A guaranteed tuition offer shifted low-income students into a top university. The students graduated sooner and earned more selective degrees, narrowing the gap with higher-income peers, from Burland, Delaney, Dynarski, Leu, Libassi, Michelmore, Owen, Quiroga, and Salinas www.nber.org/papers/w35434

I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids. In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.

In case you missed our paper last week or are short on time - we have a quick writeup of it on the Community College Research Center blog: ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/easyblog/new...

New CCRC Research on How Low-Income Students’ First Jobs Predict Earnings After Graduation

Practitioners, policymakers, and researchers have long sought to understand and improve the college experience so that many more students can make it to

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CJ Libassi@clibassi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🧵 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

🧵 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...

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Whoa, White House withdraws Trump’s controversial nominee to lead BLS after ousting predecessor over jobs data www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

White House withdraws Trump’s controversial nominee to lead BLS after ousting predecessor over jobs data | CNN Politics

The White House has sent paperwork to the Senate to withdraw the nomination of E.J. Antoni as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, three sources told CNN.

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one amazing feature here is simply loading the entire dataset would probably freeze your laptop! instead you can run this regression quickly and not worry about memory problems, thanks to the magic of duckdb and dbreg

Grant McDermott@gmcd.bsky.social · 11mo ago

To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo... Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯 This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood. #rstats #econsky

Anyone know if anyone is doing any formal benchmarking of LLM performance on Stata tasks? www.statalist.org/forums/forum...

Vis method for decomposition now merged to main, feedback welcome!

CJ Libassi@clibassi.bsky.social · last yr.

I think these look great! Very logical way to put things together. The challenge in my mind is how to handle many vars? One thing I have toyed with for this is trying to plot the top N vars decomposition results. Something like this toy example I just had Claude code whip up on simulated data.

Man, when @dieworkwear.bsky.social weighs in on EJ Antoni's outfits, it may shake the earth.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

AEA Statement on Dismissal of BLS Comm. "The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions."

Excited to announce the call for papers for the inaugural MidSouth Education Policy Workshop, October 16-17, in Lexington, KY! Send us your abstracts on all things econ of ed & ed policy by 8/27. Grad students & early career folks especially welcome! Info & link to submit here: bit.ly/44TdiGf

ICYMI last week - take a peek at our new report to better understand the earnings prospects of the professional school programs Congress just (nearly) uniformly & dramatically changed liquidity provision for: pseocoalition.org/wp-content/u...

CJ Libassi@clibassi.bsky.social · last yr.

New at @pseocoalition.bsky.social, @julia-turner.bsky.social & I have a new report on grad school debt & earnings over the medium term. For some key professional fields (🩺⚖️🦷💊🐾), we show the varied patterns both within & across areas of study, looking at the first decade of earnings after graduation

@jdmatsudaira.bsky.social and @clibassi.bsky.social explain what new graduate loan limits will mean, not only for borrowers in medical school but across the graduate education landscape. Check out this thread/follow @peerresearch.bsky.social for more!

House/Senate are set to eliminate Grad PLUS, and put in place loan limits that would dramatically restrict graduate borrowing. Media coverage emphasizes impact this may have on very expensive programs like Medicine and Dentistry, but @peerresearch.bsky.social finds impact will be much(!) broader 1/

House/Senate are set to eliminate Grad PLUS, and put in place loan limits that would dramatically restrict graduate borrowing. Media coverage emphasizes impact this may have on very expensive programs like Medicine and Dentistry, but @peerresearch.bsky.social finds impact will be much(!) broader 1/

New at @pseocoalition.bsky.social, @julia-turner.bsky.social & I have a new report on grad school debt & earnings over the medium term. For some key professional fields (🩺⚖️🦷💊🐾), we show the varied patterns both within & across areas of study, looking at the first decade of earnings after graduation

Absolute banger of a review by @economeager.bsky.social in the JEL of "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" by Mara Kardas-Nelson www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... Particularly enjoyed this concluding paragraph:

The journal Research in Higher Education is seeking manuscripts using data from the National Center for Education Statistics for a special issue. Please read the full call for papers here and circulate to your networks! #RIHE link.springer.com/collections/...

Chicago Pope, notorious for asking tough questions in seminars.

The Prime Minister faced yet another setback this week as the ongoing scandal over two-way fixed effects produced two more estimators for Canadians to learn. ‘You’re telling me these regressions produced negative weights and the Liberals knew nothing?!” the Conservative Party leader tweeted Sunday

Shengwu Li@shengwuli.bsky.social · last yr.

I need the “Campaign in prose. Govern in econometrics.” t-shirt.

The Pope didn't die without performing one last miracle.

Much of the voter participation gap by gender may be explained by the fact that women are more educated than men and that more educated citizens vote more often. New work by Cameron Arnzen and @cohodes.bsky.social. edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1152

NEW REPORT: @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social knows the data on graduate student debt better than most -- and you should read his @peerresearch.bsky.social brief on the topic to learn more! www.american.edu/spa/peer/upl... 1/

does there exist any helpful document out there that is like "a checklist of things every experienced researcher checks their tables and figures for to see if something is off?" I'm thinking of items such as "do N's change across regression model specifications and if so why?"

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Random Stata tip, mostly for future me. If you want to add /// to the end of many lines at once (this comes up for me when copying SQL queries from other code editors or code that uses a ; delimiter), you can find & replace, check the regular expression option do: find: "$" replace: " ///\0"

Wanted to highlight a new report we have just released at the Office of the Chief Economist at ED: "An Overview of Graduate Borrowing and Outcomes." Below are a few graphs that might entice you to read more. First: distributions of annual borrowing for top 25 credentials in terms of annual volume

Any device can be a mobile device if you believe in yourself.

I’m excited to build this hub for bringing rigorous economic research to higher ed and workforce policy at SPA, together w @claremccann.bsky.social and Steph Cellini. Look out for opportunities to come study, work, and partner with us!

American University School of Public Affairs@au-spa.bsky.social · 2y ago

Professor @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social joined SPA in 2024 & launched the Postsecondary Equity & Economics Research Center (PEER), making SPA a hub for leading economics and education policy scholars to generate new evidence to promote more equitable outcomes in higher education. bit.ly/4fSPxjZ #SPA90

I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring. The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)

CSWEP@aeacswep.bsky.social · 2y ago

@aeacswep.bsky.social announces Sandra E. Black as the 2024 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award winner! Visit aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... for the full announcement. Congratulations to @econsandy.bsky.social