Joshua Angrist | |
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 Angrist in 2011 | |
| Born | September 18, 1960 Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | Oberlin College (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD) |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Econometrics, labor economics |
| Institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 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) |
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.
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- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.