1. Guido Wilhelmus Imbens was born on 3 September 1963 and is a Dutch-American economist whose research concerns econometrics and statistics.
16 Facts About Guido Imbens
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Guido Imbens holds the Applied Econometrics Professorship in Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he has taught since 2012.
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Guido Wilhelmus Imbens was born on 3 September 1963 in Geldrop, the Netherlands.
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Guido Imbens graduated with a Candidate's degree in Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1983.
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Guido Imbens followed Lancaster to Brown to pursue further graduate and doctoral studies.
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Guido Imbens has taught at Tilburg University, Harvard University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Berkeley.
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Guido Imbens specializes in econometrics, which are particular methods for drawing causal inference.
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Guido Imbens became the editor of Econometrica in 2019, with his term anticipated to end in 2025.
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Guido Imbens is a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a professor of economics at the institute's School of Humanities and Sciences.
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Guido Imbens is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Guido Imbens was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences as a foreign member in 2017.
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Guido Imbens was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020.
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In one of his earliest collaborations with Angrist, Guido Imbens introduced a concept called Local Average Treatment Effect to draw causal inference from observational data.
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Guido Imbens received the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with fellow economists David Card and Joshua Angrist for their contributions toward methodologies for the analysis of causal relationships.
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Guido Imbens has been married to fellow economist Susan Athey since 2002.
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Guido Imbens holds dual citizenship in the United States and the Netherlands.