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John Cawley @johncawley.bsky.social · 16h

Many thanks to Jim Flynn @jimflynn9.bsky.social for interviewing me for the ASHEcon Newsletter @ashecon.bsky.social. It was fun to chat about risky health behaviors, priorities for ASHEcon, the #EconJobMarket, and even favorite movie/book/teams. #EconSky

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John Cawley Interview – ASHEcon

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 19h

🚨Important paper alert🚨

"Who Wants to Be a Teacher in America?"

"Lower interest among men, students of color, and high-achieving students... Recommenders rate students interested in teaching as having lower intellectual promise... but greater concern for others."

edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1285

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Elisa Taveras @elisatp.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to share my new working paper, "𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗳𝘀: 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻", coauthored with Ozlem Tonguc (Binghamton University), Maria Zhu (Syracuse University) and Nicola Miller (Binghamton University) #Econsky

www.elisataveras.com/s/Taveras_et...

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Miami University Economics @miamiecon.bsky.social · 1d

We had a wonderful fall Economics Advisory Board (EAB) meeting. Board members got to engage with many faculty, administration, and students. We also had a wonderful board meeting with those both in person and virtual.

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Miami University Economics @miamiecon.bsky.social · 1d

Women in Economics is hosting their Alumni Career Panel this Wednesday, October 8th, at 6:00 P.M. in FSB 1006. Be sure to join them to connect with alumni & learn about how pursuing Economics can provide endless opportunities across industries! All are welcome

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 3d

@packlesshepherd.bsky.social has been tracking it. Trending better than the peak COVID market (2020-2021), but that’s a very low bar… bsky.app/profile/pack...

David Van Dijcke @packlesshepherd.bsky.social · 10d

Another "good" week on the US academic job market #econsky #econbluesky
davidvandijcke.com/joe_tracker/

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 4d

"Full-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergartenaged children in this time frame."

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 4d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families" by Chloe R. Gibbs, Jocelyn Wikle, and Riley Wilson. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families

(Forthcoming Article) - We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children— through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to better understand how an impli...

www.aeaweb.org

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 4d

For econ JM candidates:

@princetondevo.bsky.social is hiring for a 1-year postdoc with a start date in summer 2026. The only responsibility is to be an active participant in our Princeton development econ seminars and to continue pursuing your great independent research.

Apply by Nov 24.

puwebp.princeton.edu

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 4d

Great paper by @chloergibbs.bsky.social & coauthors showing huge effects of all-day kindergarten on maternal labor supply 👇

And another big hit for the @luciegschmidt.bsky.social 2021 CeMENT group! (Go Jocelyn!) 👏

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 4d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families" by Chloe R. Gibbs, Jocelyn Wikle, and Riley Wilson. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families

(Forthcoming Article) - We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children— through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to better understand how an impli...

www.aeaweb.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

Well, if only there were a large supply of foreign students who would happily pay a premium price to get access to American higher education.

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 5d

"'There simply aren’t enough students to go around,' said Nathan Grawe, an economist at Carleton College in Minnesota. But the effects of the demographic cliff, he noted, 'won’t be evenly distributed.'"

U.S. Colleges Are About to See a Big Decline in Applicants

Forget a lot of what you thought you knew about higher education.

nymag.com

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 5d

See also @joshua-goodman.com & @abbyfrancis.bsky.social’s work using MA admin data: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1233

(my sense is that there are no perfect data on this, but as @andrewavit.bsky.social says, researchers can sometimes combine sources to get at important questions!)

School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic

The pandemic induced a substantial enrollment shift away from public schools in fall 2020 and a partial return of students in fall 2021, leaving longer-term impacts unclear. We use Massachusetts state...

edworkingpapers.com

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 5d

Is there any administrative data that examines transitions from public to private school and vice versa for primary and secondary students? Particularly over time?

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 5d

There you go sounding like an economist again, Kevin...

