What are the ingredients for a productive research collaboration? In this episode, Nobel laureates Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens share the beginnings of their working relationship, provide insight on how to find a compatible coauthor, and reflect on their time at Harvard together. John Bates Clark winner Isaiah Andrews hosts.

More about Guido Imbens: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty...
More about Joshua Angrist: https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/ang...
More about Isaiah Andrews: https://scholar.harvard.edu/iandrews/...

00:00 Intro
00:16 Josh & Guido's overlapping time at Harvard
02:38 Two economists walk into a laundromat
06:15 How to find coauthors
11:21 What skills best complement yours?
14:43 In person vs. virtual
16:22 The environment at Harvard