Ricardo Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Director
ESRC Centre for the Micro-Economic Analysis of
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT, UK e-mail: r.blundell@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 44 (0)207679 5863
Fax: 44 (0)207916 2775
Public Policy (CPP@IFS)
Institute for Fiscal Studies
7 Ridgmout Street
London WC1E 7AE
Tel: 44 (0)20 7291 4820
Fax: 44 (0)20 7323 4780
Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctp39a/
Date of Birth : 1 May 1952
1970-1973 B.Sc. University of Bristol . (Economics with Statistics, First Class).
1973-1975 M.Sc. London School of Economics (Econometrics).
1975-1984 Lecturer in Econometrics, University of Manchester.
1984-
1986-
Professor of Economics. University College London, 1988-1992 Department Chair .
Research Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
1991Director: ESRC Centre for the Micro-Economic Analysis of Public Policy, IFS.
2005- Ricardo Chair of Political Economy, UCL.
1980
1993
1994
Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia.
Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
Ford Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley.
1999 Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley.
University of St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
NHH, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway
University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
2004
2005
President, European Economics Association .
President, British Association (Economics) .
2006
2010
2010-13
President, Econometric Society.
President, Society for Labor Economics.
President, Royal Economic Society.
Fellow of the Econometric Society
Yrjö Jahnsson Prize
Royal Economic Society Council
European Economic Association Council
FBA: Fellow of the British Academy
Executive Council, Journal of Econometrics
Econometric Society Council
Leverhulme Personal Research Professorship
Frisch Prize, Econometric Society
Executive Committee of the Econometric Society
1991
1995
1990-1994
1997-2001
1997.
1997-
1998 -2001
1999
2000
2001
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Honorary Member of the American Economic Association 2001
American Academy of Arts and Science 2002
Honorary Fellow: Institute of Actuaries 2003
Fellow: Society of Labor Economists
CBE: New Years Honors List
Research Fellow , Netspar
Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize, TSE
2005
2006
2008
2008
CEPR Research Fellow
CES Prize Fellow 2010 , Munich
Downing Fellow, University of Melbourne
IZA Prize in Labor Economics
Carlos Lloyd Braga Chair, Minho, Portugal
Knighthood: New Years Honors List
Academeia Europea
Distinguished Fellow, Becker-Freidman Institute
BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Prize in Economics
Thomson-Reuters Citation Laureate in Economics
Nemmers Prize in Economics
2015
2015
2016
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2014
2015-2017
Invited Lecture: Econometric Society :
Invited Lecture: ESPE
Woytinsky Lecture :
Hooker Lecture :
Keynote Lecture :
Frisch Centennial Meeting :
Woodward Lectures:
Hannon Lecture:
TOW Lectures:
Hicks Lecture:
Invited Lecture: Econometric Society
Invited Lecture: Econometric Society
Keynes Lecture:
Walras Bowley Lecture :
Theil Memorial Meeting :
Tinbergen Centennial Meeting :
Zeuthen Lectures:
Arrow Lectures :
Mackintosh Lectures:
Adam Smith Lecture
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4 th th
World Meetings, Barcelona, August 1990
Congress, Istanbul.
University of Michigan, May 1993.
McMaster University, April 1993.
European Association of Labor Economics, 1993.
Oslo, March 1995.
University of British Columbia, March 1997.
Australasian Meetings, July 1998.
University of Iowa, April 1998.
Oxford University, February 1999.
8 th World Meetings, Seattle, August 2000
Far East Meetings, Tokyo, July 2001.
British Academy, November 2001.
Econometric Society, UCLA, June 2002.
Amsterdam, October 2002.
Rotterdam, May 2003.
Copenhagen, November 2003.
Stanford, May 2004
Queens, Canada, November 2004
SOLE-EALE, San Francisco, June 2005.
Presidential Lecture, Econometric Society NAMES (Minnesota), ESAM, FEMES (Beijing), ESEM
(Vienna), LAMES (Mexico), SAMES (Chennia).
MIT Distinguished Lecturer 2006 MIT, November 2006.
Lindahl Lectures
Al Rees Lecture
Dixon Lecture
Australian Conference of Economists
Uppsala, November 2006.
SOLE, Chicago, May 2007.
University of York, May 2007.
Keynote Speaker, September 2007.
Fishelson Lecture Tel Aviv, March 2008
Penn Lecture in Economics University of Pennsylvania, April 2008.
JAE Lectures 2008 Madrid, June, 2008.
Goethe University Public Lecture Series Frankfurt, June 2008.
IIPF Invited Lecture Maastricht, August 2008.
Annual Lecture in Public Economics
Carlos Diaz Alejandro Lecture
JJ Laffont Prize Lecture
Dottorato in Economia, Milan, September, 2008.
LAMES, November, 2008.
Toulouse, December, 2008
Richard Stone Inaugural Annual Lecture Cambridge, March 2009
African Econometric Society Lecture Abuja, Nigeria, July 2009
JEEA-EEA Lecture
Lampman Memorial Lecture
AEA Meetings, Atlanta, January 2010.
Wisconsin, May 2010
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CEA State of the Art Lecture
FBBVA Lecture
Distinguished CES Prize Lecture
Sandmo Lecture
HILDA 10 th Anniversary Speaker
Downing Lecture
CEMFI Opening Invited Lecture
Murat Sertel Lecture 2011
Jacquemin Lecture
RIPED Lecture
Leonid Hurwicz Lecture
Presidential Lecture, RES
Freidman Forum Lecture
Bank of Portugal Invited Lecture
SAFE Inaugural Launch Lecture
Quebec, June 2010
Madrid, September 2010
Munich, November 2010
Bergen, January 2011
Melbourne Institute, July 2011
University of Melbourne, July 2011
CEMFI, Madrid, September 2011
ASSET, Evora, Portugal, October 2011
European Commission, Brussels, November 2011
UTCC, Bangkok, January, 2012
Inaugural Lecture, Warsaw, July 2012
Royal Economic Society, April 2013.
Becker-Friedman Institute, Chicago, May 2013
7 th Conference in Labour Markets, June 2013.
CFS, Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt, September 2013.
BFI Tax Policy Lecture
Bank of Montreal Lecture
Keynote Lecture
Cátedra Carlos Lloyd Braga
BFI, Chicago, September, 2013.
SFU, Vancouver, October 2013.
ECB Consumption and Wealth Conference, October 2013.
University of Minho, November 2013.
Encuentro de Economia Publica Lecture University of Girona, January 2014.
IZA Summer Lectures
13 th Journées LAGV Lecture
IZA Summer School, May 2014.
Aix-Marseille School of Economics, June 2014.
Verein fuer Socialpolitik Plenary Lecture German Economics Society, Hamburg, September, 2014.
ZEW Economic Policy Lecture ZEW, Mannheim, September, 2014.
Invited Lecture, Becker Memorial Conf. Chicago, October 2014.
Plenary Lecture
Coase Lecture
Econometric Society European Winter Meetings, 2014.
