Tim Hatton is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Essex and at the Australian National University. He has published widely on the causes and effects of international migration, refugees and asylum policy in Europe. He has also published a series of papers on health and heights in Britain and Europe since the late nineteenth century. His current interests are in international migration in the nineteenth century, emigrant ships and their voyages.
Tim Hatton is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK), and a Research Fellow of the CEPR (London), CREaM (London) and the IZA (Bonn). He was founding editor of European Review of Economic History, published by Cambridge University Press (1994-8), President of the European Society for Population Economics (2010) and founding director of the ANU’s Centre for Economic History (2012-). In 2012 he was awarded the prestigious ‘Clio Clan’ by the Cliometric Society (US) for services to economic history.