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A peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing articles by academics and practitioners.
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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 and Britta Augsburg, April 2011,
Reforming microfinance, what is the evidence?,
Observations
Laura Abramovsky, Orazio Attanasio, Carl Emmerson and David Phillips, March 2011,
The distributional impact of reforms to direct and indirect tax in Mexico: analytical report and results,
External publications
, World Bank
Laura Abramovsky, Orazio Attanasio, Carl Emmerson, David Phillips and Hector J. Villarreal Paez, November 2010,
The distributional impact of reforms to direct and indirect tax in Mexico: methodological issues and approach,
External publications
, World Bank
Orazio Attanasio and Valérie Lechene, September 2010,
Conditional cash transfers, women and the demand for food,
IFS Working Papers
, W10/17
Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir and Ana Santiago, September 2010,
Education choices in Mexico: using a structural model and a randomized experiment to evaluate Progresa,
IFS Working Papers
, W10/14
Previous versions:
Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir and Ana Santiago, April 2005,
Education choices in Mexico: using a structural model and a randomised experiment to evaluate Progresa,
IFS Working Papers
, EWP05/01
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
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