Riley rocks! The NESCAC rocks! Riley in the NESCAC double rocks!! Congrats to Bowdoin 🐻‍❄️

Riley Acton@riacton.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sharing some news... After a decade of posing as a Midwesterner, I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to get back to my New England roots this summer! I'll be joining the stellar @bowdoincollege.bsky.social faculty and moving to one of my favorite parts of the world: midcoast Maine! 💙

I put my applied micro proofreader Claude Code skill/prompt here. Go crazy and catch tiny errors in your writing and inconsistencies between your tables/text github.com/peternka/aca...

GitHub - peternka/academic_proofreader: An academic proofreader for Claude Code/Codex

An academic proofreader for Claude Code/Codex. Contribute to peternka/academic_proofreader development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be starting as an assistant professor at @williamseconomics.bsky.social in July 2027 after a year at @stanfordeducation.bsky.social as a research scholar! Some brief reflections: (1/4)

We are excited to announce the upcoming PIER 2026 conference, celebrating undergrad econ research! The conference will be May 2; submissions due Mar 20. Submit here: sites.google.com/williams.edu... Our keynote speaker is the great @caitlinmyers.bsky.social!

The Nazis stopped Jewish doctors from practising, so thousands of them left the country (my great grandfather was one of them). So many left that this was a good natural experiment for estimating the causal effect of losing doctors on infant mortality (& thousands died)

I'm so excited to announce the first release of my newest #Rstats package, {adrftools}! This package facilitates estimation, visualization, and testing for the causal effect of a continuous (i.e., non-discrete) treatment. 🧵 1/10 #statssky #episky #causalinference

adrftools: Estimating, Visualizing, and Testing Average Dose-Response Functions

Facilitates estimating, visualizing, and testing average dose-response functions (ADRFs) for characterizing the causal effect of a continuous (i.e., non-discrete) treatment or exposure. Includes suppo...

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VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here! New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more! edopportunity.org/segregation/

The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | The Segregation Tracking Project

Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.

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Econ historians of bluesky! Submit your paper to the SEA econ history sessions, sponsored by Clio and EHA, by March 22: forms.gle/YomRiP8iAUYK... Proposals due: March 22, 2026 Authors notified of acceptance of paper: March 28, 2026 Conf dates: Nov 21-23 #econconf 1/2

I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.....

My column from Monday. Alabama politicians give voters little but paranoia and niche right-wing issues, which may be why just 37% of voters turned up for the last midterm in 2022. Those politicians who truly want to make a government for Alabama have to restore Alabamians’ faith in the process.

A better Alabama government requires a bigger Alabama electorate | Alabama Reflector

What Alabama voters want is not necessarily what Alabamians want. Because in state elections, most Alabamians don't vote.

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Applications for the Economic History Association Graduate Dissertation Fellowships are due in two days (January 14) eh.net/graduate-dis...

🚨 the best state policy & public opinion database is now online. ~200 (!!!) state policies and 80 public opinion series on abortion, labor, taxes, environment, guns, education… dynamicdemocracy.shinyapps.io Massive public goods provision from @devincaughey.bsky.social & @chriswarshaw.bsky.social

We @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social are hiring a director for our Policy-Aligned Research Agenda Buildling Lab (PARABL), to help education system leaders build research roadmaps to effect change in a particular area. More info here: wheelockpolicycenter.org/wp-content/u...

I was gently informing my seat mate that unfortunately there are no outlets on the new Acela, yes, yes, a shame, really, and giving him the insider tip that he could go to the cafe car to plug in his computer when a very nice woman turned around and pointed them out to us. Thanks again Sue!

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

PSA on the new Acelas the power outlets are between the seats

Putting together the list of papers and posters that I want to see at the ASSA Annual Meeting, and this poster session project (by @michaelbriskin.bsky.social) looks interesting Paper is here: mbbriskin.github.io/files/Briski...

