10 Facts About Orazio Attanasio

Orazio Attanasio was the Jeremy Bentham Chair of Economics at University College London.

Orazio Attanasio graduated from the University of Bologna in 1982 and London School of Economics in 1988.

Orazio Attanasio then went to teach at Stanford and was a National Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a visiting professor at the University of Chicago before arriving at University College London.

In 2004, Attanasio co-authored an IFS evaluation of an initiative which was designed to improve the lives of children in small Colombian towns and villages by paying their mothers to improve their children's food intake; in return, younger children had to have regular medical check-ups and older ones were required to attend school regularly.

In 2001 Orazio Attanasio was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and in 2004 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.

Orazio Attanasio was chosen to be president of the European Economic Association in 2014.

In October 2016, Attanasio won the 1 million Swiss francs Klaus J Jacobs Research Prize for his "use of economic models and field experiments to assess and shape early child development programs and policies in low income countries".

In 2016 Orazio Attanasio was awarded the Carlos Diaz Alejandro prize by the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association and in 2017 he was elected to serve in 2020 as the 2nd vice-president of the Econometric Society.

Orazio Attanasio's research focuses include household consumption, saving and labour supply, human capital accumulation, and micro credit, among others.

Orazio Attanasio has served as managing editor of The Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of the European Economic Association, and Quantitative Economics.