The results? Rideshare access leads to: ↑ employment, ↑ labor force participation, ↓ public assistance, and ↑ marriage among disabled adults. Effects are largest for those with vision/hearing or mobility disabilities & in areas with worse public transit quality. 3/6

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

Policy meets the classroom. 📚 BU Wheelock’s Meagan Comb explains how states can raise the bar on teacher prep. spr.ly/633247Gvei

Thanks to AV and RSF for funding this work, which started as part of my dissertation (linked below). We're so looking forward to being able to inform the use of informal diversion practices in schools! Lots more to come 🥳 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'd like to highlight how speedy and thoughtful the review process was at Econ of Ed Review. We submitted this (fairly short) article via its expedited review process, which resulted in two quick reports, a small revision, and a published manuscript, all in two months. More of this, please!

I am recruiting a doc student! I am so excited :-D The student would have opportunities to work on IES & Spencer funded projects focused on strengthening the special ed workforce, including Project RESPECT, Project SUSTAIN, Project ONBOARD, & the SPARC Center. Please share widely! Thanks all!

New work on school cell phone bans just dropped. "Bans...led to a[n] ... increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year." "We find significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban."

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Really enjoyed my time at UC-Davis’s Emerging Scholars Panel with other amazing junior scholars (and exploring Davis’ beautiful campus)! Super thought-provoking discussions about how we can use critical perspectives to meet the current moment at both the classroom and policy/system level.

📢 The votes are in! EdWorkingPapers email subscribers chose papers by James H. Wyckoff, @abbyfrancis.bsky.social, and @joshua-goodman.com to be featured in our next webinar on Nov 13. Find out what the topic will be >> edworkingpapers.com/webinar-series

Our @caldercenter.bsky.social research brief with @cedr.bsky.social and @ahkatz5.bsky.social on special education identification during the pandemic is now published in EEPA! We show that, after an initial dip, identification rates have now "caught up" with pre-pandemic norms: tinyurl.com/y4bea5y5

Prospective PhD Students: I am planning to accept a PhD student for AY 2026-27 in the economics and education program at Teachers College. Apply if you want to use the economics of education to study immigration or politics/political engagement and public schools. :-)

Come work with us! We’re really excited about our research on attendance and chronic absenteeism. And we’d be really excited to work with you! Reach out if you have any questions. Detroit-based preferred, but remote might be possible. Start as early as Dec 2025 or later in Spring/Summer 2026.

Hi everyone. Some exciting news. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Public Policy here at Rockefeller College. We are pretty flexible on topic areas. We have a great team here and Albany is a great place to live. #econsky #academicsky Posting: albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

First pub on the tenure track! 📣🎉 Stoked to see my work with Luis Rodriguez out in AERA-Open. We provide evidence regarding the distribution of different types police interventions in NYC public schools across school-level demographic characteristics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 Come join us in Ed Policy at @uwmadison.bsky.social! We're hiring an Asst/Assoc Prof studying the intersection of education and the environment. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

📢 Job Posting! 📢 We are hiring TWO postdocs at Detroit PEER at Wayne State (detroitpeer.org)! We are looking for one quant/mixed methods expert and one qual/mixed expert to work with me & @jeremylsinger.bsky.social on attendance research. Apply by Oct. 10, but flexible on start date! Please share!

My department is searching for two tenure-line positions to start in August 2026. Come join our growing team and make a difference in building the future! Assistant professor of higher education: apply.interfolio.com/172680 Associate/full professor of education policy: apply.interfolio.com/172632

Let's go! The School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a tenure track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in artificial intelligence in K-12 education starting July 1, 2026. (1/2) unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/305...

Running my robustness checks and sorting through all the .tex output to see if they pass like

Come work with us!

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

The day Rihanna releases new music is the day that the economy /really/ implodes

Displeased about moving; too sleepy to do anything about it

dream crossover episode 🤩

Spent a bit of time at the WNBA All-Star Game chatting with a new basketball fan: Harvard economist Claudia Goldin, who has been advising the WNBA players in their labor negotiations, part of a more robust strategy this year from the union

@robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social let me post the working paper Why doesn't police reform work? Because police depts can't credibly commit to their end of the bargain (doing more/better/riskier work in exchange for more $) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/35o94...

