Eric French
Professor, University College London, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Eric French is an economics professor at University College London, co-director, ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and is a Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Centre for Economic Policy Research. French’s research interests include: household behavior over the life cycle; the impact of government and private pensions on savings and labor supply; the impact of health insurance on medical spending, savings, and labor supply; the impact of disability insurance programs on labor supply; the impact of the minimum wage on employment and spending of minimum wage households; and dynamic structural modelling.
Projects
- UM20-10: The Impact of Public Health Insurance on Financial Resources and Medical Expense Risk at Older Ages
- UM19-11: On the Distribution and Dynamics of Medical Expenditure among the Elderly
- UM17-15: Intergenerational transfers, wealth accumulation and inequality
- UM17-02: Cognition, Health, Employment, and Wages Near Retirement in England
- UM16-16: The Effects of Health on the Labor Supply of Older Workers
- UM15-11: The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on the Labor Supply, Savings, and Social Security of Older Americans
- UM15-15: Retirement Savings in the US and England: How Important is Housing?
- UM14-05: The Determinants of Household Savings for Couples During Retirement
- UM12-12: The Costs and Benefits of Medicaid in Old Age
- UM10-16: Bequest Motives and Asset Decumulation at the End of Life
- UM07-13: The Effects of Health Insurance and Self-Insurance on Retirement Behavior.
Publications
- Intergenerational Altruism and Transfers of Time and Money: A Life-cycle Perspective (Research Brief)
- Intergenerational Altruism and Transfers of Time and Money: A Life-cycle Perspective (Working Paper)
- The Impact of Health on Labor Supply Near Retirement (Research Brief)
- The Impact of Health on Labor Supply Near Retirement (Working Paper)
- The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on the Labor Supply, Savings, and Social Security of Older Americans (Research Brief)
- The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on the Labor Supply, Savings, and Social Security of Older Americans (Working Paper)
- The Dynamic Effects of Health on the Employment of Older Workers (Research Brief)
- The Dynamic Effects of Health on the Employment of Older Workers (Working Paper)
- Comparing Retirement Wealth Trajectories on Both Sides of the Pond (Research Brief)
- Comparing Retirement Wealth Trajectories on Both Sides of the Pond (Working Paper)
- Couples' and Singles’ Savings After Retirement (Research Brief)
- Couples’ and Singles’ Savings After Retirement (Working Paper)
- Medicaid Insurance in Old Age (Working Paper)
- Medicaid Insurance in Old Age (Research Brief)
- Medicaid Insurance and Redistribution in Old Age (Conference Paper)
- The Effects of Medicaid and Medicare Reforms on the Elderly’s Savings and Medical Expenditures (Working Paper)
- The Effects of Medicaid and Medicare Reforms on the Elderly’s Savings and Medical Expenditures (Research Brief)
- The Effects of Health Insurance and Self-Insurance on Retirement Behavior (Working Paper)
Researchers by Institution
- AARP
- Abt Associates
- Arizona State University
- Australian National University
- Bocconi University
- Boston University
- Brookings Institute
- Brown University
- California State University
- Carleton University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
- City College of New York (CUNY)
- City University of New York
- Claremont Graduate University
- Columbia University
- Concordia University-Canada
- Copenhagen Business School
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Duke University
- European Commission
- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneanapolis
- Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
- Federal Reserve Bank-Richmond
- Federal Reserve Bank-San Francisco
- Federal Reserve Board
- Georgetown University
- Goethe University
- Harvard University
- HEC Montréal
- Imperial College London
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
- Ithaca College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Kyoto University
- Louisiana State University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mathematica Policy Research
- Max Planck Institute
- Michigan State University
- National University of Singapore
- New School of Social Research
- New York University
- Occidental College
- Ohio State University
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Other
- Pennsylvania State University
- Princeton
- Purdue University
- RAND Corporation
- Social Security Administration
- Stanford University
- SUNY-Buffalo
- SUNY-Stony Brook
- Syracuse University
- Texas A&M University
- Texas Tech University
- The College of William & Mary
- Tilburg University
- Universidad de Chile
- University College London
- University of Alabama
- University of Arkansas
- University of Bristol
- University of California-Berkeley
- University of California-Davis
- University of California-Irvine
- University of California-Los Angeles
- University of California-San Diego
- University of Chicago
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- University of Essex
- University of Frankfort
- University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability
- University of New South Wales
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas
- University of Victoria
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Urban Institute
- Vanderbilt University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Wayne State University
- Wellesley College
- Williams College
- Yale University