Dr. Joshua Angrist is one of a trio of economists to share the 2021 Nobel Prize in economics for pioneering research that transformed widely held ideas about the labor force, showing how an increase in the minimum wage doesn’t hinder hiring, and for creating a framework to study this type of societal issue that can’t rely on traditional scientific methods. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the three have “completely reshaped empirical work in the economic sciences.”

Sharing the prize with Dr. Angrist, a professor at MIT, are David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, and Guido Imbens from Stanford University.