Jim Poterba | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. | July 13, 1958
Education | Harvard University (BA) Nuffield College, Oxford (MPhil, PhD) |
Spouse | Nancy Rose[8] |
Academic career | |
Institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Field | Public economics |
Doctoral students | David Cutler[1] Luigi Zingales[2] Andrew Samwick Caroline Hoxby[3] Steven Levitt[4] Emmanuel Saez[5] Amy Finkelstein[6] Stefanie Stantcheva[7] |
Influences | Martin Feldstein |
Awards | NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (1997) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
James Michael "Jim" Poterba, FBA (born July 13, 1958) is an American economist who is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and current National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) president and chief executive officer.