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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton
@jscottclayton.bsky.social
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Professor of Economics & Education at Teachers College. Affiliations: NBER, CCRC, former Senior Economist at CEA (2022-23). This is a personal account.

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 4d
Here is what I put together quickly.

robertkelchen.com/2025/11/21/c...
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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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 5d
This was also a pretty good take from the Atlantic in Feb www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Secret That Colleges Should Stop Keeping
Despite ever-higher sticker prices, the real cost of getting a degree has been going down.
www.theatlantic.com

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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 5d
My reaction exactly - what year is it? I took some time this AM to request a correction. While I did not identify a specifically wrong fact, the overall thrust of the story was quite misleading. Weird to emphasize a 30-yr comparison when the trend for past 10-15 is the opposite.

Reposted by Caroline Krafft, Lisa A. Gennetian

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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 10d
Thanks to @appam.bsky.social for a great #APPAM2025. Saw a lot of great work, and I’m leaving feeling really reinvigorated about both my own projects and our collective project to inform policy with high-quality research. Safe travels home, everyone!

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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 10d
This was a standing-room-only panel session, and I left with more energy than I came in with! Very grateful to all the panel participants and the engaged audience.
gillwyness.bsky.social Gill Wyness @gillwyness.bsky.social · 10d
Excited to be here at @appam.bsky.social to present our work on inequalities in access to occupations, as part of a panel session on labor market transitions organised by @jscottclayton.bsky.social

Reposted by Lisa A. Gennetian, Judith Scott-Clayton, Peter Bergman

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Gill Wyness @gillwyness.bsky.social · 10d
Excited to be here at @appam.bsky.social to present our work on inequalities in access to occupations, as part of a panel session on labor market transitions organised by @jscottclayton.bsky.social

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Aaron Sojourner, Judith Scott-Clayton

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 13d
Insights from Larry Summers

"I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population..."

Reposted by Tom Clark, Joshua Goodman, C. Kirabo Jackson , and 2 more

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13d
New chalkbeat piece that highlights some of the less well-known realities of our current moment for higher ed. I got to chat at length with Matt about the actual trend in tuition (flat or decreasing at publics) versus the perception in the media.

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
Is college enrollment plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
www.chalkbeat.org

Reposted by Dan Goldhaber, Judith Scott-Clayton

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 13d
Popular discourse attributes falling college enrollments to the rising cost of four-year college.

That story is wrong in multiple ways, as @mattbarnum.bsky.social points out in his latest roundup of the evidence (citing a new working paper of ours):

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
Is college enrollment plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
www.chalkbeat.org

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Richard S.J. Tol, Samuel L. Perry , and 16 more

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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 15d
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct

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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 21d
Yay I can go to bed early 🥰

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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 24d
Update: me frantically, and belatedly, dumping out last night’s leftover stickers to pick out the AI fails.
Motivational stickers in flouncy fonts reading things like “CREAT your OWN FUTURE”, “Success SERIES small THINGS george” and my personal favorite, “MOST DAYS I HAVE idea WHAT I’M DOING”

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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 25d
🥰 glad I’m already safely sitting on my fainting couch! Thank you for your brilliant writing and thinking (most recently, really appreciated your NYT essay from 2 days ago) and in general for being an inspiration on multiple levels

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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 25d
parents somewhere frantically dumping out their kids’ candy bags to pick out the dangerous ideas

Reposted by Anna O. Law

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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 25d
I am dying laughing as one kid, who took a little longer to pick bc he didn’t want candy (braces), saw the Declaration of Independence and then had to run to catch up w/ his friends, unsuccessfully yelling over their howls and hoots “Guys - guys, guys - GUYS! I GOT A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!!!”

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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 25d
Our Halloween offerings this year.

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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 27d
Private nonprofits cannot replace federal food assistance, which is scheduled to run out this Saturday. But they can help soften the blow. I started a “virtual food drive” for City Harvest. Consider donating to this or another organization in your community. secure.cityharvest.org/site/TR/VFD/...
Virtual Food Drive, VFD FY26: Judith Scott-Clayton - City Harvest
secure.cityharvest.org

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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · Oct 18
🖐️ awesome! I was on the student newspaper at my HS and got to go to journalism camp one summer at IU. I distinctly remember one panel on the First Amendment and how it applied to student papers at public schools (because I went to a private HS and we couldn’t write about sh*t).

