▪️ Full name: Guido Wilhelmus Imbens
🏫Education:
PhD., Economics, May 1991, Brown University, Providence, RI.
A.M., Economics, May 1989, Brown University, Providence, RI.
M. Sc. Economics and Econometrics, (with distinction), The University of Hull, U.K.
Candidatum Exam, Econometrics, June 1983, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Propadeutical Exam, Econometrics, June 1982, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
▪️Position:
The Applied Econometrics Professor, and Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Associate Editor, Econometrica
Fellow, The Econometric Society
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
▪️Field: Econometrics, Statistics
📝Top 3 Papers:
Identification of causal effects using instrumental variables
Identification and estimation of local average treatment effects
Recent developments in the econometrics of program evaluation
🎧Podcast: Why Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the Nobel Prize in economics
📽Presentation: Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Under Unconfoundedess
👩🎓Famous Students: Rajeev Dehejia, Sergio Firpo, Alfred Galichon
🏆Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2021)
Honorary Doctorate, University of St Gallen (2014)
Mitchell Prize for a paper in Bayesian Analysis for “Estimating the Effect of Flu Shots in a Randomized Encouragement Design” (2001)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010)
📚Top books: Causal inference in statistics, social, and biomedical sciences
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