About the Authors

Rolf Aaberge is a Senior Research Fellow (Professor), Research Dept. Statistics Norway and is professor II at ESOP – Centre of Excellence at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He has a Cand. Real degree in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Oslo. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Theory and Decision, Biometrika, Biometrics and Metrika.

Stefan Bach is Research Associate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and lecturer at the University of Potsdam. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Cologne. He has published a number of microsimulation studies on taxation.

Olivier Bargain is Professor of Economics at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics. He is director of the department “Public Intervention and Economic Philosophy” at GREQAM, Marseille, and scientific director of the Institute for Public Economics (Institut d’Economie Publique, IDEP). He was previously Lecturer at University College Dublin (2006–2011) and Researcher at IZA, Bonn (2004–2006). He received his PhD from the Paris School of Economics in 2004.

Irina Burlacu is a PhD Fellow, Public Policy and Policy Analysis, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance of the UNU-Merit.

Hermann Buslei is a Research Associate at the Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin). He has a Masters in Economics from the University of Bonn. He has published “What Are the Consequences of AWG-Projections for the Adequacy of Social Security Pensions.”

Bart Capéau is a Research assistant public economics at the Center for Economic Studies, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven. He has a PhD in Economics, from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Hannah Carter is a health economist at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre at the University of Sydney. She has an Economics degree from the University of Queensland and publishes in the area of health interventions and their economic impacts.

Graham Clarke is Professor of Business Geography at the University of Leeds. He has worked extensively in various areas of GIS and applied spatial modelling, focusing on many applications within urban/social geography. A major research interest has been spatial microsimulation, (especially income, wealth, crime, and health applications). Graham has also been very active in retail geography and retail store location research. A major contribution to research in retail location planning has been to rethink the research agenda on store location in relation to the multi-channel growth strategies of retail organisations.

John Cockburn is a Professor at Laval University, Department of Economics, Quebec, Canada. He was the executive director of the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) until October 2013. He has a PhD in Economics from the Oxford University. He has published Libéralisation Commerciale et Pauvreté en Afrique; Child Welfare in Developing Counties; Trade & Poverty in the Developing World; Reaching the MDGS: An International Perspective; Agricultural Distortions, Inequality and Poverty; Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Asia.

Ugo Colombino is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis,” Torino, Italy. He has a PhD in Economics from the LSE, London. His research interests include Microeconometrics, Choice modelling, Microsimulation, Labour supply, Design and evaluation of tax-benefit systems. He has published on a number of scientific journals such as Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Applies Econometrics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics. He has contributed to collective books focusing on microsimulation, among others: Sutherland, H. et al. (Eds.), Microsimulation Modelling for Policy Analysis: Challenges and Innovations, Cambridge University, 2000 and Harding, A. & Gupta, A. et al. (Eds.), Population Ageing, Social Security and Taxation: Modelling Our Future, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2007.

André Decoster is Full Professor at KU Leuven, Faculty of Business & Economics. He has a PhD in Economics.

Gijs Dekkers is Senior Research Fellow (opdrachthouder) at the Federal Planning Bureau, Belgium, affiliated researcher at CESO, KU Leuven, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg, and lecturer at ADEKUS, Suriname. He is Editor of the International Journal of Microsimulation. He has a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Tilburg. He has published New Pathways in Microsimulation published by Ashgate.

Kimberley Edwards is Course Director Sport and Exercise Medicine, School of Medicine at the University of Nottingham. She has a PhD in spatial epidemiology from the University of Leeds. She has published Spatial Microsimulation: A Handbook for Users, published by Springer.

B. Essama-Nssah is Lead Expert in Policy and Program Evaluation. He worked for the World Bank for 17 years until his retirement in 2011. During his tenure at the World Bank, he performed economic analyses, prepared policy research and technical papers, and conducted an annual training course on evaluating the distributional impact of economy-wide policies for staff from the World Bank and client countries. Prior to joining the World Bank, Essama worked as a Senior Research Associate with the Food and Nutrition Program at Cornell University, and as Head of the Economics Department and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon. He currently works as consultant, focusing on program evaluation and the social impact of public policy. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Ann Harding is Professor of Socio-Economic Modelling, University of Canberra. She has a PhD in Social Policy from the LSE. She has published a number of volumes on microsimulation and is a former President of the International Microsimulation Association.

