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Dr Paul Fisher

Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
Dr Paul Fisher

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Biography

His research spans a variety of areas in applied economics. Ongoing research covers: labour economics, economic demography, health economics, and public economics. He is also interested in the design, collection and analysis of survey data, particularly with regard to the measurement of household living standards.

Publications

Journal articles (11)

Kweon, H., Burik, CAP., Bao, Y., Fisher, P. and et al, Associations between common genetic variants and income provide insights about the socio-economic health gradient. Nature Human Behaviour

Crossley, TF., Fisher, P., Levell, P. and Low, H., (2023). Stimulus payments and private transfers. Economics Letters. 222, 110944-110944

Crossley, TF., Fisher, P. and Hussein, O., (2023). Assessing data from summary questions about earnings and income. Labour Economics. 81, 102331-102331

Fisher, P. and Hussein, O., (2023). Understanding Society: the income data. Fiscal Studies. 44 (4), 377-397

Avram, S., Brewer, M., Fisher, P. and Fumagalli, L., (2022). Household Earnings and Income Volatility in the UK, 2009-2017. The Journal of Economic Inequality. 20 (2), 345-369

Crossley, TF., Fisher, P., Low, H. and Levell, P., (2022). A year of COVID: the evolution of labour market and financial inequalities through the crisis. Oxford Economic Papers. 75 (3), 589-612

Crossley, TF., Fisher, P. and Low, H., (2021). The heterogeneous and regressive consequences of COVID-19: Evidence from high quality panel data. Journal of Public Economics. 193, 104334-104334

Crossley, TF., Fisher, P., Levell, P. and Low, H., (2021). MPCs in an economic crisis: Spending, saving and private transfers. Journal of Public Economics Plus. 2, 100005-100005

Ciani, E. and Fisher, P., (2019). Dif-in-Dif Estimators of Multiplicative Treatment Effects. Journal of Econometric Methods. 8 (1)

Fisher, P., (2019). Does repeated measurement improve income data quality?. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 81 (5), 989-1011

Fisher, P., (2016). British tax credit simplification, the intra-household distribution of income and family consumption. Oxford Economic Papers. 68 (2), 444-464

Reports and Papers (2)

Benzeval, M., Burton, J., Crossley, T., Fisher, P., Gardiner, C., Jackle, A. and Moore, JC., (2021). High frequency online data collection in an annual household panel study: some evidence on bias prevention and bias adjustment.

Ciani, E. and Fisher, P., (2013). Dif-in-dif estimators of multiplicative treatment effects

Grants and funding

2023

Understanding Society Waves 17-22

Economic and Social Research Council

Understanding Society Waves 17-22

Economic and Social Research Council

2021

Saving, Spending and financial resilience in the wake of the pandemic

Nuffield Foundation

2020

Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Survey Waves 13-15

Economic and Social Research Council

2019

UK POPULATION LAB INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT GRANT

Economic and Social Research Council

2015

The Effects of a Tailored Health Warning on Socio-Economic Behaviours and Health Outcomes

Economic & Social Research Council

2013

Poverty across ethnic groups through recession and austerity

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Contact

pfishe@essex.ac.uk

Location:

2N2.6.13A, Colchester Campus

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