When Sid was 2 we would joke that he spent the whole day doing Pilates I long for those days Now that he’s 4 he’s basically doing capoeira nonstop the second he wakes up

Happy thanksgiving from my family to yours Arches are dope Everyone should go to Moab

Arches and Canyonlands NP are incredible

Fifteen Years https://xkcd.com/3172/ "Want to feel old?" "Yes." Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3172

Sid actually looks like mad Tim Robinson in a sketch whenever he gets mad

We are so cooked

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Attended some awesome panels at APPAM this year in Seattle but I was as excited to revisit the Pop Culture museum after a decade, still one of the coolest museums I’ve ever been to. And now Sid has too! Here we are in the making music exhibit

Happening this afternoon at 3:30pm in the Grand Hyatt Princess 2! #2025APPAM

Hi #APPAM2025 #2025APPAM folks - live today, our department at Vanderbilt is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor higher education scholar this cycle! Find the posting here: apply.interfolio.com/177753 Let me know if you're in Seattle and want to chat at all about the position/department.

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!

The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University invites applications for postdoctoral research positions. www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?... #PAJobMarket

Graduate Students: The Roe L. Johns Grants provide $500 monetary awards to help offset travel costs associated with attending. The application will open on December 5, after program decisions are shared. Learn more here: aefpweb.org/student-...

👋 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 🧵 -->

Hi folks attending #2025APPAM #APPAM2025! Excited to see many of you in Seattle this week. As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).

In particular, I’m super excited for this panel on Friday afternoon, organized by grad student @micahybaum.bsky.social, on political polarization & higher ed. Come watch me, Micah, @mememedianmode.bsky.social, & Mayan Kolerman share our latest work on this pressing topic!

(My wife’s) view from the couch as a sick parent on a monday

Ms Frizzle and Liz

Happy Halloween 👻!

this week 4yo Sid asked to buy chocolate while getting groceries to gift to his best friend. I thought it was a kind gesture so I said yes. His BF gifted him back Twizzlers. Yesterday I heard them discuss trading candy again. I am starting to feel like I’m getting played preschool organized crime

Econ of Ed (and other) friends: what are the best studies linking in-college interventions to labor market outcomes? Especially interested in those that improve outcomes via different mechanism than completion. E.g. if a college wants to improve earnings of grads, what should they do?

Sid the 4yo is showing us his art from school today and picked up a sheet he drew and just said totally deadpan “what the heck is this”

Random Monday question for diff-in-diff enthusiasts - have you ever drawn up a directed acyclic graph (DAG) or seen a DAG that captures the diff-in-diff model and the parallel trends assumption? (If so please share)

The 4 institutions I've ever been employed by have college football team records that add up to 21-1, with the 1 loss to Alabama (Harvard, Indiana, Swarthmore, and Vandy)

dope academic position alert: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05162

What a time to be in higher ed and doing research on education, politics, and inequality. Feeling thankful in particular this past fall break week for the chance to engage with smart, thoughtful, kind scholars at the 1st MidSouth Ed Policy workshop, and then to see Lucius again (after a decade!)

Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.

Had a great time at the inaugural MidSouth Ed Policy Conference, organized by @rajdarolia.bsky.social, @mikekofoed.bsky.social, and @riacton.bsky.social and truly pulled off by the amazing Emily Wilcox Walls, in my beautiful hometown, Lexington.

New working paper on contemporary child labor in the U.S. and its impacts on school attendance ⬇️ edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1302 With absolute dream team @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social @stevebholt.bsky.social & PhD student Ji Hyun Byeon

are there data out there measuring americans' views on higher education/value of a postsecondary degree over time (and maybe with geocodes for state)?

Open-rank faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence in Education and Organizations at Vanderbilt University. The faculty will work within our new college of connected computing and one of the five departments in Peabody College (including psychology!) jobs.chronicle.com/job/37894746...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Segregative Effects of Charter Schools" by Angela Crema. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The Chins love their old dogs

Super excited to host Arne Duncan and Diane Schanzenbach at #AEFP2026! Remember: you now have til Monday to submit your conference proposals! @aefpweb.bsky.social

Join the Doctoral Student Community Group tomorrow at 2 PM ET for a virtual event where panelists will share valuable insights and strategies to help doctoral students navigate the industry job market aefpweb.org/ev_calen...

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...

looking at photos of our old dog Kyra the Great Pyr and we really lucked out with how much "this is fine" vibes she gave off with a toddler

Job Posting: Assistant Professor — Disparities and Education Policy – Berkeley School of Education aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04211

Folks on Bluesky who use RStudio - I have a student who for has had no issue using it for the past few months but all of a sudden RStudio has been crashing basically everytime after immediately opening and doing anything in RStudio (clicking a button, running code). Has this happened to anyone else?

Two papers on the Voting Rights Act and its impacts popped up in my inbox today: Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act doi.org/10.1086/736766 The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act doi.org/10.1257/app....

#Job alert: two post-docs at OSU's Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the College of Public Affairs: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Give the boy a box they said. You will be so happy how he uses his imagination. All I know is that our house is now a Costco checkout line

Seems like such a small win in the context of everything going on, but my awesome PhD students and I just submitted a paper proposing a reorientation of schools towards developing justice-oriented youth.

AEFP invites applications for the editorship of EFP, the association’s flagship journal. Applications are due Nov 1. Read more about it here: aefpweb.org/callfore...

What is taught in schools matters for political behaviors. "Curriculum, political participation, and career choice" in REStat. doi.org/10.1162/rest...

TT job @ penn GSE apply.interfolio.com/173436

📢 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!

Our 1st @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev (Scholars of Education in Developing Countries) community group meeting is this Friday Sep 12, 11am-noon US eastern! Gabriel Cruz (Maryland) & @mfresard.bsky.social (Vanderbilt) will present work in progress. Contact me for Zoom link. #econsky #edusky 1/2

I'm chairing the "K-12 student outcomes (e.g., engagement, absenteeism, assessment, curriculum)" section for the upcoming 2026 AEFP conference. If you would be interested in reviewing proposal submissions for this section, please let me know! aefpweb.org/callforpropo...