Costas Meghir (born February 13, 1959) is a Greek

Greece

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-British

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 economist

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 who graduated from the University of Manchester

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 in 1985. He was awarded the Ragnar Frisch Medal

Frisch Medal

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 in 2000 for the article Estimating Labour Supply Responses using Tax Reforms (with Richard Blundell

Richard Blundell

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 and Duncan) in Econometrica

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. He was head of the economics

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 department at University College London

University College London

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 from 2004 to 2007. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy

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 in 2005.

Publications

Professor Meghir has over 136 articles referenced here: http://www.ifs.org.uk/people/profile/id/54/show/all ranging from Labor Economics, Education

Education

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, Impact evaluation

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, Advanced Econometrics

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, etc.