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Joshua D. Angrist
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 311
Citations - 64677
Joshua D. Angrist is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Instrumental variable & Earnings. The author has an hindex of 89, co-authored 304 publications receiving 59505 citations. Previous affiliations of Joshua D. Angrist include Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Boston University.
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Estimating the payoff to schooling using the Vietnam-era draft lottery
Joshua D. Angrist,Joshua D. Angrist,Joshua D. Angrist,Alan B. Krueger,Alan B. Krueger,Alan B. Krueger +5 more
TL;DR: The authors used the draft lottery as a natural experiment to estimate the return to education and the veteran premium estimates are based on special extracts of the Current Population Survey for 1979 and 1981-85 The results suggest that an extra year of schooling acquired in response to the lottery is associated with66 percent higher weekly earnings.
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The Effect of High School Matriculation Awards: Evidence from Randomized Trials
Joshua D. Angrist,Victor Lavy +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempted to increase the likelihood of matriculation among low-achieving students by offering substantial cash incentives in two demonstration programs, one for individual students and the other for entire schools.
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Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston
TL;DR: The authors developed a grandfathering instrument for takeover attendance that compares students at schools designated for takeover with a matched sample of students attending similar schools not yet taken over, and found that grandfathered students see achievement gains at least as large as the gains for students assigned charter seats in lotteries.
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Schooling and labor market consequences of the 1970 state abortion reforms
TL;DR: This paper used the 1970 state abortion reforms to estimate the effect of teen and out-of-wedlock childbearing on the schooling and labor market outcomes of mothers observed in 1980 and 1990 [U.S. Census microdata].
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American Education Research Changes Tack
TL;DR: For a quarter century, American education researchers have tended to favour qualitative and descriptive analyses over quantitative studies using random assignment or featuring credible quasi-experimental research designs as mentioned in this paper, which has now changed.