Sid got a bee suit to help grandpa with his bees and this… just melts my heart

One of my empirical-work econ takes is that I think academia should be *more* open to publishing work based on best-we-can-do weak data, as long as there's really no other way to address the question and that work is very clear about what it can and can't actually say.

"the introduction of collective bargaining significantly increases the number of civilians killed by police, particularly non-White civilians, while having limited effects on officer safety...the idea that police unions exacerbate violence is empirically grounded." www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths

(August 2026) - Using an event-study design, we examine whether states' introduction of duty-to-bargain requirements for police unions led to meaningful changes in civilians killed by law enforcement....

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Today, @arnoldventures.bsky.social reopened two RFPs: 1️⃣The Strengthening Evidence RFP supports RCTs across a broad range of social policy issues. 2️⃣The Building Evidence RFP supports quasi-experiments in key policy areas. (1/4)

🧵 1/ Many of us tuned in to the World Cup finale. More households certainly watched Super Bowl LX this past winter. But did you know in 1977, a larger % of households tuned into the finale for a TV miniseries- on the transatlantic slave trade and the multigenerational impacts of racial injustice?

Thrilled our paper is out now in AJS. Parents & scholars have long known the linked fate of schools & neighborhoods, but how does change in one domain relate to the other? We (@ebruch.bsky.social) propose a theory of coupled tipping & find support for our model in data over 20 yrs & 3,000 schools.

The #DiD page has been updated after two years! The site has been substantially cleaned up: code is now better documented, resources have been expanded, list of Stata/Python/R/Julia packages updated, and all Stata code has been revalidated. Check it out: asjadnaqvi.github.io/DiD/

🚨🚨 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

NOW HIRING: Prof. Matthew Kraft is seeking to hire a Research Associate or Sen. Research Associate, depending on applicant experience, to collaborate on a broad agenda related to research on the teacher labor market. 🔗 Research Associate: buff.ly/PHwZYrT 🔗 Senior Research Associate: buff.ly/4AvkvQx

📢 We are hiring 📢 Please spread the word: We are hiring a 🧑‍🎓 Postdoc (up to 6 years, non-tenure track) at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education! Come join our team as junior faculty: www.ifo.de/en/job-offer... Application deadline: July 22

White Americans who were eligible for the GI Bill, or had fathers who were, benefitted massively, while the equivalent Black Am benefitted much less on average bc they were funneled into using it on vocational schools (or scam “schools”) Paper estimates that accounts for *5 pp* in sons’ college gap

Blindly Discriminating: The GI Bill and Racial Inequality

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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Our golden retriever has turned into a seal

found a little buddy and brought her to a nice flower shrub, but why are her wings so mangled? :( #invertebrate

Love education data? The Strategic Data Project is looking for data fellows for placements in Texas, Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles, Trenton, and NOVA/DC. Position description and requirements: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Application Deadline: 11:59pm ET on 6/21

[Job Posting] Strategic Data Project Fellow Cohort 18

The Cohort 18 application will open on Monday, September 29, 2025. Position: Strategic Data Project Fellow Location: Multiple US Locations (see below) Duration: Summer/Fall 2026 through Summer 2028 ...

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happy friday here is a picture of our stupid/cute/stupidly cute beagle

Reminder that applications for the September program are due June 1!

Just Education Policy Institute @justedpolicy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are excited to announce that applications for JEP 2026 are now open! If you are a current doctoral student or post-doc in education policy working on racial justice, this Institute shows how, in community, to develop your research agenda. Apply here through 6/1: www.justeducationpolicy.org/apply

📣 We're hiring a postdoc to join us on education research projects at Oxford @oxfordecondept.bsky.social @oxfordcsae.bsky.social. Join me @gamblingondev.bsky.social @roccozizzamia.bsky.social on multiple exciting projects! Applications due June 7th. www.economics.ox.ac.uk/csae-postdoc...

CSAE Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Deadline: Sunday, 7 June, 2026

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A glimpse into what has been lost www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The Trump administration is deleting government data. From infant deaths to hunger, here are 5 ways it’s hurting Americans

This information was used to understand the problems Americans face. The consequences of its erasure, experts warn, could affect generations to come

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This is such a fascinating paper

NEP-EDU: Education@repec-nep-edu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Growing the Civic Mind: Civic Education, Civic Behavior, and Political Institutions: Enrico Rubolino

It’s a beagle on a (giant) beanbag chair

Mark Chin@mememedianmode.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Beagle in the strawberry patch this morning

Hey #edusky / #datasky: I'm hiring! If you're a data person who cares about education equity, social equality, and working toward a less divided America, check it out! newamerica.applytojob.com/apply/LVDvuZ... #datajobs #edjobs #edpolicy

Data and Policy Analyst – Education Funding Equity Initiative - New America - Career Page

Apply to Data and Policy Analyst – Education Funding Equity Initiative at New America in Washington, DC.

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Beagle in the strawberry patch this morning

Homegrown arugula is insane

Time to play Spot The Beagle in our backyard

Whenever we set up the kiddie pool for our 4yo our golden retriever inevitably is the first one in it One happy doggo

I am very angry about things today but at least there’s this video of my dreaming beagle hopefully it brings you some joy

New research by Todd Hall, Jeremy Prim, @drjae.bsky.social, and me: Black families are 10 percentage points less likely to choose an otherwise high-quality school when it has large racial disparities in test scores and student discipline. Read the paper: doi.org/10.1007/s112... 1/2

Racial Disparities and Black Parents’ School Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment - The Urban Review

Nearly half of Black parents have access to public school choice, but choice may not provide equitable and supportive school environments. Qualitative research documents Black parents worries that majority-White schools with more resources and higher test scores may over-discipline, underestimate, and exclude their children. Yet large-scale studies rarely examine what Black families desire in potential schools, including how they navigate potential tradeoffs between high school quality and denigrating school racial climates. This survey experiment examines the extent to which test score gaps and suspension gaps between Black students and their non-Black peers deter Black parents from choosing schools with higher overall test scores and lower overall suspension rates. We randomly assign a large, national sample of Black parents (N = 1,677) to examine a school profile vignette where the school has overall high academic achievement and low suspensions rates but includes either one, both, or neither academic and discipline gaps to assess how test score and suspension disparities affect Black parents’ school preferences and perceptions. We find that racial disparities in student discipline and academic outcomes, on average, diminish Black families’ desires to enroll in high-achievement schools and their perceptions of student belonging. These findings align with qualitative research showing that well-resourced, high-achieving schools are less appealing to Black families when they marginalize Black students and that schools’ unequal punishment of Black students shapes Black parents’ evaluations of potential educational spaces.

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Submit your work using AI in the social sciences to the annual AI in Social Science conference at the University of Chicago! Submissions due May 1! The conference will be held October 8-9 in Chicago, IL, USA. bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event... @beckerfriedman.bsky.social @caai-booth.bsky.social

Is anyone thinking about submitting to APPAM this year a project on school segregation/composition or on high schools? I have an abstract that would fit nicely on a panel (but don't quite have the bandwidth to put a panel together myself)

My advisee just shared with me this piece on his former advisor as a research assistant. It's hard not to get upset/angry thinking about the long-term negative consequences of all the changes to higher ed these past few years, both the academic and the human. www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career

Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

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