Martin James Browning (born 1946) is Professor of Economics at the

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, a Fellow of Nuffield College,

, a Fellow of the

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, and an emeritus Fellow of the

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Education

Browning received his undergraduate education at the

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and his doctorate from

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Career

He was previously the Director of the Center for Applied Microeconometrics at the

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. Before the appointment at University of Copenhagen, he was a professor at

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Research

His work is in microeconomic analysis, with emphasis in the empirical assessments of theoretical propositions. He has worked in the areas of intrahousehold decision making;

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; consumption and saving, and its interaction with labor supply. An important part of his work concerns the empirical assessment of rationality through the concept of revealed preference, and the modeling of individual

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in applied work.

Selected journal articles

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