Alberto Abadie (born April 3, 1968) is professor of the
department of economics at
MIT
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and Associate Director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) also at MIT. He was born in the
Basque Country, Spain. He received his PhD 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.
Alberto Abadie's research interests lie in the areas of econometric methodology and applied econometrics, with special emphasis on causal inference and program evaluation methods. He has made fundamental contributions to important areas in econometrics and statistics, including treatment effect models, instrumental variable estimation, matching estimators,
difference in differences
Difference in differences (DID or DD) is a statistical technique used in econometrics and quantitative research in the social sciences that attempts to mimic an experimental research design using observational study data, by studying the differe ...
, and
synthetic control The synthetic control method is a statistical method used to evaluate the effect of an intervention in comparative case studies. It involves the construction of a weighted combination of groups used as controls, to which the treatment group is comp ...
s. He is Associate Editor of ''AER: Insights'', and has previously served as Editor of the ''Review of Economics and Statistics'' and Associate Editor of ''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.
References
External links
Alberto Abadie's Home Page at MIT
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Spanish political scientists
21st-century Spanish economists
20th-century Spanish economists
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
University of the Basque Country alumni
Living people
1968 births
Fellows of the Econometric Society
Spanish expatriates in the United States