Nicholas Herbert Stern

Background

Stern, Nicholas Herbert was born on April 22, 1946 in London. Son of Adalbert and Marion Fatima (Swann) Stern.

Education

Bachelor in Mathematics, Cambridge University, 1967. Doctor of Philisophy in Economics, Oxford University, 1972. Bachelor of Medicine, Oxford University, 1951.

Master of Arts, Oxford University, 1953. DM, Oxford University, 1963. Mean Corpuscular hemoglobin, Oxford University, 1963.

Career

University Lector Industrial Mathematics, Fellow Tutor Economics, St Catharine’s College Oxford, 1970-1977. Research Association Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA, 1972. Overseas Visiting Fellow, Ford Foundation Visiting

Professor, Indian State Institute, Institution, 1974-1975, 1981-1982.

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France Visiting, Laboratory d’Economics, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, 1977. Visiting Scholar, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund, 1983. Professor of Economics, University Warwick, Coventry.

Director, Development Economics Research Centre, University Warwick, Coventry, England, since 1978. Editorial Board, Review of Economic Studies, 1969-1979. Joint Managing Editor, (with A.

Atkinson), Oxford Economic Papers, 1976-1977.

Advisory Editor, Economics Letters.

Achievements

• Scholar, William Heron Research Student Economics, Peterhouse College Cambridge, 1967, 1967-1968. Nuffield Student, Nuffield College Oxford, 1968-1969. Junior Research Fellow Economics, Queen’s College Oxford, 1969-1970.
  
  Fellow, Econometric Society, 1978.

Works

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• book

  • Crime, the Police and Criminal Statistics: An Analysis of Official Statistics for England and Wales Using Econometric Methods (Quantitative studies in social relations)

    (Crime, The Police and Criminal Statistics: An Analysis of...)

  • Palanpur: The Economy of an Indian Village

    (An ambitious and systematic attempt to put to the test th...)

  • Palanpur: The Economy of an Indian Village by Bliss C. J. Stern N. H. (1982-12-09) Hardcover

• Other Work

  • Author: An Appraisal of Tea Production on Smallholdings in Kenya, 1972. Co-editor: Models of Economic Growth, 1973, The Theory of Taxation for Developing Countries, 1987. Co-author: Crime, The Police and Criminal Statistics, 1979, Palanpur: The Economy of An Indian Village, 1982.

Views

From the beginning of my research, I have studied public economics and the economics of

developing countries. The approach has sometimes been purely theoretical but a substantial element has always been applied. A major theme has been the use of the tools of quantitative analysis to study the consequences of government policy, and the systematic application of criteria to evaluate those policies.

Examples range from the social cost-benefit analysis of a small-holder tea scheme in Kenya to the pure theory of optimum investment and growth policies and the theory of optimum income taxation. Careful policy formation involves the understanding of the way individuals behave and how they interact with markets. Thus development economics requires the study of village economies and in 1974-1975 Christopher Bliss and I studied the economy of the village Palanpur in West Uttar Pradesh in India and our results were published in our book entitled Palanpur.

Similary, use of the criminal statistics in discussion of crime and policy should be based on an understanding of how individuals, society and institutions interact to generate the figures, and my book on the British crime statistics with Roy CarrHill was directed to this end. More recently my research has concentrated on empirical work on public finance in both developing countries (particularly India, Pakistan and Mexico) at the Development Economics Research Centre of the University of Warwick, and the United Kingdom at the Taxation, Incentives and Distribution of Income Programme directed together with Professors Atkinson and King at London School of Economies and Political Science, London, United Kingdom.

Membership

Fellow: Econometric Society.

Connections

Married Susan Ruth Chesterton Stern, 1968. Children: Helen, Daniel, Michael.

Father:

Adalbert Stern

Mother:

Marion Fatima (Swann) Stern

Spouse:

Susan Ruth Chesterton Stern

child:

Helen Stern

child:

Daniel Stern

child:

Michael Stern