Had a great time at the FLX Econ of Ed conference this year. Special shoutout to @mariabzhu.bsky.social for organizing, and specifically for having name tags where you can actually read people's names!

What if #StandardizedTests are the biased ones — not teachers? @mariabzhu.bsky.social finds teachers actually rate Black students higher than white peers with equal scores, once you correct for test measurement error. doi.org/10.3368/jhr....

I've released a new version of strgroup, a Stata command that does fuzzy string matching. No new functionality, but the underlying C code has been optimized: it now uses much less memory and runs about 5 times faster github.com/reifjulian/s...

GitHub - reifjulian/strgroup: Match strings based on their Levenshtein edit distance.

Match strings based on their Levenshtein edit distance. - reifjulian/strgroup

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Clear evidence that employers rate workers with foreign-sounding accents as having lower verbal and math skills. This gap persists even when employers are provided with explicit performance signals.

🚨Calling all education+social science researchers! 🚨 For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse! www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...

Heading to Tampa this weekend for the Southern Economic Association annual meeting! You can find me presenting my JMP on Saturday and new work with @mariehull.bsky.social and @mariabzhu.bsky.social on Monday!

I'm on the job market! My JMP studies the role of high school teachers in preparing students for college success I find significant positive effects of high school teachers on 🔹College admissions test scores 🔹College enrollment 🔹College performance 🧵(1/10)

Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy. These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure). And now onto the scholars... 👇

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Economics Literature Search

Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.

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Joe Winkelmann & I have released a new @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social working paper: "Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment" We show stronger labor markets since 2009 explain most of the decline in community college enrollments. wheelockpolicycenter.org/high-quality...

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Popular discourse attributes falling college enrollments to the rising cost of four-year college. That story is wrong in multiple ways, as @mattbarnum.bsky.social points out in his latest roundup of the evidence (citing a new working paper of ours): www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

Our group at Illinois Gies College of Business is hiring! We are especially interested in public or environmental economists. Our group includes myself, @tderyugina.bsky.social, David Molitor, Nolan Miller, Jeff Brown, Riley League, and Mackenzie Alston. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics. My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6

Another great @nber.org summer institute has come and gone. Highlights were a great dinner with the crowd from Children/Families

I've added 43 new tips to my book, bringing the total to 140. You can download "Quick Stata Tips" and the accompanying .do file for free at toddrjones.com/quickstatati....

A couple of us are putting together an APPAM panel on post-pandemic school enrollment/access patterns, broadly conceived. Let me know if you or someone you know has a paper that might fit this theme.

Our practical guide to shift-share IV is now out in the JEP! www.aeaweb.org/issues/793 (Ungated version: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/el9yn...)

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 39 No. 1 Winter 2025

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Hiring 2-year postdoc @upjohninstitute.bsky.social. Great for someone with FSRDC experience & interest in early childhood care & education labor markets. Work with me @gabriellepepin.bsky.social @jborowsky.bsky.social + others. #econ_ra #econsky #policysky www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place. psantanna.com/did-resources There, you will find - 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course - Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD - My DiD R/Stata/Python packages - Some DiD checklists - DiD materials from my friends Enjoy!

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

There are way more people around here these days, so this might be a good time to reintroduce @briefingbook.bsky.social. We want to give you the kind of analysis we did as economic policy staffers at the White House. Here's our first post from last September. www.briefingbook.info/p/welcome-to...

Welcome to Briefing Book

The kind of analysis policymakers get, right in your inbox

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#econJM candidates, as you're cramming in those 11/15 apps, don't forget Hoover Fellow apps are due Monday 11/18! --> Up to 10 years. 100% own research time - no teaching, no splitting time on other projects. Great pay. Great location. Friendly colleagues. #econsky

I’ve made a Women in Econ starter pack (s/o @vinisingh.bsky.social for sparking the idea!). Share, follow, and comment below if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ

🚨Job alert!🚨 Our group (@buwheelock.bsky.social @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social) is hiring an Assistant Professor of Education Policy. Description below, along with a link to apply. I'm chairing the search, so reach out and spread the word. Come work with us! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28451

Very excited that my paper, "New evidence on the underrepresentation of Asian Americans in leadership positions," is coming out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Added it to this Econ Institutions Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/4deCZJ2

I am starting a new project with Mackenzie Alston on the academic job market. Hoping to informally chat with 5 econ PhDs and 5 PhDs from psych, sociology, or polisci who graduated last year. If you're available for a 15-minute Zoom convo in Nov., please DM or email mjalston@illinois.edu!

Five million documents from the Dutch East India Company will be searchable starting on Wednesday, with an improved version of the database expected next year #archives nltimes.nl/2023/10/08/m...

Millions of archived VOC documents now searchable online, including slavery records

From Wednesday, five million scanned documents from the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) will be digitally searchable at the click of a button thanks to a text recognition project by the...

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I’ve been trying to make this happen in one form or another for almost 7 years, and it’s finally out. Data on income inequality and mobility within detailed demographic groups, nationally and at the state level, designed with researchers and the public in mind. www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/in...

Income Distributions and Dynamics in America | Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute

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