Hi #APPAM2025! I'm presenting my JMP on segregation academies this morning with some other great work on school stratification by income and race -- would love to see folks there! 📍Grand Hyatt, Leonesa 3 ⏰ 10:15 - 11:45 AM

Michael is a dear friend, an excellent writer and presenter (communicator of research), and pretty funny. My work is better because I share an office with him. Everyone should check out his JMP 👇

TLDR APPAM Ed Policy folks informal happy hour tonight starting at 6, at Seattle Beer Co. #2025Appam #Appam2025 All welcome, hope to see you there!

Exposure to a field-specific faculty sexual misconduct incident decreases degree completion in that field by 3.4 percent four years after the incident, from Sarah R. Cohodes and Katherine B. Leu www.nber.org/papers/w34456

This is such interesting and impt work--and especially so in light of today's voucher push and the fact that, per @douglasharris9.bsky.social, the average private school in the US is a low-tuition school serving 30 kids. It'd be pretty cheap to create new, low-quality, segregative private schools.

👋 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 🧵 -->

At 15 of the 20 academies benefiting from the tax credit program, student bodies were at least 85% white…And among the 20, enrollments at five were more than 60 percentage points whiter than their communities.” www.propublica.org/article/miss...

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The aggressive immigration raids we now see across the nation began 10 months ago in California's Central Valley. Their impact on children, families, and communities is an important & active area of research I'm pleased my study of the initial raid's early impact on students is now out in @pnas.org

a small thing you can do today if you’re mad about the government shutdown: I just donated to my hometown food bank (www.feedingthegulfcoast.org) and you can too! also vote if you are able, etc, etc

Through segregation, violence, redlining, and sundown towns, Black families traveled. How did they know where to go? What places were safe? What places were welcoming? Search the data on this important part of American history: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

For The Conversation, I wrote about how White Southerners are making sense of what it means to be White in these times. In a nutshell, it’s complicated. I hope you’ll read and share widely. theconversation.com/its-a-compli...

How segregated are your local private schools? With our database, look up the demographics of private schools across the country and see how they compare to the public schools nearby. By @cerealcommas.bsky.social @natlash.bsky.social @bxroberts.org

Sometimes good research just finally provides well-designed evidence for an assumption many hold: supply in sex work is driven by economic slumps. doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

Excited to see my first paper out!

This has happened before: as late as 1982, Goldsboro Christian School in North Carolina did not admit Black students because “We believe that God in his plan and purpose and wisdom separated men into . . . races and that those races should be preserved” (source: www.nytimes.com/1982/01/18/u...)

ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that received almost $10 million over the course of six years through a state-funded program. At least eight opened with an early boost from state-funded vouchers in the 1960s. (Published Nov. 2024)

Thank you Josh and thank you NAED/Spencer--I never expected to get this fellowship and am incredibly honored to be part of this community. Congratulations to the other fellows, and I look forward to meeting y'all in the fall!

Friday night of an insane news week is the optimal timing for this right?

For weeks, as contracts were halted, workers fired, and a center created in 1867 essentially dismantled overnight, workers scrambled to save data used to inform educational policy and practice. Here’s how it looked from inside. www.chronicle.com/article/brea...

I’ve been saying for years that allowing racial segregation in public accommodations was a goal of the right-wing conservative movement. It’s one reason I study this type of segregation. We are closer to a reality of legal racial segregation than anytime since 1964. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Editor @brianlyman.bsky.social writes that the U.S. Department of Education is one of the few forces pushing against Alabama's centuries-old efforts to deny poor and disadvantaged children a proper education. And a reminder of the racist origins of the state's system of funding public schools.

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Just saw a great paper by @michaelbriskin.bsky.social ! He shows that WWII led to a massive teacher shortage that led to lower wages and lower educational attainment for affected students #AEFP2025 #Econsky

New WP with @trevondlogan.bsky.social, David Rosé, and @drlisadcook.bsky.social ⬇️ We study how the intersection of consumer discrimination and market power shapes firm behavior, including pricing decisions using new data on the prices of firms by discriminatory status from 1940-1960.

I'll be at AEFP presenting my work on segregation academies: all-white private schools established during the 1960s-70s to circumvent public school integration. Bring your coffee (and your feedback!) to Soc Dynamics of School Choice at 8:15 Thursday: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/42278/...

It's such a weird thing to hear the news and think "that's bad, but also I have a paper about (an aspect) of that" Funding delays are really not great for people who work in science. Funding delays of > 30 days lead to: - 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force - 20% decrease in wages

This map shows how much NIH funding goes to your state. I used the info on my state when I called officials to ask them to push back against the freeze. And if I can do it when my senators are Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville...well, I mean... www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

It's not everyday that I wake up to a front page article in the Boston Globe featuring a colleague of mine, complete with photo shoot. Today is that day! Fantastic coverage of the teacher workforce research that @oliviachi.bsky.social does here at BU Wheelock. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/14/b...