Last week just-out work by @joshua-goodman.com & @abbyfrancis.bsky.social was featured on the @educationnext.bsky.social podcast. Listen for interesting convo of key insights and implications. www.educationnext.org/the-educatio... Full policy brief at: wheelockpolicycenter.org/high-quality...

Coeur d'Alene was my hometown-- special sort of white nationalist, militia, conservatism that has been brewing here for decades that's been spilling over the past few years: 2022: www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/u... 2024: www.teenvogue.com/story/north-... 2025: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

🔥What’s the only thing hotter than this week’s weather?🔥 Our new @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social working paper: “School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic” In it, BU Wheelock PhD @abbyfrancis.bsky.social and I ask: Has the pandemic permanently changed families' schooling choices?

Came across one of my favorite personal examples of potentially misleading data visualization-- two data points and the y-axis truncated between 10.5 and 11.2 so the vet could really highlight my cat's seemingly rapid path toward feline obesity (she is perfectly healthy)

New @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! A study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @natejones.bsky.social‬, & @lizbettini.bsky.social. We find staff turnover matters for SWDs. Ungated WP & one pager: • Working paper: tinyurl.com/j3rykkp9 • One-pager: tinyurl.com/bddtzxtp

Help needed! Please provide us with nominations (including self-nominations) for the AEFP Board of Directors by 5/27. We're looking for potential at-large members, governmental affiliates, teacher org affiliates, & president-elects. Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Here's the thread I wrote earlier this year about the history of TPS -- a policy that gives temporary legal status to immigrants. SCOTUS ruled today Trump is allowed to revoke TPS of almost 350,000 people, unilaterally making these people undocumented overnight.

New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960. What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out. 🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797

Officially PhinisheD 🤯 this weekend with the best grad companion I could ask for 🫶🏻 @sarahstrochak.bsky.social 4 years of PhD-ing flies by when you have cohort-mates who make it immensely fun 🥹

Apply soon if you’re interested - we’ll start reviewing applications shortly.

🚨Organizing a paper swap for early career edu policy researchers.🚨 Share a nearly-complete draft, exchange feedback, and connect with peers. Great if you’ve got a lingering project or diss chapter that could use feedback and soft deadlines to move it forward this summer. Sign up & learn more here:

Choosing Schools, Choosing Safety: How Multiple Dimensions of Safety Shape School Choices journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Trump administration said a focus on equity in discipline has harmed student safety while advocates say it’s an excuse to roll back civil rights protections. edsource.org/2025/trump-a... by @emmagallegos.bsky.social & @jfensterwald.bsky.social @edsource.org

🚨 JOB OPPORTUNITY 🚨 Join our team! We are hiring a non-tenure track research assistant professor to work on our Arkansas-focused projects. We have fantastic data and lots of interesting, policy-relevant projects

Special congratulations to our Eco alum- Dr. King!

Finally have that gender neutral title: Dr. King! Shoutout to my dissertation chair! We did it, Joe (Cimpian) @joecimpian.bsky.social

On this #TakeawayThursday: A study by Sarah Komisarow and Steven Hemelt suggests that school-based healthcare services play a critical role in reducing student absenteeism. Read more: direct.mit.edu/edfp/article... Don’t forget to follow us on LinkedIn and X! @aefpweb.bsky.social #EFP

kind of a slay 🤩 but in all seriousness, still pinching myself that I get to join such an incredible group of ed policy scholars this fall! s/o to my committee and chosen family for keeping me (relatively) sane this job market

HEP author and founder of @schooldisclab.bsky.social, Richard O. Welsh recently spoke to us about his new book, SUSPENDED FUTURES, which examines the persistent racial disparities in how educators perceive and respond to the behavior of students. Learn more: https://bit.ly/41EeYAJ

This morning I have: 1. Sobbed while writing my dissertation acknowledgements, 2. Sent my dissertation to my committee 🥳

Racial Threat, Schools, and Exclusionary Discipline: Evidence from New York City journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...