Angus Deaton
Visiting Fellow, February 25-26, 2010
Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Angus Deaton’s current research focuses on the determinants of health in rich and poor countries, as well as on the measurement of poverty in India and around the world. He also maintains a long-standing interest in the analysis of household surveys. He is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. Deaton previously taught at Cambridge University and the University of Bristol. He is past president of the American Economic Association, a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, which awarded him the society’s inaugural Frisch Medal in 1978.
Activities
Events
- What Can We Learn from Randomized Controlled Trials? (Lecturer)
- Measuring and Analyzing Economic Development (Lecturer)