Pre-Readings

1. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion - Joshua Angrist; Jörn-Steffen Pischke (2009) - Princeton University Press

2. Mastering Metrics - Joshua Angrist; Jorn-Steffen Pischke (2014) - Princeton University Press

3. Labour Economics 8th edt. - George J. Borjas (2020) - McGraw-Hill 

Readings

1. Labor Markets in the 20th Century - Claudia Goldin (1994) - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper - No. 8

2. Spurious Volatility in Historical Unemployment Data - Christina Romer (1986) - Journal of Political Economy - Vol. 94 (1)

3. Unemployment and Job Search in the Great Recession - Jesse Rothstein (2011) - Brookings Papers on Economic Activity - Vol. 43

4. The Great Compression: The Wage Structure in the United States at Mid-century - Claudia Goldin; Robert A. Margo (1992) - Quarterly Journal of Economics

5. The Race Between Education and Technology - Claudia Goldin; Lawrence F. Katz (2010) - Harvard University Press

6. The Changing Nature of U.S. Wage Inequality - Thomas Lemieux (2007) - Journal of Population Economics

7. Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists - David Autor; Lawrence Katz; Melissa Kearney (2008) - Review of Economics and Statistics

8. Income Inequality in the United States: 1913–1998 - Emmanuel Saez; Thomas Piketty (2003) - Quarterly Journal of Economics

9. Earnings Inequality and Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data Since 1937 - Wojciech Kopczuk; Emmanuel Saez; Jae Song (2010) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 125 (1)

10. Selection, Investment, and Women's Relative Wages over Time - Casey B. Mulligan; Yona Rubinstein (2008) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 123

11. Employment, Hours, and Earnings Consequences of Job Loss; US Evidence from the Displaced Workers Survey - Henry Farber (2017) - Journal of Labor Economics - Vol. 35 S1

12. Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation - David Autor (2015) - Journal of Economic Perspectives - Vol. 29

13. Work of the Past, Work of the Future - David Autor (2019) - American Economic Review - Vol. 109

14. Wayward Sons: The Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education - David Autor; Melanie Wasserman (2013) - Third Way

15. The Transformation of Manufacturing and the Decline in US Employment - Kerwin Charles; Erik Hurst; Mariel Schwartz (2019) - NBER Macro Annual - Vol. 33

16. Consumption and Income Inequality in the U.S. Since the 1960s - Bruce Meyer; James Sullivan (2022) - Journal of Political Economy

Key Ideas

Readings

1. Handbook of Labour Economics, Chapter 23: Empirical Strategies in Labour Economics, Metrics (Section 3-4) - Joshua Angrist & Alan Krueger (1999) - Vol. 3A

Basics:

1. Economics and Consumer Behaviour (Chapter 4) - Angus Deaton; John Muellbauer (1980) - Cambridge University Press

2. The Estimation of Income and Substitution Effects in a Model of Family Labor Supply - Orley Ashenfelter; James Heckman (1974) - Econometrica - Vol. 42 (1)

3. Shadow Prices, Market Wages and Labor Supply - James Heckman (1974) - Econometrica - Vol. 42 (4)

4. Labor Supply: A Review of Alternative Approaches - Richard Blundell; Thomas MaCurdy (1999) - Handbook of Labor Economics - Vol. 3A, Ch. 27

5. Estimating the Effect of Unearned Income on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Survey of Lottery Players - Guido Imbens; Donald B. Rubin; Bruce Sacerdote (2001) - American Economic Review - Vol. 91

6. The Effect of Wealth on Individual and Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Swedish Lotteries - David Cesarini; Erik Lindqvist; Matthew Notowidigdo; Robert Östling (2017) - American Economic Review - Vol. 107

Tax and Transfer Programs

1. Welfare Programs and Labor Supply - Robert Moffitt (2002) - Handbook of Public Economics - Vol. 4

2. Labor Supply Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit - Nada Eissa; Jeffrey Liebman (1996) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 111

3. Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers - Bruce Meyer; Dan Rosenbaum (2001) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 116

4. Systematic Misreporting and Effects of Income Maintenance Experiments on Work Effort: Evidence from the SIME-DIME - David Greenberg; Harlan Halsey (1983) - Journal of Labor Economics - Vol. 1 (4)

