Eric French
Professor, University of Cambridge, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Eric French is the Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations and Labor Economics at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Economics. He is also a co-director at the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and a fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). 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 modeling.
Projects
- UM23-02: Medical Spending Risk among the Elderly by Race and Gender
- UM22-13: The Dynamic Effects of Health on the Employment of Older Workers: Impacts by Gender, Education and Race
- UM21-09: The Impact of Medical Spending Shocks on the Wealth and Insurance Purchases of Older Americans
- 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
- Insurance Purchases of Older Americans (Research Brief)
- Medical Spending Risk among Retired Households by Race (Research Brief)
- Medical Spending Risk among Retired Households by Race (Working Paper)
- Insurance Purchases of Older Americans (Working Paper)
- The Dynamic Effects of Health on the Employment of Older Workers: Impacts by Gender, Country, and Race (Research Brief)
- How Redistributive Are Public Health Care Schemes? Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid in Old Age (Research Brief)
- The Dynamic Effects of Health on the Employment of Older Workers: Impacts by Gender, Country, and Race (Working Paper)
- How Redistributive Are Public Health Care Schemes? Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid in Old Age (Working Paper)
- On the Distribution and Dynamics of Medical Expenditure Among the Elderly (Research Brief)
- On the Distribution and Dynamics of Medical Expenditure Among the Elderly (Working Paper)
- 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
- American University
- 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
- Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
- 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
- Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
- Florida State University
- George Washington University
- 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 Institute on Aging
- 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
- Southern University and A&M College
- Stanford University
- SUNY-Buffalo
- SUNY-Stony Brook
- Syracuse University
- Texas A&M University
- Texas Tech University
- The College of William & Mary
- Tilburg University
- U.S. Census Bureau
- 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 Cambridge
- University of Chicago
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- University of Colorado Denver
- 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 Oregon
- 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