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David Edward Card (born 1956) is a Canadian labour economist and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded half of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences “for his empirical contributions to labour economics”, with Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens awarded the other half

Joshua David Angrist (born September 18, 1960) is an Israeli American economist and Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2021 Angrist was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, together with David Card and Guido Imbens. Angrist and Imbens were awarded the prize for "“for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships."He ranks among the world's top economists in labour economics, urban economics, and the economics of education, and is known for his use of quasi-experimental research designs (such as instrumental variables) to study the effects of public policies and changes in economic or social circumstances. He is a co-founder and co-director of the MIT's School Effectiveness & Inequality Initiative, which studies the relationship between human capital and income inequality in the U.S. Angrist was awarded half of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Guido Imbens “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”, with David Card awarded the other half.

Guido Wilhelmus Imbens (born September 3, 1963) is a Dutch American economist. He is Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2012. After earning his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1991, he taught at Harvard University, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. Imbens specializes in econometrics, and in particular methods for drawing causal inference. He serves as the editor of Econometrica from 2019 to 2023.Imbens is a fellow of the Econometric Society (2001) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009). Imbens was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020.Imbens has been married to economist Susan Athey since 2002.Imbens was awarded of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Joshua Angrist “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”.

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Swedish: Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics prize administered by the Nobel Foundation. Although not technically a Nobel Prize, which were established by Alfred Nobel's will in 1895, the Prize in Economic Sciences is identified with the award; its winners are announced with the Nobel Prize recipients, and it is presented at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. As a result, it is commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics. The prize was established in 1968 by a donation from Sweden's central bank Sveriges Riksbank to the Nobel Foundation to commemorate the bank's 300th anniversary. It is administered and referred to along with the Nobel Prizes by the Nobel Foundation.Laureates in the Memorial Prize in Economics are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It was first awarded in 1969 to Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen and Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes".In 2020 Paul Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on auction theory.