Paul Allanson

Paul Allanson is a senior lecturer and currently Head of Economic Studies. A graduate of Newcastle University (BSc Agric Econ) with a PhD from Manchester University. Formerly Lord Richard Percy Fellow in the Centre for Rural Economy at Newcastle, he moved to Dundee in 1995.

External Affiliations

• Member of Royal Economic Society
• Member of Agricultural Economics Society
• Member of European Association of Agricultural Economics

Applied microeconomics, including recent work on the distribution of agricultural support and the welfare of the farming community; the evolution of the racial wage hierarchy in the South African labour market; imperfect competition among multiproduct firms.

I am currently working on the characterisation and measurement of income and health mobility. Member of Dundee Health Economics Group.

• Economic Policy
• Econometrics
• Natural Resource and Environmental Economics

• On the choice of health inequality measure for the longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities, with Dennis Petrie, Health Economics (2012), forthcoming.
• Accounting for the dead in the longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities, with Dennis Petrie and Ulf Gerdtham, Journal of Health Economics (2011), Vol. 20, p1113-1123.
• On the characterization and economic evaluation of income mobility as a process of distributional change, Journal of Economic Inequality (2011), forthcoming.

• Longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequality, with Dennis Petrie and Ulf Gerdtham, Journal of Health Economics, (2010) vol. 29, p.78-86.
• "On the Characterisation and Measurement of the Redistributive Effect of Agricultural Policy", Journal Of Agricultural Economics, (2008) vol 59, p.169-187
• "Classical Horizontal Inequities in the Provision of Agricultural Income Support", Review of Agricultural Economics, (2007) vol 29, p.656-671
• "Multiproduct Firms and Market Structure: An Explorative Application to the Product Life Cycle", with Catia Montagna, International Journal of Industrial Organization, (2005) vol 23, p.587- 597
• "The Evolution of the Racial Wage Hierarchy in Post-Apartheid South Africa" with J. Atkins, Journal of Development Studies, (2005) vol 41(6), 1023-50.

For working papers and other publications please refer to the RePEc website