Professor James Banks

CPP Co-Director

James is Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester, Senior Research Fellow at IFS where he is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), and a founding Co-Principal Investigator of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. His research focuses on empirical modelling of individual economic behaviour over the life-cycle. His early work focused on consumption and spending patterns, asset accumulation and pension choices. Subsequently he has worked on broader issues in the economics of ageing, such as health, physical and cognitive functioning and their association with labour market and broader socioeconomic status, and the dynamics of work disability.

Education

PhD Economics, University College London, 1998

MSc Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1990

BSc (First Class Honours) Economics, University of Bristol, 1988

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http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=james.banks
Orcid number
0000-0002-9726-8921

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Adult equivalence scales: a life-cycle perspective

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In any policy-orientated study of family welfare, it is inevitable that some comparison of welfare between households with different compositions will be required, and the theory of (adult) equivalence scales aims to formalise the way in which these comparisons may be made

1 August 1991