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The Prize in Economic Sciences 2021 This year’s Laureates – David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens – have shown that natural experiments can be used to answer central questions for society, such as how minimum wages and immigration affect the labour market. They have also clarified exactly which conclusions about cause and effect can…

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Swedish 11 oktober 2021 har beslutat utdela Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne 2021 med ena hälften till David Card University of California, Berkeley, USA ”för hans empiriska bidrag till arbetsmarknadsekonomi” och andra hälften gemensamt till Joshua D. Angrist Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA Guido W. Imbens Stanford University, USA…

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English 11 October 2021 has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 with one half to David Card University of California, Berkeley, USA “for his empirical contributions to labour economics” and the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA Guido…

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