Jordan Matsudaira, Director of Postsecondary Education & Economics Research (PEER) Center, tells Inside Higher Ed that the impending graduate student loan caps will mean a rough transition period for students in 2026 and a decline in graduate enrollment. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4jqbhqB

“Questions remain around how states will calculate key measures like completion rates and job placement rates," Clare McCann, the PEER Center's Managing Director of Policy, tells Inside Higher Ed about new guidelines for short-term programs applying for Workforce Pell grants. https://bit.ly/45GqDl7

We @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social are hiring a director for our Policy-Aligned Research Agenda Buildling Lab (PARABL), to help education system leaders build research roadmaps to effect change in a particular area. More info here: wheelockpolicycenter.org/wp-content/u...

There are only about 14 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States. There are 53.3 million *total* foreign-born, including permanent residents & naturalized citizens. But 100 million is close to the exact number of people in the US who identify as nonwhite (95 million).

We can back this up with a stacked diff in diffs too: weiyangtham.com/files/tcps_f... (new conditionally accepted version out soon) We find that a funding interruption... increases the probability of not working in the US by 3 percentage points (40%) .

Clare McCann, Managing Dir. of Policy for AU's @peerresearch.bsky.social, told Inside Higher Ed, “questions remain around how, exactly, states will calculate key measures like completion rates and job placement rates.” Read more here: https://bit.ly/49j4lbj

2024 ACS just dropped at IPUMS-USA usa.ipums.org/usa/index.sh...

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

checking in with how deportations have helped US-born workers...

@dubravkaritter.bsky.social Tomas Monarrez and I explore the credit profile of graduate students likely to need private loans after OBBBA’s new loan limits take effect next July. A bit over 1/3 have thin or poor credit and may struggle to get a private loan under typical underwriting practices.

Jordan Matsudaira, a trusted expert on the topic, says in this article he expects the private student loan industry to increase from $3 billion per year to $10 billion as a result of new federal student loan caps @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

#econ_ra great opportunity careers-brookings.icims.com/jobs/3763/re...

Why did that happen, what does it tell us, and what can we do next? That’s what my forthcoming book, The Wage Standard, is about: how rules, norms, and power in the labor market shape who shares in growth. Coming out March 31. Pre-order here: www.thewagestandard.com

An objection to the accountability metrics ref'ed in this article (we'll hear this again when ED discusses regs for the OBBBA and GE accountability provisions) is that it's unfair to compare program grads' earnings (esp. in cosmetology) to HS students age 25-34 bc their grads are much younger... 1/

Want to be an intern at Microsoft Research in the Computational Social Science group in NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein) Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish! apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

Bumping this earlier post - we are still accepting applications at Vanderbilt for a tenure-track assistant professor in higher education! Review begins next week. Let me know if you have any questions about the position and/or our wonderful department! apply.interfolio.com/177753

Our new report gives an overview of the accountability policy created by existing Gainful Employment regs, and the new OBBBA provisions and how it affects higher ed programs. We also illustrate how this might change under some likely rewrite scenarios as ED looks to revisit GE regs this month…

"How long shall America continue to be the garbage can and the dumping ground of the world?" …asked Rep. John Robsion [sic] in our Congress, 1921 There's nothing new about politicians calling immigrants garbage. What's new? The people they called garbage then are now the ancestors of ~90% of us.

🚨NEW REPORT from @peerresearch.bsky.social: New #highered accountability standards are coming online, but gainful employment rules are an essential complement. Here's why, and what aligning America's outcomes-based standards could mean. Report: www.peer-center.org/research/ali... 1/

Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy. These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure). And now onto the scholars... 👇

The United States is a country of laws. It is not a dictatorship. Congress determines immigration under our Constitution. Congress explicitly, specifically barred the President from banning entire nationalities from immigrating. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

The new RAP plan authored by Congressional features suffers from the same bug… we discuss in this @peerresearch.bsky.social brief www.american.edu/spa/peer/upl...

Are you on the academic job market with a paper about crime or criminal justice policy? Please send me your JMP! [email protected]

BLS confirms that October jobs report will not be released, but that October payroll numbers will be published with the November report

McMahon is expected to sign agreements at 2p that could move responsibilities of the office for civil rights, postsecondary education, special education, and elementary education to other departments. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

1/ Today the Department of Education said that it’s transferring a variety of programs to other agencies, making good on Trump’s promise to dismantle ED. The most important thing to understand is that this is a Potemkin reorganization. It’s fugazi, it’s fairy dust. It’s not real.

The Trump-Vance administration’s efforts to dismantle the Dept. of Education are illegal. As the Dept. is thrown into chaos, the country’s most vulnerable children — including those with disabilities, who live in rural areas, or are low-income — will suffer the most.

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

Breaking news: The SEPTEMBER JOBS REPORT comes out on THURSDAY., Nov. 20. BLS will announce revised news release dates on this page as they become available. #econsky @aaronsojourner.org www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lap...

We are excited to have a packed room for our first Innovation Day! Thank you to our moderator, Alyssa Ratledge, & panelists Jordan Matsudaira, Daniel M. Oliver, & Shaun M. Dougherty. Participants will have a full day of learning & connection thanks to our sponsor, Arnold Ventures.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated. Enrollment is near pre-pandemic levels, real tuition is flat or down, and the college wage premium remains high. I explore how the narrative became disconnected from the data. cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...

Bacon x Sojourner at UMN Humphrey School Spring 2026

Wow, huge credit to Katie and the rest of the nutrition team at @centeronbudget.bsky.social. USDA has now issued revised numbers because CBPP caught them either accidentally or intentionally making huge errors that would severely underfund SNAP, in direct violation of court orders.

I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world. If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.

Private nonprofits cannot replace federal food assistance, which is scheduled to run out this Saturday. But they can help soften the blow. I started a “virtual food drive” for City Harvest. Consider donating to this or another organization in your community. secure.cityharvest.org/site/TR/VFD/...

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?

ICYMI: Drop everything and spend 13 minutes with Amy Sherald--with her singular vision and talent, with her clarity about her central place in the jagged American story. You will be stirred by it all. www.cbsnews.com/video/amy-sh...

Postdoc at the Minnesota Population Center, @minnpop.bsky.social Applications open now and being evaluated on a rolling basis. Pass on to demographers you know! (This one requires folks to relocate to the Twin Cities, because it involves work in the restricted data center)

Pleased to share that the Kennedy School has been authorized to conduct a faculty search in American politics This is as an extraordinary opportunity for us - please share widely with your networks and consider applying academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15418

A bellwether of the wreckage that will be caused by the catastrophic assault on science in the U.S.

Another job opportunity for scholars studying sustainability and education!

No words. Ten Ks, three homers. Same dude.

"I would like also to salute...a strong coalition of groups devoted to educational quality and equal educational opportunity. You refused to believe that education is a part-time responsibility, for the Federal Government or for yourselves." www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/de...

Big new U.S. job quality survey just dropped. From Gallup, my @upjohninstitute.bsky.social colleagues Sue Houseman & @truesdale.bsky.social & others. Data will be public & longitudinal. finance.yahoo.com/news/landmar...

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

These 20 fields enroll 92 percent of federally aided students -- and with a few notable exceptions, most have <2% of their enrollment in programs that would lose loan eligibility under the new #highered law. Check it out: www.american.edu/spa/peer/one...

#FundSocSci #econ_ra