Dr Jonathan Shaw

Research Fellow Financial Conduct Authority

Jonathan is a Technical Specialist in the Economics Department at the Financial Conduct Authority and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Jonathan is an economist and data scientist whose research focuses on understanding household finances, investigating the effects of taxes and benefits across life and applying data science techniques to address economic questions. Before joining the Financial Conduct Authority, he was Programme Director for Economic Data Science at the Alan Turing Institute, and prior to that he worked at the IFS for almost 15 years, the last four of which as Deputy Director of the Tax Administration Research Centre. He has done work for government departments in the UK and abroad, regulators and private charitable foundations and has provided economic advice to a wide variety of policymakers in governmental and quasi-governmental organisations. He did his PhD in economics at University College London under Professor Sir Richard Blundell.

Education

PhD Economics, University College London, 2017

MPhil Economics, University of Cambridge, 2003

BA Economics, University of Cambridge, 2002

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Website
http://www.jonshaw.net
Orcid number
0000-0001-6337-434X

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Inequality under Labour

Journal article

In this article, we assess what has happened to inequality under Labour, and estimate the impact on inequality of Labour's redistributive policies.

1 November 2005

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Living standards, inequality and poverty

Report

In this Election Briefing Note, we assess what has happened to living standards under Labour, setting out how average incomes, income inequality and poverty have changed since 1996-97. We compare these changes with what happened under previous governments, and highlight where there have been differences between Labour's first and second terms.

26 April 2005