Orazio Attanasio is the Cowles Professor of Economics at Yale University, a Research Fellow and one of the Directors of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research.
In 2016 he was awarded the Carlos Diaz Alejandro prize by LACEA and the Klaus Jacobs Research Prize by the Jacob foundation.
Orazio’s research interests include: household consumption, saving and labour supply behaviour; risk sharing; evaluation and design of policies in developing countries; human capital accumulation in developing countries; early years interventions; micro credit; measurement tools in surveys.
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Growing apart: Declining within- and across-village risk sharing in rural China
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- Poverty and Income Inequality
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How women’s social networks vary with wealth and status
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- Development 
- Poverty and Income Inequality 
- Gender
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Aggregating labour supply elasticities: The importance of heterogeneity
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- Labour Markets 
- Taxation
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Early childhood development policies: The evidence and the research agenda
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- Development 
- Education
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Targeted transfers and the assessment of women’s empowerment
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- Gender 
- Poverty and Income Inequality