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He specializes in the fields of macroeconomics , monetary economics, and time series econometrics. As of , he ranks as the 38th most cited economist in the world.

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Sims for their "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy". Sargent graduated from Monrovia High School. He earned his B. Sargent's classmates at Harvard included Christopher A. After serving in the U. Army as a first lieutenant and captain, he moved on to teaching. He held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania —71 , University of Minnesota —87 , University of Chicago —98 , Stanford University — and Princeton University , and is currently a professor of economics at New York University since He previously held the position of President of the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society where he has been a fellow since He has been a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University since the year Sargent is one of the leaders of the "rational expectations revolution," which argues that the people being modeled by economists can predict the future, or the probability of future outcomes, at least as well as the economist can with his model.