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
Using data from the Health and Retirement Survey and the Assets and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old survey, we estimate the stochastic process that determines both the distribution and dynamics of health care costs.
