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

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, a Fellow of

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, 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 Microeconomics is a branch of mainstream economics that studies the behavior of individuals and firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources and the interactions among these individuals and firms. Microeconomics foc ...

analysis, with emphasis in the

empirical Empirical evidence for a proposition is evidence, i.e. what supports or counters this proposition, that is constituted by or accessible to sense experience or experimental procedure. Empirical evidence is of central importance to the sciences and ...

assessments of theoretical propositions. He has worked in the areas of intrahousehold decision making;

demand In economics, demand is the quantity of a good that consumers are willing and able to purchase at various prices during a given time. The relationship between price and quantity demand is also called the demand curve. Demand for a specific item ...

analysis Analysis ( : analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (3 ...

; 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 Revealed preference theory, pioneered by economist Paul Anthony Samuelson in 1938, is a method of analyzing choices made by individuals, mostly used for comparing the influence of policies on consumer behavior. Revealed preference models assume t ...

, and the modeling of individual

heterogeneity Homogeneity and heterogeneity are concepts often used in the sciences and statistics relating to the uniformity of a substance or organism. A material or image that is homogeneous is uniform in composition or character (i.e. color, shape, siz ...

in applied work.

Selected journal articles

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