Prof Peter Dolton

Biography

Studied at Essex (BA), Warwick (MA) and Cambridge (PhD).

Previous Posts: Formerly at Hull University, Bristol University, Newcastle University, Institiute of Education (London University), London School of Economics, Royal Holloway College (London University).   Member of the Doctors and Dentists Review Body, Member of the School Teacher Pay Review Body.

Other Current Posts: Senior Research Fellow at the Centre fro Economic Performance, London School of Economics. Member of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body. Research Fellow CESifo, Research Fellow IZA.

Visiting Positions Held: Stanford University, Paris II University, Australian National University.

Acted as Consultant: DEFRA, Home Office, HMTreasury, Cabinet Office, Dept of Employment,  Lord Chancellor's Dept, Employment Service, ESRC, World Bank, OECD, QCA, DWP, Dept of Employment Education and Training (Australia).

Research Grants From: ESRC, UGC, cabinet Office, Low Pay Commission, manpower Service Commission, Training Agency, OECD, QCA, HMTreasury, ACE PHARE, European Commission, Framework V.

Role

Professor of Economics

Fields: Applied Econometrics, Labour Economics, Economics of Education, Econometric Evaluation, Health Economics, Economic History

Current Projects: Minimum Wage Effects, Demand for Higher Education, Total Reward and Pensions, Wage Settlements, Wage Rigidity, Teacher Labour Markets, Rate of Return to Education, Intertemporal Labour Supply Elasticity, New Deal for Lone Parents, Childhood Obesity, Trade Unions, Duration Modelling, Attrition and Refreshment Sampling, Partial Idenitification and Bounds, Econometric Identification and Causality, Labour Supply and Working Hours Restrictions, Evaluation of No Child Left Behind, Hawthorne Effects, Teacher Pay and Pupil Academic Performance, Spatial Econometrics, Gender Wage Differences, Wage Effects of Computer Use, Job Search and Matching.

Danzer, Alexander M and Dolton, Peter J (2012) Total reward and pensions in the UK in the public and private sectors. Labour Economics, 19 (4). pp. 584-594. ISSN 0927-5371

Dolton, Peter, Wadsworth, Jonathan and Rosazza-Bondibene, Chiara (2012) Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage over the Medium-Term. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 74 (1). pp. 78-106. ISSN 0305-9049

Dolton, Peter and Rosazza-Bondibene, Chiara (2012) The International Experience of Minimum Wages in an Economic Downturn. Economic Policy, 27 (69). pp. 99-142. ISSN 0266-4658

Dickens, Richard and Dolton, Peter (2011) Using wage council data to identify the effect of recessions on the impact of the minimum wage. Technical Report. Low Pay Commission, London.

Dolton, Peter and Smith, Jeffrey A (2011) The impact of the UK new deal for lone parents on benefit receipt. IZA Discussion Papers (5491). IZA, Bonn, Germany.

Dolton, Peter, Wadsworth, Jonathan and Rosazza-Bondibene, Chiara (2011) The Geography of the UK Labour Market. In: The Labour Market in Winter: The State of Working Britain. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 019958737X

Dolton, Peter and Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar (2011) If You Pay Peanuts Do You Get Monkeys? A Cross Country Analysis of Teacher Pay and Pupil Performance. Economic Policy, 26 (65). pp. 5-55. ISSN 0266-4658

Dolton, Peter and Makepeace, Gerry (2011) Public and Private Sector Pay. In: The Labour Market in Winter: The State of Working Britain. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 019958737X

Dolton, Peter, Wadsworth, Jonathan and Rosazza-Bondibene, Chiara (2010) The UK Minimum Wage in Retrospect. Fiscal Studies, 31 (4). pp. 509-534.

Dolton, Peter (2010) Teacher Supply. In: International Encyclopaedia of Education. Elsevier, Amsterdam. ISBN 0-08-044893-3

Dolton, Peter (2009) Teacher Supply. In: Economics of Education. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-096530-7

Dolton, Peter, Asplund, Rita and Barth, Erling, eds. (2009) Education and Inequality Across Europe. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1847205887

Dolton, Peter, Skalli, Ali and Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar (2009) Gender Wage Differentials in Europe. In: Education and Inequality Across Europe. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1847205887

Dolton, Peter, Lanfranchi, Joseph and Skalli, Ali (2009) The Inequality of Happiness and Satisfaction. In: Education and Inequality Across Europe. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1847205887

Dolton, Peter, Asplund, Rita and Barth, Erling (2009) Introduction: Education, Wage Inequality and the Labour Market. In: Education and Inequality Across Europe. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1847205887

Dolton, Peter and Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar (2009) Overeducation across Europe. In: Education and Inequality Across Europe. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1847205887

Dolton, Peter and Silles, Mary (2008) The Effects of Over-Education on Earnings in the Graduate Labour Market. Economics of Education Review, 27 (2). pp. 125-139. ISSN 0272-7757

Dolton, Peter, Skalli, Ali and Marcenaro-Guitteriez, Oscar (2008) Gender Wage Differences across Europe. In: Frontiers in the Economics of Gender. Series in Political Economy . Routledge.