Thia Hennessy is Head of Department, Agricultural Economics and Farm Surveys, Teagasc. She has a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Reading.

Stephen Hynes is a Lecturer in the lecturer in the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). He is also the Director of the Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit at NUIG. He has a PhD in Economics from the NUIG and University of Stirling.

Jinjing Li is a Research Fellow at the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) at the University of Canberra, and an adjunct Research Fellow at the Maastricht University. He has a PhD in Public Policy from Maastricht University.

Jason Loughrey is Research Officer at the Rural Economy and Development Programme, Teagasc, in Ireland. He has a PhD in Economics from the NUI Galway.

Carl Mason is Director, Demography Computer Laboratory, and Director of Data and Technology for the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging and the Berkeley Population Center at the University of California, Berkeley. He has a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley.

Eric J. Miller Eric is Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Director, Transportation Research Institute at the University of Toronto. He is also Chair of the US Transportation Research Board Travel Behaviour and Values Committee. He has a PhD in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is co-author of “Urban Transportation Planning: A Decision-Oriented Approach” which is currently in its third edition.

Cathal O’Donoghue is Head, Rural Economy and Development Programme, Teagasc, in Ireland and Adjunct Professor at the University of Maastricht. He is President of the International Microsimulation Association. He has a PhD in Social Policy and Statistics from the LSE. He has published Spatial Microsimulation for Rural Policy Analysis with Springer-Verlag.

David Phillips is a Senior Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, and is a graduate of Cambridge University and University College London. Most of David’s work is arranged around the broad themes of poverty, inequality and the tax and benefit system and includes projects both in the United Kingdom and in middle income countries. His recent projects include an evaluation of the EU VAT system for the EU Commission; an analysis of the labour supply effects of the UK government’s tax and benefit reforms; and designing tax and consumption microsimulation models for Mexico and El Salvador. He is a member of the Welsh Government’s Tax Advisory Group and a group tasked with advising World Bank teams on the distributional analysis of taxation and public spending.

James W. Richardson is Regents Professor and Senior Faculty Fellow, AgriLife Research and Co-Director, Agricultural & Food Policy Centre at the Texas A&M University, USA. He has a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Oklahoma State University and has published more than 600 papers and journal articles on farm level policy analysis.

Luc Savard is Full Professor at the Department of Economics, Sherbrooke University, Canada. He has a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics. He has published inter alia “La Politique Économique du Dévelopment et les Modèles d’Équilibre Général Calculable”; “Poverty and Inequality Analysis within a CGE Framework: A Comparative Analysis of the Representative Agent and Microsimulation Approaches”; “Impact Analysis of Electricity reforms in Senegal: A Macro-Micro Analysis”; Impacts de la Libéralisation Commerciale de L’agriculture sur la Pauvreté et la Distribution de Revenus au Sénégal.

Deborah Schofield is Professor of Health Economics at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, School of Public Health at the University of Sydney. She has published extensively in the area of health and its economic impacts on family and government, particularly where the impacts cross several portfolios. She runs a number of research projects covering the relationship between ageing, health and productivity, and the economic impacts of interventions in early life.

Martin Simmler is a Research Associate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).

Denisa Maria Sologon is Research Fellow at CEPS-INSTEAD in Luxembourg, and Assistant Professor at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance. She has a PhD in Public Policy from the PhD, Maastricht University.

Holly Sutherland is a Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex and is Director of EUROMOD. She has published a number of volumes on microsimulation including “Tax and Benefit Policies in the Enlarged Europe: Assessing the Impact with Microsimulation Models” published by Ashgate; “Microsimulation Modelling for Policy Analysis: Challenges and Innovations” published by Cambridge University Press; “The Arithmetic of Tax and Social Security Reform: A User’s Guide to Microsimulation Methods and Analysis” published by Cambridge University Press.

Robert Tanton is a Professor at The National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling in the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Canberra. He has published “Spatial Microsimulation: A Reference Guide for Users” published by Springer.

Luca Tiberti is a Research Fellow at the Université Laval and a Resource Person at the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP). He previously worked for UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. He has a PhD in Development Economics from the University of Florence.