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Orazio Attanasio is one of the Directors of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy and co-directs the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies (EDePo@IFS). He also works in the consumption sector. Orazio is a Professor at University College London, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Senior Fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research. In 2001 he was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and in 2004 Fellow of the British Academy. He is Member of the Council of the European Economic Association, and of the Council of the Royal Economic Society. After getting a PhD at the London School of Economics, Orazio taught at Stanford University and the University of Bologna. He was also a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and visiting professor at the University of Chicago. He was Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies and he is now one of the editors of the Journal of the European Economic Association. His current research interest focusses mainly on development economics, household consumption and saving behaviour, risk sharing and inequality. 
All available publications
Orazio Attanasio, Berloffa, G, Richard Blundell and Ian Preston, January 2000,
From wage shocks to income and consumption shocks,
Conference Papers
Orazio Attanasio and James Banks, January 2000,
Trends in household saving: a tale of two countries,
Conference Papers
Orazio Attanasio and Hoynes, H, January 2000,
Differential mortality and wealth accumulation,
Journal of Human Resources,
Vol. 35, p.1-29,
Journal Articles
Orazio Attanasio, January 2000,
Consumer durables and inertial behavior : estimation and aggregation of (S,s) rules for automobile purchases,
Review of Economic Studies,
Vol. 67, No. 4, p.667-696,
Journal Articles
Orazio Attanasio and Rios-Rull, V, January 2000,
Consumption smoothing in island economies : can public insurance reduce welfare?,
European Economic Review,
Vol. 44, p.1225-1258,
Journal Articles
Orazio Attanasio, January 1999,
Consumption,
in Handbook of macroeconomics: volume 1B Kluwer,
Book Chapters
Orazio Attanasio, James Banks, Costas Meghir and Guglielmo Weber, January 1999,
Humps and bumps in lifetime consumption,
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics,
Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 22-35,
American Statistical Association,
Journal Articles
Previous versions:
Orazio Attanasio, James Banks, Costas Meghir and Guglielmo Weber, January 1995,
Humps and bumps in lifetime consumption,
IFS Working Papers
, W95/14
Orazio Attanasio, James Banks and Sarah Tanner, April 1998,
Asset holding and consumption volatility,
IFS Working Papers
, W98/08
Orazio Attanasio and James Banks, March 1998,
Trends in household saving: a tale of two countries,
IFS Working Papers
, W98/15
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