Azeem Shaikh is Department Chair and Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor in Economics and the College, as well as Thornber Research Fellow at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on econometric theory—including multiple testing problems, resampling methods like the bootstrap and subsampling, and inference for partially identified models—with applications in early childhood education and intergenerational mobility. Shaikh also co-directs the Becker Friedman Institute’s Big Data Initiative.

He is an elected Fellow of both the Econometric Society and the International Association for Applied Econometrics. Shaikh is currently Associate Editor of the Econometrics Journal and Co-Editor of the Journal of Political Economy. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and honored with the Dennis J. Aigner Award, a Hoover National Fellowship, and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.

At Chicago since 2007