James Banks

James Banks is a 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 modeling 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 aging, such as health, physical and cognitive functioning and their association with labor market and broader socioeconomic status, and the dynamics of work disability.