Riley Acton
@riacton.bsky.social
education economist ap @bowdoincollege.bsky.social research fellow @iza.org https://www.rileyacton.com/
“We find no evidence that faculty affect student partisanship.” Super duper important paper by three young scholars on the job market! Check it out 👇
Annaliese Paulson@annaliesep.bsky.social · 3h agoNew Working Paper with Micah Baum and Joaquin Endara: Students tend to become more liberal during college. We study whether individual faculty make their students more liberal. We find no evidence that faculty affect student partisanship. Working Paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1538 1/
COVID-19 vaccine "mandates covering all colleges in a county reduced COVID-19 deaths by 5.6 per 100,000 persons...& ICU admissions by 16.2 per 100,000...Impacts are larger in counties with larger college populations & low estimated ex ante student vaccination rates." jhr.uwpress.org/content/61/4...
The Effect of Vaccine Mandates on Disease Spread
Nearly 700 four-year US colleges mandated students receive COVID-19 vaccinations in fall 2021. Using data on college policies and county health, we estimate how mandates affect surrounding communities...
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This paper was accepted like 2 years ago, but nice to finally see it being officially published, particularly in light of the attacks on Fauci. jhr.uwpress.org/content/61/4... @riacton.bsky.social
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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We are hosting the MidSouth Education Policy Workshop again this year on Oct 8-9 at UK! The goal is to bring researchers and policy professionals together to share work, get feedback, and network. Call for papers (due Aug 21) and more information here: martin.uky.edu/2026-midsout....
2026 MidSouth Education Public Policy Workshop | Martin School of Public Policy and Administration
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Reminder my department is hiring! We're looking for an assistant teaching professor for the Journalism program. This is a teaching intensive position, not a research-based, tenure track job. A PhD or MFA is required at time of appointment. #academicjobs #journalismjobs
Assistant Teaching Professor
Job Title Assistant Teaching Professor Department Media, Journalism and Film Department Worker Type Regular Pay Type Salary Salary will be commensurate with the level of the position, education, and e...
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Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.
I have a new working paper examining how academic schools within universities allocate resources. Using data from HelioCampus, I find that schools cut staff positions first during difficult times and that there are huge variations in delivery costs across universities.
An Analysis of Academic School Spending in Higher Education
Academic schools, such as colleges and their constituent departments within larger universities, are increasingly being expected to increase revenues and reduce expenditures in a challenging financial...
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This exp. submitted fictitious applications to actual job openings in early childhood ed & found employers didn't differentially favor applicants w. assoc degrees, traditional bachelor's degrees, or community college bachelor's degrees: buff.ly/k8oLfr2 #highered @academicsky @riacton.bsky.social
The Labor Market Value of Community College Bachelor’s Degrees: Initial Evidence from a Resume Audit Study in Early Childhood Education
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,…
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I saw this posted elsewhere, and hoped it was just an AI spoof, but sadly, it's a real CDC Webpage, and the information it contains is deeply dangerous and untrue.
A new survey of parents finds that most want their kids to pursue some type of education after high school, although they're worried about affordability. And that "job training or certification" category? That's largely done by higher education. www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
Education at 12% of the recent average, where is social behavioral science is at 16% RPT committees need to recalibrate
Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 2w agoHere's the # of new grants in FY26 across directorates, relative to the average from FY21–25 at this point in the year NSF avg. - 45% BIO - 63% CISE - 54% ENG - 60% GEO - 36% MPS - 49% EDU - 12% SBE - 16% TIP - 34% O/D - 35%
Caroline Hoxby has a fascinating overview in the latest NBER Digest of recent developments in the economics of education. She reviews how data science is changing the field, and how AI and college majors are two rapidly expanding fields of inquity. www.nber.org/reporter/202...
made this webapp (works best on mobile) for my numbers-obsessed 4-year old! Take it for a spin! www.peternencka.com/blockmath/
A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:
Greg Niemesh presenting on elite marriage markets in the US #nberdae Excited to learn how to get rich by marrying right? Too bad: step one is be born rich to start
Never would have predicted vector autoregression would become such an important a consideration in football (niche post)
A person can have leftwing views about class, poverty, inequality, etc. and still have regressive views about women, POC, immigrants, LGBTQ people, in an combination. They can even have (or pretend to have) progressive views on all the latter and then be shitty/hypocrites in their personal lives.
Our annual award recognizing the best PhD dissertation on employment-related issues is still taking submissions! All academic disciplines are welcome, as long as it has a major employment and policy focus. The deadline is July 20th. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4vJxVQa #econsky, #fundsocsci
Dissertation Award | Upjohn Institute
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Great 🧵 on our (yes, dream) team's latest research from my coauthor @julia-turner.bsky.social... who fails to mention that she will be on the market this fall with a killer JMP about the roll-out of these community college bachelor's degrees in Washington. 👀
Julia Turner@julia-turner.bsky.social · 4w ago🚨 New NBER WP out from this dream team of coauthors! @riacton.bsky.social, @loismiller.bsky.social, @camilantmorales.bsky.social, Kalena Cortes, and I are excited to share results from our pilot resume audit study of community college bachelor’s degrees (CCBs). www.nber.org/papers/w35404
New NBER working paper, joint with my amazing coauthors @riacton.bsky.social @camilantmorales.bsky.social @julia-turner.bsky.social and Kalena Cortes! See here for a summary thread: bsky.app/profile/juli...
NBER@nber.org · 4w agoExamining if employers value community college bachelor’s degrees by conducting a study of Community College Baccalaureate degrees, finds interview-request rates similar to traditional bachelor’s degrees, from @riacton, Morales, Turner, @loismiller.bsky.social, and Cortes www.nber.org/papers/w35404
Examining if employers value community college bachelor’s degrees by conducting a study of Community College Baccalaureate degrees, finds interview-request rates similar to traditional bachelor’s degrees, from @riacton, Morales, Turner, @loismiller.bsky.social, and Cortes www.nber.org/papers/w35404
We have so many people to thank for making this work possible, including @j-palna.bsky.social for our pilot grant as well as @stradaeducation.bsky.social and Ascendium for continued support. Finally, our amazing RAs (listed below)! Experiments are a team sport and we had a championship group!
Great 🧵 on our (yes, dream) team's latest research from my coauthor @julia-turner.bsky.social... who fails to mention that she will be on the market this fall with a killer JMP about the roll-out of these community college bachelor's degrees in Washington. 👀
Julia Turner@julia-turner.bsky.social · 4w ago🚨 New NBER WP out from this dream team of coauthors! @riacton.bsky.social, @loismiller.bsky.social, @camilantmorales.bsky.social, Kalena Cortes, and I are excited to share results from our pilot resume audit study of community college bachelor’s degrees (CCBs). www.nber.org/papers/w35404
🚨 New NBER WP out from this dream team of coauthors! @riacton.bsky.social, @loismiller.bsky.social, @camilantmorales.bsky.social, Kalena Cortes, and I are excited to share results from our pilot resume audit study of community college bachelor’s degrees (CCBs). www.nber.org/papers/w35404
The Labor Market Value of Community College Bachelor’s Degrees: Initial Evidence from a Resume Audit Study in Early Childhood Education
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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"birthright citizenship is destroying this nation and everyone who benefited from it should be denaturalized and deported except this one guy, temporarily, for sports reasons" about sums up this administration
