Announcement
Professor Joshua Angrist of MIT Economics Department will visit CCER in April. He will present a seminar on April 20 and give a lecture on April 22.
Professor Angrist is a fellow of the Econometric Society and has published widely on the economic returns to schooling, the determinants of school quality, the relationship between military service and the civilian labor market, and econometric methodology. See his cv for details.
April 20.
Paper: J. Angrist, V. Chernozhukov, and
April 22. 15:00-16:30. Lecture on instrumental variables. Background papers:
Section 2 of Joshua Angrist and Alan Krueger, “Empirical strategies in labor economics,” in Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 3A, 1999.
Joshua D. Angrist; Alan B. Krueger. “Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments,” The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 15, No. 4. (Autumn, 2001), pp. 69-85.
J. Angrist, G. Imbens, and D. Rubin, “Identification of Causal effects Using Instrumental Variables,” with comments and rejoinder, JASA 91[434], June 1996, 444-55.
Josh Angrist, “Lifetime Earnings and the
J. Angrist and A. Krueger, "Does Compulsory Schooling Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?," Quarterly Journal of Economics 106[4], November 1991, 979-1014.
J. Angrist and W. Evans, “Children and their Parents’ Labor Supply: Evidence form Exogenous Variation in Family Size,” American Economic Review, June 1998, 450-477