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. Appendix | Bluesky 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