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All About Robert

  

Robert E. Wright, PhD, was born in Trenton, Ontario, Canada in 1958. He is an economic consultant residing in Glasgow, Scotland. He is also an affiliate of the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow.

From 2005, until his retirement in 2018, he was Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) Professor of Economics in the Strathclyde Business School at the University of Strathclyde. From 1995 to 2005, he was Professor and University Chair in Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Stirling. From 1997-2002, he was Vice-Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Management (now Stirling Management School) at the University of Stirling. From 1991 to 1994, he was Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Glasgow. Before moving to Scotland, he held positions in the Department of Economics at Birkbeck College, in the Centre for Population Studies at the University of London and at the Institute for Research in Public Policy in Ottawa.

He studied economics, demography and statistics at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Michigan, the University of Stockholm and the National Institute of Demographic Research in Paris. His research interests are in the areas of population economics, labour economics, inequality and poverty, finance and applied econometrics and statistics. His publications include over 100 articles in refereed journals, 4 books and 22 book chapters. He has nearly 8,000 Google Scholar citrations. 

He is a founding member of the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC), Centre for Population Change. He is a co-investigator of the Healthy Ageing in Scotland (HAGIS) project. For five years, he was a member of the ESRC’s Methods and Infrastructure Committee, International Committee and Strategic Priorities Taskforce.  For a further two years, he was the Vice-chair of the ESRC’s Grants Assessment Panel. He was a member of the Commissiong Panel of the ESRC’s Governance after Brexit Innovation Stream. 

He is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour, Bonn; a Senior External Demographic Expert at the Office of National Statistics, London; a member of the Office of National Statistics National Population Projections Expert Advisory Panel; a member of the Expert Group of the Board of Actuarial Standards; a member of the Advisory Network of the Social Justice Foundation; and a Fellow of the World Demographic Association, St. Gallen, Switzerland. He was a Board Member of the Scottish Parliament’s Positive Ageing Project. For five years, he was the Executive Director of the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics.  

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; a Member of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education; and an Academician and Founding Editorial Board Member of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been a Visiting Professor at DELTA in Paris, Universities of Amsterdam, Naples, Oxford and Stockholm, Nuffield College, Oxford, the RAND Corporation and the University of Southern California. He is a Past-President of the European Society for Population Economics and the Past-President of the Scottish Economics Society. In 2014, he was awarded the Scottish Economic Society’s Adam Smith Medal for contributions to economics in Scotland.

The Technical Stuff

Post 2014 Publications


  • Preston, A. and R.E. Wright. (2019), “Understanding the Gender Gap in Financial Literacy: Evidence from Australia”, Economic Record (https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.12472)


  • Kholmuminov, Sh., S. Kholmuminov and R.E. Wright, (2018) “Resource Dependence Analysis of Public Higher Education Institutions in Uzbekistan, Higher Education, vol. 76, pp. 1-21 


  • Mosca, I. and R.E. Wright, (2018), “The Effect of Retirement on Cognitive Functioning: Evidence from the Abolition of the Marriage Bar in Ireland”, Demography, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 1317-1341


  • Mosca, I. and R.E. Wright, (2016), “Height and Cognition at Older Ages: Irish Evidence”, Economic Letters, vol. 149, pp. 98-101


  • Kahn, M.A. and R.E. Wright, (2015), “Microcredit, Entrepreneurship and Household Outcomes”, Journal of Social Business, vol. 5, no. 2/3, pp. 3-30 


  • Bell, D., A. Findlay and R.E. Wright, (2014), “Migration Policy and Constitutional Change”, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 310-324

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Labour Markets

Econometrics

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