Alberto Abadie
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Alberto Abadie | |
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Born | |
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 |
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]
Born in the Basque Country in 1968, Abadie received a BA in economics from the Universidad del País Vasco in 1987, where he specialised 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 https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2023-02/resume_0.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ a b "Alberto Abadie Short Biography".
- ^ https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/38857/43838892-MIT.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Current Fellows". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
- ^ "Member Directory | American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.amacad.org. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
External links
[edit]- Spanish political scientists
- 21st-century Spanish economists
- 20th-century Spanish economists
- MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty
- MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
- University of the Basque Country alumni
- Living people
- 1968 births
- Fellows of the Econometric Society
- Spanish expatriates in the United States