The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015 was awarded to Angus Deaton "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare" .

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2015 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic  Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2015 to Angus Deaton  Princeton University, NJ, USA "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare" Consumption, great and small To design economic policy that promotes welfare and reduces poverty, we must first understand individual consumption choices. More than anyone else, Angus Deaton has enhanced this understanding. By linking detailed individual choices and aggregate outcomes, his research has helped transform the fields of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and development economics. The work for which Deaton is now being honored revolves around three central questions: How do consumers distribute their spending among different goods?   Answering this question is not only necessary for explaining and forecasting actual consumption patterns, but also crucial in evaluating how policy reforms, like changes in consumption taxes, affect the welfare of different groups. In his early work around 1980, Deaton developed the Almost Ideal Demand System – a flexible, yet simple, way of estimating how the demand for each good depends on the prices of all goods and on individual incomes. His approach and its later modifications are now standard tools, both in academia and in practical policy evaluation. How much of society's income is spent and how much is saved?    To explain capital formation and the magnitudes of business cycles, it is necessary to understand the interplay between income and consumption over time. In a few papers around 1990, Deaton showed that the prevailing consumption theory could not explain the actual relationships if the starting point was aggregate income and consumption. Instead, one should sum up how individuals adapt their own consumption to their individual income, which fluctuates in a very different way to aggregate income. This research clearly demonstrated why the analysis of individual data is key to untangling the patterns we see in aggregate data, an approach that has since become widely adopted in modern macroeconomics. How do we best measure and analyze welfare and poverty?    In his more recent research, Deaton highlights how reliable measures of individual household consumption levels can be used to discern mechanisms behind economic development. His research has uncovered important pitfalls when comparing the extent of poverty across time and place. It has also exemplified how the clever use of household data may shed light on such issues as the relationships between income and calorie intake, and the extent of gender discrimination within the family. Deaton's focus on household surveys has helped transform development economics from a theoretical field based on aggregate data to an empirical field based on detailed individual data. Angus Deaton, UK and US citizen. Born 1945 in Edinburgh, UK. Ph.D. 1974 from University of Cambridge, UK. Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University, NJ, USA, since 1983. http://scholar.princeton.edu/deaton Prize amount: 8 million Swedish krona Further information: http://kva.se and http://nobelprize.org Contacts: Hans Reuterskiöld, Press Officer, +46 8 673 95 44, +46 70 673 96 50, hans.reuterskiold@kva.se  Jakob Svensson, member of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, +46 8 16 30 60, +46 70 177 67 17, jakob.svensson@iies.su.se

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