i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten
Sarah Cohodes
@cohodes.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy | co-editor Journal of Public Economics | affiliate NBER, J-PAL, and Blueprint www.sarahcohodes.com
Exciting to see my work with @olgastoddard.bsky.social @kbuzard7.bsky.social featured outside the hallowed halls of academia 😴😴😴 Thanks so much to @theconversation.com for highlighting the downsides of being the “default parent” as many return to school this month theconversation.com/better-call-...
Want to see in real time what's been happening to public school enrollment in your school district? Through @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social, we've just released a school enrollment tracker for Massachusetts, allowing you to explore the data yourself. wheelockpolicycenter.org/high-quality...
Massachusetts School Enrollment Dashboard
This interactive dashboard examines the gap between the predicted and actual enrollment in Massachusetts public, private, charter, and home schools.
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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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Next was an important pair of talks by @cohodes.bsky.social (consequences of faculty misconduct) and Katarina Kuske (co-parenting and careers after divorce) at the @nber.org gender in the economy symposium www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kb3... (3/5)
Gender in the Economy, NBER Summer Institute
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Guys I’m having a week. Tomorrow come see me present “The effects of charter schools on economic mobility” at the Labor/Ed NBER SI session at 3:50pm ET. (In-person only)
Hoping to see some of you at the NBER Summer Institute Gender in the Economy meeting tomorrow. I'll be presenting "The Consequences of Faculty Misconduct" (coauthored with Katie Leu) at 1pm ET. www.nber.org/conferences/...
SI 2026 Gender in the Economy
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The other day I yelled down to my husband to turn on the radio... ... to listen to a story about Big Boy, a restored train.
Erika Bakse@erikabakse.bsky.social · 2w agoMy husband texted me "IT HAPPENED" but it turned out to be about LeBron going to the 76ers. I had 2 minutes of beautiful serenity.
One. Trillion. Dollars. Read my latest piece @the74.bsky.social on where that money is going --> www.the74million.org/article/amer...
America’s Trillion-Dollar School System: 5 Trends Explain Where the Money Goes
Aldeman: Enrollment is down, spending has risen substantially and staffing has expanded, yet pay has stagnated and student outcomes remain uneven.
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They are now discussing submarine warfare in WWII ✨ soulmates ✨ (She's now a 9yo)
Sarah Cohodes@cohodes.bsky.social · 6mo agoMy 8yo and husband have become experts in curling, a sport we began watching 20 mins ago They are truly soulmates
Good morning, Michiganders. Today it will be unsafe to breathe outside without a mask, eat salad, be outside for too long in the heat, be away from a toilet, and count on the electric grid to hold up under peak demand. Also, our additional escape route to Canada is still closed. Have a pleasant day.
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"Better information, simpler applications, and clearer aid promises can move students toward higher-quality colleges. But they cannot create more high-quality seats." You can say the same about mentoring, advising, and pipeline programs. www.nber.org/papers/w35434
Degrees of Mobility: Shifting Low-Income Students to Higher Quality Colleges
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My youngest went to bed with a toy loader. My oldest is going to bed with "Let It Rot!" a book about composting. My heart is full.
We're hiring! EPI is currently accepting applications for up to two Postdoctoral Fellows in Quantitative Methods, Education Research, and Data. Visit our website to learn more: edpolicy.umich.edu/what-we-do/j... Applications will be reviewed starting July 27th. Apply here: forms.gle/DknZEtRmuBrN...
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The University of Michigan seeks candidates to become active members of the Education Policy Initiative. Our research group brings together a interdisciplinary set of scholars focused on the generatio...
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Men still out-resource women on nearly everything known to predict voting: income, jobs, political interest. Except education, where women have pulled way ahead. @cohodes.bsky.social and I show how the education gap explains about half of why young women now outvote young men. 🔗 Link: bit.ly/4wwcd21
Education and the gender voting gap in U.S. presidential elections
Women in the United States have outpaced men in both voter participation and educational attainment in recent decades. Since education is closely tied…
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🚨🚨 NEW ECONOMICS JOURNAL 🚨🚨 We are excited to announce the launch of The Review of Economic Studies: Insights, a new open-access journal in the REStud family. Mission: publish concise, high-quality research on important questions across economics and economic policy.🧵1/13
A huge thank-you to our incredible Education Finance and Policy editors, Li Feng & Cassandra Hart, for three years of outstanding leadership, hard work, and support! 🎉
🚨 I'm hiring for a (Senior) Research Associate position to work with me on a broad research agenda focused on teacher labor markets. Great opportunity to be a part of the vibrant @annenberginstitute.bsky.social community of researchers at Brown University. Links in reply Please spread the word
A delightful surprise in my faculty mailbox: a small local delicacy from the department I wrote a tenure letter for last year. Much appreciated and even more the news that the case was successful!
New NBER working paper. We meta-analyze 82 RCTs of low-cost parent programs in 20+ countries. We use data on unwritten RCTs from funder records, RCT registries, author queries, etc. to estimate a model that adjusts for publication bias and characterizes the effect distribution for unwritten studies.
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @fabalbav @WakeForest who works on topics related to education and health, particularly in Latin America
This also has consequences for school funding in Michigan—since we rely on Medicaid to identify low-income students (and then allocate supplemental funding) and for direct certification for school meal eligibility (to receive federal funding to help pay for those meals).
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139 schools closed—20% of West Virginia's public schools—gone in 15 years. 🏫 #KohnProfessor @weilanch.bsky.social built a school closure tracker to put this data where it belongs: in the hands of communities fighting for solutions. Read the Q&A: https://myumi.ch/G7W2P
The evidence on Black teachers is among the strongest in ed research. Assignment to a Black teacher produces large, lasting gains in test scores, attendance, and self-efficacy — for students of all races. So why does the profession remain largely white? My new piece for @theconversation.com digs in.
Black teachers improve outcomes for all students, but the profession remains largely white
Many Black teachers were pushed out of classrooms from the 1950s through ‘70s. Despite new recruitment programs, the teacher workforce remains mostly white.
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Out today in the June issue of AER:I is my work with Astrid Pineda on the college impacts of charter school attendance💃🏻 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Different Paths to College Success: The Impact of Massachusetts's Charter Schools on College Trajectories
(June 2026) - The charter school movement encompasses many school models. In Massachusetts in the 2010s, the site of our study, urban charter schools primarily used "No Excuses" practices, whereas non...
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