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Mike Bloem

@mike-bloem.bsky.social

Associate Research Scientist at College Board Economics PhD from Georgia State Website: michaelbloem.com

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Mike Bloem@mike-bloem.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Happy to share this new paper co-authored with many of my colleagues We study how college enrollment changed in 2024 after SCOTUS's ruling in SFFA v. Harvard using data on millions of SAT/PSAT/AP exam takers linked to college enrollment records 👇 Check it out! edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1392

College Enrollment Patterns After SFFA v. Harvard

We study how U.S. high school students’ patterns of college entry changed in the first year after the Supreme Court’s 2023 SFFA v. Harvard ruling. Drawing on a rich dataset linking more than 12 millio...

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Annenberg Institute@annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 8mo ago

How did college enrollment change after SFFA v. Harvard? Michael Bloem & coauthors find that in the first year after the 2023 Supreme Court ruling, high-achieving URM students were substantially less likely to enroll in highly selective colleges. #EdWorkingPapers 📄https://bit.ly/4tgdSIt

Riley Acton@riacton.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Happy to have this descriptive piece with @camilantmorales.bsky.social, Kalena Cortes, @julia-turner.bsky.social, & @loismiller.bsky.social out! Look for more causal work on this topic from our team in the near future 👀

Robert Kelchen@robertkelchen.com · 9mo ago

A new NBER working paper by @riacton.bsky.social and colleagues finds economic benefits to a community college baccalaureate relative to an associate degree, but that an earnings penalty still exists in tech fields relative to a traditional bachelor's degree.

Riley Acton@riacton.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Anyone wishing to pontificate about changes in the demand for a college education should be forced to stare at this graph for a bit first

Joshua Goodman@joshua-goodman.com · 10mo ago

We first note that hand-wringing about the decline in US college enrollments has mistakenly linked such declines to the price of four-year colleges. But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.

Jeffrey Bloem@jeffbloem.bsky.social · last yr.

Really excited to have this paper published in the JDE! Available online today, blog post and more coming soon… “Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial” co-authored with Clark Lundberg www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial

We study the effect of the adoption of improved agricultural inputs on deforestation using a randomized control trial in Nigeria which introduced a mo…

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Morgan Polikoff@mpolikoff.bsky.social · last yr.

"[Black] students initially enrolling in a HBCU are 14.6 percentage pts more likely to earn a bachelor's degree and, ... have higher household income and more student loan balances... driven by relatively broad-access HBCUs in lieu of a two-year college or no college." www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes

(August 2025) - Using data from nearly 1.2 million Black SAT takers, we find that students initially enrolling in a historically Black college and university (HBCU) are 14.6 percentage points more lik...

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Jeffrey Bloem@jeffbloem.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper just out today: “Income Aspirations and Migration: Evidence From Rural Tajikistan” with Isabel Lambrecht and Kamiljon Akromov journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Income Aspirations and Migration: Evidence From Rural Tajikistan - Jeffrey R. Bloem, Isabel Lambrecht, Kamiljon Akromov, 2025

In places with limited employment opportunities, households aspiring to increase their income are mainly left with two options: either (a) invest locally in the...

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Joshua Goodman@joshua-goodman.com · 2y ago

Thrilled to see this paper out! This is part of a larger research agenda documenting that: 1) A variety of (often understudied) factors affect the quality of colleges students choose, and 2) College choice and quality matter for longer-run outcomes like graduation and earnings.

The JHR@j-humanresources.bsky.social · 2y ago

Access to public four-year colleges boosts earnings and stability. @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social, @joshua-goodman.com, and Michael Hurwitz analyze college access’s long-term effects, showing students gain greater career mobility and security. doi.org/10.3368/jhr....

article screenshot The Economic Impact of Access to Public Four-Year Colleges Jonathan Smith, Joshua Goodman and Michael Hurwitz Abstract We estimate the economic impacts of students’ access to an entire sector of U.S. public higher education. Approximately half of Georgia high school graduates who enroll in college do so in the state’s public four-year sector, which requires minimum SAT scores for admission. Regression discontinuity estimates show enrollment in public four-year institutions boosts students’ estimated household income around age 30 by about 17 percent and has even larger impacts for those from low-income high schools. Access to this sector has little clear impact on financial health or student loan balances. For the marginal student, and particularly for those from low-income high schools, enrollment in such institutions has large private returns in the short run and positive returns to state budgets in the long run.