CHRISTOPHER R. WALTERS

Associate Professor of Economics

Mailing Address:
University of California
Department of Economics
530 Evans Hall #3880
Berkeley, CA 94720

Office: 631E Evans Hall
Phone: (540) 392-5641
E-mail: crwalters@econ.berkeley.edu
Homepage: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/~crwalters
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Fields:

• Labor Economics
• Applied Econometrics
• Economics of Education

Selected Papers:

• Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India
  (with Alejandro Ganimian and Karthik Muralidharan)
  Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy

• Race and the Mismeasure of School Quality
  (with Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, and Parag Pathak)
  Forthcoming, American Economic Review: Insights

• Methods for Measuring School Effectiveness
  (with Joshua Angrist and Peter Hull)
  Forthcoming, Handbook of the Economics of Education

• Simple and Credible Value-Added Estimation Using Centralized School Assignment
  (with Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, and Parag Pathak)
  Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics
  

• Policy Evaluation with Multiple Instrumental Variables
  (with Magne Mogstad and Alexander Torgovitsky)
  Forthcoming, Journal of Econometrics

• The Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool in Boston
(with Guthrie Gray-Lobe and Parag Pathak)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138, 2023.

• Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers
  (with Patrick Kline and Evan Rose)
  Replication archive
  Quarterly Journal of Economics, 137, 2022.

• Labor by Design: Contributions of David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens
  (with Peter Hull and Michal Kolesár)
  Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 124, 2022.

• The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables
  (with Magne Mogstad and Alexander Torgovitsky)
  American Economic Review, 111, 2021

• Adaptive Correspondence Experiments
  (with Hadar Avivi, Patrick Kline, and Evan Rose)
  AEA Papers and Proceedings, 111, 2021
  

• Reasonable Doubt: Experimental Detection of Job-Level Employment Discrimination
  (with Patrick Kline)
  Econometrica, 89(2), 2021

• Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston's Charter School Sector
  (with Sarah Cohodes and Elizabeth Setren)
  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13(1), 2021

• Do Parents Value School Effectiveness?
  (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag Pathak and Jon Schellenberg)
  American Economic Review, 110(5), 2020

• On Heckits, LATE, and Numerical Equivalence
  (with Patrick Kline)
  Econometrica, 87(2), 2019

• The Demand for Effective Charter Schools
  Journal of Political Economy, 126(6), 2018

• Free to Choose: Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement?
  (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Parag Pathak)
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(1), 2018

• Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-added: Testing and Estimation
  (with Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull and Parag Pathak)
  Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132(2), 2017
  Related AEA P&P

• Evaluating Public Programs with Close Substitutes: The Case of Head Start
  (with Patrick Kline)
  mnpgfe Matlab package
  Quarterly Journal of Economics, 131(4), 2016

• Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston's Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry and Choice
  (with Joshua Angrist, Sarah Cohodes, Susan Dynarski, and Parag Pathak)
  Journal of Labor Economics, 34(2), 2016

• Inputs in the Production of Early Childhood Human Capital: Evidence from Head Start
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7(4), 2015

• Explaining Charter School Effectiveness
  (with Joshua Angrist and Parag Pathak)
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5(4), 2013
  

• Who Benefits from KIPP?
  (with Joshua Angrist, Susan Dynarski, Thomas Kane, and Parag Pathak)
  Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 31(4), 2012)
  Related AEA P&P

Teaching:

• NBER SI Methods Lecture: Empirical Bayes Methods -- Theory and Application (with Jiaying Gu, 2022; slides, video)
• AEA Continuing Education Program: Labor Economics and Applied Econometrics (2021)
• AEA Continuing Education Program: Cross-Section Econometrics (2017, 2020)
• UC Berkeley Economics 244: Applied Econometrics, Ph.D. level (Fall 2015, 2017-2019, 2021, Spring 2021, 2023)
• UC Berkeley Economics 250A: Labor Economics I, Ph.D. level (Spring 2018, Fall 2018-2019, 2021, Spring 2021, 2023)
• UC Berkeley Economics 152: Wage Theory and Public Policy, undergraduate level (Spring 2015-2016, 2018-2020)
• University of Chicago Economics 34620: Topics in Human Capital (Spring 2017)
• UC Berkeley Economics 250B: Labor Economics II, Ph.D. level (Spring 2014-2016)