Matias D. Cattaneo
Matias Damian Cattaneo is an Argentine scientist, Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. His research focuses on econometrics, statistics, data science and decision science, with applications to program evaluation and causal inference. He is best known for his work on Regression discontinuity designs.
Cattaneo is a co-editor of Econometric Theory, and has served in editorial boards of leading academic journals across various disciplines, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Econometrica, and Operations Research.
Education and academic career
Cattaneo received his Licentiate from UBA in 2000, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008, under supervision of James L. Powell. From 2008 to 2019, Cattaneo taught at the University of Michigan. In 2019, Cattaneo joined Princeton University as a Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.Honors and awards
- Elected Member, International Statistical Institute, 2025.
- Fellow, American Statistical Association, 2023.
- Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2022.
- Fellow, International Association for Applied Econometrics, 2022.
- Stata Journal Editors’ Prize, 2019.