Joshua A. Angrist
Co-Founder, Board Member, Avela Education
Ford Professor of Economics, MIT
Director, MIT School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Nobel Laureate (2021 Prize in Economics)
Joshua Angrist is a Co-Founder and the Chief Scientist at Avela Education and a Nobel Laureate! Angrist is also the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, where he leads MIT’s Blueprint Labs, a research lab focused on market design in education and healthcare. Angrist is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
A dual U.S. and Israeli citizen, he taught at Harvard and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before coming to MIT in 1996. Angrist received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1982 and completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Princeton in 1989.
Angrist’s research interests include the economics of education and school reform; social programs and the labor market; the effects of immigration, labor market regulation and institutions; and econometric methods for program and policy evaluation.
Angrist is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and has served on many editorial boards and as a Co-editor of the Journal of Labor Economics. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of St Gallen (Switzerland) in 2007 and is the author (with Steve Pischke) of Mostly Harmless Economics: An Empiricist’s Companion and Mastering ‘Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect, both published by Princeton University Press. Angrist and Pischke hope to bring undergraduate econometrics instruction out of the Stones Age.
CV/Resume
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Current Positions
Founder, Avela Education, from 2019
Ford Professor of Economics, MIT, from July 2008.
Professor, MIT Economics Department, July 1998-2008.
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, from 1994.
Co-Director, MIT School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, from Fall 2011.
Previous Positions
Wesley Clair Mitchell Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Columbia, Fall 2018.
Visiting Professor, Harvard Lab for Economic Applications and Policy, 2011-12.
Lady Davis Fellow, Hebrew University, 2004-05.
Associate Professor, MIT Economics Department, 1996-98.
Associate Professor, Hebrew University Economics Department, 1995-96.
Visiting Associate Professor, MIT Economics Department, 1994-95.
Senior Lecturer in Economics, Hebrew University Economics Department, 1991-95.
Assistant Professor, Harvard University Economics Department, 1989-91.
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1989-94.
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, October 1989.
M.A., Economics, Princeton University, May 1987.
B.A., Economics with Highest Honors, Oberlin College, June 1982.
Courses Taught
Links
MIT Economics Department Profile
Courses Taught and Course Resources
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