## people

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### Biography and academic career
- Early life:
  - Grew up in 1950年代のエディンバラ。
  - At age 9 moved with family to a small village near the England–Scotland border.
  - At age 13 admitted to Fettes College on a scholarship.
- Higher education and early work:
  - Graduated ケンブリッジ in 1967.
  - Briefly worked at Midland Bank (イングランド銀行ではない; original Japanese says イングランド銀行, reflecting the bank in England) before returning to ケンブリッジ for doctoral studies and research assistant work.
- Academic posts and research milestones:
  - 1975: Appointed to a chair in econometrics at ブリストル大学.
  - 1979–80 academic year: Research leave at Princeton University; impressed by Princeton’s resources.
  - 1983: Moved to Princeton University as faculty.
  - Major collaborative contributions:
    - Co-developed the "Almost Ideal Demand System" with John Muellbauer while at ブリストル大学.
    - Worked with Richard Stone early in his career on savings and demand analysis.
    - Contributed to World Bank living standards measurement and household survey development during a summer appointment.

### Key research findings and contributions
- Consumption, savings, and measurement:
  - Developed methods linking individual-level consumption behavior to aggregate consumption.
  - Identified the "ディートン・パラドックス" challenging the representative-agent permanent-income hypothesis by showing individual consumption time-series can move more with transitory income than theory predicts.
  - Pioneered use of household surveys to observe consumption, estimate local market prices, and analyze birth cohorts.
- Development economics and poverty:
  - With Shankar Subramanian, showed from Indian data that the cost to obtain adequate nutrition is only 日給のわずか5％, arguing that malnutrition is a result, not a primary cause, of poverty.
  - Argued in '大脱出―健康、お金、格差の起源' (2013) that development aid can do harm by weakening the social contract between governments and citizens, reducing incentives for institutional strengthening and reforms.
- Health, mortality, and morbidity:
  - With Anne Case, published "Rising Morbidity and Mortality in Midlife among White Non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st Century" (2015):
    - Reported that for ages 45–54 among white non-Hispanic Americans, mortality rose at a pace of 毎年0.5％ per year during 1999–2013, after two decades of decline.
    - Identified primary drivers as suicide and substance abuse (including alcohol and opioids), with effects concentrated among those with high-school education or less.
    - Noted increases in reported mental and physical health problems (罹患率の上昇).
  - Follow-up 2017 paper "Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century" reported "この傾向は2015年中も継続した".

### Policy analysis and interpretations
- On the opioid crisis and economic insecurity:
  - Links the timing of widespread availability of synthetic opioids in the late 1990s to the observed rise in morbidity and mortality.
  - Highlights economic insecurity as a contributing factor: stagnation of median wages for poor white Americans and the shift from defined-benefit to defined-contribution pensions that transferred financial risk to workers.
  - Warns of the potential emergence of a "ロストジェネレーション" if the epidemic is not contained.
- On development aid:
  - Contends that aid may weaken recipient governments' accountability to their own citizens, undermining institutional development and sustainable reform.
  - Acknowledges visible short-term benefits cited by critics (e.g., nurses and teachers, vaccination) but maintains that aid can produce perverse long-term incentives.
- On globalization and inequality:
  - Argues the problem is not globalization per se but that "勝者が、後に続こうとする者から機会を奪ってしまう" leading to corporate rent-seeking, failures in health systems, and wage stagnation driven by poor public policy.

### Awards, recognition, and public profile
- 2015年12月: Awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; traveled to Stockholm and received the prize from the King of Sweden.
- Public impact of research:
  - The 2015 Case and Deaton paper generated public and political attention that, according to Deaton, exceeded the attention from the Nobel Prize.
- Honors:
  - December 2016: Knighted by the Duke of Cambridge at Buckingham Palace (叙爵された), gaining the title Sir Angus Deaton.

### Personal life and miscellany
- Married to Anne Case (met at Princeton), married in 1997; they work in adjacent offices and collaborate academically.
- Has two children, Rebecca and Adam.
- Pastimes include fly fishing, cooking, and travel.
- Early influences included reading books about distant places and spending time in Meadows Park; summer work selling clothes aboard transatlantic liners like the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary while reading economics texts.

*Peter J. Walker, IMF Communications senior communications officer — profile byline present in the source.*

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