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Orazio Attanasio examines the complexity of measuring human capital development in 30th BSE Lecture
In his lecture, "The Determinants of Human Capital Formation in the Early Years of Life," Prof. Attanasio discussed the complexities of measuring childhood development and the latest models and techniques for doing so.
Video: Orazio Attanasio, BSE Lecture Recap
Professor Attanasio concluded his lecture by observing that there is still much we do not know about human capital accumulation. "For the future research agenda, we need better measurement tools, we need to use structural models to identify the production function and parental behavior. That's key to constructing policy interventions. All this should lead to better and more effective policies," he said.
About Orazio Attanasio
Orazio Attanasio is Professor of Economics at University College London and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where he co-directs the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies and the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research. His research has focused on household consumption and saving behavior over the life cycle, risk sharing, labor supply and housing markets. More recently he has worked on the impact and design of conditional cash transfers (CCTs), on education choices and on early childhood development interventions as well as on the measurement of subjective expectations.