![]() Angrist is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, and has served as co-editor of the Journal of Labor Economics. He taught at Harvard University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before coming to MIT in 1996.Īngrist received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2021 with co-laureates Guido Imbens of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and David Card of the University of California at Berkeley. Angrist’s research explores the economics of education and school reform, the impact of social programs on the labor market, and the labor market effects of immigration, regulation, and economic institutions.Īngrist received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Oberlin College in 1982 and completed his PhD in economics at Princeton University in 1989. Angrist and his collaborators have pioneered the use of natural experiments to answer important economic questions and developed new econometric tools that help social scientists and policymakers discover the causal effects of individual choices and government policy changes. Joshua Angrist is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, a co-founder and director of MIT's Blueprint Labs, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. ![]() McKinnon ’76 Emmanuel Saez PhD ’99 and Gunther Uhlmann PhD ’76. Bresnan PhD ’72 Jennifer Elisseeff PhD ’99 current faculty member Dina Katabi SM ’99, PhD ’03 Maria C. Among the new members added this year are eight MIT alumni, including Thomas Banks PhD ’73 Joan W. Together with the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences aims to “encourage education and research, recognize outstanding contributions to knowledge, and increase public understanding in matters of science, engineering, and medicine.”Īs of this year, the National Academy of Sciences has 2,565 active members and 526 international members. ![]() ![]() Each year, new members are elected by their peers in recognition of their outstanding contributions to their field of research. Joshua Angrist, Gang Chen, Catherine Drennan, Dina Katabi, and Gregory Stephanopoulos were elected in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Membership to the National Academy of Sciences is one of the highest honors a scientist can receive in their career.Įstablished in 1863 by a Congressional charter that was signed by Abraham Lincoln, the National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scholars. The National Academy of Sciences has elected 120 members and 23 international members, including five faculty members from MIT. ![]()
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