Josh Angrist
@metrics52
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Cofounder @AvelaEducation Professor @MITEcon Director @BlueprintMIT Author https://t.co/d8dHi5zb5r
Joined March 2012
What an amazing, knowledgeable, and thoughtful group of K-12 assessment and enrollment pros! I'm thrilled to share @BlueprintMIT findings with them and to get the group's take on pressing concerns
How can researchers and practitioners collaborate to implement accurate school quality measures? In this SAQ kickoff session, Blueprint Director @metrics52 and SAQ Fellow Aurora Moraes discussed their research and implementation of new measures in New York City.
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A nicely presented summary of my work with @MarcDiederichs on the econ phD production function
⭐ VoxTalks Economics NEW EPISODE ⭐ Does being accepted on an elite PhD program or working with a superstar advisor guarantee you are going to have a successful research career? Probably not, @metrics52 @MITEcon & @MarcDiederichs University of Passau tell @timsvengali @cepr_org
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📢 New Working Paper, with @metrics52, Russell Legate-Yang, @prof_parag, and @c_r_walt: "Putting School Surveys to the Test" We use random variation in the NYC school assignment system to see how well public school survey responses predict long-run effects on college attainment
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My coauthors @carolxmgao,@instrumenthull,@rwyeh, and I are thrilled to see our clinician-friendly intro to IV analysis of clinical trials @NEJMEvidence
https://t.co/ZIy0jOzp4V IV answers questions you've long known about and some you didnt!
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Many randomized clinical trials fail to play out as intended: some participants assigned to the treatment group remain untreated, while others assigned to the control group cross over and receive t...
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A great summary of my Dissertation Paths project with @MarcDiederichs
https://t.co/qISZj3ofB5 via @cepr_org
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Half of the graduates from top economics PhD programmes in the US publish next to nothing in the years following degree completion. This column studies the role of PhD advisors at eight elite...
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🟩AVGX - 2X Long Broadcom ETF Aim for 2 times (200%) the daily performance of Broadcom.
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Marc @MarcDiederichs and I are excited to release our analysis of econ PhDs. Advisor research predicts advisee post-PhD pubs; coauthoring doesn't; students citing advisors do better. Research scales linearly: want more research? Train more students ! https://t.co/nZsJNMaSHl
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Elite economics PhD programs aim to train graduate students for a lifetime of academic research. This paper asks how advising affects graduate students' post-PhD research productivity. Advising is...
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We’re excited to release an ungated copy of our instrumental variables analysis of the ISCHEMIA trial. Adapting IV to time-varying exposure, we show revascularization has large, durable effects on quality of life. ITT and as-treated per-protocol miss this!
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The ISCHEMIA Trial randomly assigned patients with ischemic heart disease to an invasive treatment strategy centered on revascularization with a control group assigned non-invasive medical...
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New tools for dynamic-treatment effect estimation with instrumental variables show the effects of revascularization on quality of life are larger and more persistent than conventional analyses suggest, from @metrics52, Bruno Ferman, Carol Gao, @instrumenthull, Otavio L. Tecchio,
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It's not about being ready someday, it's about being ready every day. Train at home with your own personal VR shooting simulator.
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Thanks Quinn!
I read through this book every year as part of my seminar. I really can’t say enough good things about it. So approachable and easy to understand. I feel like it gets better every time I come back to it. @metrics52 https://t.co/lZGRVuZh3p
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Do successful researcher-advisors (in elite econ PhD programs) create or merely attract PhD students likely to see the most publication success?
Using an analysis of over 8,000 economics PhDs and their advisors to find what determines economics PhD student research success, from @metrics52 and @MarcDiederichs
https://t.co/wwuq0p9n1p
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I read through this book every year as part of my seminar. I really can’t say enough good things about it. So approachable and easy to understand. I feel like it gets better every time I come back to it. @metrics52 https://t.co/lZGRVuZh3p
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What an amazing group of insightful panelists! It's a privilege and a pleasure to have been part of this thought-provoking and timely event.
In the first panel of the night, MIT Chancellor Melissa Nobles facilitated an engaging discussion among policymakers and education leaders Milly Arbaje-Thomas, Rebecca Grainger, and Ted Landsmark about improving education equity in Boston.
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. @SpeedyMorman doesn’t chase viral moments; he creates them. Calm, precise, and surgical, he makes space for honesty in an era allergic to nuance. Whether he’s sitting with rappers or whatever career Kim K is currently pursuing, he brings the same patience and the confidence of
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Im thrilled to see these 3 recognized for their pioneering political economy empirical work. I'm lucky to call @DAcemogluMIT friend, colleague, and coauthor for nearly three decades. Go Daron!
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
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more great work from @AvelaEducation ! School of Choice’ program launches in Washoe schools https://t.co/mlzbnLLWDd via @ThisIsReno
thisisreno.com
Reno's independent, online news and events source. Established in 2009.
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Students recognized 6 @MIT faculty & instructors with 2024 Teaching with Digital Technology Awards for effectively using technologies to improve teaching and learning at MIT. Congrats to @metrics52, Cong Cong, Ben Fry, Michael Maune, @rama100 & Nancy Rose! https://t.co/SUwkui4SuS
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I'm thrilled to be one of six MIT teachers recognized for exemplary teaching with digital technology
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The student-nominated and student-judged awards recognize faculty and instructor innovations in teaching with technology.
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