Joshua Angrist

Joshua David Angrist (* 1960 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American economist and university professor.

Career, teaching and research

Angrist studied economics at Oberlin College, which he left in 1982 as a Bachelor of Arts. He then studied at Princeton University, where he was first in May 1987 graduated as Master of Arts, and finally in October 1989 as a Ph.D. completed.

First Angrist taught as an Assistant Professor at Harvard University, before he moved on in 1991 as a Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. There he rose in 1995 to Associate Professor on. The following year he returned to the United States and held the same position at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he had 1994/95 already taught as a visiting lecturer and research. In 1998 he received a reputation here as a full professor. In 2008 he took over the Ford - chair at the university.

The focus of the work of Angrist are labor economics and dealing with econometric methods. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the use of instrumental variables in the economics analysis. On this basis, he published studies and articles regarding the development of human capital and income distribution in the U.S., educational opportunities and poverty. He contributed with his work for the establishment of applied in psychology since the 1960s statistical method of regression discontinuity analysis in economics.

Angrist is a member of the Econometric Society, since 1994 he has worked as a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2007 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Gallen, 2009 John von Neumann Prize of the Budapest Rajk László Szakkollégiums. He is co-founder of the MIT -based School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative. Since the early 2000s, he works and published extensively with the Bonn-based Institute for the Study of Labor, where he became a Research Fellow in 2000.

Works

The following list are published by Angrist books again, he has also written numerous journal articles and working papers:

• Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist 's Companion ( with Jörn -Steffen Pischke ), 2009