James Rockey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1235733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Rockey |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Rockey |
| SIGNATURE | ROCKEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2313-5544 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sickness absence in the working age population
Economic inactivity rate in the UK reached 22.2% in 2024, driven largely by increased long-term sickness, and exceeds those reported in comparable high-income countries. Sickness absence remains a major challenge, imposing substantial costs on individuals and society. This study aimed to assess sickness absence rates and associated economic output losses in primary care for working-age adults in England. This was a population-based retrospective …
Generative AI and the social functions of educational assessment
This paper examines the transformative potential of Generative AI (GenAI), particularly large language models such as ChatGPT, for the social functions of educational assessment. Using Patricia Broadfoot’s ‘four Cs’ framework – competence, competition, content, and control – the analysis considers how GenAI may enhance or challenge these traditional roles. Two additional ‘C’s are introduced: ‘credibility’, concerning the authenticity of learner p…
In the grip of Whitehall? The effects of party control on local fiscal policy in England
This paper uses an instrumental variable approach based on close elections to evaluate the effects of political parties on local fiscal policy in England from 1998 to 2015. Our main finding is that when we condition on the central government grant, political control of the council by Labour or Conservative parties has no effect on total service expenditure, the composition of that expenditure, and the property tax rate (council tax per band D pro…
Remote working and the new geography of local service spending
Remote working has rapidly become the new norm in many sectors, at least some of the time. Remote working changes where workers spend much of their time and the geographical location of demand, particularly for local personal services (LPS). Our main contribution is to systematically quantify this change for England and Wales using a new nationally representative survey of nearly 35,000 working‐age adults, which captures (pre‐pandemic) LPS spendi…
Inequality in an Equal Society
A society in which everybody of a given age has the same income will exhibit substantial income and wealth inequality. We use this idea to empirically quantify inter‐cohort inequality – the share of observed inequality attributable to life‐cycle profiles of income and wealth – using data on male earnings and household wealth. We document that recent increases in income and wealth inequality in the USA and other developed countries are larger than…
Dirty looks
Expressive voting with booing and cheering
The Wounds That Do Not Heal
This paper uses UK administrative data to study the long‐term effects of unemployment on earnings. It is the first paper to pinpoint accurately the relative importance of the timing of employment shocks within workers’ lives. We find a strong effect of events in the first few years after entry into the labour market: each month of unemployment between ages 18 and 20 causes a permanent income loss of 1.2% per year. This scar effect of youth unempl…
Active exploration of faces in police lineups increases discrimination accuracy
Eyewitness identifications play a key role in the justice system, but eyewitnesses can make errors, often with profound consequences. We used findings from basic science and innovative technologies to develop and test whether a novel interactive lineup procedure, wherein witnesses can rotate and dynamically view the lineup faces from different angles, improves witness discrimination accuracy compared with a widely used procedure in laboratories a…
Performance of typical and superior face recognizers on a novel interactive face matching procedure
Unfamiliar simultaneous face matching is error prone. Reducing incorrect identification decisions will positively benefit forensic and security contexts. The absence of view-independent information in static images likely contributes to the difficulty of unfamiliar face matching. We tested whether a novel interactive viewing procedure that provides the user with 3D structural information as they rotate a facial image to different orientations wou…
When two tribes go to work
Negative Voters? Electoral Competition with Loss-Aversion
This paper studies the effect of voter loss aversion in preferences over both candidate policy platforms and candidate valence on electoral competition. Loss-aversion over platforms leads to both platform rigidity and reduced platform polarisation, whereas loss-aversion over valence results in increased polarisation and the possibility of asymmetric equilibria with a self-fulfilling (dis)-advantage for the incumbent. The results are robust to a s…
Ideology and the size of US state government
Women's behavioural engagement with a masculine male heightens during the fertile window
Ideology and the Growth of Government
We analyze the impact of ideology on the size of government. In a simple model, the government sets redistribution and provision of public services according to the preferences of the median voter. Ideology is defined in terms of preferences for public services, and the impact of ideology on the size of government is shown to increase with mean income. This idea is tested using measures of ideology based on party manifestos. We show that the inte…
Negative Voters? Electoral Competition with Loss-Aversion
This paper studies the effect of voter loss aversion in preferences over both candidate policy platforms and candidate valence on electoral competition. Loss-aversion over platforms leads to both platform rigidity and reduced platform polarisation, whereas loss-aversion over valence results in increased polarisation and the possibility of asymmetric equilibria with a self-fulfilling (dis)-advantage for the incumbent. The results are robust to a s…
Ideology and the size of US state government
The Wounds That Do Not Heal