Joining the throng of economists taking a delayed Amtrak to PHL today to present my JMP at #ASSA2026! 📍 Philadelphia Convention Center, 204-A (Elementary & Secondary Education) ⏰ Sunday, 1/4, 10:15-12:15 #EconConf

Danielle Graves Williamson@daniellecgw.bsky.social · 9mo ago

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->

There has not been a grocery store in the small Mississippi Delta town of Drew in 11 years. The nearest grocery store is a 20-minute drive to Cleveland, forcing residents like Melinda Davis to make a 40-minute commute to access fresh food. buff.ly/g1gSdiz

Wow, the estimated effects of the orientation of elected school board members are enormous! Identity and Ideology in the School Boardroom www.nber.org/papers/w34590

Identity and Ideology in the School Boardroom

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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ICYMI: Do workers actually learn from collaboration, or just benefit from the help? New paper uses teacher co-teaching to answer this question. Spoiler: genuine skill transfer is real, but partner experience matters a lot. john-fallon-econ.com/Files/LBDT.pdf #ASSA2026 #EconSky

John Fallon@john-fallon-econ.com · 7mo ago

🚨🚨🚨New working paper! 🚨🚨🚨 "Learning by Doing (Together): Collaboration and Teacher Skill Formation" Do workers genuinely learn from collaboration, or just benefit while working together? I study teacher partnerships to find out. Paper: john-fallon-econ.com Presenting at #ASSA2026 #EconSky 1/10

Pretty cool to have one of my papers listed as most cited in the Economic Reports of the President from the past 15 years. See the recent NBER working paper for the source on this: www.nber.org/papers/w34597

"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."

Nature@nature.com · 8mo ago

Nature research paper: Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery go.nature.com/3YcD2ZS

I don't just work at @propublica, I'm also a donor. And today your donation is doubled PLUS free swag. give.propublica.org/campaign/748....

Even $5 would be enough. (A $5 monthly recurring donation would be awesome.)

Alabama Reflector@alabamareflector.com · 8mo ago

It's Giving Tuesday! We're grateful for the support you've shown Alabama Reflector this year. Help us reach our fundraising goal of $5,000 to continue delivering independent, nonpartisan, ad-free journalism in 2026. https://alabamareflector.com/donate/

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.

I'm John Fallon, a labor economist on the job market. My JMP uncovers something wild: when chiropractors got licensed in the early 1900s, medical boards responded by making it HARDER to become a doctor. Why would competition lead to stricter regulations? 🧵 john-fallon-econ.com (1/9)

Hi #SEA2025! I’m presenting my JMP on segregation academies at SEA today alongside some other great papers on labor and education in US history! 📍Edison (3rd floor JW marriot) ⏰ 1pm

Danielle Graves Williamson@daniellecgw.bsky.social · 9mo ago

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->

Mississippi has long failed to count and report all deaths in local jails that serve the state’s 82 counties, despite a federal requirement to do so. These often dangerous facilities operate virtually free of any state oversight.

Why No One Knows How Many People Die in Mississippi’s Jails

Mississippi has long failed to count and report all deaths in local jails that serve the state’s 82 counties, despite a federal requirement to do so.

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Deeply concerned about the trauma and developmental harm this admin is inflicting on students. Local news reporting absenteeism rate post ICE raid doubled relative to its rate from prior year in Charlotte. What @tomdee.bsky.social found in Central Valley, CA occurring in many cities throughout US.

Tyler Kingkade@tktk.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...

Girls’ test scores dropped more than boys’ post pandemic—but not everywhere. We use 15 years of data from 7k+ districts to understand why, and what this might teach us about how societal shocks impact gender disparities in ed outcomes. Hear sean present our findings tomorrow: lnkd.in/eEe-DTND

Why have girls' test scores declined relative to boys' in recent years? Next Tuesday (11/18) at 4 pm, join the PIER Public Seminar series for a conversation with Stanford University's sean...

Why have girls' test scores declined relative to boys' in recent years? Next Tuesday (11/18) at 4 pm, join the PIER Public Seminar series for a conversation with Stanford University's sean reardon, wh...

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