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Professor Tim Hatton BA, PhD (Warwick)

Staff positionProfessor
E-mailhatton (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk)
Office hoursProf Hatton is currently on leave.
BiographyTim Hatton’s research is in economic history and applied economics. He has published extensively on the economic history of labour markets, including unemployment, poverty and migration. His research interests include the causes and effects of international migration, and immigration and asylum policy. His most recent book (co-authored with Jeffrey G. Williamson) is Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance (MIT Press, 2005). He is currently developing a project on health and heights in Britain and Europe since the late nineteenth century. He is also a Professor at the Research School of Economics, Australian National University and a Fellow of the CEPR (London) and the IZA (Bonn).
Websitehttp://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~hatton
Research interests
  • Immigration and immigration policy
  • Asylum seekers and asylum policy
  • Health and the heights of children and adults in Europe since 1870
  • Labour markets and unemployment in the Grreat Depression
Teaching responsibilitiesEC111 Introduction to Economics (jointly with Nicome Kuschy) [course materials]

EC958 Advanced Empirical Methods (with Matthias Parey)

PublicationsDownloadable papers at: http://ideas.repec.org/f/pha305.html

Journal Articles (since 2007)

“Immigrant Selection in the OECD,” (with M. Belot), Scandinavian Journal of Economics (forthcoming).
 
 “Australian Unemployment in the Long Run, 1903-2007,” (with Sambit Bhattacharyya), Economic Record (forthcoming).
 
“Infant Mortality and the Health of Survivors: Britain 1910-1940,” Economic History Review (forthcoming).
 
“Immigrants Assimilate as Communities, not just as Individuals” (with A. Leigh) Journal of Population Economics, 24 (2011), pp. 389-419.
 
 “Are Third World Emigration Forces Abating?” (with J. G. Williamson), World Development, 39 (2011) pp. 20-32.
 
“Long Run Trends in the Heights of European Men, 19th-20th Centuries” (with B. Bray), Economics and Human Biology, 8 (2010), pp. 405-413.
 
“Labour Markets in the Interwar Period and Economic Recovery in the UK and the USA,” (with M. Thomas) Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 26, (2010) 463-485.
 
 “Fertility Decline and the Heights of Children in Britain, 1886-1938” (with R. Martin), Explorations in Economic History, 47 (2010), pp. 505-519.
 
"The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey,” Journal of Economic Surveys, 24 (2010), pp. 941–969.
 
“Childhood Economic Conditions and Length of Life: Evidence from the UK Boyd Orr Cohort, 1937-2005,” (with P. Frijters, R. M. Martin and M. A. Shields)
Journal of Health Economics,  29 (2010), pp. 39-47.
 
 “The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order: British Children in the 1930s,” Oxford Economic Papers, 62 (2010), pp. 157-184. 
 
“Emigration in the Long Run: Evidence from Two Global Centuries,” (with J. G. Williamson) Asia Pacific Economic Literature, 23 (2009), pp. 17-28.
 
“The Rise and Fall of Asylum: What Happened and Why?” Economic Journal, 119 (2009), pp. F183-F213.
 
 “What Determines Immigration’s Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries” (with J. G. Williamson) World Development, 36 (2008), pp. 345-361.
 
 “Should we have a WTO for International Migration?” Economic Policy, 50 (2007), pp. 339-383.
 
“Where Do US Immigrants Come From and Why?” (with X. Clark and J. G. Williamson), Review of Economics and Statistics, 89 (2007), pp. 359-373
 
“Can Productivity Growth Explain the NAIRU?” Long Run Evidence from Britain, 1870-1999,” Economica, 74 (2007), pp. 475-491
Conferences/presentations“Labour Markets in the Interwar Period and Economic Recovery in the UK and the USA," British Academy, London, April 2010

"How Have Europeans Grown So Tall?" Presidential Address to the European Society for Population Economics Essen, June 2010.

"European Immigration Policy" Final Conference of the Network on Transnationality of Migrants, Venice, September 2010

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