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Orazio Attanasio is a Research Fellow at IFS and directs the development sector and the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies (EDePo). He also works in the consumption sector and is one of the Directors of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy. 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 and Guglielmo Weber, September 2010,
Consumption and saving: models of intertemporal allocation and their implications for public policy,
Journal of Economic Literature,
Vol. 48, No. 3, September 2010,
Journal Articles
Orazio Attanasio, Sagiri Kitao and Gianluca Violante, forthcoming,
Financing Medicare: a general equilibrium analysis,
in Topics in demography and the economy, John B. Shoven (ed) University of Chicago Press,
Book Chapters
Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin and Mario Padula, forthcoming,
Inequality in living standards since 1980: evidence from expenditure data,
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research,
Books
Orazio Attanasio and Monica Paiella, forthcoming,
Intertemporal consumption choices, transaction costs and limited participation into financial markets: reconciling data and theory,
Journal of Applied Econometrics,
Journal Articles
Orazio Attanasio and Matthew Wakefield, April 2010,
The effects on consumption and saving of taxing asset returns,
in Dimensions of Tax Design: the Mirrlees Review, J. Mirrlees, S. Adam, T. Besley, R. Blundell, S. Bond, R. Chote, M. Gammie, P. Johnson, G. Myles and J. Poterba (eds) Oxford University Press,
Book Chapters
Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Ana Gomez, Martha Isabel Gutiérrez, Costas Meghir and Alice Mesnard, January 2010,
Children's schooling and work in the presence of a conditional cash transfer programme in rural Colombia,
Economic Development and Cultural Change,
Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 181-210,
University of Chicago Press,
Journal Articles
Previous versions:
Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Ana Gomez, Martha Isabel Gutiérrez, Costas Meghir and Alice Mesnard, July 2006,
Child education and work choices in the presence of a conditional cash transfer programme in rural Colombia,
IFS Working Papers
, W06/13
Orazio Attanasio and Chiara Binelli, January 2010,
Mexico in the 1990s: the main cross-sectional facts,
Review of Economic Dynamics,
Journal Articles
Orazio Attanasio, Luca Pellerano and Sandra Polanía Reyes, October 2009,
Building trust? Conditional cash transfer programmes and social capital,
Fiscal Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 2009,
Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 139 - 177,
Blackwell Publishing,
Journal Articles
Previous versions:
Orazio Attanasio, Luca Pellerano and Sandra Polania, April 2008,
Building trust? Conditional cash transfers and social capital,
IFS Working Papers
, EWP08/02
Orazio Attanasio, Luca Pellerano and David Phillips, October 2009,
Peace and goodwill? Using an experimental game to analyse the Desarrollo y Paz initiative in Colombia,
IFS Working Papers
, W09/20
Previous versions:
Orazio Attanasio, Luca Pellerano and David Phillips, September 2008,
Peace and goodwill? Using an experimental game to analyse Paz y Desarrollo,
IFS Working Papers
, EWP08/03
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