Joshua Angrist

Joshua Angrist
Angrist in 2011
Born (1960-09-18) September 18, 1960 (age 64)
EducationOberlin College (BA)
Princeton University (MA, PhD)
Academic career
FieldEconometrics, labor economics
InstitutionMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral
advisor
Orley Ashenfelter
Academic
advisors
David Card
Whitney Newey
Doctoral
students
Esther Duflo
Melissa Kearney
Jeffrey R. Kling
ContributionsLocal average treatment effect
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2021)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Academic background
ThesisEconometric Analysis of the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery (1989)

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]

He ranks among the world's top economists in labor economics,[4] urban economics,[5] econometrics, 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 MIT's Blueprint Labs, which researches the relationship between human capital and income inequality in the U.S. He also cofounded Avela, an ed-tech startup that provides application and enrollment-related software and services to school districts, schools of all kinds, organizations like Teach for America, and the U.S. military.

  1. ^ "Angrist, Joshua David - Full record view - Libraries Australia Search". Archived from the original on May 15, 2021. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
  2. ^ "MIT Economics: Joshua Angrist". Archived from the original on July 9, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
  3. ^ "The Prize in Economic Sciences 2021" (PDF) (Press release). Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. October 11, 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 11, 2021. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  4. ^ "Joshua Angrist ranked 15th among 3037 authors registered in the field of labor economics on IDEAS/RePEc. Retrieved July 20th, 2019". Archived from the original on November 25, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
  5. ^ "Joshua Angrist ranked 4th among 3323 authors registered in the field of urban and real estate economics on IDEAS/RePEc. Retrieved July 20th, 2019". Archived from the original on April 26, 2022. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
  6. ^ "Joshua Angrist ranked 3rd among 1427 authors registered in the field of education on IDEAS/RePEc. Retrieved July 20th, 2019". Archived from the original on January 20, 2022. Retrieved July 20, 2019.