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Joshua D. Angrist

Joshua D. Angrist

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Economics and Finance
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
100
Citations
134391
World Ranking
101
National Ranking
79

Joshua D. Angrist publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joshua D. Angrist sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 332 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Joshua D. Angrist D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joshua D. Angrist sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 126 scientists 31 D-Index: 147 scientists 32 D-Index: 157 scientists 33 D-Index: 178 scientists 34 D-Index: 171 scientists 35 D-Index: 141 scientists 36 D-Index: 132 scientists 37 D-Index: 129 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 120 scientists 40 D-Index: 117 scientists 41 D-Index: 113 scientists 42 D-Index: 114 scientists 43 D-Index: 97 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 86 scientists 46 D-Index: 78 scientists 47 D-Index: 83 scientists 48 D-Index: 62 scientists 49 D-Index: 74 scientists 50 D-Index: 50 scientists 51 D-Index: 66 scientists 52 D-Index: 69 scientists 53 D-Index: 55 scientists 54 D-Index: 67 scientists 55 D-Index: 61 scientists 56 D-Index: 62 scientists 57 D-Index: 45 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 47 scientists 60 D-Index: 46 scientists 61 D-Index: 36 scientists 62 D-Index: 37 scientists 63 D-Index: 56 scientists 64 D-Index: 50 scientists 65 D-Index: 32 scientists 66 D-Index: 28 scientists 67 D-Index: 30 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 25 scientists 70 D-Index: 22 scientists 71 D-Index: 21 scientists 72 D-Index: 26 scientists 73 D-Index: 24 scientists 74 D-Index: 23 scientists 75 D-Index: 12 scientists 76 D-Index: 14 scientists 77 D-Index: 15 scientists 78 D-Index: 15 scientists 79 D-Index: 17 scientists 80 D-Index: 17 scientists 81 D-Index: 11 scientists 82 D-Index: 10 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 11 scientists 85 D-Index: 5 scientists 86 D-Index: 9 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 9 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 6 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 8 scientists 93 D-Index: 10 scientists 94 D-Index: 11 scientists 95 D-Index: 6 scientists 96 D-Index: 4 scientists 97 D-Index: 4 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100 D-Index: 8 scientists 101+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 100 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1998 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Joshua D. Angrist is affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with significant contributions in education, statistics and probability, economics and econometrics, accounting, and clinical psychology.

Key areas of study include:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Game Theory and Voting Systems
  • Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials

Joshua D. Angrist has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Uber versus Taxi: A Driver's Eye View, 2021, American Economic Journal Applied Economics
  • Marginal Effects of Merit Aid for Low-Income Students, 2021, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design, 2022, Econometrica
  • Machine Labor, 2022, Journal of Labor Economics
  • Credible School Value-Added with Undersubscribed School Lotteries, 2021, The Review of Economics and Statistics

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Parag A. Pathak
  • Peter Hull
  • Christopher Walters
  • David Autor
  • Amanda Pallais

Publication venues where Joshua D. Angrist's work often appears include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Econometrica
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials

Joshua D. Angrist has been recognized with several awards, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006 and a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Mostly harmless econometrics

    Joshua David Angrist;Jörn-Steffen Pischke

  • Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion

    Joshua Angrist;Jorn-Steffen Pischke

  • Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects

    Joshua D. Angrist;Guido W. Imbens

  • Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables

    Joshua D. Angrist;Guido W. Imbens;Donald B. Rubin

  • Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects

    Joshua D. Angrist;Joshua D. Angrist;Joshua D. Angrist;Guido W. Imbens

  • Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects

    Guido W. Imbens;Joshua D. Angrist

  • Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments

    Joshua D. Angrist;Alan B. Krueger

  • Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments

    Joshua David Angrist;Alan B. Krueger

  • Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings

    Joshua David. Angrist;Alan B. Krueger

  • The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con out of Econometrics

    Joshua D. Angrist;Jörn-Steffen Pischke

  • Empirical Strategies in Labor Economics

    Joshua David Angrist;Alan B. Krueger

  • Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement

    Joshua D Angrist;Victor Lavy

  • Children and their parents labor supply: evidence from exogenous variation in family size.

    Joshua D. Angrist;William N. Evans

  • How Large are Human-Capital Externalities? Evidence from Compulsory-Schooling Laws

    Daron Acemoglu;Joshua Angrist

  • How Large are Human-Capital Externalities? Evidence from Compulsory-Schooling Laws

    Daron Acemoglu;Joshua Angrist

  • Lifetime Earnings and the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery: Evidence from Social Security Administrative Records

    Joshua Angrist

  • Estimation of Limited Dependent Variable Models With Dummy Endogenous Regressors: Simple Strategies for Empirical Practice

    Joshua David Angrist

  • Two-Stage Least Squares Estimation of Average Causal Effects in Models with Variable Treatment Intensity

    Joshua D. Angrist;Guido W. Imbens

  • The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics

    Joshua D. Angrist;Jörn-Steffen Pischke

  • Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment

    Joshua Angrist;Eric Bettinger;Erik Bloom;Elizabeth King

  • Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables

    Joshua Angrist;Guido Imbens;D.B. Rubin

  • Consequences of employment protection? : the case of the Americans with Disabilities Act

    Daron Acemoglu;Joshua David Angrist

  • Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program

    Joshua Angrist;Kevin Lang

  • Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program

    Joshua D. Angrist;Kevin Lang

  • The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment: An Application of Instrumental Variables with Moments from Two Samples

    Joshua D. Angrist;Alan B. Krueger

  • Estimation of Limited Dependent Variable Models With Dummy Endogenous Regressors

    Joshua D Angrist

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan B. Krueger
Alan B. Krueger Princeton University
Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Jörn-Steffen Pischke London School of Economics and Political Science
Victor Lavy
Victor Lavy University of Warwick
Guido W. Imbens
Guido W. Imbens Stanford University
Atila Abdulkadiroglu
Atila Abdulkadiroglu Duke University
Susan Dynarski
Susan Dynarski Harvard University
Philip Oreopoulos
Philip Oreopoulos University of Toronto
Thomas J. Kane
Thomas J. Kane Harvard University

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