Dr Julie Litchfield

Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, specialising in development economics.

Role

Senior Lecturer.

I am also affiliated to the Poverty Research Unit at Sussex and to the Sussex Centre for Migration Research

The main themes of my research are poverty, inequality and income distribution divided into three strands: the meaning and measurement of poverty and inequality, including statistical analyses of welfare distributions in developing and developed countries; the analysis of the causes of poverty and inequality, and the analysis of poverty dynamics in the context of economic policy reform, the latter two being focused on developing countries. I have recently completed a three-year DfID-funded research project on trade reform and poverty dynamics in Zambia, China and Vietnam, an analysis of Inequality in Latin America and am member of the Sussex Development Research Centre on Migration, Poverty and Development. Current research includes analysis of the relationship between conflict and poverty with the MICROCON research centre and work on migration and poverty in Albania.

I am currently on secondment to DFID as Senior Research Fellow working in the Growth Research Team on agriculture and conflict.

I teach half of Development Economics 1 for the Msc Development Economics. At undergraduate level I organise the third year Statistics Projects and Applied Eocnomic Dissertations, and I also teach in the International Development department.

I currently supervise DPhil students in Economics and Development Studies on poverty related topics: agriculture and poverty in Tanzania; poverty dynamics in Peru; poverty and inequality in Mexico and Chile; social networks in Zambia; migrant remittances in the Middle East; insurance and risk in India; agricultural commercialisation and poverty in Ghana; violence and inequality in Venezuela; and poverty, livelihoods and risk in Nigeria.

 

Student Consultation

2012-2013 Student consultation times.

Jubilee Building 276

Mondays 12-1 p.m. 

In week 6, my office hour will be Friday 1st March 11-12 am.

If you need to see me urgently and can't see me in my regular consultation session, please email me:  j.a.litchfield@sussex.ac.uk

Litchfield, Julie, Reilly, Barry and Veneziano, Mario (2012) Analysis of life satisfaction in Albania: an heteroscedastic ordered probit model approach. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 81 (3). pp. 731-741. ISSN 0167-2681

Litchfield, Julie, Reilly, Barry and Veneziani, Mario (2012) An analysis of life satisfaction in Albania: an heteroscedastic ordered probit model approach. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 81 (3). pp. 731-741. ISSN 0167-2681

Dourain, Elodie, Litchfield, Julie and Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel (2012) War Legacies and Livelihoods in Rural Areas: The Case of Kosovo. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 63 (1). pp. 201-222. ISSN 0021-857X

Douarin, Elodie, Litchfield, Julie and Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel (2012) War legacies, welfare and livelihoods in rural areas: the case of Kosovo. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 63 (1). pp. 201-222. ISSN 0021-857X

Mansour, Wael, Chaaban, Jad and Litchfield, Julie (2011) The Impact of Migrant Remittances on School Attendance and Education Attainment: Evidence from Jordan. International Migration Review, 45 (4).

Ferreira, Francisco H G, Leite, Phillippe G and Litchfield, Julie A (2008) The Rise and Fall of Brazilian Inequality: a summary. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 12. pp. 199-230. ISSN 1365-1005

Justino, Patricia, Litchfield, Julie and Pham, Hung Thai (2008) Poverty Dynamics during Trade Reform: Evidence from Rural Vietnam. Review of Income and Wealth, 54 (2). pp. 166-192. ISSN 0034-6586

Castaldo, Adriana, Litchfield, Julie and Reilly, Barry (2007) Who is most Likely to migrate from Albania? Evidence from the Albanian Living Standards Survey. Eastern European Economics, 45 (5). pp. 69-94. ISSN 0012-8775

Krstić, Gorana, Litchfield, Julie and Reilly, Barry (2007) An Anatomy of Male Labour Market Earnings Inequality in Serbia 1996 to 2003. Economic Systems, 31 (1). pp. 97-114. ISSN 0939-3625

Krstić, Gorana, Litchfield, Julie and Reilly, Barry (2007) An anatomy of male labour market earnings inequality in Serbia - 1996 to 2003. Economic Systems, 31 (1). pp. 97-114. ISSN 0939-3625

Ferreira, Francisco H G, Leite, Phillippe G and Litchfield, Julie A (2006) The Rise and Fall of Brazilian Inequality: 1981-2004. Macroeconomic Dynamics. ISSN 1365-1005

Justino, Patricia, Litchfield, Julie and Whitehead, Laurence (2005) Inequality in Latin America: dimensions and processes. In: Overcoming Inequality in Latin America: Issues and Challenges for the New Century. ROUTLEDGE, pp. 15-48. ISBN 0415362849

Castaldo, Adriana, Litchfield, Julie and Reilly, Barry (2005) Migration and Poverty in Albania: What Factors Influence an Individual's Predisposition to Migrate? Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, 7 (2). pp. 157-173.

Litchfield, Julie and Justino, Patricia (2004) Welfare in Vietnam during the 1990s: Poverty, inequality and poverty dynamics. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 9 (2). pp. 145-169. ISSN 1354-7860

Litchfield, Julie, McCulloch, Neil and Winters, L Alan (2003) Agricultural Trade Liberalization and Poverty Dynamics in Three Developing Countries. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 85 (5). pp. 1285-1291. ISSN 0002-9092

Lipton, Michael, Litchfield, Julie and Faurès, Jean-Marc (2003) The impact of irrigation on poverty: a framework for analysis. Journal of Water Policy, 5 (5-6). pp. 413-427. ISSN 1366-7017

Ferreira , Francisco and Litchfield, Julie (2001) Education or Inflation? The Micro and Macroeconomics of the Brazilian Income Distribution during 1981-1995. Cuadernos de Economia, 38 (114). pp. 209-238. ISSN 0717-6821

Contreras, Dante, Larrañaga, Osvaldo and Litchfield, Julie (2001) Poverty and Income Distribution in Chile: 1987-1998. New Evidence. Cuadernos de Economia, 38 (114). pp. 191-208. ISSN 0717-6821

Cowell, Frank A, Ferreira, Francisco H G and Litchfield, Julie A (1999) Income distribution in Brazil 1981-1990: parametric and non-parametric approaches. Journal of Income Distribution, 8 (1). pp. 63-76. ISSN 0926-6437

Ferreira, Francisco H G and Litchfield, Julie A (1999) Calm after the storms: income distribution and welfare in Chile 1987-94. World Bank Economic Review, 13 (3). pp. 509-38. ISSN 0258-6770

Ferreira, Francisco H G and Litchfield, Julie (1999) Education or inflation? The roles of structural factors and macroeconomic instability in explaining Brazilian inequality in the 1980s. In: Probeza y Desigualdad en America Latina. Paidos, pp. 101-131. ISBN 958-601-825-3

Cowell, Frank, Jenkins, S P and Litchfield, J A (1996) The changing shape of the UK income distribution: Kernel density estimates. In: New Inequalities: The Changing Distribution of Income and Wealth in the United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press, pp. 49-75. ISBN 0-521-55326-1