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Ian Crawford

Professor of Economics
Professorial Fellow

Research Interests: Empirical microeconomics.

I am a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, and a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, University of Oxford.  My main research interests are in structural empirical microeconomics (combining microeconomic theory and microeconomic data).

Currently I'm working on projects in three main areas: revealed preference methods, index numbers and heterogeneity.  Under revealed preferences I'm working on time-inconsistent preferences (with Laura Blow and Martin Browning), a revealed preference characterisation of reference-dependence (with Laura Blow and Vince Crawford) and a project on price uncertainty and stochastic choice (with Daniel Martin and Abi Adams). I have two main projects under index numbers: the first on new-characteristics bias in hedonic price indices (with Peter Neary), the second on measuring inflation with partially observed prices (with Matt Polisson). On heterogeneity I have a project on measuring taste change joint (with Abi Adams, Richard Blundell and Martin Browning) plus some new work on estimating individual-by-individual labour-supply models using random fields. Current drafts of papers, or slides, are available on my research pages.

I am also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and a member of the Consumer Prices Advisory Panel (CPAC) for the Office for National Statistics.

I will be on sabbatical for the Academic Year Oct18/Oct19. Autumn Term: St Andrews, Scotland; Northern Hemisphere Winter Term/Southern Hemisphere Summer Term: Visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ; Summer Term: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

Ian Crawford

Publications

 

"Social interactions and the influence of 'extremists'", Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 153,238-266,  September 2018,  (with Donna Harris)

"Gorman revisited: nonparametric conditions for exact linear aggregation", SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association. 7, 203-220, (2016). (with Cherchye, L, B. De Rock and F. Vermeulen)"

"Sharp for SARP" American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2015, 7(1): 43–60, (with Richard Blundell, Martin Browning, Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock & Frederic Vermeulen)

"Testing for Intertemporal Separability" Journal of Mathematical Economics, 52(C), 46–49, 2014, (with Matthew Polisson).

"Empirical Revealed Preference", Annual Reviews, 6, 503-525, 2014 (with Bram de Rock)

“How many types are there?” Economic Journal, 123, (567), 77–95, March 2013, (with K. Pendakur)

“How demanding is the revealed preference approach to demand” American Economic Review, 101 (2011), 2782–2795, (with T. Beatty)

"Welfare rankings from multivariate data, a nonparametric approach", Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 247–252, (with G. Anderson and A. Leicester)

"Habits Revealed" Review of Economic Studies, 77(4), 2010, pp. 1382-1402

"Best Nonparametric Bounds on Demand Responses" Econometrica, 76(6), 2008, 1227–1262 (with R. Blundell and M. Browning)

"Testing for a Reference Consumer in International Comparisons of Living Standards" American Economic Review 98(4), 2008, pp. 1731–32 (with J. Peter Neary)

"Revealed Preference Methods for the Consumer Characteristics Model" Review of Economic Studies, vol 75, 2008, pp. 371-389 (with L. Blow and M. Browning)

"Improving Bounds on Demand Curves" International Economic Review, Vol. 48, No. 4, November 2007, (with R. Blundell and M. Browning).

“The RPI and the cost-of-living index: testing for consistency between theory and practice”, Fiscal Studies, 25(1), 2004, pp. 79-91 (with I. Image)

“Estimation of household demand systems with theoretically compatible Engel curve and unit value specifications”, Journal of Econometrics, vol. 114, 2003, pp. 221-241, (with F. Laisney and I. Preston).

"Nonparametric Engel Curves and Revealed Preference", Econometrica, 71(1), 2003, pp. 205-240, (with R. Blundell and M. Browning

"The cost of living with the RPI: Substitution bias in the UK Retail Prices Index", Economic Journal, 111, 2001, F311-334 (with L. Blow)