Joseph G. Altonji

Labor economist who pioneered new ways to estimate the seniority-earning relationship and who investigated the elasticity of intertemporal substitution of labor, the effectiveness of Catholic schools, and the effects of immigration. Made contributions to understanding the economics of altruism and the black-white wealth gap, race and gender in the labor market, and money transfers between parents and children. In econometrics he made important contribution to the estimation of non-separable models and to the use of selection on observables to assess and correct for selection on unobservables. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Labour Economics and Microeconomic Insights, as President-Elect of the Society of Labor Economists and as a member of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee and the NSF Social and Behavior Sciences Advisory Committee. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and a fellow of the Society of Labor Economics. He received the IZA prize in labor economics in 2018.