The Elsevier published an interview with former Erasmus School of Economics student and Nobel Prize winner Guido Imbens.
On Monday 11 October 2021, it was announced that Guido Imbens, Professor of Economics and Professor of Applied Econometrics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, was awarded the Nobel Prize along with his colleague Joshua Angrist for their "methodological contribution to the analysis of causal relationships". The article reflects on the journey to Imbens breakthrough and the aftermath.
As an econometric student at Erasmus University in Rotterdam Imbens's enthusiasm for econometrics was awakened after reading a book by Dutch Nobel Prize winner Jan Tinbergen. Tinbergen is regarded as the pioneer who used mathematics and statistics to test economic models. Imbens was advised by the American professor Marcus Berliant to do a PhD, as Imbens was the only student who was able to keep up with his lecture series at Erasmus University.
At Harvard, Imbens met his fellow Nobel Prize winner Joshua Angrist where they researched the possibility of so-called natural experiments to explain causal connections. If you are interested in the entire article, please feel free to read more via this link.
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Guido Imbens graduated from Erasmus School of Economics in 1983.