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Daphna Bassok @dbassok.bsky.social · 8d

Super excited to host Arne Duncan and Diane Schanzenbach at #AEFP2026! Remember: you now have til Monday to submit your conference proposals! @aefpweb.bsky.social

AEFP @aefpweb.bsky.social · 11d

We are excited to announce our keynote for #AEFP2026: Arne Duncan in conversation with Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach 🎉 We hope to see you in Chicago!

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 5d

This appears to be the "Compact" that the Trump administration is demanding universities sign in order to get preferential funding, etc.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 5d

I just saw a copy. Will send it in a series of screenshots to protect the source.

COMPACT FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
INTRODUCTION
American higher education is the envy of the world and represents a key strategic benefit for our Nation. In turn, the U.S. university system benefits in a variety of ways from its extraordinary relationship with the U.S. government. These include (i) access to student loans, grant programs, and federal contracts; (ii) funding for research directly or indirectly; (iii) approval of student and other visas in connection with university matriculation and instruction; and (iv) preferential treatment under the tax code. To advance the national interest arising out of this unique relationship, this Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education represents the priorities of the U.S. government in its engagements with universities that benefit from the relationship. Institutions of higher education are free to develop models and values other than those below, if the institution elects to forego federal benefits.
1 – EQUALITY IN ADMISSIONS
Discriminatory admissions processes reflect a fundamental misunderstanding not only of Civil Rights law and the U.S. Constitution, but of the damaging impacts such practices have on individuals and our Nation as a whole. Treating certain groups as categorically incapable of performing — and therefore in need of preferential treatment — perpetuates a dangerous badge of inferiority, destroys confidence, and does nothing to identify or solve the most pressing challenges for aspiring young people.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 6d

Does anyone have the full text of the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"?

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 6d

The government is officially shut down, but the Trump administration is trying to get nine selective colleges to agree to major controls on their operations in order to get a leg up on federal funding.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 6d

"The memo demands that schools ban the use of race or sex in hiring and admissions, freeze tuition for five years, cap international undergrad enrollment at 15%, require that applicants take the SAT or a similar test, and quell grade inflation."

Lol now why do you think they want the SAT required?

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Taylor Odle @taylorodle.bsky.social · 6d

🍎🦡 I'm recruiting a PhD student in Ed Policy (fall '26) at @uwmadison.bsky.social! Come work with me on college access, admissions, & fin aid in our top-ranked, fully-funded program. I’m especially excited for this student to immediately join our direct admissions RCT team.

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 7d

For grad students or postdocs out there: let me know if you'd like to present in my department's (Ed Policy, Org, & Leadership) Quantitative Working Group meeting Wednesday of next week (October 8) at 3pm Central time. Work at any stage is fine, it's very informal. I have a presenter gap this month.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 8d

This is true, & backed by the best peer-reviewed research.

@kevinshih.bsky.social of @ucrchass.bsky.social uses large shocks to international student supply in the past to test the hypothesis that they crowd out natives. They crowd *in* natives, via tuition revenue—>

doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 8d

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 8d

30% drop year over year!

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks for sharing our work!

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 10d

The median college student is willing to pay just under $3k to attend a college where the share of students with opposing political views is 10 percentage points lower.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9d

Think of this as equivalent to removing the merit system from government employment.

Your tax dollars deployed to serve the goals of a personalist authoritarian system. All the talk about banning DEI because of merit shown to be nonsense when they also remove merit-based processes.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 9d

Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Wp EXCLUSIVE
White House considers funding advantage for colleges that align with Trump policies The proposal could potentially transform the government's vast research funding operation, which has long awarded university grants based on scientific merit.
Today at 6:00 a.m. EDT

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 9d

Note the earlier than usual (official 😏) deadline for the best conference of the year 👇 get your submissions in ASAP!

AEFP @aefpweb.bsky.social · 9d

Have you submitted your proposal for #AEFP2026 yet? The deadline is TOMORROW - Monday, September 29th! Learn more here: aefpweb.org/callforp...

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