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Guido Imbens

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Guido Wilhelmus Imbens (born 3 September 1963) is a Dutch-American economist whose research concerns econometrics and statistics. He holds the Applied Econometrics Professorship in Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he has taught since 2012. In 2021, Imbens was awarded half of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Joshua Angrist "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships." Their work focused on natural experiments, which can offer empirical data in contexts where controlled experimentation may be expensive, time-consuming, or unethical. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guido Imbens has received more than 268,996 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Guido Imbens is the 326th most popular economist (up from 342nd in 2019), the 814th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 878th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Dutch Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Guido Imbens ranks 326 out of 414. Before him are Beatrice Webb, Leonid Abalkin, Lawrence Summers, Abdi Farah Shirdon, Michel Chossudovsky, and Ilham Tohti. After him are Ha-Joon Chang, Branko Milanović, John Lipsky, Daniele Archibugi, Fischer Black, and Thomas Hodgskin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Guido Imbens ranks 305. Before him are Edu Marangon, Gary Daniels, Jeff Mills, Borislav Mikhailov, John Powell, and Randy Johnson. After him are Fernando Haddad, Walter Casagrande, Sam Lloyd, Neerja Bhanot, Ha-Joon Chang, and John Levén.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Guido Imbens ranks 814 out of 1,646. Before him are Adrie van Kraay (1953), Bep van Klaveren (1907), Foppe de Haan (1943), Wilhelmina Cooper (1939), Thea Beckman (1923), and Bas Dost (1989). After him are John van den Brom (1966), Jan de Hartog (1914), Azra Akın (1981), Edo de Waart (1941), Hugo Hovenkamp (1950), and Stien Kaiser (1938).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Netherlands

Among economists born in Netherlands, Guido Imbens ranks 5. Before him are Jan Tinbergen (1903), Bernard Mandeville (1670), Tjalling Koopmans (1910), and Mark Blaug (1927). After him are Euclid Tsakalotos (1960).

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