Dr. Joshua Angrist is an Israeli–American economist and Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His lecture is titled, "Escaping the Elite Illusion."
Dr. Angrist ranks among the world's top economists in labor 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. Together with Guido Imbens, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021 "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships."