Ismael Mourifié
Associate Professor, University of TorontoIsmael Mourifié is an Associate Professor (with tenure) at University of Toronto. He is also Faculty Research Fellow in Labor studies at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a member of the Early Childhood Interventions Network at University of Chicago. Dr. Mourifié’s research interests lie in Microeconometrics, especially identification issues in incomplete models, causal inference, policy evaluations, and empirical matching models. His works have been published in leading economics and statistical journals such as Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Labor Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Econometrics and Biometrika. He is currently associate editor at the Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business of Economic & Statistics, and Annals of Economics and Statistics, and has been the 2017 recipient of the John C. Polanyi Prize in Economic Science. Since 2022, Dr. Mourifié co-chairs with Pr. David Green the Canadian Economics Diversity Committee initiative.
Dr. Mourifié is originally from Cote d’Ivoire, received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University Sidi-Ben Abdallah (Morocco) in 2005, an M.Sc in Statistics from INSEA (Morocco) in 2008, and a PhD in Economics from University of Montreal in 2014.