Imran Rasul

Imran Rasul OBE FBA (born 29 July 1974) is a professor of economics at the University College London, managing editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, and co-director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.[1][2] His research interests include labour, development and public economics and he is considered to be one of the leaders within social norms and capital economics.[3]

Imran Rasul

OBE, FBA
Born (1974-07-29) 29 July 1974
NationalityBritish
Academic career
InstitutionUniversity College London
Institute for Fiscal Studies
International Growth Centre
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
FieldLabour economics
Development economics
Public economics
Alma materLondon School of Economics
University of Oxford
Doctoral
advisor		Timothy Besley
AwardsYrjö Jahnsson Award (2019)
IZA Institute of Labor Economics Young Economist Prize (2010)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

After completing his masters at Oxford University in 1997, he continued his studies at the London School of Economics under the supervision of Professor Timothy Besley, achieving his doctorate in 2003 with a thesis entitled "Non-contractibilities in the household: Theory and evidence".[4][5]

Awards and honours

In 2007 Rasul was awarded the IZA Institute of Labor Economics Young Economist Prize.

In 2019 Rasul and Oriana Bandiera were jointly awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics. The award is given to a European economist that is no older than 45 years old and has made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to economies in Europe.[6]

Rasul was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2019 and fellow of the Econometric Society in 2020.[7][8]

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to social sciences.[9]

References
  1. "Imran Rasul". Journal of the European Economic Association. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  2. "Co-director CPP". Institute of Fiscal Studies. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  3. "Economics rankings". RePEc Ideas. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  4. "Imran Rasul, CV" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  5. Rasul, Imran (2003). Non-contractibilities in the household: Theory and evidence (phd thesis). London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).
  6. "Yrjö Jahnsson Award". European Economic Association. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  7. "Rasul, Fellow of the British Academy". University College London. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  8. "The Econometric Society Announces its 2020 Fellows | The Econometric Society". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  9. "No. 63135". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 October 2020. p. B14.
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