Overview
Zoe Oldfield is an economist associated with the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in London, working on household wealth, saving, pensions, and the economics of health and ageing. Her empirical work draws on UK longitudinal microdata (including the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing) and cross-national comparisons of health and socioeconomic status.
Key Contributions / Features
- Co-author of Banks, Marmot, Oldfield, and Smith (2006), the JAMA study showing that Americans aged 55–64 have substantially higher chronic-disease prevalence than the English at every level of the socioeconomic distribution, confirmed by biological markers.
- Contributed to the construction and harmonization of US–England health and socioeconomic measures used to rule out reporting bias as an explanation for the American health disadvantage.
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