Academic Background
My research interests are in the economic, health and social policy implications of individual and population ageing with a particular focus on financial provision for later life and provision for long-term care needs.
Career Summary
My academic career builds on 10 years as a government economist in the (then) Department of Health and Social Security and a period in economic consultancy.
Academic career history:
April 1996 – Sep. 1998 Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Gerontology, King’s College London
Oct 1998 – May 2004 Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, then Director and from April 2003, Professor of Economic and Social Gerontology, Nuffield Community Care Studies Unit, Dept of Health Sciences, University of Leicester
June 2004 – Dec 2007 Professor of non-clinical Gerontology, Dept of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex (from April 2005 this included being Director of the East of England Research Design and Support Unit)
Jan 2008 – date Professor of the Economics of Health and Welfare, Health Economics Group, Norwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia
Further details can be found on the Health Economics Group website
All Publications
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(2015)
Disability Costs and Equivalence Scales in the Older Population in Great Britain
in Review of Income and Wealth
61.
pp. 494–514
Full Text UEA Repository(Article)
(2015)
Do household surveys give a coherent view of disability benefit targeting? A multi-survey latent variable analysis for the older population in Great Britain
in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)
178.
pp. 815-836
Full Text UEA Repository(Article)
(2015)
Birth-cohort trends in older-age functional disability and their relationship with socio-economic status: Evidence from a pooling of repeated cross-sectional population-based studies for the UK
in Social Science & Medicine
136-137.
pp. 1-9
Full Text UEA Repository(Article)
(2014)
Assessing the distributional impact of reforms to disability benefits for older people in the UK: implications of alternative measures of income and disability costs
in Ageing and Society
34.
pp. 232-257
Full Text UEA Repository(Article)
(2013)
The role of care home fees in the public costs and distributional effects of potential reforms to care home funding for older people in England
in Health Economics, Policy and Law
8.
pp. 47-73
Full Text UEA Repository(Article)
(2013)
Disability and care needs in the older population: disability benefits, social care and well-being
(Poster)
(2013)
Do household surveys give a coherent view of disability benefit targeting? A multi-survey latent variable analysis for the older population in Great Britain
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(2012)
Methods used to identify and measure resource use in economic evaluations: a systematic review of questionnaires for older people
in Health Economics
21.
pp. 1017-1022
Full Text UEA Repository(Article)
(2012)
Social Care
NHS
UEA Repository(Chapter)
(2012)
Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance claimants in the older population: is there a difference in their economic circumstances?
in Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
20.
pp. 191-206
Full Text UEA Repository(Article)
(2011)
The effect of lengthening Life Expectancy on future pension and Long-Term Care expenditure in England, 2007 to 2032
in Health Statistics Quarterly
pp. 33-61
Full Text UEA Repository(Article)
(2011)
Is there a wealth dividend of aging societies?
in Public Health Reviews
32.
pp. 377-400
UEA Repository(Article)
(2011)
Projections of Demand for and Costs of Social Care for Older People in England, 2010 to 2030, under Current and Alternative Funding Systems.
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(2010)
Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance claimants in the older population:Is there a difference in their economic circumstances?
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(2010)
Memorandum by the MAP2030 Research Group (SC 55) in House of Commons Health Committee Social Care Third Report of Session 2009–10 Volume II Oral and written evidence
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(2010)
Memorandum by the Universities of Essex and East Anglia (SC52) in House of Commons Health Committee Social Care Third Report of Session 2009–10 Volume II Oral and written evidence
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(2010)
Is there a wealth dividend of aging societies
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(2010)
Estimating the impact of a policy reform on benefit take-up: the 2001 extension to the Minimum Income Guarantee for pensioners
in Economica
77.
pp. 234-254
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(2009)
Cognitive testing of social care questions for people aged 65 and over
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(2009)
Developing social care questions: findings from qualitative research with service providers ad service users
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Key Research Interests
My research interests are in the economic, health and social policy implications of individual and population ageing with a particular focus on financial provision for later life and provision for long-term care needs. These interests are pursued mainly through the analysis of large-scale household survey data and the use of micro simulation techniques to model policy reform options. I have developed and maintain a dynamic microsimulation model of long-term care.
Further details can be found on the Health Economics Group website
Highlighted Publications
Morciano, M., Hancock, R. and Pudney S (2014) ‘Disability costs and equivalence scales in the older population’ Review of Income and Wealth DOI:
10.1111/roiw.12108
Hancock, R. and Pudney S. (2014) ‘The distributional implications of reforms to disability benefits for older people in the UK’ Ageing and Society 34(2) 232-257
Hancock R., Malley J., Wittenberg R., Morciano M, Pickard L., King D and Comas-Herrera A. (2013) The role of care home fees in the public costs and distributional effects of potential reforms to care home funding for older people in England. Health Economics Policy and Law 8(1) 47-73
Hancock R., Morciano M. and Pudney S. (2012) ‘Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance claimants in the older population: is there a difference in their economic circumstances?’ Journal of Poverty and Social Justice 20 (2), 191-206
Zantomio, F., Pudney, S. and Hancock R. (2010) Estimating the impact of a policy reform on benefit take-up: the 2001 extension to the Minimum Income Guarantee for pensioners Economica 77, 234–254
Berthoud R., Blekesaune M. and Hancock R. (2009) Ageing, income and living standards: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey. Ageing and Society. 29 (7), 1105-1122.
Research Keywords
Economics of ageing
Long-term care financing
Microsimulation
Disability benefits for older people
Postgraduate Research Student Supervision
Economics of ageing
Long-term care financing
Microsimulation
Disability benefits for older people
Enterprise and Engagement Activities
Commissioned by the Dilnot Commission on Funding Care and Support to provide estimates of the cost of potential reforms to the system of funding long-term care for older people (2011)
External Activities and Indicators of Esteem
- Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute (2001 onwards)
- Member of the Advisory Group for the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2006 onwards)
- Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee (2003, 2004, 2006, 2009)
- Member of Academic Panel for Dilnot Commission on Funding Care and Support (2010-2011)
- Member of Department of Health advisory group for the Economics of Social and Health Care Research Unit (2012 onwards)
- Scientific Adviser ESRC extending working lives project "Well-being, health, retirement and the life course (WHERL) (2014 onwards) http://wherl.ac.uk/
Administrative Posts
- Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (until 30 November 2013)