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Joshua Angrist

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Joshua David Angrist (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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joshua Angrist has received more than 309,702 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Joshua Angrist is the 271st most popular economist (up from 321st in 2019), the 5,294th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,395th in 2019) and the 86th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Joshua Angrist ranks 271 out of 414. Before him are Haruhiko Kuroda, James Wolfensohn, Petr Aven, Andreas Kaplan, Evsei Liberman, and Boediono. After him are John R. Commons, Alfred Müller-Armack, Leo Huberman, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Bruno de Finetti, and Arthur Laffer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Joshua Angrist ranks 186. Before him are Atom Egoyan, Maurizio Cattelan, Kelly LeBrock, Brenda Strong, Gabriel Calderón, and Yann LeCun. After him are Elizabeth Perkins, Hong Sang-soo, Daniel Silva, Slavko Štimac, Matt Sorum, and Neil Flynn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joshua Angrist ranks 5,294 out of 20,380. Before him are Bob McAdoo (1951), George Marshall (1891), Ed Wynn (1886), Kenneth Cockrell (1950), Sasha Alexander (1973), and Michael Peña (1976). After him are V. C. Andrews (1923), Jennie Garth (1972), Susanna Hoffs (1959), Peter Greene (1965), James Shigeta (1929), and John R. Commons (1862).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Joshua Angrist ranks 86. Before him are Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), Arthur Melvin Okun (1928), Robert Barro (1944), Edward Chamberlin (1899), Greg Mankiw (1958), and Dennis Meadows (1942). After him are John R. Commons (1862), Leo Huberman (1903), Arthur Laffer (1940), Paul Sweezy (1910), Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874), and Gordon Tullock (1922).

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