Joseph G. Altonji | |
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Born | 1953 (age 70–71) New York City, U.S. |
Education | Yale University (BA, MA) Princeton University (PhD) |
Academic career | |
Field | Labor Economics Macroeconomics Applied Econometrics |
Institution | Northwestern University Yale University |
Doctoral advisor | Orley Ashenfelter Stephen Goldfeld |
Doctoral students | Christina Paxson |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Website | Personal Website |
Joseph Gerard Altonji (born 1953) is an American economist and the Thomas DeWitt Cuyler Professor of Economics at Yale University. His fields of interest include macroeconomics and applied econometrics and in particular labour economics, being ranked as one of the foremost labour economists worldwide.[1] In 2018, his contributions to the analysis of labour supply, family economics and discrimination were rewarded with the IZA Prize in Labor Economics.[2]