Home Page

Course Description

Course Outline

About Joshua Angrist

Application and Fees

Participants

Practical Information

Previous Editions

Sponsors

Contacts

6th Summer School—EEG, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Economic Policies Research Unit—NIPE

 

 

Joshua Angrist is a Professor of Economics at MIT and Research Associate in the NBER's programs on Children, Education, and Labor Studies.

Angrist's research interests include the effects of school inputs and school organization on student achievement; the impact of education and social programs on the labor market; the effects of immigration, labor market regulation and institutions; and econometric methods for program and policy evaluation.

Angrist is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Econometric Society, and has served on many editorial boards and as a Co-editor of the Journal of Labor Economics. He received an honororary doctorate from the University of St Gallen (Switzerland) in 2007.

Angrist has a long-standing interest in public-policy. In addition to his academic work, he has worked as a consultant to the U.S. Social Security Administration, The Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, and for the Israeli government after the Oslo peace negotiations in 1994. 

Joshua angrist

6th Summer School—EEG, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Economic Policies Research Unit—NIPE