Alberto Abadie

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Alberto Abadie
Born (1968-04-03) April 3, 1968 (age 57)
Basque Country, Spain
SpouseJudith Lok [1]
Academic background
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
CEMFI (MA)
University of the Basque Country (BA)
Doctoral advisor Joshua Angrist [2]
Whitney K. Newey [2]

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). [1] 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]

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Biography

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. [1] 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. [1] [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. [1] 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). [1]

Career

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. [1] 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 . [1] He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2016, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. [1] [5] [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "ALBERTO ABADIE" (PDF). economics.mit.edu. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
  2. 1 2 Abadie, Alberto (1999). Semiparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Causal Response Model (PDF) (Ph.D.). MIT . Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Alberto Abadie Short Biography".
  4. ↑ Abadie, Alberto (May 1999). "Semiparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Causal Response Models" (PDF). dspace.mit.edu. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Current Fellows". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  6. ↑ "Member Directory | American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.amacad.org. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
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