Joshua Angrist
| Joshua Angrist | |
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| Born |
September 18, 1960 Columbus, Ohio |
| Nationality | American |
| Institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Field | Econometrics, labour economics |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University Oberlin College |
| Doctoral advisor |
Orley Ashenfelter |
| Doctoral students |
Alberto Abadie Esther Duflo Susan Dynarski |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Joshua David Angrist (born on September 18, 1960) is an Israeli American economist. He is Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Angrist has taught at the university level since 1989. He 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. Angrist has also made contributions in theoretical econometrics. He co-founded and serves as a director of the School Effectiveness & Inequality Initiative based within the MIT Department of Economics. The center's work focuses on the economics of education, issues surrounding domestic poverty, and the connections between human capital and the American income distribution.
Born in Columbus, Ohio and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Angrist attended Oberlin College, where he received his B.A. in economics in 1982. He lived in Israel from 1982 until 1985. Angrist received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1989. His doctoral dissertation, "Econometric Analysis of the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery," was supervised by Orley Ashenfelter, David Card, and Whitney Newey and later published in parts in the American Economic Review(1990) and the (1991,1992). Angrist was an assistant professor at Harvard University from 1989 until 1991, when he returned to Israel as a senior lecturer at Hebrew University. Angrist holds dual US-Israeli citizenship. Since 1996 Angrist has been a faculty member in the Department of Economics at MIT, where he teaches econometrics and labor economics. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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