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Economics and Finance
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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
102
Citations
109328
World Ranking
89
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2020 - Jacob Mincer Award, the Society of Labour Economics (SOLE)
  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2014 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  • 2012 - IZA Prize in Labor Economics, Institute for the Study of Labor
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2001 - Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association
  • 1995 - Yrjö Jahnsson Award
  • 1991 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Richard Blundell is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans key areas within economics, econometrics, and finance, with significant contributions to social sciences. The main subfields of their work include economics and econometrics, general health professions, sociology and political science, education, and gender studies.

The scientist's research topics prominently cover labor market dynamics and wage inequality, employment and welfare studies, retirement, disability and employment, global health care issues, intergenerational and educational inequality studies, gender, labor and family dynamics, and financial literacy, pension, and retirement analysis.

Recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • COVID-19 and Inequalities, 2020, Fiscal Studies
  • Inequality and the COVID-19 Crisis in the United Kingdom, 2022, Annual Review of Economics
  • The Impact of Health on Labor Supply near Retirement, 2020, The Journal of Human Resources
  • Inequality in Socio-Emotional Skills: A Cross-Cohort Comparison, 2020, Journal of Public Economics
  • The U.K. as a Technological Follower: Higher Education Expansion and the College Wage Premium, 2021, The Review of Economic Studies

Frequent collaborators include Mónica Costa Dias, Rachel Griffith, James Banks, James P. Ziliak, and Robert Joyce.

Publications often appear in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Fiscal Studies, Journal of Econometrics, The Review of Economic Studies, and Journal of Labor Economics.

Recognitions received by Richard Blundell encompass several awards and honors, including the Jacob Mincer Award from the Society of Labour Economics in 2020, membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2019, membership of Academia Europaea in 2014, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2014, the IZA Prize in Labor Economics from the Institute for the Study of Labor in 2012, fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002, foreign honorary membership in the American Economic Association in 2001, the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in 1995, fellowship of the Econometric Society in 1991, and election as a fellow of the European Economic Association.

Best Publications

  • Initial conditions and moment restrictions in dynamic panel data models

    Richard Blundell;Stephen R. Bond

  • Competition and Innovation: an Inverted-U Relationship

    Philippe Aghion;Nicholas Bloom;Richard Blundell;Rachel Griffith

  • Labor supply: a review of alternative approaches

    R. Blundell;T. Macurdy

  • GMM Estimation with persistent panel data: an application to production functions

    Richard Blundell;Stephen R. Bond

  • Quadratic Engel Curves and Consumer Demand

    James Banks;Richard Blundell;Arthur Lewbel

  • Market share, market value and innovation in a panel of British manufacturing firms

    Richard Blundell;Rachel Griffith;John Van Reenen

  • Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics

    Richard Blundell;Monica Costa Dias

  • THE EFFECTS OF ENTRY ON INCUMBENT INNOVATION AND PRODUCTIVITY

    Philippe Aghion;Richard Blundell;Rachel Griffith;Peter Howitt

  • Evaluation Methods for Non-Experimental Data

    Richard Blundell;Monica Costa Dias

  • An Exogeneity Test for a Simultaneous Equation Tobit Model with an Application to Labor Supply

    Richard J. Smith;Richard W. Blundell

  • Consumption inequality and partial insurance

    Richard W. Blundell;Luigi Pistaferri;Ian Preston

  • Human Capital Investment: The Returns from Education and Training to the Individual, the Firm and the Economy

    Richard Blundell;Lorraine Dearden;Costas Meghir;Barbara Sianesi

  • Endogeneity in nonparametric and semiparametric regression models

    Richard Blundell;James L. Powell

  • Is there a retirement-savings puzzle?

    James Banks;Richard Blundell;Tanner Tanner

  • Estimation in dynamic panel data models: improving on the performance of the standard GMM estimator

    Richard Blundell;Stephen Bond;Frank Windmeijer

  • Dynamic count data models of technological innovation

    Richard Blundell;Rachel Griffith;John van Reenen

  • COVID-19 and Inequalities.

    Richard Blundell;Monica Costa Dias;Robert Joyce;Xiaowei Xu

  • Estimating labour supply responses using tax reforms

    Richard Blundell;Alan Duncan;Costas Meghir

  • Evaluating the Employment Impact of a Mandatory Job Search Program

    Richard Blundell;Monica Costa Dias;Costas Meghir;John van Reenen

  • What do we Learn About Consumer Demand Patterns from Micro Data

    Richard Blundell;Panos Pashardes;Guglielmo Weber

  • Competition and Innovation: An Inverted U Relationship

    Philippe Aghion;Philippe Aghion;Philippe Aghion;Nicholas Bloom;Nicholas Bloom;Richard W. Blundell;Rachel Griffith;Rachel Griffith

Frequent Co-Authors

Costas Meghir
Costas Meghir Yale University
James Banks
James Banks University of Manchester
Ian Preston
Ian Preston University College London
Rachel Griffith
Rachel Griffith University of Manchester
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science
Luigi Pistaferri
Luigi Pistaferri Stanford University
James P. Smith
James P. Smith Princeton University
John Van Reenen
John Van Reenen London School of Economics and Political Science
Martin Browning
Martin Browning University of Copenhagen
Stephen Bond
Stephen Bond University of Oxford

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