Bio
Alberto Abadie is an econometrician and empirical microeconomist with broad disciplinary interests. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1999. Upon graduating, he joined the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was promoted to full professor in 2005. He returned to MIT in 2016, where he is a Professor of Economics.
His research areas include econometrics, causal inference, and program evaluation. His methodological research focuses on econometric methods to estimate causal effects, particularly the effects of public policies, such as labor market, education, and health policy interventions. He has served as Editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and Associate Editor of AER: Insights, Econometrica, and the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
