Joshua Angrist

Recent Publications

Charter Schools

Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston’s Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice
(with Sarah Cohodes, Susan Dynarski, Parag Pathak and Christopher Walters)
Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, Vol. 34 (2), pt. 1, 275–318
Web Appendix

Explaining Charter School Effectiveness
(with Parag Pathak and Christopher Walters)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2013

Who Benefits from KIPP?
(with S. Dynarski, T.J. Kane, P. Pathak and C. Walters)
The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Fall 2012

Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots
(with A. Abdulkadiroglu, S. Dynarski, T. Kane, and P. Pathak)
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2011
web appendix

Inputs and Impacts in Charter Schools: KIPP Lynn
(with Sue Dynarski, Thomas Kane, Parag Pathak, and Chris Walters)
The American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 100(2), May 2010

Education

The Perils of Peer Effects
Labour Economics, June 2014

When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards
(with Philip Oreopoulos and Tyler Williams)
Journal of Human Resources 49(3), Summer 2014

The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools (article supplement)
(with A. Abdulkadiroglu and P. Pathak)
Econometrica, January 2014

The Effects of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
(with Victor Lavy)
The American Economic Review 99(4), September 2009

Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
(with Daniel Lang and Philip Oreopoulos)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1(1), January 2009

Does Teacher Testing Raise Teacher Quality? Evidence from State Certification Requirements
(with Jon Guryan)
The Economics of Education Review 27(5), October 2008

Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program
(with Kevin Lang)
The American Economic Review, December 2004, 1613-1634

American Education Research Changes Tack
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Summer 2004, 198-212

Teacher Testing, Teacher Education, and Teacher Characteristics
(with Jon Guryan)
The American Economic Review, May 2004

Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment
(with Eric Bettinger, Erik Bloom, Elizabeth King, and Michael Kremer)
The American Economic Review, December 2002, 1535-1558.

New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning
(with Victor Lavy)
The Economic Journal, October 2002, 735-765.

Does Teacher Training Affect Pupil Learning? Evidence From Matched Comparisons In Jerusalem Public Schools.
(with Victor Lavy)
The Journal Of Labor Economics, April 2001, 343-369.

Is Spanish-Only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap?
(with Aimee Chin and Ricardo Godoy)
The Journal of Development Economics 85(1), February 2008

Long-Term Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers: Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia
(with Eric Bettinger and Michael Kremer)
The American Economic Review, June 2006

'Metrics

Wanna Get Away? Regression Discontinuity Estimation of Exam School Effects Away from the Cutoff
(with Miikka Rokkanen)
Journal of the American Statistical Association, forthcoming 2015
Web Appendix

Evaluating Econometric Evaluations of Post-Secondary Aid
(with David Autor, Sally Hudson and Amanda Pallais)
American Economic Review, Vol. 105, No. 5, May 2015

ExtrapoLATE-ing: External Validity and Overidentification in the LATE Framework
(with Ivan Fernandez-Val)
Advances in Economics and Econometrics, Vol 3, May 2013

Causal Effects of Monetary Shocks: Semiparametric Conditional Independence Tests with a Multinomial Propensity Score
(with Guido Kuersteiner)
The Review of Economics and Statistics, August 2011

Multiple Experiments for the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children
(with Victor Lavy and Analia Schlosser)
The Journal of Labor Economics, October 2010

The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics
(with Steve Pischke)
Comments and discussion by:
Michael Keane, Edward Leamer, Aviv Nevo and Michael Whinston, Christopher Sims, and James Stock
The Journal of Economic Perspectives 24(2), Spring 2010

Instrumental variables methods in experimental criminological research: what , why and how
The Journal of Experimental Criminology, April 2006

Quantile Regression under Misspecification, with an Application to the U.S. Wage Structure
(with Victor Chernozhukov and Ivan Fernandez-Val)
Econometrica, March 2006

Treatment Effect Heterogeneity In Theory and Practice
The Economic Journal, March 2004, C52-C83

When to Control for Covariates? Panel Asymptotics for Estimates of Treatment Effects
(with Jinyong Hahn)
The Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2004

Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Effect of Subsidized Training on the Quantiles of Trainee Earnings
(with Alberto Abadie and Guido Imbens)
Econometrica, January 2002, 91-117.

Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments
(with Alan Krueger)
The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2001, 69-85.

Treatment Effects
The New Palgrave, Second Edition, 2008

Veterans

Long-term Consequences of Vietnam-Era Conscription: New Estimates Using Social Security Data
(with S. Chen and J. Song)
The American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2011

Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery
(with Stacey Chen)
The American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2011

Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health
(with Stacey Chen and Brigham Frandsen)
The Journal of Public Economics, December 2010

Labor Markets

Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income and Civil Conflict in Colombia
(with Adriana Kugler)
The Review of Economics and Statistics 90(2), May 2008

Protective or Counter Productive? Labor Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigration on EU Natives
(with Adriana Kugler)
The Economic Journal, June 2003, F302-F331.

How Do Sex Ratios Affect Marriage and Labor Markets? Evidence from America's Second Generation
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2002, 997-1038.

Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act
(with Daron Acemoglu)
The Journal of Political Economy, October 2001, 915-957.