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...prospect of living in the same house as someone is daunting to some. But for Professors of Economics Guido W. Imbens and Susan Athey, the home-life proximity was so rewarding that when they transferred to Harvard from professorial positions at Berkeley and Stanford, respectively, they chose offices right next door to one another...
...it’s this proximity that has defined the Ec power couple’s relationship—starting with their meeting at University of California, Los Angeles, where Athey was giving a talk, which Imbens drove across the traffic-laden city to attend...
...Imbens] drove all the way across Los Angeles to hear me speak at UCLA, which made me a little suspicious because it was outside his area,” says Athey. “He still hasn’t confessed whether it was academic or other interests that drew him across the city...
...These two academics spent time together in California, Athey working at Stanford and Imbens at Berkeley, until the commute for Imbens became too much to handle with a young family at home—thus the move across the country to a home in Cambridge and side-by-side Littauer mezzanine offices...
...That’s the only possible way that I could continue to have my career continue at the level it currently is at and giving my kids their fair shake,” adds Athey. And her career certainly is at a high level—she became the first woman to win the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal...