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Gordon Anderson
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Latest papers
What if the expected is not the most likely outcome? Four examples giving pause for thought and reconsideration
Economica · 2026 · first author
Measuring the Long and Healthy Lives of a Nation: the Health, Aging and Gender Nexus
Social Indicators Research · 2025 · first author
Focused Inequality and Wellbeing Measurement for Public Policy Initiatives: Equalizing Opportunity and Levelling Up, A Spanish Example
2025 · first author
Latest funding
- $62,500
Measuring wellbeing in many dimensions
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
- $45,000
Family formation aspects of welfare and poverty measurement
SSHRC · 2007 · Principal investigator
- $82,500
Empirical aspects of polarization and convergence, alienation and cohesion
SSHRC · 2004 · Principal investigator
From the 150 most recent of 169 publications.
What if the expected is not the most likely outcome? Four examples giving pause for thought and reconsideration
Gordon John Anderson
Measuring the Long and Healthy Lives of a Nation: the Health, Aging and Gender Nexus
Gordon John Anderson, Tongtong Hao
Focused Inequality and Wellbeing Measurement for Public Policy Initiatives: Equalizing Opportunity and Levelling Up, A Spanish Example
Gordon John Anderson
Equal Opportunity Sensitive Aggregate Wellbeing Measurement: Food Security and Basic Household Income on Sub‐Sahara African Farms
Gordon John Anderson, Ana Manero, Henning Bjørnlund
Human Resource Investment and Early-Stage Career Choice: Evaluating Work–Life Income Paths in 21st-Century Canada
Gordon John Anderson
Inequality of Opportunity and the Probability of Being Very Rich or Very Poor
Alessio Rebechi, Nicholas Rohde, Gordon John Anderson
Efficiency analysis and poverty measurement
Gordon John Anderson
On Measuring ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Income Inequality
Gordon John Anderson
A Coefficient of Variation for Ordered Categorical Data
Gordon John Anderson
A coefficient of variation for ordered categorical data: Analyzing relative health inequality and ageing in the UK and relative human resource inequality and gender in Canada
Gordon John Anderson
Measuring wellbeing in many dimensions
Principal investigators: Anderson, Gordon J.
Keywords: multidimensional wellbeing; statistical analysis
Family formation aspects of welfare and poverty measurement
Principal investigators: Anderson, Gordon J.
Keywords: economic wellbeing; poverty; mobility; family formation; lifecycle profiles
Empirical aspects of polarization and convergence, alienation and cohesion
Principal investigators: Anderson, Gordon J.
Keywords: polarization; inequality; poverty; alienation; empirical analysis; statistical inference
Polarization, inequality and poverty
Principal investigators: Anderson, Gordon
Keywords: Polarisation; inequality; poverty; economic growth; social welfare; stastical inference
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke, Brain Canada and the New Frontiers in Research Fund.
Frequent collaborators
- Rui Fu and Gordon Anderson: 3 shared papers
- Dwayne Benjamin and Gordon Anderson: 1 shared paper
- Department of Economics
- Other
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