Sir Richard William Blundell
CBE
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FBA (born 1 May 1952,
Shoreham-by-Sea
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) is a British
economist
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and
econometrician
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.
Blundell is the
David Ricardo
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Professor of
Political Economy
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at the
Department of Economics of
University College London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
, budget = ...
and the Director of the
ESRC
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Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the
Institute for Fiscal Studies
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. He is also Associate Faculty Member, TSE, Toulouse. He was the Research Director at the
Institute for Fiscal Studies
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between 1986 and 2016. He is a Fellow of the
Econometric Society
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(1991), Fellow of the
British Academy
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(1996), Honorary Member of the
American Economic Association
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History and Constitution
The AEA was esta ...
(2001), Honorary Member
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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(2002) and Honorary Fellow of the
Institute of Actuaries
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(2003).
Blundell has received honorary doctorates from the
University of St. Gallen
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, Switzerland in 2003; the
University of Mannheim
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in 2011; the Norwegian School of Economics
NHH, Bergen in 2011; the
Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland in 2016; the University of Bristol in 2017 and the University of Venice Ca Foscari in 2018.
[ He was ]knighted
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in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to economics and social science.
Career
Blundell received his B.Sc.
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in economics with statistics from University of Bristol
, mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'')
, established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter
, type ...
in 1973 before he graduated with a master's degree in econometrics and mathematical economics from the London School of Economics
, mottoeng = To understand the causes of things
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £240.8 million (2021)
, budget = £391.1 millio ...
in 1975.
He held a position as Lecturer
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in Econometrics 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 Univer ...
from 1975 to 1984. He was appointed Professor of Economics 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 = ...
in 1984 and Research Director of the IFS in 1986, before establishing the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Fiscal Policy at IFS in 1991. He was Visiting Professor
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of Economics at UBC
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in 1980, at MIT
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in 1993, at Berkeley
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in 2000 and at Northwestern University
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Charte ...
in 2017.[
He was co-editor of '']Econometrica
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'' from 1997 to 2001 and co-editor of the ''Journal of Econometrics
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'' from 1992 to 1997. He currently edit
Microeconomic Insights
In 2004 Blundell became president of the European Economic Association
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, in 2006, president of the Econometric Society
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in 2010, president of The Society of Labor Economics and served as president of the Royal Economic Society
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(2010–2012).
Awards
In 1995, Blundell received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award Yrjö, a masculine Finnish given name that is the equivalent of George, may refer to:
* Yrjö von Grönhagen, (1911–2003), Finnish anthropologist
* Yrjö Jylhä, (1903–1956), Finnish poet
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, given by the European Economic Association
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every two years to the best young economist in Europe, for his work in microeconometrics and the analysis of labour supply, welfare reform and consumer behaviour. In 2000 he was awarded the Econometric Society
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's Frisch Medal
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, awarded every two years for empirical or theoretical applied research published in ''Econometrica
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'' during the previous five years. In 2008 he was recipient of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize 2008 given by the Toulouse School of Economics
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to an international high level economist whose research combines both the theoretical and applied aspects of economics. He was the 2010 Distinguished Center for Economic Studies
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It promotes the international exchange of knowledge and ideas in public finance and other areas of economics. CES ...
Fellow, an annual prize given by the CES of the Ludwig Maximilian University
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of Munich to an outstanding economist who has greatly contributed to the understanding of economic policy problems. In 2012 he was recipient of the IZA Prize in Labor Economics
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awarded by IZA for outstanding academic achievements in the field of labor economics.
In 2014, Blundell received, with David Card
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, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
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in Economics, Finance and Management for "their contributions to empirical microeconomics," in the words of the jury's citation. "Motivated by important empirical questions, they developed and estimated appropriate econometric models, making significant methodological contributions in the process. Both are known for their attention to institutional detail, careful and innovative research design, rigorous application of econometric tools, and dispassionate reporting of results." In 2016 Blundell received the Nemmers Prize in Economics at Northwestern University
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Charte ...
for "his important contributions to labor economics, public finance and applied econometrics".
He was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences
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in April 2019. In 2020 he was awarded the Jacob Mincer Prize for lifetime contributions to the field of Labor Economics.
Publications
He has published six books and many articles on econometrics
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, microeconomics
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, consumer behaviour
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, public economics
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and labour economics. Among his six books, ''Labor Supply and Taxation'' is Blundell's most distinguished book, in which he presents research on the behavior of individuals on the labor market respond to social policy influence and taxation, and on the modern labor markets and public policy reforms.
Personal life
His brother is the biochemist Tom Blundell
Sir Thomas Leon Blundell, (born 7 July 1942) is a British biochemist, structural biologist, and science administrator. He was a member of the team of Dorothy Hodgkin that solved in 1969 the first structure of a protein hormone, insulin. Blun ...
.
References
External links
Debrett's People of Today
UCL webpage
IFS website
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1952 births
Living people
Academics of University College London
Alumni of the University of Bristol
20th-century British economists
21st-century British economists
Labor economists
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Econometricians
Presidents of the Econometric Society
Fellows of the British Academy
Knights Bachelor
People from Shoreham-by-Sea
Fellows of the Econometric Society
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Education economists
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the European Economic Association