Konstantinos "Costas" Meghir (, transcr. ''Konstantinos Ektor Dimitrios Meghir'', born February 13, 1959) is a

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. He studied at the

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where he graduated with a Ph.D. in 1985, following an MA in economics (with Distinction) in 1980 and a BA (with Honors) in

Economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

and

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in 1979. In 1997 he was awarded the Bodosakis foundation prize and in 2000 he was awarded the “ Ragnar Frisch Medal” for his article “Estimating Labour Supply Responses using Tax Reforms” (

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, 1998, Vol. 66, No. 4, with

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and

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). Following his Ph.D. he was appointed at

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, where he was promoted to professor in 1993 and was head of the department of economics from 2005-2008. He has been at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

since 2010, where he is the “ Douglas A. Warner III” Professor of Economics. He is also a research associate of the NBER, a research fellow of the

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(IFS) in the UK, a Fellow of the

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(FBA), a Fellow of the

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, a Fellow of the

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and a Fellow of the Society for Labor Economists. He holds affiliations with IZA and the CEPR. In 2019 he was elected member of the

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. He has been co-editor of

(2001-2006), joint managing editor of the

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(1996-2001) and Assistant Editor at the Review of Economics Studies (1990-1994). He is currently editing

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Research

His main research interests are in

Labor economics Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour. Labour is a commodity that is supplied by labourers, usually in exchange for a wage paid by demanding firms. Because these labourers exist as pa ...

Human Capital Human capital or human assets is a concept used by economists to designate personal attributes considered useful in the production process. It encompasses employee knowledge, skills, know-how, good health, and education. Human capital has a subs ...

, the Economics of the Household and the design of

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and welfare programs. He has been involved in the evaluation of numerous

public policy Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a Group decision-making, decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to Problem solving, solve or address relevant and problematic social issues, guided by a conceptio ...

programs in the UK and

developing countries A developing country is a sovereign state with a less-developed Secondary sector of the economy, industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to developed countries. However, this definition is not universally agreed upon. ...

, including

Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

and

Senegal Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea t ...

. Recently he has been working in the field of

child development Child development involves the Human development (biology), biological, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the conclusion of adolescence. It is—particularly from birth to five years— a foundation ...

. He has been involved in designing scalable Early Childhood interventions based on both home visiting and village playgroups in deprived communities. These have been implemented in

and

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

(

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), and evaluated by Randomised Control Trials (RCTs).

Publications

Meghir has over 136 articles on subjects ranging from

Labor Economics Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour. Labour is a commodity that is supplied by labourers, usually in exchange for a wage paid by demanding firms. Because these labourers exist as pa ...

Education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...

Child development Child development involves the Human development (biology), biological, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the conclusion of adolescence. It is—particularly from birth to five years— a foundation ...

Impact evaluation Impact evaluation assesses the changes that can be attributed to a particular intervention, such as a project, program or policy, both the intended ones, as well as ideally the unintended ones. In contrast to outcome monitoring, which examines whe ...

, Advanced

, Economics of Education, etc.

References

External links

* http://www.ifs.org.uk/people/profile/54 * https://web.archive.org/web/20100907033502/http://www.econ.yale.edu/faculty1/meghir.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20110427235513/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/people/academic/meghir
Costas Meghir appointed the first Douglas A. Warner III Professor

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