Richard Blundell
| Richard Blundell | |
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Sir Richard Blundell CBE
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| Born | 1 May 1952 |
| Nationality | British |
| Institution | University College London |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics |
| Doctoral students |
Nicholas Bloom |
| Awards | Knighthood BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Sir Richard William Blundell CBE FBA (born 1 May 1952, Shoreham-by-Sea) is a British economist and econometrician.
Blundell is the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London and the Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He was the Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies between 1986-2016 (January). He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society (1991), Fellow of the British Academy (1996), Honorary Member of the American Economic Association (2001), Honorary Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002) and Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (2003).
Blundell was predicted to win the Nobel Prize in 2015 by Reuters along with two other notable economists, Chicago economist John A. List for his work on field experiments and Northwestern economist Charles Manski, for his work on the reflection problem. Blundell and List were subsequently heavily bet on in betting markets, and experts believe they will be favorites for years, with Blundell's work in labor economics being often cited.
Blundell received his B.Sc. in economics and statistics from University of Bristol in 1973 before he graduated with a master's degree in econometrics and mathematical economics from the London School of Economics in 1975.
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