Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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What are the ingredients for a productive research collaboration? In this episode, Nobel laureates Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens share the beginnings of their working relationship, provide insight on how to find a compatible co-author, and reflect on their time at Harvard together. John Bates Clark winner Isaiah Andrews hosts.

More about Guido Imbens: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/guido-w-imbens
More about Joshua Angrist: https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/angrist
More about Isaiah Andrews: https://scholar.harvard.edu/iandrews/home

00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Josh & Guido's overlapping time at Harvard
02:38 - Two economists walk into a laundromat
06:15 - How to find coauthors
11:21 - What skills best complement yours?
14:43 - In person vs. virtual
16:22 - The environment at Harvard