Marshall Steinbaum
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Marshall Steinbaum
@econmarshall.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah. Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance, Jain Family Institute. Aging enfant terrible. marshallsteinbaum.org
Would you say these findings are consistent with statistical discrimination, if it’s so easy to change “type?”
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Indeed. Therefore this finding is just a particularly stark example of the larger fact that discrimination refutes human capital theory.
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Ah, I should have known. But then why doesn’t everyone change their name to “Elon Musk?”
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I'll have more to say about the paper next week when it comes out. But if you're in New York, you won't want to miss the panel discussion

--Julie Morgan, Pres. of TCF
--Jenna Chernega, Pres. of the Independent Faculty Organization & chair of HELU's policy committee
--(me)
--moderated by Adam Harris
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It was such a telling episode in demonstrating how ineffective Dem opposition to trump would be. Their only intuition was to run to embrace the GOP establishment and try to coalesce opposition in the center, which was obviously doomed from the get-go.
November 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Oh I remember this well. It used to be one of my main go-to embarrassing links for the Dem DC establishment.
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Yes his Halloween decoration is a crucifix with a skeleton, and it’s still up.
November 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
In that case, it was also a student paper that reported the full story. Everyone else in the mainstream media published something perfunctory at best. Bloomberg & the Washington Post quashed deeper investigations at the Biden transition’s behest. www.thecaravelgu.com/blog/2020/12...
Special Report: Supplying Accountability and Demanding Change — The Caravel
“The goal of my two ‘disgrace’ blog posts is to bring attention to the systemic, cultural problems in the economics profession,” economist Claudia Sahm told the Caravel in an exclusive interview. Sahm...
www.thecaravelgu.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM