Costas Meghir
Research Fellow
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Education
PhD Economics, University of Manchester, 1985
MA Economics, University of Manchester, 1980 (with Distinction)
BA Economics and Econometrics, University of Manchester, 1979 (with Honors)
Costas is a Research Fellow of the Institute. He is also Professor of Economics at Yale University and Visiting Professor at University College London. His research interests are Econometrics, Public policy, Labor economics, Economics of education, Microeconometrics, Evaluation of public policy, Household behavior, Retirement and pensions, Income distribution, Consumption, Demand analysis, Investment and Development economics.
Academic outputs
Journal article | PLoS Medicine
Poor early childhood development (ECD) in low- and middle-income countries is a major concern. There are calls to universalise access to ECD interventions through integrating them into existing government services but little evidence on the medium- or long-term effects of such scalable models.
IFS Working Paper W18/05
The 1996 PRWORA reform introduced time limits on the receipt of welfare in the United States.
Reports and comment
Report
The 1996 PRWORA reform introduced time limits on the receipt of welfare in the United States.
External publication
This paper considers the impact of Tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle.
Presentations
Presentation
This presentation was given at the American Economics Association (AEA) and Allied Social Scientice Associations (ASSA) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
Presentation
This presentation was given at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics.