Isaiah Andrews (born 1986) is an American economist who is a professor of economics at Harvard University and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2018, The Economist named him one of the 8 "best young economists of the decade."[1] He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020[2] and in 2021, the American Economic Association awarded him the John Bates Clark Medal.[3][4]
Isaiah Smith Andrews | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1986 |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Econometrics |
| Institution | Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard Society of Fellows |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Anna Mikusheva |
| Awards | 2020 MacArthur Fellow 2021 John Bates Clark Medal |
| Website | https://scholar.harvard.edu/iandrews/ |
Education and early life
Andrews grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of economists Marcellus Andrews and Cheryl Smith.[5][6] He graduated from Yale University in 2009 and completed a doctorate in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014, where his dissertation advisor was Anna Mikusheva.[7]
Career
Andrews was the Silverman (1968) Family Career Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2016 to 2018, when he joined the faculty at Harvard.[2] His research addresses questions of statistical inference when identification is weak and the quantification of uncertainty, such as uncertainty due to publication bias.[7][6]
After his MacArthur win, Andrews, who is Black and gay, commented, “I hope that my getting this grant will help to demonstrate and show that there is room for success from a wide variety of folks in the economics profession.”[8]
He was elected fellow of the Econometric Society in 2020.[9]
Selected works
- Andrews, Isaiah, Matthew Gentzkow, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "Measuring the sensitivity of parameter estimates to estimation moments." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 132, no. 4 (2017): 1553–1592.
- Andrews, Isaiah, and Maximilian Kasy. "Identification of and correction for publication bias." American Economic Review 109, no. 8 (2019): 2766–94.
- Andrews, Isaiah, James H. Stock, and Liyang Sun. "Weak instruments in instrumental variables regression: Theory and practice." Annual Review of Economics 11 (2019): 727–753.
- Andrews, Isaiah, and Anna Mikusheva. "Maximum likelihood inference in weakly identified dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models." Quantitative Economics 6, no. 1 (2015): 123–152.
- Andrews, Isaiah. "Conditional linear combination tests for weakly identified models." Econometrica 84, no. 6 (2016): 2155–2182.
References
- ^ "Our pick of the decade's eight best young economists". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
- ^ a b "Isaiah Andrews - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
- ^ "Isaiah Andrews, Clark Medalist 2021". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ^ Mikusheva, Anna; Shapiro, Jesse M. (2022). "Isaiah Andrews, 2021 John Bates Clark Medalist". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 36 (1): 177–190. doi:10.1257/jep.36.1.177. ISSN 0895-3309.
- ^ Andrews, Isaiah Smith (2014). Essays in weak identification (Thesis thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/90118.
- ^ a b "MacArthur 'Genius' Andrews Lauded for 'Ridiculous Smarts,' 'Ridiculous Amount of Kindness' | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
- ^ a b "Isaiah Andrews named 2020 MacArthur fellow". Harvard Gazette. 2020-10-06. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
- ^ "3 LGBTQ trailblazers among 2020 MacArthur 'genius grant' winners". NBC News. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ "The Econometric Society Announces its 2020 Fellows | The Econometric Society". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
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