SHEPLEY WILLIAM ORR
PERSONAL DETAILS
DoB15-9-1969Marital StatusMarried
ChildrenOne daughter (1 year old)
Address155a Kyverdale RoadTelephone07890 121588
London, N16 6PSEmail
Nationality: U.S.A./U.K.
Website
EDUCATION
Oct. 1997-Department of Sociology, OxfordUniversity (BalliolCollege).
Oct. 2001D.Phil., Thesis submitted and Viva Sept. 2008
1988-1992Vassar College, Department of Psychology, Poughkeepsie, NY.
BA (honours) in Psychology.
PRESENT APPOINTMENT
Nov., 2004-Senior Research Fellow, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic
present Engingeering, UniversityCollege London.
July, 2008-Fellow and Steering Committee Member, Centre for Philosophy,
PresentJustice and Health,UniversityCollegeLondon
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENT
Oct., 2001-Senior Research Fellow, Department of Economics, and Centre for Social and
Oct. 2004EconomicResearch into the Global Environment (CSERGE), University of East Anglia.
RESEARCH
Publications:
Orr, S.W. ‘The Economics of Shame in Work Groups: How Mutual Monitoring can Decrease Cooperation in Teams.’ Kyklos, 54(1): 49-66. (2001)
Orr, S.W. “Values, Preferences, and the Citizen-Consumer Distinction in Cost-Benefit Analysis”
Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 6: 107-130. (2007)
Orr, S.W. and G. Wollner. “Does Population Ethics Rest on a Mistake? A Critical Review of John Broome’s Weighing Lives”, commissioned by Economica.
Orr, S.W.. “Social Approval as a Selective Incentive and a Collective Good: The Role of Normative Motivation” Provisionally accepted by Rationality and Society
Loomes, G., S.W. Orr, and R. Sugden.“Preference Uncertainty and Status Quo Effects in Consumer Choice”. Provisionally accepted by Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.
Publicationssubmitted or in preparation:
Orr, S.W. “Social Exclusion and the Theory of Equality: The Priority of Welfare and Fairness in Policy”. Working paper for the Accessibility and User Needs in Transport Project in 2005, available at: Submitted to International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.
Loomes, G., S.W. Orr and R. Sugden. “Individual Characteristics, Risk Taking, and Anomalies.” Drafted for and presented at the meetings of the Economic Science Association (Amsterdam, 2004). (in preparation)
Orr, S.W. and S.J. Edwards. “Anomalies in Eliciting Citizen Preferences in the Contingent Valuation Method: A Methodological Review”. Invited contribution to book on Anomalies in Stated Preference Methods in 2006. Book project now cancelled, and to be submitted to Environmental and Resource Economics.
Orr, S.W. “Sufficiency of Resources and Political Morality”Working paper for the Accessibility and User Needs in Transport Project 2006, available at: Currently redrafting for publication.
Orr, S.W. “Resolute Choice and Instrumental Rationality”.Project report, prepared for and presented at the University of East Anglia Economics and Philosophy seminar by invitation in 2004, as part of the Centre for Social and Economic Research into the Global Environment (CSERGE). Currently redrafting for publication.
Edwards, S.J., S.W. Orr, and J. Wolff.. “Preference, Capability and Experience” in preparation.
Orr, S.W. and G. Wester.. “Complex Equality and the Special Status of Health Care” in preparation.
Books in Preparation
Political Philosophy and Taxation, co-edited with Martin O’Neill.
Government Consultation Work
Feb, 2008Commissioned to produce a report on the use of economic methods in the valuation of life and health for the Interdepartmental Group on the Valuation of Life and Health (IGVLH), a consortium of 14 government agencies which use cost-benefit or cost-effectiveness analysis in determining and implementing policy (with Madeleine Heyenhjelm and Jonathan Wolff).
Current Grant Applications
Medical Research Council.Submitted under the methodology funding stream of the, Co-investigator with
Richard Cookson, Joan Costa-Font, and Adam Oliver. Total Grant Cost: £757,267; 5% of salary for
£15,670. Awaiting decision.
ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE
May, 2008-Co-coordinator (with Jolene Skordis) of the Health Economics Network of
presentUniversity College London
Nov., 2004-Co-Organizer (with Adam Oliver) of the Preference Elicitation Group. Organized
Feb., 2007 through the auspices of the LSE Department of Health and Social Care and funded by an ESRC grant. Themes of events have included: Other-Regarding Behaviour in the Contingent Valuation Method in Health; Rationales and Rationality in the Elicitation of Preference; Responding to Anomalies in the Stated Preference Studies; Symposium on John Broome’s Weighing Lives; Preference Elicitation in Context: Approaches to Measuring Health and Health Risk; Political Philosophy and Taxation