LSE, March 2015.
Martin H. Crego Lecture
Inaugural Dale Mortensen Lecture
Advanced Lectures in Economics 2015
Plenary Lecture
Vassar College, April 2015.
SED, Warsaw, June 2015.
Vancouver School of Economics, September, 2015.
21 st Panel Data Conference, Budapest, June 2015.
Distinguished Visitor Lectures
Inaugural Lecture
Invited Address
Boston University, April, 2016.
French Economics Association, Nancy, 2016.
Africa Meeting of the Econometric Society, 2016.
Review of Economic Studies, Associate Editor (1984-1988).
Journal of Econometrics , Co-Editor (1991-1997); Executive Council 1997-
Journal of Human Resources, Associate Editor (1995-1997).
Econometrica , Co-Editor (July 1997- 2001).
Economie & Prevision , (1999- )
Journal of Public Economics, Co-Editor for TAPES Issue, (2003-2004).
Fiscal Studies , Editorial Board, 1991- 2005, Editorial Executive Committee, 2005 -
Australian Economic Review , Associate Editor, 2006 –
Journal of Economic Literature, Editorial Board, 2004 – 2009.
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics , Advisory Editor, 2005 - 2008.
Mirrlees Review , Editor, 2006-2011.
Research in Labor Economics, Editorial Advisory Board, 2011 -
Annual Reviews (Economics) , Editorial Board, 2011 –
Microeconomic Insights , Co-Editor, 2015 -
National Academy of Science NRC Panel Member : 1999-2000
CentER, Tilburg: Scientific Council: 2001–
ESDS Advisory Committee: 2003 – 2007
CEPR: Scientific Advisory Committee: 2003 – 2007
CERGE-EI: Scientific Advisory Committee: 2003 – 2006.
EU COST Action 23 ,European Labour Market Policy Evaluation: Chair: 2003-2008 .
Netspar: Scientific Council: 2005-
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PSE (Paris School of Economics): Scientific Council: 2005 – 2009
SIRE (Scottish Institute for Research in Economics): The International Advisory Board: 2006 –
Australian Treasury Participation Modelling Project : Academic Reference Panel: 2006
Barcelona GSE (Graduate School in Economics): External Advisory Scientific Board: 2007 –
TSE (Toulouse School of Economics): Scientific Council: 2009 – , President: 2010- 2013.
CEMFI: Board of Trustees: 2009 –
CFS-SAFE: Centre of Excellence, Scientific Council, Goethe University, Frankfurt, 2013 –
MaTax, Scientific Advisory Committee, ZEW, Mannheim, 2014 -
Research Assessment Exercise Committee , UK Universities, 2001
CentER , Tilburg: External Review Committee, 2004
UPF , Barcelona: External Review of Economics, 2005
Scottish Funding Council ; Expert Review Panel for Economics Research, 2005
Helsinki University : Professorial Review Panel, 2009
Yrjö Jahnsson Prize Committee, 2009
Bocconi University : External Review Panel: 2009
Tinbergen Institute : Chair, External Review Panel: 2010
Japanese Economics Association, Nakahara Prize , Selection Committee Member, 2010 -
Angelo Costa Prize , International Scientific Committee, member, 2011 -
ERC Panel SH1 , Panel Chair ; Starter Grants: 2012.
TrygFonden Foundation , Denmark, Peer Review Panel, 2012.
Uppsala Chair in Labour Economics, Review Committee, 2013.
ERC Panel SH1 , Panel Chair ; Consolidator Grant Fellowships, 2014-2015.
HCER Research Evaluation Panel , Helsinki Center of Economic Research, 2015.
European Economics Association , Chair, Research Committee 2015 -
SOLE-EALE, Program Chair, 3 rd World Meeting, London, 2010.
Econometric Society World Meetings : Programme Committee, Tokyo 1995, Programme Chair, London
2005, LOC Chair London 2005.
Econometric Society European Meetings : Programme Chairman (Econometrics) Brussels, 1992;
Programme Committee, Pisa 1983; Budapest 1986; Munich 1989; Cambridge 1991; Istanbul 1996;
Toulouse 1997; Lausanne 2001; Stockholm 2003.
Econometric Society European Winter Meetings : Scientific Committee, 1996 - 2002.
International Institute of Public Finance, Programme Chair: Cordoba, Argentina 1998.
European Economics Association : Programme Committee Member: Copenhagen 1987, Venice 2002.
PhD Supervision (First Advisor), by date of thesis exam.
1988: Urmila Mukherjee, 1990: Michael Devereux, 1995: Lorraine Dearden, 1995: Jumana Saleheen,
1996: Richard Dickens, 1997: Adres Gomez-Lobo, 1998: Maria Martinez-Granado, 1999: Vivian
Foster, 2002: Monica Costa-Dias, 2005: Heike Harmgart, 2005: Renata Bottazzi, 2005: Elena Martínez
Sanchís, 2006: Giacomo Di Giorgi, 2006: Rupert Harrison.
2007: Mario Fiorini. 2008: Matthew
Wakefield. 2010: Maria Casanova, Andrew Shephard. 2010: Pierre Hoonhout. 2011: Emma Tominey,
Ben Etheridge 2011. 2012: Aminur Rahman. 2015: Martin O’Connell; Cormac O’Dea; Gemma
Tetlow.
Amsterdam, Nuffield College Oxford, London School of Economics, Manchester, Bristol,
Copenhagen, Exeter, Southampton, Sussex, Tilburg, Barcelona, ENSAE, Toulouse, Aix-Marseille,
European University Institute, Indian Statistical Institute, Uppsala University, University Catholique de
Louvain, University of Keele, London Business School, Mannheim University, Toulouse School of
Economics.
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Unemployment, Search and Labour Supply , Cambridge University Press, (edited with I. Walker), ISNB
0521320275, 1986.
The Measurement of Household Welfare , Cambridge University Press, (edited with I. Preston and I.
Walker), ISBN: 9780521451956, 1994.
The Determinants and Effects of Work Related Training in Britain. The Institute for Fiscal Studies,
London (with L. Dearden and C. Meghir), 1996.
Higher Education, Employment and Earnings in Britain. The Institution for Fiscal Studies, (with L.
Dearden, A.Goodman and H. Reed.), ISBN: 9781873357675, May 1997.
English Longitudinal Study of Ageing: University College London (with J. Banks, M. Marmot, J.
Nazroo and C. Lessof.), December 2003.
Seeking A Premier Economy : The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000 .
University of Chicago Press. (co-edited with David Card and Richard Freeman), 520 p.,
(NBER-CLM) National Bureau of Economic Research--Comparative Labor Markets Series,
ISBN: 9780226092843, July 2004.
Advances in Economics and Econometrics – Theory and Applications , Econometric Society Ninth
World Congress, Volumes I, II and III, (co-edited with W. Newey and T.Persson), Cambridge
University Press, ISBN: 9780521692090, 2006/2007.
