Joshua Angrist | |
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![]() Angrist in 2011 | |
Born | Columbus, Ohio, U.S. | September 18, 1960
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.