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D-Index
128
Citations
106823
World Ranking
25
National Ranking
19

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - Nobel Prize for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2015 - Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare".
  • 2014 - Leontief Prize, Global Development and Environment Institute
  • 2011 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 2010 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1978 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Angus Deaton is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, including general health professions, economics and econometrics, health, demography, and general economics, econometrics, and finance. Their main topics of work cover global health care issues, health disparities and outcomes, employment and welfare studies, insurance, mortality, demography, risk management, and COVID-19-related subjects.

Notable recent papers by Angus Deaton include:

  • COVID-19 and Global Income Inequality, 2021, LSE Public Policy Review
  • GDP, Wellbeing, and Health: Thoughts on the 2017 Round of the International Comparison Program, 2021, Review of Income and Wealth
  • A Conversation with Angus Deaton, 2020, Annual Review of Resource Economics

Frequent co-authors include Anne Case, with whom Deaton has collaborated extensively, as well as Paul Schreyer, Amartya Sen, and Tim Besley.

  • Anne Case
  • Paul Schreyer
  • Amartya Sen
  • Tim Besley

Angus Deaton's work has been published in a variety of academic venues. Some of the most frequent publication venues are:

  • Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
  • Annual Review of Economics
  • SAY
  • Business Economics
  • LSE Public Policy Review

Deaton has authored multiple books with Princeton University Press. These include several editions or printings of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, published between 2020 and 2021, which have accumulated a notable number of citations.

The scientist has received several awards and recognitions over their career, such as:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)
  • Nobel Prize (2015) for analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare
  • Nobel Memorial Prize laureate in Economics (2015) for analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare
  • Leontief Prize from the Global Development and Environment Institute (2014)
  • BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2011)
  • Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2010)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2010)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992)
  • Fellows of the Econometric Society (1978)

Best Publications

  • The Analysis of Household Surveys : A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy

    Angus S. Deaton

  • Economics and consumer behavior

    Angus Deaton;John Muellbauer

  • An Almost Ideal Demand System

    A. S. Deaton

  • Saving and liquidity constraints

    Angus Deaton

  • High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being

    Daniel Kahneman;Angus Deaton

  • The Determinants of Mortality

    David M Cutler;Angus S Deaton;Adriana Lleras-Muney

  • Saving and Liquidity Constraints

    Angus Deaton

  • Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century.

    Anne Case;Angus Deaton

  • Subjective wellbeing, health, and ageing

    Andrew Steptoe;Angus Deaton;Arthur A Stone;Arthur A Stone

  • Income, health, and well-being around the world: evidence from the Gallup World Poll.

    Angus Deaton

  • Health, inequality, and economic development

    Angus Deaton

  • Panel data from time series of cross-sections

    Angus Deaton

  • Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials.

    Angus Deaton;Angus Deaton;Angus Deaton;Nancy Cartwright

  • Poverty and Inequality in India: A Re-Examination

    Angus Deaton;Jean Drèze

  • On the Behaviour of Commodity Prices

    Angus Deaton;Angus Deaton;Guy Laroque

  • The Determinants of Mortality

    David M. Cutler;Angus S. Deaton;Adriana Lleras-Muney

  • Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century

    Anne Case;Angus Deaton

  • Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century

    Anne Case;Angus Deaton

  • The analysis of household surveys

    Angus Deaton

  • Understanding Consumption

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  • Instruments, randomization, and learning about development

    Angus Deaton

  • Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis

    Angus Deaton;Salman Zaidi

  • Intertemporal Choice and Inequality

    Angus Deaton;Christina Paxson

  • Income, Aging, Health and Wellbeing Around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

    Angus Deaton;Angus Deaton

Frequent Co-Authors

Christina Paxson
Christina Paxson Brown University
Anne Case
Anne Case Princeton University
John Muellbauer
John Muellbauer University of Oxford
Arthur A. Stone
Arthur A. Stone University of Southern California
Guy Laroque
Guy Laroque University College London
Jean Drèze
Jean Drèze University of Delhi
Nancy Cartwright
Nancy Cartwright Durham University
Ufuk Akcigit
Ufuk Akcigit University of Chicago
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science

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