Joshua David Angrist

Josh Angrist (Master Joshway) is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, a co-director of MIT's School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Angrist received his B.A. from Oberlin College and completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Princeton in 1989. He taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard before coming to MIT in 1996. His research interests include the economics of education, the labor market, and econometric methods for program and policy evaluation. Many of Angrist's research studies use data from other countries, but he does not especially like to travel and prefers to get data in the mail. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and The Econometric Society. For fun, Master Joshway enjoys activities like biking, skiing, and teaching.