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		Amy Finkelstein's career and data-driven research highlighted for IMF News In a recent profile for the IMF's Finance & Development magazine, Chris Wellisz talks with Amy Finkelstein about her career, groundbreaking studies in health economics, and extensive use of large data sets to test how economic models work in the real world.

		Esther Duflo and David Autor honored by MIT for exceptional mentorship David Autor and Esther Duflo are among 15 faculty members recognized for 2021-2023 by MIT's Committed to Caring program, which honors and celebrates faculty mentors who have gone above and beyond to support the success and well-being of their graduate students.

		MIT's Josh Angrist receives Nobel Prize Ford Professor of Economics Joshua Angrist, whose influential work has enhanced rigorous empirical research in economics, received the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences at a ceremony held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC on December 6. Watch Angrist's prize lecture, "Empirical strategies in economics: Illuminating the path from cause to effect," at the link below.

		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 Arnaud Costinot 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.

		Victor Chernozhukov delivers fall UEA lecture The fall 2021 Undergraduate Economics Association lecture was delivered by Victor Chernozhukov on "AI for Economics? An Application to Inflation Measurement." 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.

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