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/).

Selected publications:

Books

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

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

Articles

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

John Ermisch and Diego Gambetta. 2010. Do strong family ties inhibit trust? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 75, pp. 365–376.

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

Michele Belot and John Ermisch. 2009. Friendship ties and geographic mobility: evidence from Great Britain, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, Vol. 172, pp. 427-444.

John Ermisch. 2009. The rising share of non-marital births: is it only compositional effects? Demography, Vol. 46, pp. 193-202.

John Ermisch and Chiara Pronzato. 2008. Intra-household allocation of resources: inferences from non-resident fathers’ child support payments, The Economic Journal, Vol. 118, pp. 347-362.

John Ermisch. 2008. Child support and non-resident fathers’ contact with their children, Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 21, pp. 827-853.

John Ermisch, Marco Francesconi and Thomas Siedler. 2006. Intergenerational economic mobility and assortative mating, The Economic Journal, Vol. 116. pp 659-679.