Dr. Whitney Newey

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Biography

Whitney Newey is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology specializing in economics. He has served as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and held esteemed fellowships with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Econometric Society, and more. Newey has been recognized with the 2020 Distinguished Fellow title by the American Economic Association and has also received a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship. His academic leadership includes roles as a co-editor for Econometrica and program co-chair for the 2005 World Congress of the Econometric Society. Newey's current research interests encompass debiased machine learning, structural causal parameters, and econometric inference, particularly in relation to economic demand models that address general heterogeneity.

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Experience

Ford Professor

1998-09-01 — Present

Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA

Whitney Newey holds the position of Ford Professor at MIT, focusing on empirical and theoretical aspects of economics.