This paper uses UK administrative data to study the long‐term effects of unemployment on earnings. It is the first paper to pinpoint accurately the relative importance of the timing of employment shocks within workers’ lives. We find a strong effect of events in the first few years after entry into the labour market: each month of unemployment between ages 18 and 20 causes a permanent income loss of 1.2% per year. This scar effect of youth unempl…
Performance of typical and superior face recognizers on a novel interactive face matching procedure
Unfamiliar simultaneous face matching is error prone. Reducing incorrect identification decisions will positively benefit forensic and security contexts. The absence of view-independent information in static images likely contributes to the difficulty of unfamiliar face matching. We tested whether a novel interactive viewing procedure that provides the user with 3D structural information as they rotate a facial image to different orientations wou…
Ideology and the Growth of Government
We analyze the impact of ideology on the size of government. In a simple model, the government sets redistribution and provision of public services according to the preferences of the median voter. Ideology is defined in terms of preferences for public services, and the impact of ideology on the size of government is shown to increase with mean income. This idea is tested using measures of ideology based on party manifestos. We show that the inte…
Women's behavioural engagement with a masculine male heightens during the fertile window
Ideology and the size of US state government
When two tribes go to work
Negative Voters? Electoral Competition with Loss-Aversion
This paper studies the effect of voter loss aversion in preferences over both candidate policy platforms and candidate valence on electoral competition. Loss-aversion over platforms leads to both platform rigidity and reduced platform polarisation, whereas loss-aversion over valence results in increased polarisation and the possibility of asymmetric equilibria with a self-fulfilling (dis)-advantage for the incumbent. The results are robust to a s…
Expressive voting with booing and cheering
The Wounds That Do Not Heal
This paper uses UK administrative data to study the long‐term effects of unemployment on earnings. It is the first paper to pinpoint accurately the relative importance of the timing of employment shocks within workers’ lives. We find a strong effect of events in the first few years after entry into the labour market: each month of unemployment between ages 18 and 20 causes a permanent income loss of 1.2% per year. This scar effect of youth unempl…
Active exploration of faces in police lineups increases discrimination accuracy
Eyewitness identifications play a key role in the justice system, but eyewitnesses can make errors, often with profound consequences. We used findings from basic science and innovative technologies to develop and test whether a novel interactive lineup procedure, wherein witnesses can rotate and dynamically view the lineup faces from different angles, improves witness discrimination accuracy compared with a widely used procedure in laboratories a…
Performance of typical and superior face recognizers on a novel interactive face matching procedure
Unfamiliar simultaneous face matching is error prone. Reducing incorrect identification decisions will positively benefit forensic and security contexts. The absence of view-independent information in static images likely contributes to the difficulty of unfamiliar face matching. We tested whether a novel interactive viewing procedure that provides the user with 3D structural information as they rotate a facial image to different orientations wou…
Dirty looks
Inequality in an Equal Society
A society in which everybody of a given age has the same income will exhibit substantial income and wealth inequality. We use this idea to empirically quantify inter‐cohort inequality – the share of observed inequality attributable to life‐cycle profiles of income and wealth – using data on male earnings and household wealth. We document that recent increases in income and wealth inequality in the USA and other developed countries are larger than…
Generative AI and the social functions of educational assessment
This paper examines the transformative potential of Generative AI (GenAI), particularly large language models such as ChatGPT, for the social functions of educational assessment. Using Patricia Broadfoot’s ‘four Cs’ framework – competence, competition, content, and control – the analysis considers how GenAI may enhance or challenge these traditional roles. Two additional ‘C’s are introduced: ‘credibility’, concerning the authenticity of learner p…
In the grip of Whitehall? The effects of party control on local fiscal policy in England
This paper uses an instrumental variable approach based on close elections to evaluate the effects of political parties on local fiscal policy in England from 1998 to 2015. Our main finding is that when we condition on the central government grant, political control of the council by Labour or Conservative parties has no effect on total service expenditure, the composition of that expenditure, and the property tax rate (council tax per band D pro…
Remote working and the new geography of local service spending
Remote working has rapidly become the new norm in many sectors, at least some of the time. Remote working changes where workers spend much of their time and the geographical location of demand, particularly for local personal services (LPS). Our main contribution is to systematically quantify this change for England and Wales using a new nationally representative survey of nearly 35,000 working‐age adults, which captures (pre‐pandemic) LPS spendi…
Sickness absence in the working age population
Economic inactivity rate in the UK reached 22.2% in 2024, driven largely by increased long-term sickness, and exceeds those reported in comparable high-income countries. Sickness absence remains a major challenge, imposing substantial costs on individuals and society. This study aimed to assess sickness absence rates and associated economic output losses in primary care for working-age adults in England. This was a population-based retrospective …
Economics (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (3 works)