(Updated January 15, 2024)
office contact
Department of Economics
278 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Princeton University
Princeton, nj 08544
current academic position
| Professor, Princeton University, Department of Economics | Jul 2020– |
past appointments
| Assistant Professor, Princeton University | Feb 2014–Jun 2020 |
| Department of Economics | Jul 2018–Jun 2020 |
| Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School | Feb 2014–Jun 2018 |
| Visiting Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics | Sep 2016–Jun 2017 |
| Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, Cowles Foundation | Aug 2013–Jan 2014 |
education
| Harvard University, Ph.D. in Economics | 2008–13 |
| Thesis Title: “Essays on Instrumental Variables” | |
| Harvard University, A.M. in Economics | May 2011 |
| Trinity College Dublin, B.A. in Mathematics and Economics | 2004–8 |
| Double First Class Honours, Gold Medal |
publications
[ See here ]
honors and awards
Journal of Econometrics best associate editor award, 2023
nsf grant #ses-22049356: “Honest and Robust Inference with High Dimensional Data” Apr 2021–Mar 2024 (co-pi: Tim Armstrong).
Fellow of the Slovak Economic Association, 2020–
2019 Sloan Research Fellowship
Graduate Economics Club recognition for outstanding teaching (2018, 2017)
nsf grant #ses-1628878: “Honest Inference and Efficiency Bounds for Nonparametric Regression and Approximate Moment Condition Models” Sept 2016–Aug 2019 (co-pi: Tim Armstrong).
professional activities
Board of Editors, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022–
Associate Editor, Econometrica, 2022–
Associate Editor, Journal of Econometrics, 2022–
Associate Editor, The Econometrics Journal, 2021–
Associate Editor, Quantitative Economics, 2020–
Refereeing: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Review, American Economic Review: Insights, Annals of Applied Statistics, Biometrika, Demography, Econometric Reviews, Econometric Theory, Econometrica, Econometrics, Econometrics Journal, Economic Inquiry, Economics Letters, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Journal of Causal Inference, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Econometric Methods, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Metrika, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Quantitative Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Social Science Research, Statistics in Medicine
Grant reviews: cerge-ei / Global Development Network, European Research Council, National Science Foundation
Conference organization:
Organizing Committee for Gary Chamberlain Online Seminar in Econometrics 2020–
Program Committee, Econometric Society 2020 World Congress
Co-organizer of Greater New York Metropolitan Area Econometrics Colloquium, Oct 2022, Dec 2018, Dec 2014
Program Committee, International Association of Applied Econometrics conference, Montreal, Jun 2018
invited talks and conference presentations
| 2024 | Scheduled: Tulane |
| 2023 | European Commission Joint Research Centre, Georgetown, lmu/tum Munich, lse, Mannheim/Bonn, uc Davis, ucl, U of Amsterdam, U Calgary, U Wisconsin-Madison, Warwick |
| 2022 | Brandeis, Brown, Harvard/mit, National Bank of Slovakia, Oxford, U Chicago, Stanford, Slovak Economic Association Meeting (keynote) |
| 2021 | Cambridge, crest/pse, cuhk, Duke, ucla, ucsd, U York, Yale (csap), Yale (Econ), North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, nber Summer institute (discussant) |
| 2020 | Princeton department seminar, ucl/cemmap public webinar, North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, Online causal inference seminar, Online causal inference seminar (discussant), nber Summer institute (discussant), Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting (discussant) |
| 2019 | Georgetown, Stanford, uc Irvine, uc Santa Barbara, Robustness in Economics and Econometrics Conference, European Meeting of the Econometric Society (invited session) |
| 2018 | Indiana U Bloomington, itam, Michigan State U, mit/Harvard, nyu, Rutgers, Syracuse U, U Chicago (qrm), U Maryland, U Wisconsin-Madison, birs Workshop on the Interface of Statistics and Machine Learning, Conference in honor of Gary Chamberlain, New Frontiers in Econometrics Conference (U Conn), European Meeting of the Econometric Society |
| 2017 | Carleton U, Columbia, Queen’s U (Kingston), ucla, ucsd, Vanderbilt, Villanova U, Greater NY Metropolitan Area Econometrics Colloquium, sole Annual meeting, Joint Statistical Meetings (invited session) |
| 2016 | Boston College, Boston U, Harvard/mit (twice), North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, Greater NY Metropolitan Area Econometrics Colloquium, North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, nber Summer institute (discussant), Inference in Nonstandard Problems conference, Interactions: Bringing Together Econometrics and Applied Microeconometrics conference |
| 2015 | Pennsylvania State U, U Chicago, unc Chapel Hill, North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, World Congress of the Econometric Society, Inference in Non-standard Problems conference |
| 2014 | Columbia, Ohio State, Princeton, Trinity College Dublin, U Penn, U Wisconsin-Madison, First Warwick Econometrics workshop |
| 2013 | Brown, mit, Northwestern U, Prague/cerge-ei, Princeton, Toulouse School of Economics, ucl, U Maryland, U Michigan, U St. Gallen, Yale, ceme Stanford/ucla Conference |
| 2012 | uc Berkeley |
| 2011 | European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Harvard/mit |
teaching
Advanced Applied Econometrics, second year PhD (Princeton eco539b): Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2019
Econometrics: A Mathematical Approach, undergraduate (Princeton eco312): Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
Econometric Applications, undergraduate (Princeton eco313): Spring 2022, Spring 2019, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
Econometric Theory I, first year PhD (Princeton eco517): Fall 2021, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
Advanced Econometrics: Nonlinear Models, second year PhD (Princeton eco519): Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Fall 2014
Quantitative Analysis for Policymakers, Masters in Public Policy (Princeton wws507b): Fall 2017
New Econometric Methods, second year PhD (mit 14.386): Spring 2017
Statistical Method in Economics, first year PhD (mit 14.381): Fall 2016
Intermediate Statistics for Social Science, undergraduate (Princeton wws400): Spring 2016
Statistics for Social Science, undergraduate (Princeton wws200): Spring 2015, Spring 2014
personal information
Year of Birth: 1986. Citizenship: Slovakia and usa. 2 children (2023, 2020).