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Michal Kolesár

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Michal Kolesár
Born1986 (age 37–38)
Czechoslovakia
🏳️ CitizenshipSlovakia, United States
🎓 Alma materHarvard University
Trinity College Dublin
💼 Occupation

Michal Kolesár (born 1986) is a Slovak-American economist specialized in econometrics.

Early life and education[edit]

Michal Kolesár was born in 1986 in Czechoslovakia to a computer programmer and a chemist.[1] He grew up competing in mathematics olympiads. As a high school student, he moved to Ireland, first as an exchange student but ended up staying and graduating from a high school in Dublin. Following his high school graduation, Kolesár enrolled at the Trinity College Dublin. Following the graduation at Trinity, Kolesár pursued a PhD in Economics at the Harvard University, under the supervision of Guido Imbens and Gary Chamberlain. He graduated in 2013.[2]

Academic work[edit]

Following his graduation from Harvard, Michal Kolesár spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University. In 2014, he joined Princeton, where he is active until this day. In the 2016/2017 Academic Year, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2020 he became full professor at Princeton.[1]

In his research, Kolesár focuses on the bias in statistical inference. He names David Card, Patrick Kline, Ariél Pakes and Alan Krueger as economists who has influenced his own approach to the discipline.[3]

Kolesár is a member of the editorial board of American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.[4] He is currently a Professor at the Department of Economics of the Princeton University.[5]

Personal life[edit]

Michal Kolesár is married with two children. He is a naturalized US citizen in addition to the Slovak citizenship he holds by birth.[1]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Michal Kolesár's CV" (PDF). Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  2. Lehuta, Michal (14 November 2016). "Závratná kariéra: Má 30 a učí na Princetone i MIT". www.trend.sk (in slovenčina). Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  3. "Office Hours with Michal Kolesár". Princeton University – Department of Economics. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  4. "Editors of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  5. "Michal Kolesár's profile". www.princeton.edu. Retrieved 14 August 2023.


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