# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-altonji
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:23:58.285Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-altonji"
name: "Joseph Altonji"
slug: "joseph-altonji"
description: "Joseph Gerard Altonji is an American economist and the Thomas DeWitt Cuyler Professor of Economics at Yale University. His fields of interest include macroeconomics and applied econometrics and in particular labour economics, being ranked as one of the foremost labour economists worldwide. In 2018, his contributions to the analysis of labour supply, family economics and discrimination were rewarded with the IZA Prize in Labor Economics."
tagline: "American economist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.471598666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_G._Altonji"
    title: "Joseph G. Altonji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A"
    title: "جوزيف ألتنجي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%89"
    title: "چوزيف التنجى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8"
    title: "ジョセフ・オルトンジ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Altonji"
    title: "Joseph Altonji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Altonji"
    title: "Joseph Altonji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18684006"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump