Full name: Joshua David Angrist
Education:
Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University
M.A., Economics, Princeton University
B.A., Economics with Highest Honors
Position: Professor of Economics at MIT
Research Associate at NBER
Co-Director of MIT School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative
Field: Econometrics, Labor Economics, economics of education and school reform
Top 3 Papers:
Identification of causal effects using instrumental variables
Identification and estimation of local average treatment effects
Does compulsory school attendance affect schooling and earnings?
Podcast: EconTalk: Joshua Angrist on Econometrics and Causation
Presentation: The Track Record of Charter Schools in Massachusetts (Harvard Graduate School of Education)
Famous Students: Esther Duflo, Mellisa Kearney
Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2021)
MIT Economics Department graduate teaching award (2011)
Honorary Doctorate, The University of St Gallen, St Gallen Switzerland (2007)
MIT Economics Department undergraduate teaching award (2008, 2017)
Top books: Mostly Harmless Econometrics
Mastering’metrics: The path from cause to effect
CV
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