Josh Angrist

Ford Professor of Economics and co-director of the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Josh Angrist (Master Joshway) is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, a Co-director of MIT's School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Angrist received his B.A. from Oberlin College and completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Princeton in 1989. He taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard before coming to MIT in 1996, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in econometrics and labor economics. Master Joshway is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and The Econometric Society. For fun, he enjoys activities like biking, skiing, doing empirical econometric research, and eating.