Mirrlees Review: Vol I: Dimensions of Tax Design (editor); OUP, 2010, Oxford and New York, ISBN:
978-0-19-955375-4; open access download at http://www.ifs.org.uk/mirrleesReview
Mirrlees Review: Vol II: Tax by Design (author); OUP 2011, ISBN: 978-0-19-955374-7, Oxford and
New York, 524pp, open access download at http://www.ifs.org.uk/mirrleesReview
Labor Supply and Taxation (author), IZA Prize Volume, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. March
2016, ISBN : 978-0-19-874980-6
1980
Journal Articles:
‘Estimating Continuous Consumer Equivalent Scales in an Expenditure Model with Labour Supply’,
European Economic Review , 145-147, 1980.
1981
Papers in Edited Volumes:
‘Estimating Consumer Equivalence Scales in a Model of the Demand for Goods and Leisure’, in D.
Currie and D. Peel (eds.), Essays in MacroEconomics and Econometrics , Croom Helm
Publishing Company, 1981.
‘Empirical Approaches to Life-Cycle Labour Supply’, (with I. Walker), in G. Hutchinson and J. Treble
(eds.) Recent Advances in Labour Economics , Oxford University Press, 1981.
1982
Journal Articles:
‘Modelling the Joint Determination of Household Labour Supplies and Commodity Demands’, (with I.
Walker), Economic Journal , 351-364, 1982.
‘Estimation and Hypothesis Testing in Dynamic Singular Equation Systems’, (with G. Anderson),
Econometrica , Vol.50, No.6, 1559-1571, November 1982.
‘A Non-Separable Generalisation of the Linear Expenditure System allowing Non-Linear Engel
Curves’, (with R. Ray), Economics Letters , 346-354, 1982.
1983
Journal Articles:
‘Testing Restrictions in a Flexible Dynamic Demand System: An Application to Consumers’
Expenditure in Canada’, (with G. Anderson), Review of Economic Studies , Vol. L(3), No.162,
397-410, July 1983.
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‘On the Optimal Taxation of Two Person Households’, (with I. Walker), Economics Letters , 371-376,
1983.
1984
Journal Articles:
‘Consumer Non Durables in the UK: A Dynamic Demand System’, (with G. Anderson), Economic
Journal , 1984.
‘A Household Production Specification of Demographic Variables in Demand Analysis’, (with I.
Walker), Economic Journal , 1984.
‘Testing for Linear Engel Curves’, (with R. Ray), Economic Journal, December 1984.
‘On the Reform of the Taxation of Husband and Wife: Are Incentives Important?’, Fiscal Studies ,
November 1984.
1986
Journal Articles:
‘An Exogeneity Test for the Simultaneous Equation Tobit Model’, (with R. Smith), Econometrica ,
Vol.54, 679-685, 1986.
‘A Life-Cycle Consistent Empirical Model of Family Labour Supply using Cross-Section Data’, (with
I. Walker), Review of Economic Studies , LIII, 539-558, 1986.
‘Selection Criteria for a Microeconometric Model of Labour Supply’,(with C. Meghir), Journal of
Applied Econometrics , Vol.1, 50-85, 1986.
‘Econometric Approaches to Life-Cycle Labour Supply and Commodity Demand’, Econometric
Reviews , Vol.5(1), 89-146, 1986.
Papers in Edited Volumes:
‘A Labour Supply Model for the Simulation of Tax and Benefit Reforms’, Blundell, R.W. and Walker,
I. (eds.), Unemployment, Search and Labour Supply , Cambridge University Press 1986.
1987
Journal Articles:
‘Bivariate Alternatives to the Tobit Model’, (with C. Meghir), Journal of Econometrics , Vol.34, 179-
200, 1987.
‘Unemployment and Female Labour Supply’, (with J. Ham and C. Meghir), Economic Journal , Vol.97,
44-64, 1987.
Papers in Edited Volumes:
‘Engel Curve Estimation with Individual Data’, (with C. Meghir) The Practice of Econometrics Studies in Demand, Forecasting, Money and Income , R.D.H. Heijmans and H. Neudecker, (eds.),
Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1987.
‘Econometric Issues in Public Sector Economics’, Surveys in Public Sector Economics , P. G. Hare
(ed.), 1219-247, Basil Blackwell, 1987.
‘Unemployment and Female Labour Supply’, Unemployment in Europe
Neuborg (eds), 19-35, Macmillan, 1987.
, J. Muysken and C. de
1988
Journal Articles:
‘Modelling the Take-up of Means Tested Benefits’, (with V. Fry and I. Walker), Economic Journal ,
Vol, 98, 58-74,1988.
‘Consumer Behaviour: Theory and Empirical Evidence - A Survey’, Economic Journal , Vol. 98,
No.389, 16-65, March 1988.
‘Taxation and Labour Supply’, (with I. Walker), Economic Policy , 134-161, April 1988.
‘Labour Supply Specification and the Empirical Evaluation of Tax Reforms’, (with C. Meghir, E.
Symons and I. Walker) Journal of Public Economics , July 1988.
‘A Labour Supply Model for Married Women in France: Taxation Hours Constraints and Job Seekers’,
(with F. Laisney), Annales d'Economie de Statistique , Vol.11, 1-71, 1988.
1989
Journal Articles:
‘Estimation in a Class of Simultaneous Equation Limited Dependent Variable Models’, (with R.J.
Smith) Review of Economic Studies , Vol.56, 37-58, 1989.
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‘Modelling Energy Expenditure Using Micro Data’, (with P.Baker and J. Micklewright), Economic
Journal ,Vol.99, No.397, 720-738, September 1989.
1990
Papers in Edited Volumes:
‘Preference Restrictions in Microeconometric Models of Life-cycle Behaviour under Uncertainty’,
(with V. Fry and C. Meghir), Microeconometrics: Surveys and Applications , Laffont et.al.
(eds.), 141-54, Blackwells, Oxford, 1990.
‘Panel Data and Life-cycle Models’,(with C. Meghir), Pane Data and Labour Market Studies, J.
Hartog, G. Ridder and J.Theuwes (eds.), 3, 1231-252, Amsterdam:North-Holland 1990.
‘Unemployment and the Labour Supply of Married Women’, Economics of Wage Determination,
Heinz Konig (ed.), 273-293, Springer-Verlag, 1990.
Econometric Approaches to the Specification and Estimation of Intertemporal Consumer Behaviour’ , in (G.D. Myles, ed), Measurement and Modelling in Economics, proceeding of a conference organised by Terrence Gorman, North Holland, New York.
1991
Journal Articles:
‘The Information Content of Equivalence Scales’, (with A. Lewbel), Journal of Econometrics , Vol.150
(1), 49-68.1991.
‘The Econometrics of Labour Supply and Taxation’, Revista Espanola de Economia, Vol. 8 No.1, 5-
36, 1991.
‘Equivalence Scales and Child Costs: A Life-Cycle Perspective’, (with J. Banks and I. Preston). Fiscal
Studies , Vol.3, 16-29, 1991.
