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Joshua Angrist

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Joshua David Angrist (Hebrew: יושע אנגישט; born September 18, 1960) is an Israeli American economist and Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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". He ranks among the world's top economists in labor economics, urban economics, econometrics, and the economics of education, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joshua Angrist is the 264th most popular economist (up from 271st in 2019), the 6,045th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,293rd in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Joshua Angrist ranks 264 out of 414. Before him are Esther Duflo, Yulia Navalnaya, David Card, Jörg Meuthen, Georg Friedrich Knapp, and Roy Harrod. After him are Leopold von Wiese, Alfred Müller-Armack, Wilhelm Lexis, Alexander Chayanov, Diego Abad de Santillán, and Maurice Dobb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Joshua Angrist ranks 209. Before him are Protase Rugambwa, Stephen Daldry, Daniel Silva, Pia Sundhage, Gabriel Calderón, and Jean-Marc Barr. After him are Christian Petzold, Oleg Bryjak, Atom Egoyan, Pedro Delgado, Aguri Suzuki, and Aleida Guevara.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joshua Angrist ranks 6,045 out of 20,380. Before him are Dean Phillips (1969), Edward Robinson (1794), Terrence Howard (1969), Nicole Scherzinger (1978), William Gilmore (1895), and Susan George (1934). After him are Sandy Martin (1949), Chester Thompson (1948), Dixie Carter (1939), Steve Anderson (1906), Chuck Close (1940), and Abella Danger (1995).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Joshua Angrist ranks 87. Before him are Chester Barnard (1886), Arthur Melvin Okun (1928), Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), Dennis Meadows (1942), Edward Chamberlin (1899), and Leo Huberman (1903). After him are Deirdre McCloskey (1942), Philip H. Dybvig (1955), Arthur Laffer (1940), Herman Daly (1938), Robert Barro (1944), and Max O. Lorenz (1876).

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