Alberto Abadie (born April 3, 1968) is a Spanish economist who has served as a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2016, where he is also Associate Director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS).[2] He is principally known for his work in econometrics and empirical microeconomics, and is a specialist in causal inference and program evaluation.[3] He has made fundamental contributions to important areas in econometrics and statistics, including treatment effect models, instrumental variable estimation, matching estimators, difference in differences, and synthetic controls.[3]
Alberto Abadie | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 3, 1968 |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Econometrics Causal inference Program evaluation |
| Institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) CEMFI (MA) University of the Basque Country (BA) |
| Doctoral advisor | Joshua Angrist[1] Whitney K. Newey[1] |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Born in the Basque Country in 1968, Abadie received a BA in economics from the Universidad del País Vasco in 1992, where he specialized in mathematical economics and econometrics.[2] He received an MA in economics from the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros in 1995, and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999, where his doctoral advisers were Joshua Angrist and Whitney K. Newey.[2][4] Abadie was appointed an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard University in 1999, where he became an associate professor in 2004, and a full professor in 2005.[2] He returned to the Department of Economics at his alma mater, MIT, in 2016, where he is currently a professor of economics, and Associate Director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS).[2]
Abadie has been a research associate at the NBER since 2009, where he was a faculty research fellow within its Labor Studies Program from 2002 to 2009.[2] He co-edited the Review of Economics and Statistics from 2007 to 2011, and has served as an associate editor of several academic journals, including Econometrica.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2016, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022.[2][5][6]
References
edit- ^ a b Abadie, Alberto (1999). Semiparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Causal Response Model (PDF) (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "ALBERTO ABADIE" (PDF). economics.mit.edu. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
- ^ a b "Alberto Abadie Short Biography".
- ^ Abadie, Alberto (May 1999). "Semiparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Causal Response Models" (PDF). dspace.mit.edu. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
- ^ "Current Fellows". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
- ^ "Member Directory | American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.amacad.org. Retrieved 2024-01-22.