Authors
CPP Co-Director
James is Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Economics at Manchester, working on broad issues in the economics of retirement, savings and health.
CPP Co-Director
Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.
Research Fellow University College London
Ian is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Economics at UCL. He joined UCL in 1991 and has been attached to the IFS since 1990.
Book Chapter details
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
Suggested citation
J, Banks and R, Blundell and I, Preston. (1994). 'Measuring life-cycle consumption costs of children' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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