Konstantinos "Costas" Meghir ( el, Κωνσταντίνος (Κώστας) Εκτώρ Δημήτριος Μεγήρ, transcr. ''Konstantinos Ektor Dimitrios Meghir'', born February 13, 1959) is a

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. He studied at the

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where he graduated with a

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. in 1985, following an MA in economics (with Distinction) in 1980 and a BA (with Honors) in

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and

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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” (

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, 1998, Vol. 66, No. 4, with

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and

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). Following his Ph.D. he was appointed at

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, where he was promoted to Professor in 1993 and was Head of Department of Economics from 2005-2008. He has been at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

since 2010, where he is the “ Douglas A. Warner III” Professor of Economics. He is also a Research Associate of the

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, a Research Fellow of the

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(IFS) in the UK, a Fellow of the

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(FBA), a Fellow of the

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, a Fellow of the

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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

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. He has been co-editor of

(2001-2006), joint managing editor of the

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(1996-2001) and Assistant Editor at the Review of Economics Studies (1990-1994). He is currently editing

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Research

His main research interests are in Labor economics,

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, the Economics of the Household and the design of

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and welfare programs. He has been involved in the evaluation of numerous

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programs in the UK and

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, including

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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 Child development involves the Human development (biology), biological, developmental psychology, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the conclusion of adolescence. Childhood is divided into 3 stages o ...

. 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

and

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(

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), and evaluated by Randomised Control Trials (RCTs).

Publications

Meghir has over 136 articles on subjects ranging from Labor Economics,

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Child development Child development involves the Human development (biology), biological, developmental psychology, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the conclusion of adolescence. Childhood is divided into 3 stages o ...

Impact evaluation Impact evaluation assesses the changes that can be attributed to a particular intervention, such as a project, program or policy, both the intended ones, as well as ideally the unintended ones. In contrast to outcome monitoring, which examines whe ...

, Advanced

, 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

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