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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · Oct 18
More scenes from Midtown NYC today.
Beautiful mass of protesters in Times Square on October 18th, 2025. Man with rainbow American flag in center foreground. Lots of No Kings signs and tkts booth in background. More Times Square protesters. A sign reading “COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS” is in the right foreground, in front of a massive ad for Line Friends plushies. Heads of protesters, most with greying hair, one with bright yellow sign reading “I AM HERE BECAUSE I LOVE AMERICA” An adult person in full frog costume, with a small kid also in full frog costume, with NO KINGS IN AMERICA and FROGS FOR FREEDOM signs, are delighted to meet another adult person in a fully inflated frog costume, with a sign reading FROGS TOGETHER STRONG. They pose for a photo near Times Square.

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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · Oct 18
A few scenes from Times Square protest march today.
Spouse and I with one of our signs reading “WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY” Person in full frog costume, standing on a trash can in front of the Times Square Bubba Gump’s restaurant, with a sign reading “DO I LOOK LIKE THE ENEMY WITHIN?” Lots of New Yorkers marching with colorful signs past 44th and 7th Ave, with CBS News and Raising Cane’s in the background. Signs read, WE’RE FAILING AN OPEN-BOOK HISTORY TEST, WE LOVE AMERICA, STAND UP AGAINST ICE, STOP State Terror - Solidarity With Our Immigrant Neighbors, and The Bodhisattva Stands Up - This is Walking Meditation New Yorker casually stands on midtown street corner holding a sign reading: YOU KNOW IT’S BAD IF NEW YORKERS ARE WALKING THIS SLOW.

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CJ Libassi @clibassi.bsky.social · Oct 13
🧵 New working paper! In joint work w/ @jscottclayton.bsky.social, Veronica Minaya, & Joshua Thomas, we use admin data from a large public univ system to examine earnings gaps for high- vs low-SES college grads 5 years out & the role of first jobs in explaining the gaps. 1/ www.nber.org/papers/w34366
Who Rides Out the Storm? The Immediate Post-College Transition and its Role in Socioeconomic Earnings Gaps
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · Oct 13
A new NBER working paper by @jscottclayton.bsky.social and colleagues shows that about two-thirds of the unexplained gap in post-college earnings by family income may be due to challenges in finding that first job. Family connections and resources matter.
Who Rides Out the Storm? The Immediate Post-College Transition and its Role in Socioeconomic Earnings Gaps
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 9 more

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · Oct 8
he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · Aug 19
📢 New #EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series summary features “The Net Benefits of Raising Bachelor’s Degree Completion Through The City University of New York ACE Program” by @jscottclayton.bsky.social and colleagues!

📄 edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...
#EdExchange

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · Aug 12
@jscottclayton.bsky.social quoted in this AZ Republic article on community-college loan repayment issues
Students of Maricopa Community Colleges are falling behind on their loans. What's next?
Experts say federal standards can put community colleges at a disadvantage compared to larger universities.
www.azcentral.com

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Gema Zamarro, Judith Scott-Clayton

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AEFP @aefpweb.bsky.social · Aug 8
Developing a syllabus for the upcoming academic year? Consider including the AEFP Live Handbook. It provides a dynamic, evolving collection of insights from education finance and policy experts. A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research: livehandbook.org/
Evidence-Based Education Policy Research | Live Handbook
Explore evidence-based education policy research at our digital hub. Access data-driven insights to improve learning outcomes and shape effective policies.
livehandbook.org

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Judith Scott-Clayton

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Daniel Sparks @jdsparks.bsky.social · Aug 4
Since NYT spends 99% of the time talking about elite colleges, its worth highlighting when they put out a great piece on community colleges.

CCs are already under resourced, and the trump cuts to higher ed will limit opportunities for social mobility thru these institutions
How Trump’s War on Higher Education Is Hitting Community Colleges
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, David J. Berri, Judith Scott-Clayton , and 2 more

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John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · Aug 4
Referees make the journal system work. They are selfless in volunteering their time to ensure that our science continues to progress.

All of the great referees out there please know that editors recognize your hard work and tireless effort. We do not always say it, but we do! Thank you.

Reposted by South África, Judith Scott-Clayton

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · Aug 4
This is at once the very most HOPEFUL (it has solidarity, insight, faith in learning) and the most DEVASTATING (look at what Trump has messed up for zero reason and largely by accident as he targeted elite unis) thing you can read about higher ed right now.
Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Colin F. Camerer, Shelly Lundberg, C. Kirabo Jackson , and 1 more

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Aug 3
Hassett went on TV and claimed you can’t trust the economic data anymore because all the recent revisions are partisan.
A bald-faced lie.
Every serious economist still in this administration should resign. They are actively underminding the US economy by lending their credibility to this horse****
White House economist calls for 'fresh set of eyes at the BLS' after weak jobs report | Fox Business Video
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett discusses the latest jobs report, the firing of the labor statistics chief and the consumer impact of tariffs on 'Fox News Sunday.'
www.foxbusiness.com