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Annaliese Paulson

@annaliesep.bsky.social

Present: Postdoc @annenberginstitute.bsky.social‬ & computational social scientist studying higher ed. Past: Marsal School of Education & Ford School of Public Policy; 2024 Spencer Dissertation Fellow; Most Fashionable Boy 2010, Kaukauna High School 🏳️‍⚧️

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Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 7d ago

"ultimate danger remains that, when institutions comply with authoritarian wishes, the govt will just ask for greater and greater concessions. After all, if you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk." The anatomy of a coup d’université www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

That Same Ol’ Authoritarian Playbook

Throughout history, autocrats have gone after higher ed finances to control institutions’ culture.

insidehighered.com

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

Appreciate David giving me the chance to muse. These ideas come from work on a larger project (I've read A LOT on this, from how the field of economics developed to histories of universities under dictatorship to sociology on metrics to polisci on democracies and backsliding to so much philosophy).

Screenshot of article which reads: “In general,” Baker said, conservative states have a vision for colleges and universities “around job creation and indoctrination.” And they have become savvier, learning how institutions are really organized and “how to hit higher ed where it hurts.” At the same time, she said, “you can’t work at indoctrinating other people and not indoctrinate [yourself]. I really do think they were shocked at how few people signed up for their civic centers. They genuinely believe students hate the class options available to them and are dying for these new revisionist versions of history,” and they don’t know what to do when only a handful of students show up.Screenshot of article which reads: Instead, Baker told me, “the blue-state vision for higher ed right now, in general, [is] job creation only. At its most fundamental, most Democratic administrations of states are thinking that the No. 1 priority of college is around the labor market.” That’s good for what Baker calls their “bipartisanship fetish,” because if both sides agree it’s all about jobs, it feels like there’s a chance for collaboration.
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2w ago

Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training Students: we hate that is there another option? Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training. It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last mo.

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

Annaliese Paulson@annaliesep.bsky.social · last mo.

We just published an official working paper of this work! Baum, Micah, Joaquín Endara, and Annaliese Paulson. (2026). Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?. (EdWorkingPaper: 26-1538). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: doi.org/10.26300/8ej...

Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?

We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...

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Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · last mo.

Many myths debunked in this paper. Paper finds that: -faculty partisanship has no effect on students -students ideologically sort into majors; majors don’t affect partisanship -faculty partisanship is uncorrelated with how left/rightwing course content is micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...

DO FACULTY AFFECT STUDENT PARTISANSHIP?* Micah Y. Baum* Joaquín Endara Annaliese Paulson® Abstract We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the humanities and social sciences. We then use student transcripts from one flagship to estimate causal effects. Students become more liberal during college regardless of major and sort toward ideologically similar instructors. Exploiting plausibly random variation in when instructors teach courses, we find no effect of faculty partisanship on student partisanship. Text analysis shows exposure to liberal topics reflects student demand rather than instructor supply, leaving little room for indoctrination. JEL Codes: 123, D72, H75
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · last mo.

This is a really interesting read paired with that AEJ paper I shared at some point this week. Both show no clear evidence that faculty affect students' partisanship. Again, no priors will be updated. (I'll find my post with the other paper and reply with it below)

Annaliese Paulson@annaliesep.bsky.social · last mo.

New Working Paper with Micah Baum and Joaquin Endara: Students tend to become more liberal during college. We study whether individual faculty make their students more liberal. We find no evidence that faculty affect student partisanship. Working Paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1538 1/

Annaliese Paulson@annaliesep.bsky.social · last mo.

This is now an official working paper! Paper here: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1538

Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?

We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...

edworkingpapers.com

Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · last mo.

Study: Students get more liberal during college, but it has no detectable relationship to the subject they study or the partisanship of their professors. micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...

Annaliese Paulson@annaliesep.bsky.social · last mo.

New Working Paper with Micah Baum and Joaquin Endara: Students tend to become more liberal during college. We study whether individual faculty make their students more liberal. We find no evidence that faculty affect student partisanship. Working Paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1538 1/

Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?

We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...

edworkingpapers.com

AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · last mo.

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Education and Partisanship" by Daniel Firoozi.

Education and Partisanship

(Forthcoming Article) - Education weakens the historical link between income and partisanship across democracies, challenging classical models of political economy. Using administrative data on millions of voters exposed to discontinuities in compulsory schooling laws and college admissions in Florida and California, I show that both the extensive margin of years of high school education and the intensive margin of college selectivity can reduce Republican Party affiliation. Effects generalize across generations (1969 to present), settings, and institutions. Results are consistent with peer socialization shaping sociocultural attitudes alongside career-path mechanisms, rather than deliberate instructor-driven persuasion.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

Maria Antoniak@mariaa.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me... We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet. 1/n

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

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