MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series: Recent submissions

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    • Explaining Charter School Effectiveness 

      Angrist, Joshua; Pathak, Parag; Walters, Christopher (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-04-12)
      Estimates using admissions lotteries suggest that urban charter schools boost student achievement, while charter schools in other settings do not. Using the largest available sample of lotteried applicants to charter ...

    • Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves 

      Hanna, Rema; Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-04-30)
      It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved ...

    • The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond 

      Acemoglu, Daron (Cambridge,MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-04-06)
      Following on Keynes’s Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, this paper develops conjectures about the world we will leave to our grandchildren. It starts by outlining the 10 most important trends that have defined ...