Eric is the Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations and Labour Economics at University of Cambridge, Professor of Economics at University College London, Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and a Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. His primary research interests are labor, public finance, health, and applied econometrics. French's research has been published in Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Handbook of Labor Economics, Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Annual Reviews, American Economic Journal: Policy, and Journal of Human Resources. Previously he was a senior economist and research advisor on the microeconomics team in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He also taught at the Department of Economics and the Business School at Northwestern University.
Education
PhD Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
MSc Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997
BA (High Honours with Distinction) Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1992
‘Retirement Incentives and Labor Supply’ in A. Woodland and J. Piggott (eds) Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Chapter 1, Vol 1B, Elsevier.
A special issue of Fiscal Studies published today looks at patterns of individual level health spending across a range of countries, and finds some important similarities. It shows how health spending is concentrated in the last years of life, how significantly more is spent on the poor than on the rich and how health spending tends to be concentrated on a relatively small number of people with high needs.
The old age provisions of the Medicaid program were designed to insure retirees against medical expenses. We estimate a structural model of savings and medical spending and use it to compute the distribution of lifetime Medicaid transfers and Medicaid valuations across currently single retirees.
More work is needed to distinguish precautionary saving motives from other motives, such as the desire to leave bequests. In this paper, progress toward disentangling these motivations has been made by matching other features of the data, such as public and private insurance choices.
We use comparable data from the US and England to examine similarities and differences in the level and trajectories of assets among households aged 70 and over.
This paper uses comparable data from the U.S. and England to examine similarities and differences in the level and trajectories of assets among households age 70 and older.
Event
27 March 2015 at 09:30<p>7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE</p>
On the 27th and 28th of March, the Institute for Fiscal Studies will host a workshop that will feature the preliminary findings and include presentations from leading academics from across the world.
This paper extends a standard intertemporal labor supply model to account for progressive taxation as well as the joint determination of hourly wages and hours worked.
Using store-level and aggregated Consumer Price Index data, we show that restaurant prices rise in response to minimum wage increases under several sources of identifying variation.
