Authors

    James Banks
    James Banks

    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.

    Richard Blundell
    Richard Blundell

    CPP Co-Director

    Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.

    Ian Preston
    Ian Preston

    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.

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    Banks, J., Blundell, R., and Preston, I. (1994), 'Life cycle expenditure allocations and the consumption of costs of children'

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