Michal Kolesár (born 1986) is a Slovak-American economist specialized in econometrics. Early life and education Michal Kolesár was born in 1986 in Czechoslovakia to a computer programmer and a chemist. He grew up competing in mathematics olympiads. As a high school student, he moved to Ireland, first as an exchange student but ended up staying and graduating from a high school in Dublin. Following his high school graduation, Kolesár enrolled at the Trinity College Dublin. Following the graduation at Trinity, Kolesár pursued a PhD in Economics at the Harvard University, under the supervision of Guido Imbens and Gary Chamberlain. He graduated in 2013. Academic work Following his graduation from Harvard, Michal Kolesár spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University. In 2014, he joined Princeton, where he is active until this day. In the 2016/2017 Academic Year, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2020 he became full professor at Princeton. Kolesár is a member of the editorial board of American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Economics of the Princeton University. Personal life Michal Kolesár is married with two children. He is a naturalized US citizen in addition to the Slovak citizenship he holds by birth.<ref name="CV" />
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