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Reuben Finighan

Senior Research Officer at The Melbourne Institute and Fellow of the ARC Life Course Centre of Excellence, University of Melbourne

Senior Research Officer at The Melbourne Institute and Fellow of the ARC Life Course Centre of Excellence, University of Melbourne I work in the Melbourne Institute at the University of Melbourne, as part of the ARC Life Course Centre of Excellence, where I study economic and behavioural dimensions of intergenerational disadvantage. I previously worked as part of Robert Putnam's research team studying inequality of opportunity; co-authored a major innovation policy report with Lord Stern, for the UK's Chief Scientist; worked for Washington State's "pot tsar" to design cannabis market regulations; and consulted on behavioural economics for the Institute for New Economic Thinking in New York.