Research Team

Martin Wall, PhD (London School of Economics)

Martin Wall joined SHORE in September 2008 from the University of East London in The UK. Martin was part of a team designing and implementing a large programme of complex interventions in London’s most deprived communities to improve diet, physical activity and mental wellbeing and provide evidence on effective policies to address persistent health inequalities. He was trained as an economist and econometrician receiving his PhD at the London School of Economics and his research interests are in the fields of economic development and the social, economic and environmental determinants of health outcomes. In recent years he worked on a study based at Imperial College in London on the economic impacts of the HIV epidemic in Russia and has carried out street surveys of sex workers and drug injectors in Russia. He also worked as an economic adviser to the British Government on its technical assistance to the countries of the Former Soviet Union. He has developed a number of statistical models for policy makers including the energy demand models used to inform the UK Government’s position at the Kyoto climate change talks in 1997, a Balance of Payments forecasting model for the Central Bank of Botswana and a revenue forecasting for the Ministry of Finance in Azerbaijan.

Publications:

Peer-reviewed

Wall, M., Schmidt, E., Sarang, A., Atun, R., & Renton, A. (2011). Sex, drugs and economic behaviour in Russia: a study of socio-economic characteristics of high risk populations. International Journal of Drug Policy, 22(2), 133-139.

Tkatchenko-Schmidt, E., Atun, R., Wall, M., Tobi, P., Schmidt, J., & Renton, A. (2010). Why do health systems matter? Exploring links between health systems and HIV response: a case study from Russia. Health Policy and Planning, 25(4), 283-291.

Wall, M., Hayes, R., Moore, D., Petticrew, M., Clow, A., Schmidt, E., Draper, A., Lock, K., Lynch, R. & Renton, A. (2009) Evaluation of community level interventions to address social and structural determinants of health: a cluster randomised controlled trial. BMZ Public Health, 9, 11

Millett, C., Gray, J., Wall, M. & Majeed, A. (2009) Ethnic Disparities in Coronary Heart Disease Management and Pay for Performance in the UK. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 24, 8-13.

Wall, M. & Johnston, D. (2008) Counting Heads or Counting Televisions: Can Asset-based Measures of Welfare Assist Policy-makers in Russia? Journal of Human Development, 9, 131-147.

Platt, L., Wall, M., Rhodes, T., Judd, A., Hickman, M., Johnston, L., Renton, A., Bobrova, N. & Sarang, A. (2006) ‘Methods to recruit hard-to-reach groups: Comparing two chain referral sampling methods of recruiting injecting drug users (IDU) across nine studies in Russia and Estonia’, Journal of Urban Public Health 83; supp7:39-53

Wall, M., Tkatchenko- Schmidt, E. & Renton, AM (2006) ‘Sexual Behaviour in Russia: Who exhibits a greater risk?’ International Journal of STD and AIDS 17 (11): 759-763

Nickell, S., Wadhwani, S. & Wall, M. (1992) Productivity Growth In United-Kingdom Companies, 1975-1986. European Economic Review, 36, 1055-1085.

Wadhwani, S. and Wall, M. (1991) 'A Direct Test of the Efficiency Wage Model using UK Micro-Data', Oxford Economic Papers, October, 43(4), pp 529-48.

Wadhwani, S. and Wall, M. (1990) ‘The Effects of Profit Sharing on Employment, Wages, Stock Returns and Productivity: Evidence from Micro-Data', Economic Journal, Vol. 100, March, pp 1-17.

Wadhwani, S. and Wall, M. (1986) 'The UK Capital Stock: New Estimates of Premature Scrapping', Oxford Review of Economic Policy Vol 2, August, pp 44-55.

Conference Presentations

Wall, M. & Renton, AM ‘Factors Associated with Hospitalisation in Russia’, (2005) Paper presented to Social Policy Association conference, Bath, UK

Robinson, H. & Wall, M ‘From Russia with Love: Contraceptive choice in Russia and the UK’ (2004) presented at European Society of Population Economists conference Bergen, Norway

Working papers and papers currently submitted

Wall, M., Tkatchenko-Schmidt, E., ASarang, A., RAtun, R., Renton, AM.(2009) ‘Sex, drugs and economic behaviour in Russia: a study of socio-economic characteristics of high risk populations’ (Submitted to International Journal of Drug Policy under review)

Wall, M. & Atun, RA (2007) ‘Length of Stay in Russian Hospitals: Evidence from a seven year panel data set’ Working paper

Renton, AM & Wall, M (2005) ‘Economic Growth and decline in mortality in developing countries: an analysis of the World Bank Development Datasets’  Institute of Health and Human Development Working Paper

Wall, M. (2003) ‘Estimating the Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS on the countries of the Former Soviet Union’. ESAU Working Paper no. 1. Overseas Development Institute

Wadhwani, S. and Wall, M. (1989) 'The effects of Unions on Corporate Investment: Evidence from Company Accounts Data', London School of Economics, Centre for Labour Economics, Discussion Paper no. 354.

Minford, M., Wall, M. and Wren-Lewis, S. (1988) 'Manufacturing Capacity: A Measure Derived from Survey Data Using the Kalman Filter', National Institute of Economic and Social Research Working Paper no. 146.

Ph.D. Thesis title: 'Productivity, profit sharing and the capital stock in UK manufacturing firms 1973-86: a micro-data study'