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Joseph Altonji

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Joseph G. Altonji
Academic career
FieldLabor Economics
Macroeconomics
Applied Econometrics
InstitutionYale University
Alma materPrinceton University
Yale University
Doctoral
advisor
Orley Ashenfelter
Stephen Goldfeld
Doctoral
students
Christina Paxson
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Joseph Gerard Altonji (born 1953) is the Thomas DeWitt Cuyler Professor of Economics at Yale University. He specializes in labor economics. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1] He received his B.A. from Yale in 1975 and a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1981.

Altonji is best known for work on labor market discrimination, the effect of seniority on wages, and altruism within families. More recently, he is known for developing econometric techniques which develop plausible assumptions about unobserved variables using information about observed variables.

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