Tommy makes excellent points about school choice on the old-old site. Fairness and legality rely on transparency and automation. However, my experience is that policy-makers dislike algorithmic allocation out of a misplaced fear of AI and mistaken beliefs that admin discretion improves fairness.

Really nice thread about Zotero. I've been using for years and didn't know about some of the addons here. Hope they'll still work after the impending (??) update to Zotero 7. Maybe also useful to #EconSky

My colleagues @jacobarendt.bsky.social and @rlandersoe.bsky.social have joined! Follow them for super interesting research on social mobility, education, immigration, and more. #EconSky

I've learned a lot from @peterhull.net posts on the other site, and now he delivers on his promise to post cool stuff on this platform too. #EconSky

One of the many super interesting papers by my significantly better half @MeltemDaysal is now featured on the front page of the NBER! #EconSky www.nber.org

Some news: I have joined the Board of Reviewing Editors (BoRE) at Science. Part of the remit is to encourage more high-quality economics submissions. So here’s a long-ish thread on why, what, and how you should submit to Science, as well as some details on the editorial process 1/n

The new (free) CORE's ebook for introduction to Microeconomics has dropped! 📈📉 www.core-econ.org/the-economy/...

WEBINAR: Join APPAM Communities Women in Econ TOMORROW, 10/4 at 2pm ET for "Networking and Mentoring in Economics and Policy." I'll be moderating along with Kathryn Edwards. Panels are Lucie Schmidt and Jhacova Williams! Reg is required! ow.ly/pFi250PKPQB

In the same issue of EJ, both RD designs. #1: better middle schools negatively affect GPA, graduation, academic vs vocational programs, and aspirations for marginal students. #2: better high schools positively affect human capital accumulation and mental health for marginal students. 🤷 #Econsky