Joseph Altonji

Joseph Gerard Altonji (born 1953) is the Thomas DeWitt Cuyler Professor of Economics at Yale University. He specializes in labor economics. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received his B.A. from Yale in 1975 and a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1981.

Altonji is best known for work on labor market discrimination, the effect of seniority on wages, and altruism within families. More recently, he is known for developing econometric techniques which develop plausible assumptions about unobserved variables using information about observed variables.