Joshua Angrist
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Joshua David Angrist (born September 18, 1960)[1] is an Israeli–American economist and Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] Angrist, together with Guido Imbens, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021 "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships".[3]
Joshua Angrist | |
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Born | (1960-09-18) September 18, 1960 (age 63) Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
Education | Oberlin College (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD) |
Academic career | |
Institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Field | Econometrics, labor economics |
Doctoral advisor | Orley Ashenfelter |
Academic advisors | David Card Whitney Newey |
Doctoral students | Esther Duflo Melissa Kearney Jeffrey R. Kling |
Contributions | Local average treatment effect |
Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2021) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Academic background | |
Thesis | Econometric Analysis of the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery (1989) |
He ranks among the world's top economists in labor economics,[4] urban economics,[5] and the economics of education,[6] and is known for his use of quasi-experimental research designs (such as instrumental variables) to study the effects of public policies and changes in economic or social circumstances. He is a co-founder and co-director of the MIT's School Effectiveness & Inequality Initiative,[7] which studies the relationship between human capital and income inequality in the U.S.