Dr Andy Summers

Research Fellow London School of Economics

Andy Summers is an Associate Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and an Associate of the International Inequalities Institute at LSE. His teaching and research focuses on tax law and policy, particularly the taxation of wealth. His work also investigates the measurement of inequality using tax data.

Education

PhD Law, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 2016

BCL (LLM) Law, University of Oxford, 2010

BA Law, University of Cambridge, 2008

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https://www.lse.ac.uk/law/people/academic-staff/andrew-summers
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0000-0002-4978-7743

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IFS WP2022/06 Measuring top income shares in the UK

Measuring top income shares in the UK

Working Paper
This paper examines measurement error in the share of income going to the top 1% (and other subgroups) that comes from estimation of the denominator.

14 January 2022

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Importing inequality: immigration and the top 1 percent

Working Paper

In this paper we study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes. Using administrative data on the universe of UK taxpayers we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as prevalent in the top 0.1% as anywhere in the bottom 97%.

21 September 2020

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Inequality and the very rich: what do we know?

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At this event, speaker set out what we know, and what we need to know, about the very rich in the UK. Using a mixture of data from household surveys and data from tax authorities, the speakers looked at various characteristics of those at the top of the income distribution.

5 November 2019