Azeem Shaikh

Azeem Shaikh is a Professor of Economics, and the Thornber Research Fellow, at the University of Chicago. He is also the Co-Director of the Big Data Initiative at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics. His research interests are in econometric theory, and recent papers have covered topics such as partial identification, multiple testing, resampling methods, and empirical likelihood. His work has been published in top journals including Econometrica, Annals of Statistics, Econometric Theory, American Economic Review, Annual Review of Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, and the Journal of Political Economy.He also was the recipient of the Dennis J. Aigner Award for Applied Econometrics in 2013, and was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in the years 2011-2013.