Human Capital and Economic Opportunity: A Global Working Group

Costas Meghir

Yale University
Professor

I graduated from the University of Manchester in 1985. I then joined UCL, where I remained until 2010. Currently I am Professor of Economics at Yale University. My research spans a broad set of fields, including family economics, household consumption, savings and labor supply behavior, wage determination and earnings dynamics, educational choice and its effects on wages and individual careers, the impact of quality of education, intergenerational transmission of education and health and the economics of crime.

Working Group

Family Inequality (FI)
Markets (M)

Additional Information

Email: c.meghir@yale.edu