A Canadian is among the three U.S.-based economists awarded the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics for work on drawing conclusions from unintended experiments, or so-called “natural experiments.”
The winners are Guelph, Ont.-born David Card of the University of California at Berkeley; Joshua Angrist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Guido Imbens from Stanford University.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the three have “completely reshaped empirical work in the economic sciences.”
“Card’s studies of core questions for society and Angrist and Imbens’s methodological contributions have shown that natural experiments are a rich source of knowlege,” said Peter Fredriksson, chair of the Economic Sciences Committee.
“Their research has substantially improved our ability to answer key causal questions, which has been of great benefit for society.”
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded with one half to David Card and the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens.#NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/nkMjWai4Gn
Unlike the other Nobel prizes, the economics award wasn’t established in the will of Alfred Nobel but 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┬аand sees the winners share a sum of 10 million Swedish kronor (more than $1.44 million Cdn).
The Nobel Committee awarded┬аprizes for medicine, physics,┬аchemistry, literature and peace last┬аweek.
