Joshua Angrist

Joshua David Angrist (born September 18, 1960)[1] is an Israeli-American economist. He is the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] In 2021, Angrist won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, together with David Card and Guido Imbens.[3]

Joshua Angrist
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BornSeptember 18, 1960 (aged 65)
NationalityAmerican, Israeli
InstitutionMassachusetts Institute of Technology
FieldEconometrics, labour economics
Alma materPrinceton University
Oberlin College
Doctoral
students
Esther Duflo
Melissa Kearney
ContributionsLocal average treatment effect
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2021)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

He is a co-founder of MIT's Blueprint Labs, a research group that studies income inequality in the United States.[4]

References

  1. "Angrist, Joshua David - Full record view - Libraries Australia Search". Archived from the original on 2021-05-15. Retrieved 2021-10-11.
  2. "MIT Economics: Joshua Angrist". Retrieved 11 May 2011.
  3. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (October 11, 2021). "The Prize in Economic Sciences 2021". Press release. https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2021/10/press-economicsciencesprize2021.pdf. 
  4. "Joshua Angrist, Nobel Laureate, MIT Ford Professor of Economics. Escaping the Elite Illusion". www.haverford.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-03.

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