Nobel Prize

Interview, February 2022 Photo: Andrew Brodhead, Stanford University. “You need to have trust to be able to do good work” Nobelprize.org interviewed Guido Imbens on 7 February 2022. We spoke with him about how free time can provide space to think and the importance of friendship and trust for a successful collaboration. Telephone interview, October 2021…

Interview, March 2022 Joshua D. Angrist Photo courtesy of the MIT Department of Economics Nobelprize.org interviewed Joshua Angrist on 21 March 2022. He told us about his aversion to studying as a youth, thoughts on teaching and friendship with co-laureate Guido Imbens. Telephone interview, October 2021 https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bh_CXgAdou8 “My lack of preparation is evidence that I…

Interview, February 2022 David Card. Photo: Jean Smith/UC Berkeley “Most people who are doing economics who are going to be very successful are pretty nerdy” On 9 February 2022, nobelprize.org spoke to economist David Card about his first job, how he copes with failure and diversity in science. Nobel Minds https://www.youtube.com/embed/vI9d4d0ogEY Five of the 2021…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/nUTRasDkXK0 Announcement of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 11 October 2021. https://www.youtube.com/embed/yYhnyjQs7sw “It’s totally revolutionised the way we do empirical work” Immediately following the announcement, Eva Mörk, member of the Committee for…

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The Prize in Economic Sciences 2021 This year’s Laureates – David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens – have shown that natural experiments can be used to answer central questions for society, such as how minimum wages and immigration affect the labour market. They have also clarified exactly which conclusions about cause and effect can…

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Swedish 11 oktober 2021 har beslutat utdela Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne 2021 med ena hälften till David Card University of California, Berkeley, USA ”för hans empiriska bidrag till arbetsmarknadsekonomi” och andra hälften gemensamt till Joshua D. Angrist Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA Guido W. Imbens Stanford University, USA…