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Joshua Angrist, an Uncommon card
Joshua David Angrist is an Israeli American economist and Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 136
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 21,000
Power 136 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Joshua Angrist quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Joshua Angrist card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Angrist, together with Guido Imbens, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in ____ "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships".
Answer
2020s. Angrist, together with Guido Imbens, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021 "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships". From the Joshua Angrist article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
1991 NASCAR Winston Cup Series. 1991 NASCAR Winston Cup Series 87 · Joshua Angrist 75 · Simon Stevin 70 · Rallycross 67 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Angrist, together with Guido Imbens, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021 "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships".
- He ranks among the world's top economists in labor economics, urban economics, econometrics, and the economics of education, and is known for his use of quasi-experimental research designs to study the effects of public policies and changes in economic or social circumstances.
- He is a co-founder and co-director of MIT's Blueprint Labs, which researches the relationship between human capital and income inequality in the U.S. He also cofounded Avela, an ed-tech startup that provides application and enrollment-related software and services to school districts, schools of all kinds, organizations like Teach for America, and the U.S. military.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Joshua Angrist article was read about 21,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Joshua Angrist (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : MeJudice, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
