Joseph Altonji
Joseph G. Altonji | |
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| Born | 1953 (age 71–72) New York City, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Yale University (BA, MA) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Orley Ashenfelter Stephen Goldfeld |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Labor Economics Macroeconomics Applied Econometrics |
| Institutions | Northwestern University Yale University |
| Doctoral students | Christina Paxson |
| Website | |
Joseph Gerard Altonji (born 1953) is an American economist and the Thomas DeWitt Cuyler Professor of Economics at Yale University. His fields of interest include macroeconomics and applied econometrics and in particular labour economics, being ranked as one of the foremost labour economists worldwide. In 2018, his contributions to the analysis of labour supply, family economics and discrimination were rewarded with the IZA Prize in Labor Economics.