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Guido Imbens
Methods for drawing causal conclusions from natural experiments.
Local average treatment effects
- Born
- 3 September 1963
- Birthplace
- Geldrop
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Guido Imbens
Dutch-American econometrician who shared the 2021 economics Nobel memorial prize. His work clarifies what observational evidence can establish about cause and effect.
Early life
Econometrics training
Studied at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Hull and Brown University, completing his doctorate in 1991.
Career
- 1990–1997
Harvard
Began a sequence of American university appointments.
- 1997–2007
California
Taught at UCLA and then Berkeley.
- 2012
Stanford
Joined Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
- 2021
Nobel recognition
Shared the prize with Joshua Angrist and David Card.
Selected work
Local average treatment effects
With Angrist, developed a framework defining which causal effects can be identified under particular assumptions.
Beyond work
Family and interests
Married economist Susan Athey in 2002. His childhood enthusiasm for chess helped shape his interest in analytical problems.
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