5. Determining Participation in Income-Tested Social Programs - Orley Ashenfelter (1983) - Journal of the American Statistical Association - Vol. 78 (383)

6. Non-Parametric Estimates of the Labor Supply Effects of Negative Income Tax Programs - Orley Ashenfelter; Mark Plant (1990) - Journal of Labor Economics - Vol. 8 (1) Part 2

7. An Empirical Analysis of Welfare Dependence - Mark Plant (1984) - American Economic Review - Vol. 74 (4)

8. Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States - Rebecca Blank (2002) - Journal of Economic Literature

9. Estimating the Effects of a Time-Limited Earnings Subsidy for Welfare-Leavers - David Card; Dean Hyslop (2005) - Econometrica - Vol. 73

10. Is the EITC as Good as an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence - Jesse Rothstein (2010) - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy - Vol. 2 (1)

11. Using Differences in Knowledge Across Neighbourhoods to Uncover the Impacts of the EITC on Earnings - Raj Chetty; John Friedman; Emmanuel Saez (2013) - American Economic Review - Vol. 103

12. Changes in the Distribution of Economic Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Bruce D. Meyer; Connacher Murphy; James X. Sullivan (2022) - NBER Working Paper No. 29878

Household and Family Models

1. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion (Chapter 4) - Joshua Angrist; Jörn-Steffen Pischke (2009) - Princeton University Press

2. Mastering Metrics (Chapter 3: Instrumental Variables) - Joshua Angrist; Jorn-Steffen Pischke (2014) - Princeton University Press

3. A Treatise on the Family - Gary S. Becker (1981) - Harvard University Press

4. Leisure, Home Production, and Work - The Theory of the Allocation of Time Revisited - Reuben Gronau (1977) - Journal of Political Economy - Vol. 85 (6)

5. Children and Their Parents' Labor Supply: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size - Joshua Angrist; William Evans (1998) - American Economic Review - Vol. 88 (3)

6. Public Schooling for Young Children and Maternal Labor Supply - Jonah Gelbach (2002) - American Economic Review - Vol. 92

7. Revising Our Thinking about the Relationship Between Maternal Labor Supply and Preschool - Maria Fitzpatrick (2012) - Journal of Human Resources - Vol. 47

8. Is There an Effect of Incremental Welfare Benefits on Fertility Behaviour? A Look at the Family Cap - Melissa Kearney (2004) - Journal of Human Resources - Vol. 39 (2)

9. Specialisation in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples - Thomas Hofmarcher; Erik Plug (2022) - Labour Economics - Vol. 77

Late Breaking Instrumental Variable Metrics:

10. Extrapolating: External Validity and Over-identification in the LATE Framework - Joshua Angrist; Ivan Fernandez-Val (2013) - Advances in Economics and Econometrics (Tenth World Congress), Ch. 11

11. New Evidence on the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children - Joshua Angrist; Victor Lavy; Analia Schlosser (2010) - Journal of Labor Economics

12. Evaluating Public Programs with Close Substitutes: The Case of Head Start - Patrick Kline; Christopher R. Walters (2016) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 131

13. The Effect of Fertility on Mothers' Labour Supply Over the Last Two Centuries - Daniel Aaronson et al. (2021) - Economic Journal - Vol. 131

The Pandemic Home Front:

14. Schooling and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from COVID-19 School Closures in the United States - Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes; Miriam Marcen; Marina Morales (2022) - Industrial and Labor Relations Review

15. Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women's Labor Supply - Benjamin Hansen; Joseph J. Sabia; Jessamyn Schaller (2022) - NBER Working Paper No. 29660

16. How Hybrid Work From Home Works Out - Nicholas Bloom; Ruobing Han; James Liang (2023) - NBER Working Paper No. 30292

The Life-Cycle Model

The Life Cycle Model, PIH & ISE Theory, Panel Data Metrics:

1. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion (Chapters 4.1 & 5.1) - Joshua Angrist; Jörn-Steffen Pischke (2009) - Princeton University Press

2. Mastering Metrics (Chapter 3: Instrumental Variables & Grouped Data) - Joshua Angrist; Jorn-Steffen Pischke (2014) - Princeton University Press

