Department of Economics at UIUC - David Kinley Lecture

The 2007 David Kinley Lecture in Economics

Each year the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois is proud to invite one of the leading scholars in our profession to deliver a public lecture to help celebrate David Kinley's contribution to the University and the economics profession. This year we are proud to welcome Angus Deaton. We invite students, faculty, and other members of the campus community to what promises to be a wonderful event:

"Health and Wellbeing around the World:

Evidence from the Gallup World Poll"

Angus Deaton

Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs

Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Economics

Princeton University

Thursday, October 11, 2007

4:30 to 6:00 pm

134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

611 East Lorado Taft Drive, Champaign

Are the rich happier than the poor? Do people become more satisfied with their life as they get older? What matters more for life satisfaction, being healthy or being rich? We routinely measure population health and income to more accurately evaluate policies and monitor economic development, but should we pay more attention to how satisfied people report their life to be? Angus Deaton reveals some surprising answers based on his analysis of identical questionnaires given in 132 countries as part of the Gallup Organization's 2006 World Poll, among the first truly global surveys.

Click here to download "Health and Wellbeing around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll"

About Angus Deaton

Angus Deaton is Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Economics. He has previously held appointments at the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge in England. He holds B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge. He is author four books and many journal articles, and has for many years been concerned with understanding individual and household behavior. His research interests include health, economic development, poverty, inequality, and saving, in the US, as well as in developing countries, particularly South Africa and India. He has been a longtime consultant to the World Bank, and has served on National Academy panels on poverty and family assistance, on price and cost-of-living index numbers, and on racial and ethnic differences in health. In 1978, he was the first recipient of the Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society, and was Editor of Econometrica from 1984-1988. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a past Vice President of the American Economic Association and is currently the candidate for President Elect. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, and from University College, London. For more information, see http://www.princeton.edu/~deaton/

Following recent tradition, Deaton will deliver a second Departmental Seminar that focuses on a more narrow aspect of his current research. Deaton will present "Child Mortality, Income, and Adult Height". This seminar will be on Friday, October 12, from noon to 1:30pm in the Wagner Education Center on the lower level of the Labor and Industrial Relations, 504 E. Armory Avenue in Champaign.