‘Conditions initiales et estimation efficace dans les modeles dynamiques sur donnees de panel:une application au comportement d'investissement des entreprises’, (with R. J. Smith). Annales d'Economie et de Statistique , No. 20/21, 109-123, 1991.
‘The Microeconometric Approach to Modelling Energy Demand: Some Results for UK Households’,
(with P. Baker).
Oxford Review of Economic Policy , Vol. 7, No.2 1991.
Papers in Edited Volumes:
‘Interpersonal Comparisons of Household Welfare: The Identification of Equivalence
Scales’, Measurement of Economic Welfare, A. Bjorklund and K-G. Mahler (eds.), 99-122,
Stockholm: Ekonomiska Radet, Council,1991.
‘Econometric Approaches to the Specification and Estimation of Intertemporal Consumer Behaviour’,
Essays in Honour of W.G Gorman: Measurement and Modelling in Economics , G.D. Miles
(ed.), 325-370, Amsterdam: North Holland, 1991.
‘Consumer Behaviour: Theory and Empirical Evidence – A Survey’, Surveys in Economics , A.J.
Oswald (ed.), 1-50, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 1991.
‘Microeconometrics’, Companion to Contemporary Economic Thought, D.Greenaway, M. Bleaney and
I.M.T. Stewart (eds.), 6503-1678, London Routledge, 1991.
1992
Journal Articles:
‘Investment and Tobin's Q: Evidence from Company Panel Data’, (with S.Bond, M. Devereux and
F.Schiantarelli), Journal of Econometrics , Vol.151, 233-257, 1992.
‘Labour Supply and Taxation: A Survey’, Fiscal Studies ,Vol.13. No.3, 15-40,1992.
Papers in Edited Volumes:
Econometric Models of Company Investment’, The Econometrics of Panel Data, (with S. Bond and C.
Meghir), L. Matyas and P. Sevestre (eds.), Dordrecht Kluwer Academic publishers,1992.
‘Panel Data Analysis: An Introduction’, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, (with L.
Matyas) , Vol.3. No.2 388-413, Oxford University Press, 1992.
1993
Journal Articles:
‘What Do We Learn About Consumer Demand Patterns from Micro Data?’,(with P. Pashardes and G.
Weber), American Economic Review ,Vol.83, No.3, 570-59, 1993.
‘Labour Supply and Intertemporal Substitution’, (with C. Meghir and P.Neves) Journal of
Econometrics , Vol.59, 137-160, 1993.
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‘Aggregation and Consumer Behaviour: Some Recent Results’, (with C. Meghir and G. Weber),
Ricerche Economiche , Vol.47, 235-252, 1993.
‘Alternative Interpretations of Hours Information in an Econometric Model of Labour Supply’, (with F.
Laisney and M. Lechner), Empirical Economics , Vol.18, 393-415, 1993.
‘Estimation d'un systeme complet de demandes de biens et d'offre de travail pour un echantillon de enages francais’, (with F. Laisney and M. Ruth), Economie et Prevision , 4-5, 110-111,1993.
Papers in Edited Volumes:
‘Taxation and Saving Behaviour in the UK’, International Comparison of Savings Behaviour, (with J.
Banks), Feldstein and J. Poterba (eds.), Vol. 1, 57-80, Chicago University Press, 1993.
‘Simultaneous Microeconometric Models with Censored or Qualitative Dependent Variables’,
Handbook of Statistics , (with R.J. Smith) G.S. Maddala, .R. Rao and H.D. Vinod (eds.), Vol 2,
Amsterdam; North-Holland,1993.
1994
Journal Articles:
‘Consumer Demand and the Life-cycle Allocation of Household Expenditures’, (with M. Browning and C. Meghir), Review of Economic Studies , Vol.161, 57-80, 1994.
‘Life-cycle Expenditure Allocations and the Consumption Costs of Children’, (with J. Banks and I.
Preston), European Economic Review, Vol.38, No. 7, 1391-1410, 1994.
‘Coherency and Estimation in Simultaneous Models With Censored or Qualitative Dependent
Variables’, (with R.J. Smith), Journal of Econometrics , Vol.64, 355-373, 1994.
Papers in Edited Volumes:
‘Simultaneous Microeconometric Models with Censored or Qualitative Dependent Variables’, (with
R.J. Smith), Handbook of Statistics , C. Rao (ed.), 1117-143, 1994.
‘Household Saving Behaviour in the United Kingdom', (with J.Banks), International Comparisons of
Household Saving, J. M. Poterba (ed.), Vol. 2, University of Chicago Press, 1994.
‘Evaluating Structural Econometric Models of Labour Supply’, Invited Symposium of VI World
Congress of Econometric Society in Barcelona, Advances in Econometrics , C.Sims, (ed.),Vol
2, Proceedings of VI World Congress, 3-48, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
‘Taxation and Labour-Supply Incentives in the UK’, Welfare and Work Incentives, A.B. Atkinson and
G.V. Mogensen (eds.), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994.
‘Cote d'Ivoire’, (with C. Heady and R. Medhora), Labour Markets in an Era of Adjustment, S. Horton,
R. Kanbur, D.Mazumdar (eds.), EDI Development Studies, Economic Development Institute of The World Bank, Washington, 1994.
‘Modelos Empiricos de Oferta de Trabajo y Reforma Fiscal: La Experiencia del Reino Unido’, (with
A.Duncan and C. Meghir), Modelos Microeconometricos y Politica Fiscal, M. Arellano (ed.),
Ministerio de Economia y Hacienda, Insituto de Estudios Fiscales, Madrid, 1994.
1995
Journal Articles:
‘Dynamic Count Data Models of Technological Innovation’, (with R. Griffith and J. Van Reenan), The
Economic Journal, Vol.105, No. 429, 333-344, 1995.
‘Income, Expenditure and the Living Standards of UK Households’ (with I. Preston), Fiscal Studies,
Vol. 16, No.3, 40-54, 1995.
‘Tax Policy Reform: Why We Need Microeconomics’, Fiscal Studies , 64, Vol. 16, No.3, 106-125,
1995.
‘Consumption Growth, Saving and Retirement in the UK’, (with J. Banks and S. Tanner), Ricerche
Economiche, Vol.49, 1995, 255-275, 1995.
Papers in Edited Volumes:
‘Dynamics and Correlated Responses in Longitudinal Count Data Models’(With R. Griffith and F.
Windmeijer), Statistical Modelling , Seeber, G.U.H., B.J. Francis, R. Hatzinger and G.
Stockel- Berger (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Statistical
Modelling, Innsbruck, Austria, Springer-Verlag, 10-14 July 1995
‘Taxation, Employment and Unemployment’ , The OECD Jobs Study, Working Party on Tax Analysis
& Tax Statistics of the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs, L. Bovenberg (ed.) OECD
Secretariat, Paris, 1995,
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1996
Journal Articles:
‘Tax Reform and Welfare Measurement: Do We Need Demand System Estimation’,(With J. Banks
and A. Lewbel.), The Economic Journal, Vol.106, No.438, 1996.
