Happy to have this descriptive piece with @camilantmorales.bsky.social, Kalena Cortes, @julia-turner.bsky.social, & @loismiller.bsky.social out! Look for more causal work on this topic from our team in the near future 👀

Anyone wishing to pontificate about changes in the demand for a college education should be forced to stare at this graph for a bit first

Meet the 2025–2026 job market candidates from GSU Economics! 🎉 @gsueconomics.bsky.social #econsky 👇 Here’s a quick introduction to each candidate.

🚨 New working paper alert! 🚨 #econsky Emily Cook, Paola Ugalde, and I are thrilled to share "Political Views and College Choices in a Polarized America" — now out with both @iza.org and @annenberginstitute.bsky.social EdWorkingPapers www.iza.org/publications... edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1280

Really excited to have this paper published in the JDE! Available online today, blog post and more coming soon… “Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial” co-authored with Clark Lundberg www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"[Black] students initially enrolling in a HBCU are 14.6 percentage pts more likely to earn a bachelor's degree and, ... have higher household income and more student loan balances... driven by relatively broad-access HBCUs in lieu of a two-year college or no college." www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Now available online at JESA: “Survey ordering and the measurement of welfare” with Wahed Rahman and Marc Bellemare #openaccess link here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New at @pseocoalition.bsky.social, @julia-turner.bsky.social & I have a new report on grad school debt & earnings over the medium term. For some key professional fields (🩺⚖️🦷💊🐾), we show the varied patterns both within & across areas of study, looking at the first decade of earnings after graduation

New paper just out today: “Income Aspirations and Migration: Evidence From Rural Tajikistan” with Isabel Lambrecht and Kamiljon Akromov journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Siblings catch each other’s bugs—and propensity to vote New research by Bloem et al finds an elder voting sibling doubles a younger sibling’s likelihood of voting, with 1/3 of the effect causally attributable: buff.ly/euLbMxL Via coauthor @johnholbein1.bsky.social

Check out our new working paper where we quantify how siblings influence each other to vote! "Voting Among Siblings" www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xa7od...

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Very cool to see this paper (my former JMP!) forthcoming at one of my favorite journals!

Thrilled to see this paper out! This is part of a larger research agenda documenting that: 1) A variety of (often understudied) factors affect the quality of colleges students choose, and 2) College choice and quality matter for longer-run outcomes like graduation and earnings.

How are parents affected by their kid going to college? How are they affected when their kid gets a scholarship or grant? New working paper with @palaashbhargava.bsky.social @econsandy.bsky.social @odedgurantz.bsky.social and Rob Fairlie www.nber.org/papers/w33497

In an ideal world we would have a government statistical agency doing this work of counting college students However Congress has banned the existence of a federal “unit record” data system bc higher ed lobbyists pressed them to Wouldn’t want transparency and accountability after all

Happy to have this paper (coauthored with an amazing team: Kalena Cortes, @loismiller.bsky.social, & @camilantmorales.bsky.social!) out on NBER this morning! Take a look 👇

🚨🚨Exciting News for All Education Researchers🚨🚨 The PSEO data are now available for request in the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers!!!! www.researchdatagov.org/search?q=PSEO

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes" by Ashley Edwards, Justin Ortagus, Jonathan Smith, and Andria Smythe. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...