Joshua Angrist
Joshua David Angrist (born September 18, 1960) is an Israeli–American economist and Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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".
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Angrist in 2011 | |
| Born | September 18, 1960 Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | Oberlin College (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD) |
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| 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 |
| Contributions | Local average treatment effect |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2021) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
He ranks among the world's top economists in labor economics, urban economics, and the economics of education, 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, which studies the relationship between human capital and income inequality in the U.S.