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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, Erich Battistin and Alice Mesnard, July 2009,
Food and cash transfers: evidence from Colombia,
IFS Working Papers
, W09/15
Orazio Attanasio, May 2009,
Expectations and perceptions in developing countries: their measurement and their use,
American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings,
Vol. 99, No. 2,
Journal Articles
Emma Aguila, Orazio Attanasio and Ximena Quintanilla, forthcoming,
Cobertura del sistema privado de capitalizacién capitulo 4 de sistemas privados de capitalizacion en America Latina: un estudio comparado,
External publications
, Inter-American Development Bank
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
New version:
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
Orazio Attanasio, Laura Blow, Robert Hamilton and Andrew Leicester, July 2008,
Booms and busts: consumption, expectations and house prices in the UK,
Economica,
Journal Articles
Orazio Attanasio, Hamish Low and Virginia Sanchez-Marcos, forthcoming,
Explaining changes in female labour supply in a life-cycle model,
American Economic Review,
Journal Articles
Orazio Attanasio, Luca Pellerano and Sandra Polania, April 2008,
Building trust? Conditional cash transfers and social capital,
IFS Working Papers
, EWP08/02
Now published:
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, Journal Articles
, Blackwell Publishing
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