to COVID-19 influence health and income inequality aversion?	Social Choice and Welfare	C	3
2021	Measuring pure health inequality and mobility during a health insurance expansion: Evidence from Mexico	Health Economics	B	3
2019	The changing distribution of wealth in the pre-crisis US and UK: the role of socio-economic factors	Oxford Economic Papers	C	3
2018	Measuring mobility	Quantitative Economics	B	2
2017	Inequality with Ordinal Data	Economica	C	2
2015	Social Identity and Redistributive Preferences: a Survey	Journal of Economic Surveys	C	2
2015	Wealth Inequality: a Survey	Journal of Economic Surveys	C	2
2015	Goodness of Fit: An Axiomatic Approach	Journal of Business & Economic Statistics	A	3
2015	Do we value mobility?	Social Choice and Welfare	C	4
2015	The tyranny puzzle in social preferences: an empirical investigation	Social Choice and Welfare	C	3
2012	Distributional orderings: an approach with seven flavors	Theory and Decision	C	3
2010	The class of absolute decomposable inequality measures	Economics Letters	C	2
2009	Tax compliance and firms' strategic interdependence	Journal of Public Economics	A	2
2009	To be or not to be involved: a questionnaire-experimental view on Harsanyi’s utilitarian ethics	Social Choice and Welfare	C	3
2008	Preference reversals and the analysis of income distributions	Social Choice and Welfare	C	4
2007	Income distribution and inequality measurement: The problem of extreme values	Journal of Econometrics	A	2
2004	Complaints and inequality	Social Choice and Welfare	C	2
2001	Risk perceptions and distributional judgments	European Economic Review	B	2
2001	Risk perceptions, income transformations and inequality	European Economic Review	B	3
1999	Editors’ Report	Economica	C	3
1996	Poverty measurement with contaminated data: A robust approach	European Economic Review	B	2
1994	Monotonicity, dominance and the Pareto principle	Economics Letters	C	2
1992	Measurement of income inequality : Experimental test by questionnaire	Journal of Public Economics	A	2
1992	Tax evasion and inequity	Journal of Economic Psychology	C	1
1991	Grouping bounds for inequality measures under alternative informational assumptions	Journal of Econometrics	A	1
1990	Tax Sheltering and the Cost of Evasion.	Oxford Economic Papers	C	1
1989	Sampling variance and decomposable inequality measures	Journal of Econometrics	A	1
1989	Honesty is sometimes the best policy	European Economic Review	B	1
1988	Unwillingness to pay : Tax evasion and public good provision	Journal of Public Economics	A	2
1985	Tax evasion with labour income	Journal of Public Economics	A	1
1985	Measures of Distributional Change: An Axiomatic Approach	Review of Economic Studies	S	1
1982	The Estimation and Interpolation of Inequality Measures	Review of Economic Studies	S	2
1981	Income Maintenance Schemes under Wage-Rate Uncertainty.	American Economic Review	S	1
1981	Additivity and the entropy concept: An axiomatic approach to inequality measurement	Journal of Economic Theory	A	2
1980	Generalized entropy and the measurement of distributional change	European Economic Review	B	1
1980	On the Structure of Additive Inequality Measures	Review of Economic Studies	S	1
1975	Income tax incidence in an ageing population : An examination of the measurement of income redistribution	European Economic Review	B	1