Konstantinos "Costas" Meghir ( el, Κωνσταντίνος (Κώστας) Εκτώρ Δημήτριος Μεγήρ, transcr. ''Konstantinos Ektor Dimitrios Meghir'', born February 13, 1959) is a
Greek
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economist
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. He studied at the
University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...
where he graduated with a
Ph.D
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. in 1985, following an MA in economics (with Distinction) in 1980 and a BA (with Honors) in
Economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...
and
Econometrics
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in 1979. In 1997 he was awarded the Bodosakis foundation prize and in 2000 he was awarded the “
Ragnar Frisch Medal” for his article “Estimating Labour Supply Responses using Tax Reforms” (
Econometrica
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, 1998, Vol. 66, No. 4, with
Richard Blundell
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Blundell is the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics of University College London and ...
and
Alan Duncan
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).
Following his Ph.D. he was appointed at
University College London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
, budget = ...
, where he was promoted to Professor in 1993 and was Head of Department of Economics from 2005-2008. He has been at
Yale University
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since 2010, where he is the “
Douglas A. Warner III” Professor of Economics. He is also a Research Associate of the
NBER
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, a Research Fellow of the
Institute for Fiscal Studies
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(IFS) in the UK, a Fellow of the
British Academy
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(FBA), a Fellow of the
Econometric Society
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, a Fellow of the
European Economic Association
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and a Fellow of the Society for Labor Economists. He holds affiliations with
IZA and the
CEPR. In 2019 he was elected member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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.
He has been co-editor of
Econometrica
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(2001-2006), joint managing editor of the
Economic Journal
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(1996-2001) and Assistant Editor at the
Review of Economics Studies (1990-1994). He is currently editing
Economics Letters
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.
Research
His main research interests are in
Labor economics,
Human Capital, the Economics of the Household and the design of
tax
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and
welfare programs. He has been involved in the evaluation of numerous
public policy
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programs in the
UK and
developing countries
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, including
Colombia,
Chile
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and
Senegal
Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...
.
Recently he has been working in the field of
child development
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. He has been involved in designing scalable
Early Childhood interventions based on both home visiting and village playgroups in deprived communities. These have been implemented in
Colombia and
India
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(
Odisha
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), and evaluated by
Randomised Control Trials (RCTs).
Publications
Meghir has over 136 articles on subjects ranging from
Labor Economics,
Education
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,
Child development
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,
Impact evaluation
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, Advanced
Econometrics
Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics," '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8 ...
, Economics of Education, etc.
References
External links
* http://www.ifs.org.uk/people/profile/54
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100907033502/http://www.econ.yale.edu/faculty1/meghir.htm
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110427235513/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/people/academic/meghir
Costas Meghir appointed the first Douglas A. Warner III Professor Yale University
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Daily Bulletin, September 30, 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-22.
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1959 births
20th-century Greek economists
Labor economists
Education economists
Living people
Fellows of the British Academy
Fellows of the Econometric Society
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the European Economic Association
21st-century Greek economists