Canadian David Card one of three U.S.-based economists to win Nobel Prize
When the phone rang around 2 a.m. telling David Card that he won the Nobel Prize for Economics, the Canadian-born economist thought it was a stunt.
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When the phone rang around 2 a.m. telling David Card that he won the Nobel Prize for Economics, the Canadian-born economist thought it was a stunt.
STOCKHOLM — Three U.S-based economists — including one raised in Pittsburgh — won the 2021 Nobel prize for economics on Monday for pioneering research on the labor market impacts of minimum wage, immigration and education, and for creating the scientific framework to allow conclusions to be drawn from such studies
Guido Imbens, a Stanford University economist who received his Ph.D. from Brown in 1991, was recognized for his major role in analyzing causal relationships in the social sciences.
Angrist and Stanford's Guido Imbens were recognized for their framework for studying issues that can't rely on traditional scientific methods.
David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens have researched topics like minimum wage and clarified what conclusions can be drawn from such studies.