"The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school."

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About Angus Deaton

Angus Deaton is a British-American economist known for research on consumption, poverty, and welfare. He was born on 1945-10-19 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He received the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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