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Angus Deaton was born in Edinburgh and educated at Hawick High School, Fettes, and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he was a Distinction awarded in Mathematics. After a brief career at the Bank of England, he returned to academia as a research officer in the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge. In 1975, he became a Professor of Econometrics at the University of Bristol before moving to Princeton as a Professor of Economics and International Affairs in 1983. He became a Senior Scholar and Emeritus Professor in 2016. Deaton has authored over a hundred papers in professional journals and six books, including 'The Great Escape' (2013) and 'Deaths of Despair' (2020), both of which examine health, wealth, inequality, and economic policy. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences USA and has received numerous honors, including being made a Knight Bachelor in 2016 and receiving the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2015 for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.
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