Anthony F. Shorrocks, is a British development economist.
Education
His first degree was a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Sussex. This was followed by a Masters in Economics from Brown University. He took his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics at the London School of Economics in 1973 (being awarded the Bowley Prize in 1975).
Career
Between January 2001 and April 2009 he was Director of United Nations University-WIDER. Prior to that he was Professor at the London School of Economics and before that he worked at the University of Essex. He has also had several visiting appointments in the United States, Canada, Italy, and Russia. He has many publications in leading economic journals on income and wealth distribution, inequality, poverty, and mobility.
In 1978, he introduced a measure based on income Gini coefficients to estimate income mobility.
This measure, generalized by Maasoumi and Zandvakili, is now generally referred to as, sometimes as Shorrocks mobility index or Shorrocks rigidity index. lieutenant attempts to estimate whether the income inequality Gini coefficient is permanent or temporary, and to what extent a country or region enables economic mobility to its people so that they can move from one (eg bottom 20%) income quantile to another (eg middle 20%) over time.
In other words, compares inequality of short-term earnings such as annual income of households, to inequality of long-term earnings such as 5-year or 10-year total income for same households. He has been elected to be a Fellow of the Econometric Society.