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Education economist @ BU Wheelock & Economics Dept | Wheelock Education Policy Center | Co-editor @ JHR | White House CEA 2022-23 | www.joshua-goodman.com

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 13d
Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy.

These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).

And now onto the scholars... 👇

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 12h
Starting to believe in a system of peer review that says:

"For every 5 reviews you do for our journal, we'll publish one of your articles no questions asked."

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman, Karin Wulf

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 21h
"From Harvard to BU to Brown, New England schools are enrolling fewer new PhDs this year. Why?"

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/b...
From Harvard to BU to Brown, New England schools are enrolling fewer new PhDs this year. Why? - The Boston Globe
Elite universities are taking fewer doctoral candidates after decades of beefing up their research enterprises.
www.bostonglobe.com

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Brendan Nyhan, Joshua Goodman , and 4 more

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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 1d
University students who were provided with a free gym card (in a randomized experiment) exercised more and had a significant improvement in academic performance. The treated students were also less likely to drop out of classes
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1d
John Fallon (one of my PhD students on the market this year) does fantastic work in IO / Labor / Education, studying the medical profession in his JMP and teacher workforce policies in his other dissertation chapters.

Take a look 👇
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I'm John Fallon, a labor economist on the job market. My JMP uncovers something wild: when chiropractors got licensed in the early 1900s, medical boards responded by making it HARDER to become a doctor.

Why would competition lead to stricter regulations?
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Line graph showing cumulative state adoption of chiropractic boards over time

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John Fallon @john-fallon-econ.com · 1d
I'm John Fallon, a labor economist on the job market. My JMP uncovers something wild: when chiropractors got licensed in the early 1900s, medical boards responded by making it HARDER to become a doctor.

Why would competition lead to stricter regulations?
🧵

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Line graph showing cumulative state adoption of chiropractic boards over time

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d
It appears that ED's first attempt to shift a piece of its portfolio to another agency has not gone tremendously well. We'll see if there are any lessons applied to this new, larger attempt.
The Education Department gave another agency power to distribute money. It hasn’t gone smoothly.
Critics say issues with accessing federal career and technical education funding could preview bigger problems when the Trump administration starts to outsource more of the Education Department’s resp...
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1d
Thanks, Dan. My goal was not to lower the quality of the conversation. That report was devastating. Multiple things are going wrong in math education (and maybe college admissions).

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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 1d
Terrific podcast (includes @joshua-goodman.com) on the shocking UCSD report about the remedial math needs of incoming students and declines in math achievement more generally: open.spotify.com/episode/06Ve...
The American Math Crisis
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1d
That is a very good way to put it

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1d
Yes, yes I did

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1d
If other folks could stay off the road Tuesday night so that we don't get stuck in traffic, I'd appreciate it.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d
I don't think I've ever disagreed and agreed more strongly with a piece, seesawing from one paragraph to the next.

Will come back to dissect.

#GiftLink #GiftArticle
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Ashish Arora, Joshua Goodman

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Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · 2d
Hiring this year in economics or management? I try to read every JMP on innovation, entrepreneurship, or econ of AI; why not make the list public? Here's 54 candidates on the market this year (link below). Many great papers + NBER Innovation PhD boot camp grads! kevinbryanecon.com/2025innovati...
Innovation, Entrepreneurship, AI Job Candidates 2025
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 2d
You beat me to this

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Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 2d
Looking forward to the next iteration of this work, “F- it, we’re doing four robustnesses.”

Reposted by Lawrence F. Katz, Dan Goldhaber, Will Jennings , and 12 more

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 2d
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic,” by Arteaga (@caroartc.bsky.social) and Barone (@vickybarone.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects Of the Opioid Epidemic
Abstract. In this paper, we establish a causal connection between two of the most salient social developments in the United States over the past decades: t
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Reposted by Lawrence F. Katz, Simon Burgess, Dan Goldhaber , and 9 more

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 2d
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,” by Chetty (@Oppinsights), Deming, and Friedman: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges*
Abstract. We use anonymized admissions data from several colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and ACT test scores to study the determinants and ca
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 2d
Awesome to hear. Now we have to start working our way through his whole catalog.

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 2d
I just bought tix to see Weird Al in concert this July. That is all.
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ALT: a close up of a person wearing a hat and sunglasses
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 3d
Our @buwheelock.bsky.social comms director told me I now hold every "In the Media" spot on our homepage, something no faculty member has done before!

I'm grateful for the attention our work is getting.

And now I understand why this week felt like a whirlwind.

www.bu.edu/wheelock/

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NBER @nber.org · 3d
New research finds that valuable education data is being wasted: Large gains are possible at nearly zero cost simply by better leveraging all of the test items currently collected, from @jessebruhn.bsky.social, Michael Gilraine, Jens Ludwig, and Sendhil Mullainathan www.nber.org/papers/w34484

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 4d
Why do I love living in Boston? Yo-Yo Ma playing the Bach cello suites before bringing Mayor Wu out to duet for an encore, that’s why.

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 4d
So glad to hear that! Really appreciate it.

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yaleeconomics.bsky.social @yaleeconomics.bsky.social · 4d
We're launching the Tobin-Cowles Health Economics & Policy Program, a hub for policy-relevant health economics research at Yale.

Co-directed by Janet Currie & Zack Cooper, the Program will catalyze rigorous economic scholarship to directly inform policy: tobin.yale.edu/news/251117/...
Yale launches new program to serve as a hub for policy-relevant health economics research
Co-directed by Janet Currie and Zack Cooper, the Tobin-Cowles Health Economics & Policy Program will catalyze rigorous economic scholarship that can directly inform policy.
tobin.yale.edu

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 4d
Hadley Wickham made a GenZ version of dplyr 😂

hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
GenZ version of dplyr in R

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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 4d
Excited to share that I'm writing a book: a history of the debates over funding public schools from the 1960's to now.
(Yes the working title is tongue in cheek.)

Now I just need to finish writing—stay tuned!

And if you want to follow my work, you can do so here: www.chalkbeat.org/newsletters/...

Reposted by Bruce D. Baker, Joshua Goodman

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 4d
I was sufficiently annoyed with a piece claiming that inflation-adjusted college costs have doubled over the last 20 years that I wrote a response. There really haven't been increases over the last decade, but I fear that promising trend may be changing.
College Prices Have Not Risen Dramatically in the Last Decade—But Will That Change?
Higher education is facing a crisis of confidence among the general public, and much of that is driven by concerns regarding affordability. For example, about 80 percent of Democrats and Republican…
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 4d
Less so, for sure, and that's actually consistent with evidence that 4th grade scores have declined less than 8th grade scores.

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 4d
It's almost certainly multi-causal.

I think we have a sense of what some of the big causes are, but perhaps not with great certainty.

I'd list (not in order): weakened school accountability, cell phones, de-emphasis on standardized testing, lowered rigor of middle school math options.

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Christina Weiland

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 4d
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings" by Jiee Zhong. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper provides new causal evidence on the effects of grade retention on educational attainment, behavioral outcomes, and labor market performance by analyzing Texas’s read...
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