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Guido W. Imbens
Born (1963-09-03) September 3, 1963 (age 61)
NationalityDutch American
SpouseSusan Athey
Academic career
FieldEconometrics
InstitutionStanford University
Alma mater
Doctoral
advisor
Anthony Lancaster
Doctoral
students
Rajeev Dehejia
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2021)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Guido Wilhelmus Imbens (born September 3, 1963) is a Dutch American economist. He is Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2012. After graduating from [[Erasmus University Rotterdam]] in 1983 and earning his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1991, he taught at Harvard University, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. Imbens specializes in econometrics, and in particular methods for drawing causal inference[1]. He serves as the editor of Econometrica from 2019 to 2023.[2]

Imbens is a fellow of the Econometric Society (2001) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009).[3][4][5] Imbens was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.[6][7] He was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020.[8]

Imbens has been married to economist Susan Athey since 2002.[9]

Imbens was awarded half of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Joshua Angrist "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships", with David Card awarded the other half.[10]

Bibliography

  • Imbens, Guido W.; Rubin, Donald B. (6 April 2015). Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521885881.

References

  1. ^ Guido Imbens
  2. ^ "Editorial Board | The Econometric Society". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  3. ^ Guido Imbens
  4. ^ "Econometric Society Fellows, October 2016". Econometric Society. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  5. ^ "List of active members by class" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 27 October 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  6. ^ "KNAW kiest 26 nieuwe leden" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 10 May 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  7. ^ "Guido Imbens". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 14 May 2017.
  8. ^ "ASA Fellows list". American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  9. ^ Simison, Bob (June 2019). "Economist as Engineer". Finance & Development. 56 (2). International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  10. ^ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021