1. Grouped-Data Estimation and Testing in Simple Labor Supply Models - Joshua Angrist (1991) - Journal of Econometrics - Vol. 47 (2)

2. Real Wages, Employment, and Inflation - Robert E. Lucas; Leonard Rapping (1969) - Journal of Political Economy - Vol. 77 (5)

3. The Allocation of Time and Goods Over the Life-Cycle - Gary Becker; Gilbert Ghez (1975) - Columbia University Press

4. Stochastic Implications of the Life Cycle–Permanent Income Hypothesis - Robert Hall (1978) - Journal of Political Economy - Vol. 86

5. An Empirical Model of Labor Supply in a Life-Cycle Setting - Thomas MaCurdy (1981) - Journal of Political Economy - Vol. 89 (6)

6. Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Supply: Evidence from Micro Data - Joseph Altonji (1986) - Journal of Political Economy - Vol. 94 (3) Part 2

7. A Profitable Approach to Labor Supply and Commodity Demand Over the Life-Cycle - Martin Browning; Angus Deaton; Margaret Irish (1985) - Econometrica - Vol. 53 (3)

8. Intertemporal Labor Supply: An Assessment - David Card (1994) - Advances in Econometrics Sixth World Congress, Vol. II

9. Estimating Labor Supply Responses Using Tax Reforms - Richard Blundell; Alan Duncan; Costas Meghir (1998) - Econometrica - Vol. 66

10. Small Sample Bias in Synthetic Cohort Models of Labor Supply - Paul J. Devereux (2007) - Journal of Applied Econometrics

Target Earnings vs the ISH:

11. Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements - Alexandre Mas; Amanda Pallais (2017) - American Economic Review

12. Labor Supply and the Value of Non-Work Time: Experimental Estimates from the Field - Alexandre Mas; Amanda Pallais (2019) - American Economic Review: Insights - Vol. 1

13. Labor Supply of New York City Cabdrivers: One Day at a Time - Colin Camerer; Linda Babcock; George Lowenstein; Richard Thaler (1997) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 112

14. An Empirical Analysis of the Daily Labor Supply of Stadium Vendors - Gerald S. Oettinger (1999) - Journal of Political Economy - Vol. 107 (2)

15. Is Tomorrow Another Day? The Labor Supply of New York City Cab Drivers - Henry Farber (2005) - Journal of Political Economy

16. Do Workers Work More if Wages are High? Evidence from a Randomised Field Experiment - Ernst Fehr; Lorenz Goette (2007) - American Economic Review - Vol. 97

17. Reference-Dependent Preferences and Labor Supply: The Case of New York City Taxi Drivers - Henry Farber (2008) - American Economic Review - Vol. 98

18. What Do Fisherman Tell Us that Taxi Drivers Don't? An Empirical Investigation of Labor Supply - Tom Stafford (2015) - Journal of Labor Economics - Vol. 33 (3)

19. Uber versus Taxi: A Driver's Eye View - Joshua Angrist; Sydnee Caldwell; Jonathan Hall (2021) - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics - Vol. 13

20. Gender Differences in Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence from the Gig Economy - Sydnee Caldwell; Emily Oehlsen (2023) - UC Berkeley Economics Department Working Paper

Key Ideas 

Readings

Neoclassical Theory of Firm Behaviour

1. The Demand for Labor in the Long Run - Daniel Hamermesh (1986) - Handbook of Labor Economics - Vol. 1, Ch. 8

2. Unexpected Inflation, Real Wages, and Employment Determination in Union Contracts - David Card (1990) - American Economic Review

3. Short-Run Demand for Palestinian Labor - Joshua Angrist (1996) - Journal of Labor Economics

4. Changes in Relative Wages, 1963–87: Supply and Demand Factors - Lawrence Katz; Kevin Murphy (1992) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 107

5. Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis - David Card; Thomas Lemieux (2001) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 116

Market Structure and the Min

Basic Theory:

1. Using Regional Variation to Measure the Effect of the Federal Minimum Wage - David Card (1992) - Industrial and Labor Relations Review

2. Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania - David Card; Alan Krueger (1994) - American Economic Review - Vol. 84

3. The Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment: Theory and Evidence from Britain - Richard Dickens; Stephen Machin; Alan Manning (1999) - Journal of Labor Economics - Vol. 17 (1)

4. Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets - Alan Manning (2003) - Princeton University Press

5. Can Pay Regulation Kill? Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labor Markets on Hospital Performance - Carol Propper; John Van Reenen (2010) - Journal of Political Economy - Vol. 118 (2)

Minimum Wage & Related Wage Floor Effects:

6. Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater? - David Neumark; J. M. Salas; William Wascher (2014) - ILR Review - Vol. 67

7. The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs - Doruk Cengiz; Arindrajit Dube; Attila Lindner; Ben Zipperer (2019) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 134

8. Who Pays for the Minimum Wage? - Peter Harasztosi; Attila Lindner (2019) - American Economic Review - Vol. 109

9. Minimum Wages, Wages, and Price Pass-Through: The Case of McDonald's - Orley Ashenfelter; Stepan Jurajda (2022) - Journal of Labor Economics - Vol. 40

10. Spillover Effects from Voluntary Employer Minimum Wages - Ellora Derenoncourt; Clemens Noelke; David Weil; Bledi Taska (2022) - NBER Working Paper No. 29425

Immigration and Migration

1. The Labor Market Effects of Immigration - George E. Johnson (1980) - Industrial and Labor Relations Review - Vol. 33

2. The Economic Benefits from Immigration - George Borjas (1995) - Journal of Economic Perspectives - Vol. 9

3. The Effects of Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Less-Skilled Natives - Joseph Altonji; David Card (1991) - Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market, University of Chicago Press

4. The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market - David Card (1990) - Industrial and Labor Relations Review - Vol. 43

5. How Much Do Immigrant and Trade Affect Labor Market Outcomes? - George Borjas; Richard B. Freeman; Lawrence F. Katz (1997) - Brookings Papers on Economic Activity - No. 1

6. Employment Effects of Immigration to Germany: An Analysis Based on Local Labor Markets - Jörn-Steffen Pischke; Johannes Velling (1997) - Review of Economics and Statistics - Vol. 79

7. Protective or Counter-Productive? Labor Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigration on EU Natives - Joshua Angrist; Adriana Kugler (2003) - Economic Journal

8. The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market - George Borjas (2003) - Quarterly Journal of Economics

9. The Effect of Low-Skilled Immigration on US Prices: Evidence from CPI Data - Patricia Cortes (2008) - Journal of Political Economy

10. Immigration and Inequality - David Card (2009) - American Economic Review - Vol. 99

11. The Impact of Low-skilled Immigration on the Youth Labor Market - Christopher L. Smith (2012) - Journal of Labor Economics - Vol. 30 (1)

12. Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages - Gianmarco Ottaviano; Giovanni Peri (2012) - Journal of the European Economic Association - Vol. 10

13. The Wage Impact of the Marielitos: A Reappraisal - George Borjas (2017) - Industrial and Labor Relations Review - Vol. 70

14. The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results - Michael Clemens; Jennifer Hunt (2019) - Industrial and Labour Relations Review - Vol. 72

Key Ideas

Readings

Schooling, Experience, and Earnings

Basic Theory:

1. Schooling, Experience, and Earnings - Jacob Mincer (1974) - NBER

2. Human Capital, 3rd edt. - Gary Becker (1993) - University of Chicago Press

3. Wage Determinants - Robert J. Willis (1987) - Handbook of Labor Economics - Vol. 1, Ch. 10

4. The Production of Human Capital and the Life Cycle of Earnings - Yoram Ben-Porath (1967) - Journal of Political Economy - Vol. 75 (4)

5. Education and Self-Selection - Robert J. Willis; Sherwin Rosen (1979) - Journal of Political Economy - Vol. 87 (5) Part 2

6. Demand for Education - Richard Freeman (1986) - Handbook of Labor Economics - Vol. 1, Ch. 6

HK vs Signalling, Ability Bias:

7. Human Capital Versus Sorting: The Effects of Compulsory Attendance Laws - Kevin Lang; David Kropp (1986) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 101

8. Estimating the Labor Market Signalling Value of the GED - John Tyler; Richard J. Murnane; John Willett (2000) - Quarterly Journal of Economics

9. The Signalling Value of a High School Diploma - Paco Martorell; Damon Clark (2014) - Journal of Political Economy - Vol. 122 (2)

