The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to three US-based economists who have provided new insights about the labor market and shown what conclusions about cause and effect can be drawn from natural experiments.
This year's Laureates are Canadian labor economist David Card, U.S. economist Joshua Angrist and Dutch economist Guido Imbens. Card, 65, is Professor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley. Angrist, 61, is Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Imbens, 58, is the Applied Econometrics Professor and Professor of Economics at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
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April 24, 2026 15:15 ET Economics news flow was relatively light this week even as the conflict in the Middle East continued, raising concerns for policymakers. In the U.S., spending data, initial jobless claims and pending home sales were the highlights. Business confidence in the biggest euro area economy was in focus in Europe. Inflation data from Japan gained attention in Asia.