Alexander Torgovitsky

Alexander Torgovitsky is a Professor in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he has served since 2017. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University (2012) and serves as Director of Graduate Admissions in the Economics Department. His research focuses on microeconometrics, applied econometrics, and causal inference, with a particular emphasis on instrumental variables methods and policy evaluation.

Key contributions include work on nonparametric demand estimation in health insurance markets, sensitivity analysis in semiparametric models, and software development for instrumental variables analysis (e.g., the ivmte and ivcrc packages). He has published in top journals such as Econometrica, the American Economic Review, and the Journal of Econometrics. Collaborations with researchers like Magne Mogstad and Christopher R. Walters highlight his engagement with policy-relevant questions and methodological innovations in causal inference.