Prof John Ermisch, FBA

Professor of Family Demography

Phone Number:  01865 281740 (Dept Reception)
E-mail:  john.ermisch [AT] sociology.ox.ac.uk

Introduction

In broad terms, John Ermisch’s research is concerned with the structure and dynamics of families and their interaction with wider society. His recent research has studied the allocation of resources within the family, the transmission of advantage across generations, parenting and early child development, non-marital childbearing, the interaction of child support and non-resident fathers’ contact with their children and the impact of family ties on trust in strangers. Currently he is studying the intergenerational exchange of support and the interaction between housing transitions and fertility (see http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/research/housing/).

Publications

Books

From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage
John Ermisch, Markus Jantti and Tim Smeeding,2012
New York: Russell Sage Foundation

An Economic Analysis of the Family
John Ermisch 2003
Princeton University Press

Articles

Intrafamily Resource Allocations: A Dynamic Structural Model of Birth Weight
Emilia Del Bono, John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi, 2012
Journal of Labor Economics

Do Strong Family Ties Inhibit Trust?
John Ermisch and Diego Gambetta, 2010
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 75, pp. 365–376

Measuring People’s Trust
John Ermisch, Diego Gambetta, Heather Laurie, Thomas Siedler and SC Noah Uhrig,2009
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, volume 172, pp. 749-769

Friendship Ties and Geographic Mobility: Evidence from Great Britain
Michele Belot and John Ermisch,2009
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, Vol. 172, pp. 427-444

The Rising share of Non-marital Births: Is It Only Compositional Effects?
John Ermisch,2009
Demography, Vol. 46, pp. 193-202

Intra-household Allocation of Resources: Inferences From Non-resident Fathers’ Child Support Payments
John Ermisch and Chiara Pronzato,2008
The Economic Journal, Vol. 118, pp. 347-362

Child Support and Non-resident Fathers’ Contact With Their Children
John Ermisch,2008
Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 21, pp. 827-853.

Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating
John Ermisch, Marco Francesconi and Thomas Siedler,2006
The Economic Journal, Vol. 116. pp 659-679