Paul Allanson

Head of Economic Studies

Contact:
p.f.allanson@dundee.ac.uk
Tel:+44 (0)1382 384377
Fax:+44 (0)1382 384691
Postal Address:
Economic Studies
University of Dundee
Perth Rd
Dundee
DD1 4HN

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

Research

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.

Teaching

Economic Policy
Econometrics
Natural Resource and Environmental Economics

Selected publications

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.