Papers in Edited Volumes:
‘Labour Supply and Taxation’, The Economics of Tax Policy M. P. Devereux, (ed.), Oxford University
Press, 1996.
1997
Journal Articles:
‘Quadratic Engel Curves, Indirect Tax Reform and Welfare’, (with J. Banks and A. Lewbel), Review of
Economics and Statistics , Vol. LXXIX, No.4, 527-539, November 1997.
‘Savings and Labour Market Transitions’, (with T. Magnac and C. Meghir), Journal of Business and
Economic Statistics , Vol. 15, No.2. 153-164, April 1997.
‘Cluster Effects and Simultaneity in Multilevel Models’ (with F. Windmeijer), Health Economics
Letters , Vol. 6, No. 4, Wiley, 439-443, July-August 1997.
1998
Journal Articles
‘Is There a Retirement-Savings Puzzle?’, (with J. Banks and S. Tanner), American Economic Review,
Vol. 88, No.4. 769-788, September 1998.
‘Initial conditions and Moment Conditions in Dynamic Panel Data Models’, (with S. Bond), Journal of
Econometrics, Vol. 87, No.1, 115-143, November 1998.
‘Estimating Labour Supply Responses using Tax Reforms’, (with A. Duncan and C. Meghir),
Econometrica, Vol. 66, No.4, 827-861, July 1998.
‘Kernel Regression in Empirical Microeconomics’ (with A. Duncan), Journal of Human Resources,
Symposium on ‘Microeconometric Methods’, Vol.33, No.1, 62-87, Winter 1998.
‘Consumption Inequality and Income Uncertainty’, (with I. Preston), Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Vol. CXIII, Issue 2, 603-640, May 1998.
‘Pensions and Labor Market Participation in the UK’ (with P. Johnson), American Economic Review ,
Vol. 88, No.2, 168-172, May 1998.
‘Unemployment, discouraged workers and female labour supply’,(with J. Ham and C.Meghir),
Research in Economics , Vol. 52, 103-131, 1998.
‘Semiparametric Estimation and Consumer Demand’, (With A.Duncan and K. Pendakur), Journal of
Applied Econometrics , Vol.13, 435-461,1998.
Papers in Edited Volumes
‘Pensions and Retirement in the UK’,(with P. Johnson), NBER Conference Report, Social Security and
Retirement around the World, J. Gruber and D. Wise (eds.), Chicago University Press, 1998.
‘Reforming the Tax and Welfare System’, Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis, The
Vancouver Institute: An Experiment in Public Education, P. N. Nemetz, (ed.) Vols. 24-26
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1996-98.
‘Consumer Demand and Intertemporal Allocations: Engel, Slutsky and Frisch’, in Steinar Strom (ed.),
Econometrics and Economic Theory in the 20 th Century : The Ragnar Frisch Centennial
Symposium, Cambridge University Press, Econometric Society Monographs 31, 1998.
1999
Journal Articles
‘Consumption and the Timing of Income Risk’, (with T. Stoker), European Economic Review , (43), 3
475-507, March 1999.
‘Estimation in Large and Dissaggregated Demand Systems: An Estimator for Conditionally Linear
Systems’, (with J-M. Robin), Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol.14, No.3, 209-232, May-
June1999.
‘Market Share, Market Value and Innovation in a Panel of British Manufacturing Firms’, (with R.
Griffith and J. Van Reenen), Review of Economic Studies , Vol.66, 529-554, July 1999.
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‘Human Capital Investment: The Returns from Education and Training to the Individual, The Firm and the Economy’, (with L. Dearden, C.Meghir and B. Sianesi), Fiscal Studies , Vol. 20, No.1, 1-3,
1999.
‘Getting the Unemployed back to work: the role of wage subsidies’ (with B. Bell and J. Van Reenen),
International Tax and Public Finance, Vol.
6, 39-360, 1999.
‘Pubic Finance, Employment and Labor Markets’ (with L. Dearden and R. Griffith), International Tax and Public Finance, Vol.6, No.3, 235-237, August 1999.
Papers in Edited Volumes
‘Labour Supply: A Review of Alternative Approaches’,(with T. MaCurdy,), Handbook of Labor
Economics, O.Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), 1559-1695, North-Holland, December, 1999.
‘Microeconometrics: The Large Data Set Revolution’, Economics beyond The Millennium , A. Kirman
& L.Gerard-Varet (eds.), 300-339, Oxford University Press, 1999.
2000
Journal Articles
‘Latent Separability: Grouping Goods without weak Separability’, (with J-M. Robin), Econometrica ,
Vol.68, No.1, 53-84, January 2000.
‘The Returns to Higher Education in Britain: Evidence from a British Cohort’, (with L.Dearden, A.
Goodman and H.Reed), The Economic Journal , Vol.110, F82 F99, 2000.
‘The Labour Market Impact of the Working Families Tax Credit’, (with A. Duncan, J. McCrae and C.
Meghir), Fiscal Studies , Vol.21, No.1, 75-103, March 2000.
‘Evaluation Methods for Non-Experimental Data’, (with M. Costa Dias), Fiscal Studies , Vol.21, No.4.
427-468, 2000.
‘Work Incentives and ‘in-work’, Benefit Reforms: A Review’, Oxford Review of Economic Policy ,
Vol.16, No.1, 27-44, Spring 2000.
‘GMM Estimation with Persistent Panel Data: An Application to Production Functions’, (with S.
Bond), Econometric Reviews , Vol.19, No.3, 321- 340, 2000.
‘Identifying Demand for Health Resources using Waiting Times Information’, Health Economics,
Vol.9,465-474, 2000.
Papers in Edited Volumes
‘Estimation in Dynamic Panel Data Models: Improving on the Performance of the Standard GMM
Estimator’ (with S. Bond and F. Windmeijer), Advances in Econometrics (Vol.15)
Nonstationary Panels, Panel Cointegration and Dynamic Panels . B. H. Baltagi (ed.), Elsevier
Science, 53-91, 2000.
2001
Journal Articles
‘Welfare Reform for Low Income Workers’, Oxford Economic Papers, Vol.53, No.2, 189-214, 2001.
‘James Heckman’s Contributions to Economics and Econometrics’, The Scandinavian Journal of
Economics , Vol.103(2),191-203.
‘Risk Pooling, Precautionary Saving and Consumption Growth’, (with J. Banks and A.Brugiavini),
R eview of Economic Studies , Vol. 68(4) No.237, 757-779, 2001.
‘Financial Wealth Inequality in the United States and Great Britain’, Labor and Population Program
Working Paper Series 01-01, DRU-2440, Santa Monica: RAND, February 2001.
‘Has In-Work Benefit Reform helped the Labour Market?’ (with H. Hoynes), NBER Working Paper
8546,http//papers.nber.org/papers/W8546, 1-60, 2001.
