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Jo Blanden
Subject Editor, Education and human capital

University of Surrey, and LSE, UK, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor role

Author, Subject Editor

Current position

Professor in Economics, School of Economics, University of Surrey, UK

Research interest

Intergenerational mobility, early education

Website

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/economics/people/jo_blanden/

Past positions

Lecturer in Economics, University of Surrey, UK (2005–2012); Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Surrey, UK (2012–2017); Reader in Economics, University of Surrey, UK (2017–2022)

Qualifications

PhD Economics, University College London, 2005

Selected publications

  • “Quantity and quality of childcare and children’s educational outcomes.” Journal of Population Economics 35 (2022): 785–828 (with E. Del Bono, B. Rabe, and K. Hansen).

  • Educational Inequality. IZA Discussion Paper No. 15225, 2022 (with M. Doepke and J. Stuhler).

  • Do Non-monetary Interventions Improve Staff Retention? Evidence from English NHS Hospitals. IZA Discussion Paper No. 15480, 2022 (with M. Sayli, G. Moscelli, C. Bojke, and M. Mello).

  • Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in North America and Europe. IZA Discussion Paper No. 13456, 2020 (with R. Manduca, M. Hell, A. Adermon, E. Bratberg, A. C. Gielen, H. Van Kippersluis, K. B. Lee, S. Machin, M. D. Munk, M. Nybom, Y. Ostrovsky, S. Rahman, and O. Sirniö).

  • “Educational inequality, educational expansion and intergenerational mobility.” Journal of Social Policy 45:4 (2016): 589–614 (with L. Macmillan).

article(s)

  • Intergenerational income persistence Updated

    Measures of intergenerational persistence can be indicative of equality of opportunity, but the relationship is not clear-cut

    Jo Blanden, January 2019
    A strong association between incomes across generations—with children from poor families likely to be poor as adults—is frequently considered an indicator of insufficient equality of opportunity. Studies of such “intergenerational persistence,” or lack of intergenerational mobility, measure the strength of the relationship between parents’ socio-economic status and that of their children as adults. However, the association between equality of opportunity and common measures of intergenerational persistence is not as clear-cut as is often assumed. To aid interpretation researchers often compare measures across time and space but must recognize that reliable measurement requires overcoming important data and methodological difficulties.
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