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Jeremey McCauley
Peter Spittal
George Stoye
Karolos Arapakis
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PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS- UCL
2013- Present
CO-DIRECTOR, ESRC CENTRE FOR THE MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC POLICY, INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL
STUDIES
2016- Present
RESEARCH FELLOW, CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH
2014- Present
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR THE MICHIGAN RETIREMENT RESEARCH CENTER
2012- Present
EDITOR, JOURNAL OF PENSION ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
2016- Present
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Eric Baird French
Department of Economics
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Eric French is a Professor of Economics at University College London, Co-director, ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and is a Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Centre for Economic Policy Research.
French's research interests include: household behavior over the lifecycle; the impact of government and private pensions on savings and labor supply; the impact of health insurance on medical spending, savings, and labor supply; the impact of disability insurance programs on labor supply; the impact of the minimum wage on employment and spending of minimum wage households; and dynamic structural modelling.
French's research has been published in Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Handbook of Labor Economics, Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Annual Review of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Labor Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Human Resources, Economic Journal, Fiscal Studies, American Economic Journal: Policy and other publications.
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, and taught at the Department of Economics and the Business School at Northwestern University.
French received a B.A. in economics from the University of California–Berkeley, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
ERIC FRENCH
I am a professor of economics at University College London. I am also a fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). My primary research interests are labor, public finance, health, and applied econometrics.