Joshua Angrist | |
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| Born | September 18, 1960 |
| Nationality | American, Israeli |
| Institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Field | Econometrics, labour economics |
| Alma mater | Princeton University Oberlin College |
| Doctoral advisor | Orley Ashenfelter |
| Doctoral students | Esther Duflo Melissa Kearney |
| Contributions | Local average treatment effect |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2021) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Joshua David Angrist (born September 18, 1960) is an Israeli-American economist. He is the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2021, Angrist won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, together with David Card and Guido Imbens.
He is a co-founder of MIT's Blueprint Labs, a research group that studies income inequality in the United States.