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Guido Imbens
Born (1963-09-03) 3 September 1963 (age 61)
Geldrop, Netherlands
SpouseSusan Athey
Academic career
FieldEconometrics
InstitutionStanford University
Alma materErasmus University Rotterdam (BA)
Brown University (MA, PhD)
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, Geldrop, Netherlands) is a Dutch American economist. In 2021 Imbens was awarded half of the 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.[1][2] He has been Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2012.[3]

Early life and education

Guido Wilhelmus Imbens was born on September 3, 1963 in Geldrop, Netherlands.[4] In 1975 his family moved to Deurne, where he attended Peellandcollege [nl]. As a child, Imbens was an avid chess player.[5]

Imbens graduated from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1983. He earned his A.M. and Ph.D. from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1989 and 1991.[6][3]

Career

Imbens has taught at Harvard University (1990-97, 2006-12), the University of California, Los Angeles (1997-2001), and the University of California, Berkeley (2002-06). He specializes in econometrics, which are particular methods for drawing causal inference.[3] He became the editor of Econometrica in 2019 and will serve in that capacity until 2023.[7]

Imbens is a fellow of the Econometric Society (2001) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009).[3][8][9] Imbens was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.[10][11] He was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020.[12]

Imbens has been married to economist Susan Athey since 2002.[13]

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

In its press release announcing the winners of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences stated that "[t]his year’s Laureates - David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens - have provided us with new insights about the labour market and shown what conclusions about cause and effect can be drawn from natural experiments. Their approach has spread to other fields and revolutionised empirical research."[14]

Bibliography

  • (with Lisa M. Lynch) Re-employment probabilities over the business cycle. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1993.
  • (with Richard H. Spady and Philip Johnson) Information Theoretic Approaches to Inference in Moment Condition Models. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1995.
  • (with Gary Chamberlain) Nonparametric applications of Bayesian inference. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1996.
  • (with Donald B. Rubin and Bruce Sacerdote) Estimating the effect of unearned income on labor supply, earnings, savings, and consumption : evidence from a survey of lottery players. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999.
  • (with V. Joseph Hotz and Jacob Alex Klerman) The long-term gains from GAIN : a re-analysis of the impacts of the California GAIN Program. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2000.
  • (with Thomas Lemieux) Regression discontinuity designs: a guide to practice. Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007.
  • (with Jeffrey M. Wooldridge) Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation. Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008.
  • (with Karthik Kalyanaraman) Optimal bandwidth choice for the regression discontinuity estimator. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009.
  • (with Alberto Abadie) A martingale representation for matching estimators. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009.
  • 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. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021". nobelprize.org. October 11, 2021.
  2. ^ Smialek, Jeanna (October 11, 2021). "The Nobel in economics goes to three who find experiments in real life". The New York Times. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d "The Vita of Guido Wilhelmus Imbens" (PDF). Stanford Graduate School of Business website. September 2013. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  4. ^ Haegens, Koen (2021-10-11). "Nobelprijs voor 'stille en bescheiden man achterin de zaal' die de slimste vragen stelt". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-10-11.
  5. ^ "DPG Media Privacy Gate". myprivacy.dpgmedia.nl. Retrieved 2021-10-11.
  6. ^ "Guido Imbens, 1991 Brown Ph.D. recipient, is 2016 – 17 Horace Mann Medal winner". Brown University Department of Economics website. May 22, 2017. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  7. ^ "Editorial Board | The Econometric Society". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  8. ^ "Econometric Society Fellows, October 2016". Econometric Society. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  9. ^ "List of active members by class" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 27 October 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  10. ^ "KNAW kiest 26 nieuwe leden" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 10 May 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  11. ^ "Guido Imbens". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 14 May 2017.
  12. ^ "ASA Fellows list". American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  13. ^ Simison, Bob (June 2019). "Economist as Engineer". Finance & Development. 56 (2). International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  14. ^ "The Prize in Economic Sciences 2021" (PDF) (Press release). Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. October 11, 2021.
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