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Monday, October 11, 2021

2021 Nobel Prize Winners in Economics

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2021/prize-announcement/
David Card, born 1956 in Guelph, Canada. Ph.D. 1983 from Princeton
University, USA. Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, University of
California, Berkeley, USA.
Joshua D. Angrist, born 1960 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Ph.D. 1989 from
Princeton University, USA. Ford Professor of Economics, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
Guido W. Imbens, born 1963 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Ph.D. 1991 from
Brown University, Providence, USA. The Applied Econometrics Professor
and Professor of Economics, Stanford University, USA.
 
Popular science background: Natural experiments help answer important questions (pdf)
Scientific Background: Answering causal questions using observational data (pdf) 

David Card on THE CAUSAL EFFECT OF EDUCATION ON EARNINGS:
http://cpi.stanford.edu/_media/pdf/Reference%20Media/Card_1999_Education.pdf