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Thomas Lemieux
Thomas Lemieux is a Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. He was born in Quebec City and obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He taught at MIT and the Université de Montréal before coming to UBC in 1999.
Most of his recent research revolves around the issue of earnings inequality in Canada and other countries. He is also interested in econometric methods used to analyse earnings distribution and regression discontinuity designs.
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Nobel Prize in Economics 2021: Clarity, transparency, and credibility in empirical research
This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to David Card – for his empirical contributions to labour economics – and Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens – for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships. In this post, Thomas Lemieux discusses the contribution of the Nobel laureates in revolutionising the way empirical work is conducted in micro-oriented fields, particularly through the use of natural experiments to answer important economic questions, and new econometric tools to interpret the results.
