Nobel Prize speaker Joshua Angrist is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Ford Professor of Economics. He also serves as MIT’s School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative’s director and is an NBER Research. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Israel. Furthermore, he previously taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard. Later in 1996, Joshua joined MIT. Angrist graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in 1982. He then went on to achieve his Ph.D. in Economics at Princeton University in 1989.

In addition to education and school reform economics, Angrist is passionate about social programs and the effects of immigration. He is also interested in the labor market regulation and institution and the use of econometric methods for policy and program evaluation.

His professional affiliations include membership in the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and countless editorial boards, including his position as a Co-editor for the Journal of Labor Economics. In 2007, he obtained a degree at the University of St Gallen. He wrote Mastering’ Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect and Mostly Harmless Economics: An Empiricist’s Companion with Steve Pischke. 

Speaker Joshua Angrist and Pischke hope that undergraduate econometrics instruction will take a more modern approach.

Angrist, Guido Imbens, and David Card were all awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021. Angrist and Imbens received one-half of the prize between them thanks to their efforts in analyzing causal relationships.