Publications
Applied Econometrics
1. A Practical Guide to Shift-Share Instruments. With Kirill Borusyak and Xavier Jaravel
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Forthcoming
2. Design-Based Identification with Formula Instruments: A Review. With Kirill Borusyak & Xavier Jaravel
Econometrics Journal, 2025
3. Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions. With Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham & Michal Kolesar
American Economic Review, 2024. Twitter thread
4. Negative Weights are no Concern in Design-Based Specifications. With Kirill Borusyak
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2024. Appendix | Twitter thread
5. Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks. With Kirill Borusyak
Econometrica, 2023. Twitter thread | Working paper | Code
6. Methods for Measuring School Effectiveness. With Joshua Angrist & Christopher Walters
Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2023. Code
7. Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs. With Kirill Borusyak & Xavier Jaravel
Review of Economic Studies, 2022. Appendix | Code
Discrimination
8. Building Non-Discriminatory Algorithms in Selected Data. With David Arnold & Will Dobbie
Updated October 2024. American Economic Review: Insights, Forthcoming. Twitter thread
9. Unwarranted Disparity in High-Stakes Decisions: Race Measurement and Policy Responses. With E. Jason Baron, Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Natalia Emanuel, & Joseph Ryan
In CRIW Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century, Forthcoming
10. Discrimination in Multi-Phase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection. With E. Jason Baron, Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Natalia Emanuel, & Joseph Ryan
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024. Appendix | Code | Twitter thread
11. Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions. With David Arnold & Will Dobbie
American Economic Review, 2022. Appendix | Twitter thread | Presentation video
12. Measuring Racial Discrimination in Algorithms. With David Arnold & Will Dobbie
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021. Appendix | NBER version
Education
13. Race and the Mismeasure of School Quality. With Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak, & Christopher Walters
American Economic Review: Insights, 2024 Twitter thread
14. Credible School Value-Added with Undersubscribed School Lotteries. With Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak, & Christopher Walters
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024. Twitter thread | Code
15. Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added: Testing and Estimation, With Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak, & Christopher Walters
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017. Appendix | Code
16. Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston. With Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Joshua Angrist, & Parag Pathak
American Economic Review, 2016. Appendix | Code | Video
17. Interpreting Tests of School VAM Validity. With Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak, & Christopher Walters
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2016. Code
Healthcare
18. Intentions are Good; Instrumental Variables are Better. With Joshua Angrist, Carol Gao, & Robert Yeh
NEJM Evidence, Forthcoming
19. Instrumental Variables Methods Reconcile Intention-to-Screen Effects Across Pragmatic Cancer Screening Trials. With Joshua Angrist
PNAS, 2023. Twitter thread | Code
20. Geographic Access to Federally Qualified Health Centers Before and After the Affordable Care Act. With Caroline Behr, John Hsu, Joseph Newhouse, and Vicki Fung
BMC Health Services Research, 2022.
21. Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans. With Jason Abaluck, Mauricio Caceres Bravo, & Amanda Starc
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021. Appendix | Code | Twitter thread | Video
22. Payment Discrepancies and Access to Primary Care Physicians for Dual-Eligible Medicare-Medicaid Beneficiaries. With Vicki Fung, Stephen McCarthy, Mary Price, Benjamin Lê Cook, John Hsu, & Joseph Newhouse
Medical Care, 2021
23. Assessment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Increase in Fees for Primary Care and Access to Care for Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries. With Vicki Fung, Mary Price, Benjamin Lê Cook, John Hsu, & Joseph Newhouse
JAMA Open, 2021
24. The Impact of Funding for Federally Qualified Health Centers on Utilization and Emergency Department Visits in Massachusetts. With Catherine Myong, Mary Price, John Hsu, Joseph Newhouse, & Vicki Fung
PLOS One, 2020
25. Access to Care Among Medicaid and Uninsured Patients in Community Health Centers After the Affordable Care Act. With Veri Seo, Travis Baggett, Anne Thorndike, John Hsu, Joseph Newhouse, & Vicki Fung
BMC Health Services Research, 2019
26. Adjusting Risk Adjustment - Accounting for Variation in Diagnostic Intensity. With Amy Finkelstein, Matthew Gentzkow, & Heidi Williams
New England Journal of Medicine, 2017. Appendix | Code | Data
Other Topics
27. Joshua David Angrist (1960-).
Palgrave Companion to MIT Economics, Forthcoming.
28. Labor by Design: Contributions of David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens. With Michal Kolesár & Christopher Walters
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022.
29. Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Foreign Interest Rate Movements. With Masami Imai
Journal of Development Economics, 2013
30. Does Taxation on Banks Mean Taxation on Bank-Dependent Borrowers? With Masami Imai
Economics Bulletin, 2012
31. Credit Ratings and Security Prices in the Subprime MBS Market. With Adam Ashcraft, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, & James Vickery
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2011