Empirical Earnings Functions

Returns to Schooling, Experience and OJT:

1. Mastering Metrics (Chapter 6) - Joshua Angrist; Jorn-Steffen Pischke (2014) - Princeton University Press

1. Estimating the Returns to Schooling: Some Econometric Problems - Zvi Griliches (1977) - Econometrica

2. Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings? - Joshua Angrist; Alan Krueger (1991) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 106 (4)

3. Interpreting Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Returns to Schooling - Jeffrey Kling (2001) - Journal of Business and Economic Statistics - Vol. 19

4. Estimating the Return to Schooling: Progress on Some Persistent Econometric Problems - David Card (2001) - Econometrica - Vol. 69

5. Estimating Average and Local Average Treatment Effects of Education when Compulsory Schooling Laws Really Matter - Philip Oreopoulos (2006) - American Economic Review - Vol. 96 (1)

6. Signalling and Employer Learning with Instruments - Gaurab Aryal; Manudeep Bhuller; Fabian Lange (2022) - American Economic Review - Vol. 112

7. Machine Labor - Joshua Angrist; Brigham Frandsen (2022) - Journal of Labor Economics - Vol. 40

8. Firm-Specific Capital and Turnover - Boyan Jovanovic (1979) - Journal of Political Economy - Vol. 87 (6)

9. Do Wages Rise with Job Seniority? - Joseph Altonji; Robert Shakotko (1987) - Review of Economic Studies

10. Specific Capital, Mobility, and Wages: Wages Rise with Job Seniority - Robert Topel (1991) - Journal of Political Economy - Vol. 99

11. Empirical Age-Earnings Profiles - Kevin M. Murphy; Finis Welch (1990) - Journal of Labor Economics - Vol. 8

12. Job Mobility and the Careers of Young Men - Robert Topel; Michael Ward (1992) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 107 (2)

13. Personnel Economics (Chapter 7) - Edward P. Lazear (1995) - MIT Press

14. Lifetime Earnings and the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery: Evidence from Social Security Administrative Records - Joshua Angrist (1990) - American Economic Review - Vol. 80 (3)

15. Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery - Joshua Angrist; Stacey Chen (2011) - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics - Vol. 3

16. Beyond Becker: Training in Imperfect Labor Markets - Daron Acemoglu; Jörn-Steffen Pischke (1999) - Economic Journal - Vol. 109

17. Why Do Temporary Help Firms Provide Free General Skills Training? - David H. Autor (2001) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 116 (3)

18. Earning Losses of Displaced Workers - Louis Jacobson; Robert LaLonde; Daniel Sullivan (1993) - American Economic Review - Vol. 83

19. Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment - Bruno Crepon et al. (2013) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 128

School Quality and Education Production

1. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion (Chapter 6) - Joshua Angrist; Jörn-Steffen Pischke (2009) - Princeton University Press

2. Mastering Metrics (Chapter 4: Regression Discontinuity Designs) - Joshua Angrist; Jorn-Steffen Pischke (2014) - Princeton University Press

3. Black-White Differences in Returns to Schooling - Finis Welch (1973) - American Economic Review - Vol. 63

4. School Quality and Black-White Relative Earnings: A Direct Assessment - David Card; Alan Krueger (1992) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 107

5. Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions - Alan Krueger (1999) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 114

6. Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effects of Class Size on Academic Achievement - Joshua Angrist; Victor Lavy (1999) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 114

7. Maimonides' Rule Redux - Joshua Angrist; Victor Lavy; Jetson Leder-Luis; Adi Shany (2019) - American Economic Review: Insights - Vol. 1

8. Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots - Atila Abdulkadiroglu; Joshua Angrist; Susan Dynarski; Thomas Kane; Parag Pathak (2011) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 126 (2)

9. Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables - Stacy Dale; Alan Krueger (2002) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 117

10. The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools - Atila Abdulkadiroglu; Joshua Angrist; Parag Pathak (2014) - Econometrica - Vol. 82 (1)

11. Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomised Natural Experiment - Joshua Angrist; Eric Bettinger; Michael Kremer (2002) - American Economic Review - Vol. 92

12. Free to Choose: Can School Choice Reduce Achievement? - Atila Abdulkadiroglu; Parag Pathak; Christopher Walters (2018) - AEJ: Applied Economics - Vol. 10

13. Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program - Joshua Angrist; Kevin Lang (2004) - American Economic Review - Vol. 94

14. Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York - Joshua Angrist; Guthrie Gray-Lobe; Clemence Idoux; Parag Pathak (2024) - NBER Working Paper No. 30308

15. Community Colleges and Upward Mobility - Jack Mountjoy (2022) - American Economic Review - Vol. 112

16. Methods for Measuring School Effectiveness - Joshua Angrist; Peter Hull; Christopher Walters (2023) - Handbook of the Economics of Education

17. Desegregation and Black Dropout Rates - Jonathan Guryan (2004) - American Economic Review - Vol. 94

18. The Medium-Term Impacts of High-Achieving Charter Schools - Will Dobbie; Roland Fryer (2015) - Journal of Political Economy - Vol. 123

19. School Segregation, Educational Attainment, and Crime: Evidence from the End of Busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg - Stephen Billings; David Deming; Jonah Rockoff (2014) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 138

20. Credible School Value-Added with Undersubscribed School Lotteries - Joshua Angrist; Peter Hull; Parag Pathak; Christopher Walters (2024) - Review of Economics and Statistics - Vol. 106

21. Choice and Consequence: Assessing Mismatch at Chicago Exam Schools - Joshua Angrist; Parag Pathak; Roman Zarate (2023) - Journal of Public Economics - Vol. 223

22. Race and the Mis-measure of School Quality - Joshua Angrist; Peter Hull; Parag Pathak; Christopher Walters (2024) - American Economic Review: Insights - Vol. 6

A Few Financial Aid Effects

1. Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion - Susan M. Dynarski (2003) - American Economic Review - Vol. 93

2. Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomised Trial - Joshua Angrist; Daniel Lang; Philip Oreopoulos (2009) - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics - Vol. 1

3. The Role of Application Assistance and Information in College Decisions - Eric P. Bettinger; Bridget T. Long; Philip Oreopoulos; Lisa Sanbonmatsu (2012) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 127

4. Merit Aid, College Quality, and College Completion: Massachusetts' Adams Scholarship as an In-Kind Subsidy - Sarah R. Cohodes; Joshua S. Goodman (2014) - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics - Vol. 6

5. Closing the Gap: The Effect of Reducing Complexity and Uncertainty in College Pricing on the Choices of Low-Income Students - Susan M. Dynarski; C. J. Libassi; Katherine Michelmore; Stephanie Owen (2021) - American Economic Review - Vol. 111

6. Marginal Effects of Merit Aid for Low-Income Students - Joshua Angrist; David Autor; Amanda Pallais (2022) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 137

Key Ideas

Readings

1. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion (Section 5.1: Panel Data) - Joshua Angrist; Jörn-Steffen Pischke (2009) - Princeton University Press

2. Union Relative Wage Effects: A Survey - H. Gregg Lewis (1986) - University of Chicago Press

3. The Analysis of Union Behavior - Henry Farber (1986) - Handbook of Labor Economics - Vol. II, Ch. 18

4. Testing the Efficiency of Employment Contracts - James N. Brown; Orley C. Ashenfelter (1986) - Journal of Political Economy

5. Bargaining Theory, Trade Unions, and Industrial Strike Activity - Orley Ashenfelter; George Johnson (1969) - American Economic Review - Vol. 59

6. Estimation and Testing of the Union Wage Effect Using Panel Data - George Jakubson (1991) - Review of Economic Studies

7. How Teachers' Unions Affect Education Production - Caroline Hoxby (1996) - Quarterly Journal of Economics

8. Economic Impacts of New Unionization on US Private Sector Employers: 1984–2001 - John DiNardo; David S. Lee (2004) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 119

9. Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961–1999 - David Lee; Alexandre Mas (2012) - Quarterly Journal of Economics - Vol. 127 (1)

10. The Effects of Collective Bargaining Rights on Public Employee Compensation: Evidence from Teachers, Fire Fighters, and Police - Brigham Frandsen (2016) - Industrial and Labor Relations Review

11. The Surprising Impacts of Unionization: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data - Brigham Frandsen (2021) - Journal of Labor Economics - Vol. 39

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