Papers in Edited Volumes
‘Evaluating the Labour Supply Responses To ‘In-Work’ Benefit Reforms For Low Income Workers’,
Taxation, Welfare and the Crisis of Unemployment in Europe , M. Buti, P.Sestito and H.
Wijkander, (eds.) Edward Elgar, 157-187, 2001.
‘Work, Retirement and Pensions’ (with D. Wise), Preparing for an Ageing World National Research
Council Panel on a Research Agenda and New Data for an Ageing World , National Academy
Press, Washington DC, 66-101, 2001.
2002
Journal Articles
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‘From Earnings Inequality to Consumption Inequality’,(with O. Attanasio, G. Berloffa and I. Preston),
Economic Journal , Vol.112, No. 478, C52-C59, March 2002.
‘Pension Incentives and the Pattern of Early Retirement’, (with C. Meghir and S. Smith), Economic
Journal ,Vol.112, No.478, C153-C170, March 2002.
‘Active Labour Market Policy vs Employment Tax Credits: Lessons from Recent UK Reforms’, (with
C. Meghir), Swedish Economic Policy Review, Vol.8, 13-37, www.ifau.se
January 2002.
‘Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomic’, (with M. Costa Dias),
Portuguese Economic Journal, Vol.1, 91-115, 2002.
‘Dynamic Panel Data Methods and Practice’, Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv.
Vol.
86, 145-162, 2002.
‘Welfare-to-Work: Which Policies Work and Why?’, Keynes Lecture in Economics, Proceedings of
The British Academy , Vol.117, 477-524, 2002.
‘Working Families’ Tax Credit:A Review of the Evidence, Issues and Prospects for Further Research’, with I. Walker), Economie Publique – Etudes et Recherches , No.11,77- 127, 2002.
‘Individual Effects and Dynamics in Count Data Models’, (with R. Griffith and F.Windmeijer), Journal of Econometrics , Vol.108, No.1, 113-131, May 2002.
Papers in Edited Volumes
‘Identifying Demand for Health Resources using Waiting Times Information’, Econometric Analysis of
Health Data , A. Jones and O. O’Donnell, (eds.), Wiley, 159-166, 2002.
‘Consumption Inequality and Income Uncertainty’,(with I. Preston), The Economics of Rising
Inequalities , D. Cohen, T. Piketty and G. Saint-Paul,(eds.) Oxford University Press, 171-203,
2002.
2003
Journal Articles
‘Financial Wealth Inequality in the United States and Great Britain’, (with J. Banks and J.P. Smith),
J ournal of Human Resources, Special Issue on Cross-National Comparative Research using
Panel Surveys, J. P. Smith, F. Stafford and J. R. Walker, (eds.) Vol. 38, No.2, 241-279, Spring
2003.
‘Nonparametric Engel Curves and Revealed Preference ’,(with M. Browning and I.Crawford),
Econometrica, Vol.71, No.1, 205-240, January 2003.
‘Interpreting Aggregate Wage Growth: The Role of Labour Market Participation’, American Economic
Review , Vol.93, No.4, 1114-1131, September 2003.
‘Income Volatility and Household Consumption: The impact of Food Assistance Programs’, (with L.
Pistaferri), Supplement to Journal of Human Resource, Vol 38, 1032-1050, 2003.
‘Trends in Inequality’, Institute for Advanced Studies , Vienna, Vol 11, No.4, 2003.
Papers in Edited Volumes
‘Data Needs for an Ageing World: Health, Ageing and Retirement Micro-Data’, Innovative Solutions in Providing Access to Microdata , 19 th
CEIES seminar, Lisbon Eurostat, Luxembourg,
September 2003.
‘Endogeneity in Nonparametric and Semiparametric Regression Models’, (with J. Powell), Chapter 8 in
Advances in Economics and Econometrics , M. Dewatripont, Hansen, L. and S. J. Turnsovsky
(eds.), Cambridge University Press, ESM 36, pp 312-357,2003.
‘Aggregation in Economic Relationships: Heterogenity and selection’, (with T Stoker), Forthcoming
Handbook of Economics , J.Heckman and Leamer (eds.)Vol. 6, 2003.
‘The Impact of the New Deal for Young People on the labour market: a four year assessment’, (with H.
Reed, A.Shepherd and J.Van Reenan), The State of Working Britain II , Chapter 1, R. Dickens,
P. Gregg and J. Wadsworth, (eds.), CEP, London, 2003.
2004
Journal Articles
‘Labour Market Policy and Welfare Reform: Meeting Distribution and Efficiency Objectives’, De
Economist , Vol.152 No.2, 233-250, June 2004.
‘Evaluating the Employment Impact of a Mandatory Job Search Assistance Program’,(with M. Costa
Dias, C. Meghir and J. Van Reenen), Journal of European Economic Association June 2004.
‘Entry and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Microlevel Panel Data’, (with P. Aghion, R. Griffith,
P. Howitt and S. Prantl), Journal of European Economic Association , 265-276, June 2004.
‘Endogeneity in Semiparametric Binary Response Models’, (with J. Powell), The Review of Economic
Studies , Vol; 71(3) No, 248, 581-913, July 2004.
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‘Introduction and Editorial for Special Issue on Income Taxation’, (with R.Gordon), Journal of Public
Economics, Vol 80, 2223-2225, 2004.
Papers in Edited Volumes
‘Pension Incentives and Early Retirement’, Pensions: Challenges and Reforms , E.Overbye and
P.Kemp, (eds.), Chapter 1, International Studies on Social Security,Vol.9, Ashgate, 3-20,
2004.
‘Has “In-Work” Benefit Reform Helped the Labor Market?’, (with H. Hoynes), Seeking A Premier
Economy , D. Card, and R. Freeman, (eds.), Chapter 10, National Bureau of Economic
Research, Chicago, 411-459, 2004.
‘Wealth Portfolios in the United Kingdom and the United States’, (with J.Banks, and J. Smith),
Perspectives on the Economics of Ageing , D. Wise (ed.), Chapter 5, National Bureau of
Economic Research, Chicago, 205-246,2004.
‘Pension Incentives and the Pattern of Retirement in the United Kingdom’, (with C. Meghir and S.
Smith), Social Security Programs and Retirement Around The World – Micro Estimation,
J.Gruber and D. Wise, (eds.), Chapter 11, National Bureau of Economic Research, Chicago,
643-689, 2004.
2005
Journal Articles
‘Private Pension Arrangements and Retirement in Britain’, (with J Banks) Fiscal Studies , Vol 26, No.1,
35-53, 2005.
‘How Revealing is Revealed Preference’, Journal of European Economic Association , 3 (2-3), 211-
235, April- May 2005.
‘The Balance Between Defined Benefit, Defined Contribution, and State Provision’, (with J.Banks and
C.Emmerson), Journal of European Economic Association , 3 (2-3), 466-476, April-May
2005.
‘Evaluating the Effect of Education on Earnings: Models, Methods and Results from the National Child
Development Survey’, (with L. Dearden and B. Sianesi), Journal of Royal Statistical Society
Series A, Vol.168, No.3 473-512,2005 .
