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		MIT economist Joshua Angrist wins Nobel Prize Ford Professor of Economics Joshua Angrist, whose influential work has enhanced rigorous empirical research in economics, has been named a winner of the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Angrist shares half the award with Guido Imbens of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the other half goes to David Card of the University of California at Berkeley.

		MIT News: Comparing seniors who relocate long-distance shows where you live affects your longevity Research co-authored by Amy Finkelstein, the John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics, shows that some U.S. locations enhance longevity for senior citizens more than others. The study, which quantifies the effect of location by analyzing the impact of long-distance moves on individual health, delivers important new information about large-scale drivers of U.S. health outcomes.

		David Autor elected Vice President of the American Economic Association Ford Professor of Economics David Autor has been elected Vice President of the AEA, along with Stanford's Caroline M. Hoxby (PhD '94). Autor previously served on the AEA Executive Committee and as Editor in Chief of the AEA's Journal of Economic Perspectives.

		Arnaud Costinot named 2021 Fellow of the Econometric Society Congratulations to Professor Arnaud Costinot, who has been elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in recognition of his highly regarded contributions to the field. The Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. New Fellows are elected annually by the Society's active Fellows.

		UEA Lecture: Victor Chernozhukov, "AI for Economics? An Application to Inflation Measurement" Victor Chernozhukov delivered the fall Undergraduate Economics Association lecture, "AI for Economics? An Application to Inflation Measurement" on October 4. Chernozhukov is the Ford International Professor at MIT's Department of Economics and Center for Statistics and Data Science, and former Senior Principal Scientist for Amazon's Core Artificial Intelligence Group.

		Andre Medeiros Sztutman named Accenture Fellow Economics PhD candidate Andre Medeiros Sztutman is one of five MIT recipients of the inaugural Accenture Fellows program, awarded to graduate students whose research has the potential to advance industry convergence through technology and innovation. Sztutman's work focuses on the development of tools for tackling adverse selection in insurance markets, contributing to the convergence of gig platforms, reporting agencies, and the insurance business.

		MIT News: A sleep study's eye-opening findings In a new study of working poor in Chennai, India, Gary Loveman Career Development Associate Professor Frank Schilbach, recent PhD graduate Pedro Bessone, and co-authors find no measurable benefits for workers who sleep more at night, but increased productivity, psychological well-being, and cognition for those who take short afternoon naps at the workplace. The results could be due to the myriad adverse nighttime sleeping conditions faced by working poor in Chennai, and suggest that improving quality of sleep may matter more than increasing quantity.

		Daron Acemoglu: The AI we should fear is already here Alarm over the rise of artificial intelligence often focuses on the notion of super-intelligent machines run amok at some point in the distant future. Writing in The Washington Post, Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu highlights the ominous effects of today's AI, which is already displacing workers, reproducing biases and inequities in the criminal justice system, and hampering the functioning of modern democracies by enabling governments and corporations to monitor and manipulate the behaviors of millions of people.

		FT Economists Exchange: Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee In conversation with the Financial Times, Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo reflect on what the pandemic has revealed about the "plumbing" of economic systems around the world and the dangers of inaction over climate change.

		3 Questions: James Poterba on making infrastructure pay off In conversation with MIT News, Mitsui Professor of Economics James Poterba discusses a new paper "Economic Perspectives on Infrastructure Investment," co-authored with Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser. The work surveys economic aspects of infrastructure investment in the U.S., finding overlooked value in repairs, upgrades, and user fees to help fund projects.

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