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The Prize in Economic Sciences 2021

Published: 2021-10-11

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 to David Card, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Joshua D. Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA and Guido W. Imbens, Stanford University, USA.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021

with one half to David Card, University of California, Berkeley, USA “for his empirical contributions to labour economics” and the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA and Guido W. Imbens, Stanford University, USA “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”

More information about the prize in Economic Science 2021

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