‘Competition and Innovation: An inverted U relationship’, (with P.Aghion, N.Bloom, R.Griffith, and
P.Howitt), The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol.120, (2) May 2005.
‘Heterogeneity and Aggregation’ (with T homas M. Stoker), Journal of Economic Literature , Vol 43(2),
June 2005.
‘Collective labour supply with children’ (with Pierre-André Chiappori and Costas Meghir) Journal of
Political Economy, Volume 113, Number 6, 1277-1306, December 2005
2006
Journal Articles
‘Earned Income Tax Credit Policies: Impact and Optimality’ The Adam Smith Lecture 2005, Labour
Economics 13 423-44, 2006.
‘Does the Representation of Household Behavior Matter For Welfare Analysis of Tax-Benefit Policies?
An Introduction’, (with O.Bargain, M.Beblo, D.Beninger,R.Carrasco,M-C.Chiuri, F.Laisney,
V.Lechene, N.Moreau, M.Myck, J.Ruiz-Castillo and F.Vermeulen), Review of Economics of the Household , 4, 99-111, 2006.
‘The Working Families Tax Credit and some European tax reforms in a Collective Setting’, (with
O.Bargain, M.Beblo, D.Beninger,R.Carrasco,M-C.Chiuri, F.Laisney, V.Lechene, N.Moreau,
M.Myck, J.Ruiz-Castillo and F.Vermeulen), Review of Economics of the Household , 4, 129-
158, 2006.
‘Evaluating The Move To A Linear Tax System in Germany and Other European Countries’, (with
O.Bargain, M.Beblo, D.Beninger,R.Carrasco,M-C.Chiuri, F.Laisney, V.Lechene,
E.Longobardi, N.Moreau, M.Myck, J.Ruiz-Castillo and F.Vermeulen), Review of Economics of the Household , 4, 159-180, 2006.
Papers in Edited Volumes
‘Social security and the well-being of the elderly in the UK’, (with James Banks, Carl Emmerson and
Zoë Oldfield) paper presented at the NBER conference, London, 29th May 2004, forthcoming in J. Gruber and D. Wise (eds.), Social Security and Retirement Programmes around the world, volume 4. Chicago University Press
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2007
Journal Articles
‘Changes in the distribution of male and female wages accounting for employment composition using bounds’ (with Amanda Gosling, Hidehiko Ichimura and Costas Meghir), Econometrica, 75(2),
323-363, March.
‘Collective labor supply: heterogeneity and nonparticipation’ (with Pierre-Andre Chiappori, Thierry
Magnac and Costas Meghir), Review of Economic Studies , March.
‘Censored Quantile Regression with Endogenous Regressors,” (with J.L. Powell), Journal of
Econometrics , 141 (1), p.65-83, November
‘A Nonparametric Test of Exogeneity’ (with Joel Horowitz), Review of Economic Studies , 74(4), 1035-
1058, October .
‘Improving Revealed Preference Bounds on Demand Responses’, (with Martin Browning and Ian
Crawford), International Economic Review, Special Issue in Honor of Dan McFadden, Vol
48(4), November.
‘Estimating Continuous Consumer Equivalent Scales in an Expenditure Model with Labour Supply’,
( European Economic Review , 145-147, 1980; republished in EER Half Century Journal Issue ,
Vol 50, pp1-13.
‘Nonparametric IV estimation of shape-invariant Engel curves’, (with Xiaohong Chen and Dennis
Kristensen), Econometrica, November, pp 1613-1669.
Papers in Edited Volumes
‘Fiscal Effects of Reforming the UK State Pension System’, (with Carl Emmerson) in J. Gruber and D.
Wise (eds.), Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Fiscal Implications,
Chicago University Press, pp 459-502.
‘Models of aggregate economic relationships that account for heterogeneity’ (with Tom Stoker), in
Heckman, J. (ed) Handbook of Econometrics, v. 6 .
North-Holland, pp 4609-4664.
‘Labor Supply Models: Unobserved Heterogeneity, Nonparticipation and Dynamics’ (with Costas
Meghir and Tom MaCurdy), in Heckman, J. (ed) Handbook of Econometrics, v. 6 .
North-
Holland, pp 4670-4771.
2008
Journal Articles
‘Best nonparametric bounds on demand responses’ (with Martin Browning and Ian Crawford),
Econometrica, Vol 76 (6), 1227-1262, November, 2008
‘Consumption inequality and partial insurance’ (with Luigi Pistaferri and Ian Preston), American
Economic Review , 98(5): 1887–1921, December, 2008
‘Heterogeneity and the nonparametric analysis of consumer choice: conditions for invertibility’ (with
Walter Beckert), Review of Economic Studies , 75(4), 1069 – 1080, 2008
‘Job changes, hours changes and the path of labour supply adjustment’ (with Mike Brewer and Marco
Francesconi), Journal of Labor Economics, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 421–453, July, 2008
‘The effects of entry on incumbent innovation and productivity’ (with Philippe Aghion, Rachel
Griffith, Peter Howitt and Susanne Prantl), Review of Economics and Statistics , MIT Press, vol. 91(1), pages 20-32, October, 2008
Papers in Edited Volumes
‘Social security and the well-being of the elderly in the UK’, (with James Banks, Carl Emmerson and
Zoë Oldfield) in J. Gruber and D. Wise, Social Security and Retirement Programs around the
World , http://www.ifs.org.uk/wps/wp0614.pdf
‘Labor Supply’ (with Tom MaCurdy) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition.
Eds. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/article?id=pde2008_L000219>
2009
Journal Articles
‘Assessing the Temporary VAT Cut Policy in the UK," Fiscal Studies , vol. 30(1), pages 31-38, 03.
‘Optimal Income Taxation of Lone Mothers: An Empirical Comparison of the UK and Germany,"
(with Mike Brewer, Peter Haan and Andrew Shephard), Economic Journal , vol. 119(535),
2009, pages F101-F121, 02.
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‘Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics’ (with Monica Costa-Dias),
Journal of Human Resources , 44(3), Summer, 2009, 565-640. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/
~uctp39a/ Blundell-CostaDias-Dec-2007.pdf,
‘Why is consumption more log normal than income? Gibrat's law revisited’ (with Erich Battistin and
Arthur Lewbel), Journal of Political Economy , 2009, 117(6), December, 1140-1154.
2010
Journal Articles
‘Consumption, income and earnings inequality in Britain’ (with Ben Etheridge), Review of Economic
Dynamics , Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 76-102.
‘Structural vs. atheoretic approaches to econometrics: comment’, Journal of Econometrics, vol. 156(1), pages 25-26, May 2010
Selected Papers in Edited Volumes
‘Releasing Jobs for the Young? Early Retirement and Youth Unemployment in the United Kingdom’
(with James Banks, Antoine Bozio and Carl Emmerson) in J. Gruber and D. Wise, Social
Security Programs and Retirement around the World : Vol V: The Relationship to Youth
Employment, pages 319-344 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
2011
Journal Articles
‘Labour Supply Responses and the Extensive Margin: The US, UK and France’, (with Antoine Bozio and Guy Laroque), American Economic Review: Volume 101, Issue 3, May 2011, Article DOI:
10.1257/aer.101.3.482
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‘The Lampman Lecture: Understanding the Transmission of Inequality’, Focus , 2011, Vol 28(1), 23-
28; ISSN: 0195-5705.
