Imran Rasul (born 29 July 1974) is a professor of economics at the

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of the

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, and co-director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the

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. His research interests include labour, development and public economics and he is considered to be one of the leaders within social norms and capital economics. After completing his masters at

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in 1997, he continued his studies at the

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under the supervision of Professor Timothy Besley, achieving his doctorate in 2003 with a thesis entitled "Non-contractibilities in the household: Theory and evidence".

Awards and honours

In 2007 Rasul was awarded the

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Young Economist Prize. In 2019 Rasul and

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were jointly awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics. The award is given to a European economist that is no older than 45 years old and has made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to economies in Europe. Rasul was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2019 and fellow of the

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in 2020. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the

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for services to social sciences.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rasul, Imran British economists Living people 1974 births Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of the London School of Economics Fellows of the British Academy Officers of the Order of the British Empire Academics of University College London Fellows of the Econometric Society