Economics Nobel 2021: David Card, Joshua Angrist & Guido Imbens, US-Based Economists Declared Winners

On October 11, the 2021 Nobel prize for economics was won by three US-based economists David Card, Joshua Angrist & Guido Imbens. David Card was born in 1956 in Guelph, Canada. He is a professor at University of California at Berkeley. Card was awarded one half of the prize. The other half was shared by Joshua Angrist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Dutch-born Guido Imbens, 58, from Stanford University. Joshua Angrist was born in 1960 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Guido W Imbens was born in 1963 in the Netherlands. Unlike the other Nobel prizes, the economics award wasn’t established in the will of Alfred Nobel. It was established by the Swedish central bank in his memory in 1968, with the first winner selected a year later. It is the last prize announced each year.

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