This is a piece I am writing on my phone, and so I don’t have a lot of references easy to reach. Plus my thumbs are killing me and I just am feeling under the weather. But it’s this idea I can’t get out of my head. It’s from something Angrist said in my interview with him keeps sticking in my head. But the point I’m going to try and suggest in this post is that Ken Chay links Rubin and quasi-experimental methodologies pedagogically after he graduates from Princeton, only after getting to Berkeley. I don’t mean links as in scientifically — I mean sociologically. It’s not until he gets there that I can find anything linking it in terms of mentoring students but I’ll show you in this post evidence that may mean something — or not.
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