User:Alan Duncan

Professor Alan Stewart Duncan (born January 13, 1965 in Gateshead, UK) is a British economist and econometrician.

He is currently the Bankwest Professor of Economic Policy and Director of the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre at Curtin University, Australia.

He was awarded the Ragnar Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society in 2000 for the article Estimating Labour Supply Responses using Tax Reforms (with Richard Blundell and Costas Meghir in Econometrica. He was Head of the Nottingham School of Economics at the University of Nottingham from 2008 to 2010 and Director of the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) from March 2010 to January 2013.

He graduated with a BA in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Manchester in 1986, and was awarded a DPhil in Economics from the University of York in 1990. He held positions as Lecturer and then Reader in Economics at the University of York from 1990 to 1999. He was appointed Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham in 2000. He held visiting positions at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research and the University of Melbourne, where he was the 2002 RI Downing Research Fellow. Currently, he is an International Fellow at the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (Cemmap) at University College London and Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in London.

Publications
Professor Duncan has published articles ranging from labour economics, econometrics, public policy, education and microeconomics. References to Professor Duncan's work can be found here