Seminar: Nobel Prize Winner Joshua Angrist
Friday, 31 of March at 10:30 in Tor Vergata School of Economics.
We have the great pleasure to host the Nobel Prize winner prof. Joshua Angrist - on 31st March. He will hold a seminar on the topic "Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York".
About Prof. Angrist
Joshua David Angrist 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, 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 the MIT's School Effectiveness & Inequality Initiative, which studies the relationship between human capital and income inequality in the U.S.
Eventi Info
The seminar will be held at 10:30 in Aula Magna of Tor Vergata's School of Economics, registration mandatory.
Registration: Register Here