NBER profile: Angus S. Deaton.

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Angus S. Deaton is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Economic Fluctuations and Growth and Health Care and is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School His current research interests include the determinants of health in rich and poor countries and the measurement of poverty and inequality around the world.

Deaton received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University in England, where he has also taught. A British citizen, he was Professor of Econometrics at the University of Bristol from 1976 to 1983.

Deaton is a Fellow of the British Academy, the...