Alberto Abadie (born April 3, 1968) is a Spanish economist who has served as a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2016, where he is also Associate Director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS).
[2] He is principally known for his work in econometrics and empirical microeconomics, and is a specialist in causal inference and program evaluation.
[3] He has made fundamental contributions to important areas in econometrics and statistics, including treatment effect models, instrumental variable estimation, matching estimators, difference in differences, and synthetic controls.
[2] He received an MA in economics from the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros in 1995, and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999, where his doctoral advisers were Joshua Angrist and Whitney K.
[2] He co-edited the Review of Economics and Statistics from 2007 to 2011, and has served as an associate editor of several academic journals, including Econometrica.