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Joshua D. Angrist (01/2021) Joshua D. Angrist (01/2021) Current Positions Ford Professor of Economics, MIT, from July 2008. Professor, MIT Economics Department, July 1998-2008. Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, from 1994. Co-Director, MIT School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, from Fall 2011. Previous Positions Wesley Clair Mitchell Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Columbia, Fall 2018. Visiting Professor, Harvard Lab for Economic Applications and Policy, 2011-12. Lady Davis Fellow, Hebrew University, 2004-05. Associate Professor, MIT Economics Department, 1996-98. Associate Professor, Hebrew University Economics Department, 1995-96. Visiting Associate Professor, MIT Economics Department, 1994-95. Senior Lecturer in Economics, Hebrew University Economics Department, 1991-95. Assistant Professor, Harvard University Economics Department, 1989-91. Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1989-94. Education Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, October 1989. M.A., Economics, Princeton University, May 1987. B.A., Economics with Highest Honors, Oberlin College, June 1982. Teaching, Professional Service, and Public Service Teaching, Graduate Econometrics, Columbia, Fall 2018; Graduate and Undergraduate Labor Economics and Econometrics, MIT, 1994-95, 1996-2004, 2005-20; Graduate Econometrics and Graduate and Undergraduate Labor Economics, Hebrew University, 1991-96; Graduate Labor Economics and Undergraduate Econometrics courses, Harvard University, 1989-91. Referee, Addison-Wesley, American Economic Review, Bi-National Science Foundation (Israel), British Journal of Industrial Relations, Canadian Journal of Economics, Cambridge University Press, Contemporary Economic Policy, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Economics of Education Review, The Economic Journal, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, International Economic Review, Journal of the American Statistical Association (Applications; Theory and Methods), Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Law Economics and Organization, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, MIT Press, National Science Foundation (Economics; MMS), PLOS Medicine, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Social Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Science, The Sloan Foundation, Social Science Research Council (Canada), The Spencer Foundation, Statistics in Medicine. Member, US Census Bureau Scientific Advisory Committee (2011-12); Consultant to MPR (2012), MDRC, the Sloan Foundation, and to the Brigham and Women’s Pharmacoepidemiology group, ASSA Program Committee, 2011; 2006-8; World Bank Research Review Panel, 2006; IES Review Panel, 2005-6; SOLE Committee on Fellows and Awards, June 2003; Board of Directors, Falk Institute at Hebrew University, from July 2002; Consultant to SRDC, MDRC and ETS, 2003-4; Social Security Administration Technical Support Group for the 2001 Ticket to Work Evaluation; Program Committee, 2000, 2005, 2010 Econometric Society meetings; Program Committee, 2010 SOLE/EALE meetings; SSA Technical Support Groups for Policy Evaluation of the Effects of 1996 Welfare Reform Legislation and Changes in SSI Rules for Children with Disabilities (1997-99; 2001); Kennedy School Institute for Peace in the Middle East Refugee Working Group (1997-98); Israel Finance Ministry Working Group on Israeli-Palestinian Labor Market Relations (1994); Consultant for US Department of Labor evaluation of JTPA Title III training programs (Spring 1995); Public Advisory Councils on Statistical Methodology and the 1995 Census, Jerusalem; Consultant, SSA/ASPE Study of the Growth of Applications and Awards for SSDI and DI Benefits (March 1994). Research and Writing Journal articles (refereed) “Uber vs Taxi: A Driver’s Eye View,” (with Sydnee Caldwell and Jonathan Hall), forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020 (NBER Working Paper No. 23891, September 2017). “Inside Job or Deep Impact? Using Extramural Citations to Assess Economic Scholarship” (with Pierre Azoulay, Glenn Ellison, Ryan Hill and Susan Feng Lu), The Journal of Economic Literature, March 2020 (NBER Working Paper No. 23698, August 2017). “Maimonides Rule Redux,” (with Victor Lavy, Jetson Leder-Luis and Adi Shany), AER: Insights 1, December 2019. “Research Design Meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation” (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yusuke Narita and Parag A. Pathak), Econometrica 85, September 2017. “In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Italian Mezzogiorno,” (with Erich Battistin and Daniela Vuri), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 9, October 2017. “Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added: Testing and Estimation,” (with Peter D. Hull, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2017. “Semiparametric Estimates of Monetary Policy Effects: String Theory Revisited,” (with Oscar Jorda and Guido Kuersteiner), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, May 2017. “Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston,” The American Economic Review, July 2016. “Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston’s Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice,” (with Sarah Cohodes, Susan Dynarski, Parag Pathak, and Chris Walters), The Journal of Labor Economics, April 2016. “Wanna Get Away? Regression Discontinuity Estimation of Exam School Effects Away from the Cutoff,” (with Miikka Rokkanen), Journal of the American Statistical Association, (with comments and rejoinder), December 2015. “The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools,” (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Parag Pathak), Econometrica 82(1), January 2014. “When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards,” (with Phil Oreopoulos and Tyler Williams), Journal of Human Resources 49(3), Summer 2014. “Explaining Charter School Effectiveness,” (with Parag Pathak and Chris Walters), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5(4), October 2013. “Who Benefits from KIPP?,” (with Susan Dynarski, Thomas Kane, Parag Pathak, and Chris Walters),” The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Fall 2012. “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. “Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston’s Charters and Pilots,” (with A. Abdulkadiroglu, S. Dynarski, T.J. Kane, and P. Pathak), The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2011. “Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery,” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (with Stacey Chen), 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 94, December 2010. “Multiple Experiments for the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children” (with Victor Lavy and Analia Schlosser), The Journal of Labor Economics 28, October 2010. “The Effect of High-Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a School-Centered Randomized Trial,” (with Victor Lavy), The American Economic Review, September 2009 (reprinted in Field Experiments, edited by John List and A.C. Samak, Edward Elgar 2014.) “Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial,” (with Phil Oreopoulos and Dan Lang), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2009. “Does Teacher Testing Raise Teacher Quality? Evidence from State Certification Requirements,” (with Jon Guryan), The Economics of Education Review, October 2008. “Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia,” (with Adriana Kugler), The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2008. “Is Spanish-only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto-Rican Language Gap?,” (with Aimee Chin and Ricardo Godoy), The Journal of Development Economics, February 2008. “Quantile Regression Under Misspecification, with an Application to the U.S. Wage Structure,” (with Victor Chernozhukov and Ivan Fernandez-Val), Econometrica, March 2006. “Instrumental Variables Methods in Experimental Criminological Research: What, Why, and How,” The Journal of Experimental Criminology, April 2006. “Long-Term Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers: Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia” (with Eric Bettinger and Michael Kremer), American Economic Review, June 2006. “Does School Integration Generate Peer effects? Evidence from Boston’s Metco Program,” (with Kevin Lang), The American Economic Review, December 2004. “When to Control for Covariates? Panel-Asymptotic Results for Estimates of Treatment Effects,” (with Jinyong Hahn), Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2004. “Protective or Counter-Productive? Labor Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigration on EU Natives,” (with Adriana Kugler), The Economic Journal, June 2003; reprinted in A. Morriss, ed., International Labor and Employment Studies, Kluwer International. “Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment,” (with E. Bettinger, E. Bloom, E. King, and M. Kremer), American Economic Review, December 2002. “New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning,”
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