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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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The Effect of Teen Childbearing and Single Parenthood on Childhood Disabilities and Progress in School
TL;DR: This paper found that there is little association between maternal age at birth and children's disabilities, but the children of teen mothers are much more likely to repeat one or more grades than other children and within-household estimates of this relationship are even larger than OLS estimates.
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Is Spanish-Only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap?
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of English-intensive instruction on the English-language skills of Puerto Ricans was investigated and it was shown that although naive estimates suggest that English instruction increased English-speaking ability among Puerto Rican natives, estimates that allow for education-specific cohort trends show no effect.
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Who Benefits from KIPP
TL;DR: This article used applicant lotteries to evaluate the impact of KIPP Academy Lynn, a KIPP school in Lynn, Massachusetts that typifies the KIPP approach, focusing on special needs students that may be underserved.
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The Draft Lottery and Voluntary Enlistment in the Vietnam Era
TL;DR: This article found that men with draft lottery numbers that put them at high risk of conscription are overrepresented among men who voluntarily enlisted in the military but that the effect of the lottery on enlistment is stronger for Whites than for non-Whites.