16 Facts About Richard Blundell

Richard Blundell was the Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies between 1986 and 2016.

Richard Blundell is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the British Academy, Honorary Member of the American Economic Association, Honorary Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, and Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.

Richard Blundell has received honorary doctorates from the University of St Gallen, Switzerland in 2003; the University of Mannheim in 2011; the Norwegian School of Economics NHH, Bergen in 2011; the Universita della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland in 2016; the University of Bristol in 2017; the University of Venice Ca Foscari in 2018; and the Athens School of Economics, AUEB, Athens in 2022.

Richard Blundell was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to economics and social science.

Richard Blundell held a position as lecturer in econometrics at the University of Manchester from 1975 to 1984.

Richard Blundell was appointed Professor of Economics at University College London in 1984 and research director of the IFS in 1986, before establishing the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Fiscal Policy at IFS in 1991.

Richard Blundell was visiting professor of economics at UBC in 1980, at MIT in 1993, at Berkeley in 2000 and at Northwestern University in 2017.

Richard Blundell was co-editor of Econometrica from 1997 to 2001 and co-editor of the Journal of Econometrics from 1992 to 1997.

In 2004 Richard Blundell became president of the European Economic Association, in 2006, president of the Econometric Society in 2010, president of The Society of Labor Economics in 2010 and served as president of the Royal Economic Society.

In 1995, Richard Blundell received the Yrjo Jahnsson Award, given by the European Economic Association every two years to the best young economist in Europe, for his work in microeconometrics and the analysis of labour supply, welfare reform and consumer behaviour.

Richard Blundell was the 2010 Distinguished Center for Economic Studies Fellow, an annual prize given by the CES of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to an outstanding economist who has greatly contributed to the understanding of economic policy problems.

In 2014, Richard Blundell received, with David Card, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management for "their contributions to empirical microeconomics," in the words of the jury's citation.

Richard Blundell was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in April 2019.

Richard Blundell has published six books and many articles on econometrics, microeconomics, consumer behaviour, public economics, applied economics, economic theory, inequality and labour economics.

Richard Blundell is an editor and panel member of the IFS Mirrlees Review and editor and panel member of the IFS-Deaton Review: Inequality in the 21st Century.

Richard Blundell is a jazz and folk fan, and plays guitar and saxophone, playing in a band when a student at the University of Bristol.