Orazio Attanasio

Short description: Italian economist

Orazio Attanasio

Born|  (1959-10-31) 31 October 1959 (age 66)

Naples, Italy

Citizenship| Italy
United Kingdom
Institution| University College London
Institute for Fiscal Studies
University of Bologna
Stanford University
Alma mater| University of Bologna
London School of Economics and Political Science
Doctoral
advisor| James Davidson[1]
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Orazio Attanasio (born 31 October 1959, in Naples) is an Italian economist and the Cowles Professor of Economics at Yale University. He was the Jeremy Bentham Chair of Economics at University College London. He graduated from the University of Bologna in 1982 and London School of Economics in 1988. He then went to teach at Stanford and was a National Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a visiting professor at the University of Chicago before arriving at University College London in 1995.[2] While in London, he was also a research co-director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in London, director and founder of the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and a director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy.[2] He moved to Yale in 2019.

In 2001 Attanasio was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and in 2004 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy. He was also elected to be president of the European Economic Association in 2014.[2]. In 2017 he was elected second vice president of the Econometric Society, and served as its President in 2020.

In October 2016, Attanasio won the 1 million Swiss francs Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize for his "use of economic models and field experiments to assess and shape early child development programs and policies in low income countries".[3]

In 2016 Attanasio was also awarded the Carlos Diaz Alejandro prize by the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association and in 2017 he was elected to serve in 2020 as the 2nd vice-president of the Econometric Society.[2]

Attanasio's research focuses include household consumption, saving and labour supply, human capital accumulation, and micro credit, among others.[2] He has also served as managing editor of The Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of the European Economic Association, and Quantitative Economics.[2] In 2004, Attanasio co-authored an IFS evaluation of an initiative which was designed to improve the lives of children in small Colombian towns and villages by paying their mothers to improve their children's food intake; in return, younger children had to have regular medical check-ups and older ones were required to attend school regularly. Begun in 2002, and funded by both the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, the project had examined how funds to alleviate poverty and promote development should be targeted. Early results were positive, showing both an increase in the number of children going to school and those enjoying improved diets. Attanasio said, "This evaluation is important, not just for Colombia, but to help us understand how developing countries can best target valuable resources to improve the prospects for their poorest children."[4]

## Publication

* . (with S. Rohwedder)"Pension Wealth and Household Saving: Evidence from Pension Reforms in the United Kingdom". American Economic Review 93 (5): 1499–1521. December 2003. doi:10.1257/000282803322655419.

## References

1. ↑ cv
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Bio – Orazio Attanasio" (in en-GB). http://www.orazioattanasio.org/biography/.
3. ↑ "UCL economist receives Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize: Press release". Science Business Publishing Ltd.. 13 October 2016. http://sciencebusiness.net/news/79956/UCL-economist-receives-Klaus-J.-Jacobs-Research-Prize.
4. ↑ Kirby, Alex (21 January 2004). "Poorest paid to feed their young". https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3406843.stm.

## External links

* Homepage at UCL
* Interview on BOLD (Blog on Learning and Development)
* Orazio Attanasio appointed as Jeremy Bentham Chair of Economics

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Presidents of the European Economic Association

1986–2000|

* Jacques Drèze (1986)
* János Kornai (1987)
* Edmond Malinvaud (1988)
* Anthony Atkinson (1989)
* Agnar Sandmo (1990)
* Assar Lindbeck (1991)
* Martin Hellwig (1992)
* Mervyn King (1993)
* Roger Guesnerie (1994)
* Louis Philps (1995)
* David Newbery (1996)
* Reinhard Selten (1997)
* Jean-Jacques Laffont (1998)
* Partha Dasgupta (1999)
* James A. Mirrlees (2000)

2001–present|

* Jean Tirole (2001)
* J. Peter Neary (2002)
* Torsten Persson (2003)
* Richard Blundell (2004)
* Mathias Dewatripont (2005)
* Andreu Mas-Colell (2006)
* Guido Tabellini (2007)
* Ernst Fehr (2008)
* Nicholas Stern (2009)
* Timothy Besley (2010)
* Christopher Pissarides (2011)
* Jordi Galí (2012)
* Manuel Arellano (2013)
* Orazio Attanasio (2014)
* Rachel Griffith (2015)
* Fabrizio Zilibotti (2016)
* Philippe Aghion (2017)
* Eliana La Ferrara (2018)

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Presidents of the Econometric Society

1931–1950|

* Irving Fisher (1931–1934)
* François Divisia (1935)
* Harold Hotelling (1936–1937)
* Arthur Bowley (1938–1939)
* Joseph Schumpeter (1940–1941)
* Wesley Mitchell (1942–1943)
* John Maynard Keynes (1944–1945)
* Jacob Marschak (1946)
* Jan Tinbergen (1947)
* Charles Roos (1948)
* Ragnar Frisch (1949)
* Tjalling Koopmans (1950)

1951–1975|

* R. G. D. Allen (1951)
* Paul Samuelson (1952)
* René Roy (1953)
* Wassily Leontief (1954)
* Richard Stone (1955)
* Kenneth Arrow (1956)
* Trygve Haavelmo (1957)
* James Tobin (1958)
* Marcel Boiteux [fr; fr] (1959)
* Lawrence Klein (1960)
* Henri Theil (1961)
* Franco Modigliani (1962)
* Edmond Malinvaud (1963)
* Robert Solow (1964)
* Michio Morishima (1965)
* Herman Wold (1966)
* Hendrik Houthakker (1967)
* Frank Hahn (1968)
* Leonid Hurwicz (1969)
* Jacques Drèze (1970)
* Gérard Debreu (1971)
* W. M. Gorman (1972)
* Roy Radner (1973)
* Don Patinkin (1974)
* Zvi Griliches (1975)

1976–2000|

* Hirofumi Uzawa (1976)
* Lionel McKenzie (1977)
* János Kornai (1978)
* Franklin M. Fisher (1979)
* J. Denis Sargan (1980)
* Marc Nerlove (1981)
* James A. Mirrlees (1982)
* Herbert Scarf (1983)
* Amartya K. Sen (1984)
* Daniel McFadden (1985)
* Michael Bruno (1986)
* Dale Jorgenson (1987)
* Anthony B. Atkinson (1988)
* Hugo Sonnenschein (1989)
* Jean-Michel Grandmont [de; de] (1990)
* Peter Diamond (1991)
* Jean-Jacques Laffont (1992)
* Andreu Mas-Colell (1993)
* Takashi Negishi (1994)
* Christopher Sims (1995)
* Roger Guesnerie (1996)
* Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (1997)
* Jean Tirole (1998)
* Robert B. Wilson (1999)
* Elhanan Helpman (2000)

2001–present|

* Avinash Dixit (2001)
* Guy Laroque [fr; fr] (2002)
* Eric Maskin (2003)
* Ariel Rubinstein (2004)
* Thomas J. Sargent (2005)
* Richard Blundell (2006)
* Lars Peter Hansen (2007)
* Torsten Persson (2008)
* Roger B. Myerson (2009)
* John H. Moore (2010)
* Bengt Holmström (2011)
* Jean-Charles Rochet [ru; ru; Роше, Жан-Шарль] (2012)
* James J. Heckman (2013)
* Manuel Arellano (2014)
* Robert Porter [ru; ru; Портер, Роберт] (2015)
* Eddie Dekel (2016)
* Drew Fudenberg (2017)
* Tim Besley (2018)

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