▪️Full name: Sir Richard William Blundell (1952)
🏫Education:
B.Sc. in Economics with Statistics (University of Bristol)
M.S. in Econometrics and Math Econ (LSE)
▪️Position:
David Ricardo Chair of Political Economy, University College London (1984-Present)
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Fiscal Studies (2022-Present)
Associate Faculty Member, TSE, Toulouse (2017-Present)
CEPR Research Fellow (2006-Present)
IZA Research Fellow (1999-Present)
▪️Field: Political Economy, Public Policy, Econometrics, Microeconomics, Labour Economics
📝Top 3 Papers:
Initial conditions and moment restrictions in dynamic panel data models (Journal of Econometrics)
Competition and innovation: An inverted-U relationship (The Quarterly Journal of Economics)
GMM estimation with persistent panel data: an application to production functions (Econometric Reviews)
🎧Podcast:
Inequality and creative destruction (VoxTalks Economics)
Tackling inequalities in adolescence and working life (DIAL)
📽Presentation:
WES2022 | Professor Sir Richard Blundell (Warwick Economics Summit)
Facts About Taxes: Richard Blundell (Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago)
Inequality, Insurance and Family Labor Supply (Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago)
👩🎓Famous Students:
Costas Meghir (Yale Univeristy)
John Van Reenen (LSE)
Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University)
🏆Honors & Awards:
Jacob Mincer Prize, SOLE (2020)
ONS 2020 Research Excellence Award (2020)
Honorary Doctorate, University of Bristol, Bristol (2017)
Nemmers Prize in Economics (2016)
Knighthood: New Years Honors List (2014)
IZA Prize in Labor Economics (2012)
Honorary Doctorate, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway (2011)
Honorary Member of the American Economic Association (2001)
Frisch Prize, Econometric Society (2000)
📚Top Books:
Labor supply: A review of alternative approaches (Handbook of labor economics, Elsevier)
Lawlessness and economics: Alternative modes of governance (Princeton University Press)
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