‘Viewpoint: Empirical evidence and tax policy design: lessons from the Mirrlees Review’, Canadian
Journal of Economics/Revue Canadienne d'économique, November / novembre 2011, 1106–
1137.
‘The Mirrlees Review: Conclusions and Recommendations for Reform’ (with James Mirrlees, et al),
Fiscal Studies, Vol 32 (3), 331-359, 2011.
‘Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States’ (with James Banks,
Zoe Oldfield and James P. Smith), Economica, 79, 1–26, 2011 doi:10.1111/j.1468-
0335.2011.00878.x
Selected Papers in Edited Volumes
‘The Downing Lecture 2011: Tax Policy Reform’, Insights Magazine , Melbourne, 2011.
2012
Journal Articles
‘Tax Policy Reform: the Role of Empirical Evidence’, Journal of European Economics Association ,
February 2012 10(1):43–77, DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-4774.2011.01054.x
‘Measuring the Price Responsiveness of Gasoline Demand: Economic Shape Restrictions and
Nonparametric Demand Estimation’ (with Joel L. Horowitz and Matthias Parey),
Quantitative Economics, 3, 29-51, March 2012.
‘Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families’ (with Andrew Shephard), Review of Economic Studies (with Supplementary Material, see my website) 79(2), 481-510, April,
2012, doi: 10.1093/restud/rdr034
Selected Papers in Edited Volumes
‘Disability, health and retirement in the United Kingdom’ (2012) (with James Banks, Antoine Bozio and Carl Emmerson) in J. Gruber and D. Wise (eds), Social Security and Retirement around
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the World , Vol VI: Disability, Health and Retirement, forthcoming National Bureau of
Economic Research, Inc.
2013
Journal Articles
‘Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply: Working Hours in the US, UK and France’ (with
Antoine Bozio and Guy Laroque) Fiscal Studies, 34 (1), 1-29, March 2013
‘Decomposing changes in income risk using consumption data’ (with Hamish Low and Ian Preston),
Quantitative Economics , 4, 1–37, March, 2013
‘Control Functions and Simultaneous Equations Methods’ (with Dennis Kristensen and Rosa Matzkin),
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 103(3), 2013, May, 1–9 http://dx.doi.org/
10.1257/aer.103.3.1
Selected Papers in Edited Volumes
‘Empirical Evidence and Tax Reform’ (2013) Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and
Applications, Tenth World Congress, edited by Daron Acemoglu, Manuel Arellano, and Eddie
Dekel, Cambridge University Press, Econometric Society Monographs, May 2013.
2014
Journal Articles
“Bounding Quantile Demand Functions using Revealed Preference Inequalities”, (with Dennis
Kristensen and Rosa Matzkin) Journal of Econometrics, 117, 112-127.
“Conditions for the existence of control functions in nonseparable simultaneous equations models,”
(with Rosa Matzkin), Quantitative Economics , 5, (2014), 271-295.
“What can wages and employment tell us about the UK's productivity puzzle?”, (with Claire
Crawford and Wenchao (Michelle) Jin), Economic Journal , 2014, 124 (May), 377–407. Doi:
10.1111/ecoj.12138
“Income Dynamics and Life-Cycle Inequality: Mechanisms and Controversies”, Economic Journal ,
2014, 124 (May), 289–318. Doi: 10.1111/ecoj.12133
Selected Papers in Edited Volumes
‘How Responsive is the Labor Market to Tax Policy’ in IZA World of Labor, 2014:2, May, 1-10.
2015
Journal Articles
“Sharp for SARP: Nonparametric bounds on the behavioural and welfare effects of price changes”, (with Martin Browning, Laurens Cherchye, Ian Crawford, Bram De Rock and
Frederic Vermeulen), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 2015, 7(1): 43–60 .
“Labor Income Dynamics and the Insurance from Taxes, Transfers, and the Family”, (with Michael
Graber, and Magne Mogstad), Journal of Public Economics , Vol 127, 58-73.
“Human capital and inequality in the United Kingdom — (with Orazio Attanasio), Bank of England,
Quarterly Bulletin 2015 Q1 | Volume 55 No. 1, p 41-42.
“Disability Benefit Receipt and Reform: Reconciling Trends in the United Kingdom” (with James
Banks and Carl Emmerson), Journal of Economic Perspectives , Vol 29(20), 173-190, Spring.
2016
Journal Articles
“Consumption Inequality and Family Labor Supply”, (with Luigi Pistaferri and Itay Saporta-Eksten),
American Economic Review ; 2016, 106(2): 387–435.
“Human Capital, Inequality and Tax Reform: Recent Past and Future Prospects; The Coase Lecture
2015” Economica ; 2016, 83, 201–218
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“Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform”, (with Richard Blundell, Monica Costa-
Dias, Costas Meghir and Jonathan Shaw), IFS Working Paper W16/03, forthcoming
Econometrica .
Richard Blundell, Joel Horowitz and Matthias Parey, (2014), “Nonparametric estimation of a heterogeneous demand function under the Slutsky inequality restriction”, cemmap Working
Papers , CWP54/13, revised, forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics .
Some Recent Working Papers links to papers are on my website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctp39a/
Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell and Stephane Bonhomme (2015), “ Earnings and consumption dynamics: a nonlinear panel data framework”, Cemmap Working Paper CWP 53/15,
September 2015.
Aghion Philippe, Akcigit Ufuk, Bergeaud Antoine, Blundell Richard, and Hemous David
(2015), “ Innovation and Top Income Inequality ”, CEPR Discussion Paper No 10659. Revised
December 2015.
Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri and Itay Saporta-Eksten (2015) "Children, Time Allocation and
Consumption Insurance", IFS Working Paper W15/13, March 2015.
Abi Adams, Richard Blundell, Martin Browning, and Ian Crawford (2015), "Prices versus Preferences:
Taste Change and Revealed Preference", IFS Working Paper W15/11, March 2015.
James Banks, Richard Blundell, Peter Levell, and James P. Smith (2015), "Life-Cycle Consumption
Patterns at Older Ages in the US and the UK: Can Medical Expenditures Explain the
Difference?", IFS Working Paper W15/12, March 2015.
Magali Beffy, Richard Blundell, Antoine Bozio and Guy Laroque, (2015), "Labour supply and taxation with restricted choices", IFS Working Papers , W15/02, Revised January 2016.
Richard Blundell, Marco Francesconi and Wilbert van der Klaauw (2011) “Anatomy of Welfare
Reform Evaluation: Announcement and Implementation Effects” IZA Discussion Paper 6051,
October.
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