More people should be talking about this.

Measuring a college's value? It's more complicated than you think. A new study co-authored by Upjohn Institute's @bradhershbein.bsky.social reveals how graduates mobility - and where they end up - can skew traditional college accountability metrics. www.upjohn.org/research-hig...

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

If your Friday brain is fried like mine, whatever you're looking for is probably in the AEFP live Handbook. Hopefully, this saves others from annoyingly texting their co-authors @caitlinkearney.bsky.social livehandbook.org

The AEFP 2026 submission portal is now open! We welcome proposals that consider new perspectives, theories & methodologies about how education policies are implemented across diverse educational contexts. Submissions will be accepted until September 29th 11:59 pm PT auth.oxfordabstracts...

Developing a syllabus for the upcoming academic year? Consider including the AEFP Live Handbook. It provides a dynamic, evolving collection of insights from education finance and policy experts. A digital hub for evidence-based education policy research: livehandbook.org/

It was so nice to spend the day at Miami Econ yesterday! They have such a great crew there. Thanks again for having me, @riacton.bsky.social +1 for summer seminars - casual atmosphere, but serious conversations about improving our work

Principal Economist at Lightcast & former BLS economist: "... BLS is the most respected labor data producer in the world and it isn't even close. Don't forget that." 🔥🔥🔥🔥 www.linkedin.com/posts/ronlhe...

Hey, #econsky! We are currently accepting submissions for the 8th Annual Pacific Northwest Labor Day Workshop Friday, September 19, 2025 in Seattle, WA Please email your submission to [email protected] by Sunday, August 17. Graduate students encouraged to apply! #EconConf

Excited to announce the call for papers for the inaugural MidSouth Education Policy Workshop, October 16-17, in Lexington, KY! Send us your abstracts on all things econ of ed & ed policy by 8/27. Grad students & early career folks especially welcome! Info & link to submit here: bit.ly/44TdiGf

UPDATE: The Indiana legislature announced that, across the state's public universities, it will immediately eliminate 75 programs, suspend/teach-out 101, and force 232 to consolidate or be eliminated. Not surprisingly, these closures disproportionately affect arts, humanities, and social science.

My department @miamiecon.bsky.social is hiring an instructor/VAP to teach introductory macroeconomics this upcoming year. Could be a good opportunity for new PhDs or advanced grad students who are interested in teaching-focused positions. Apply ASAP if interested! #econsky

The music was pretty good But aid for low-income students was a lot worse news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

Looking to form/join a panel at #2025APPAM with my JMP! I estimate teacher value added on ACT scores, then look at impacts on college enrollment & college performance. Message me if you have a related paper on teacher/school VA or predictors of college enrollment/ performance! #EconSky #EconConf

In a new letter, AERA and other education research leaders call on Congress to protect the nation’s education data, research infrastructure, and knowledge base, by safeguarding the IES and broader Education Department staff, leadership, and mission. www.aera.net/Portals/38/E...

Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them 1/N Inequality in college graduation rates Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...

Hi #EconSky, I am putting together a lecture on the opioid epidemic for my undergrad health econ class. What are the most interesting papers (need not be in econ journals) you've read on the causes and consequences of the opioid crisis? Shameless self-promotion is highly encouraged. Many thanks!

Just published in JPubEc: "The effect of feedback on student performance" By Esteban M. Aucejo & Kelvin Wong www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Who is up for a short thread on the intriguing parallels between OpenAI and Enron, as told by one of Enron's investment bankers -- that is to say, me? Here goes...

NAS Report on AI and the Future of Work Released today: www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/aut...

Education scholars heading to #APPAM2024 - @christocleve.bsky.social and I are organizing an informal happy hour meet up Thursday night 11/21 at The Brass Tap, 7pm! Would love to reconnect with folks while we're all together next week. Please amplify and feel free to invite others!

My letter to the NYT editor. I sent it yesterday; we will see if they run it. I'll put links in this thread.

Lions!

Another cool study to dig into. JPAM "Grads on the go: Measuring college-specific labor markets for graduates" - used LinkedIn to identify where college graduates live/work post graduation! Super interesting question I've always been curious about. Publicly available data too. @johnconz.bsky.social

My ERC team has created an account where they will share updates of the Stata and R packages they are working on, follow them! bsky.app/profile/erct...

Today our Office of the Chief Economist released some of the most comprehensive data to date measuring colleges’ success helping transfer students. Great work by Kevin Stange and Nathan Sotherland! blog.ed.gov/2023/11/new-...

New work out by Sarah Fuller & I on the Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard today! "Student GPA and test score gaps are growing--and could be slowing pandemic recovery" www.brookings.edu/articles/stu...

🚨Volume 7 is out! Handbook of the Economics of Education Edited w/ Rick Hanushek & Steve Machin Great overview chapters on cutting-edge topics in the economics of education by top scholars Have a look! 👉https://www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/handbook-of-the-economics-of-education/vol/7 1/7

Sharing a few ways to support the Lewiston, ME community, courtesy of my youngest sister, a current Bates College senior. ❤️ Victim's First GoFundMe: gofund.me/b2ec847a Maine Community Foundation: 4agc.com/donations/a1... Central ME Medical Center: www.cmhc.org/cmmc/ways-to...

my kids school switched school lunch payment processors and in the new system kindergartners have to type in their full names or five-digit student IDs to get their lunch, which is causing such long delays some kids aren't getting lunches until the end of the lunch period

Any parents out there ever have to play with a “sick” kid at home when actually you’re the one sick? I am a very lethargic dinosaur today.

What are your favorite papers that *use* Value Added? Not interested papers about VA per se, but rather papers that use it to answer some broader question

Do you study public policy / administration? Follow and join the PAsky / policysky feed! Like and pin the feed to follow posts. If you want your posts to appear in the feed, lmk and I'll add you. Anything you post with "PAsky" or 🏛️ or "policysky" will show up, like a type of protected hashtag.

So, as someone new to this site, I want to draw people's attention to a report I released last year, which I consider the best work I have ever done in my career: research.upjohn.org/up_technical...

Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve. Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...

I am not the first person to say this, but please, if you submit papers for review, do your best to accept review requests. I am an AE for a journal section focusing specifically on junior voices, heartbroken at how long decisions can take b/c I can't find reviewers. pasky academicsky nonprofitsky

SSI provides cash payments to over a million families who have children w disabilities. Do these substantial payments—which make up ~half of total income for recipients—improve kids’ outcomes? We use a cutoff in SSI eligibility for infants based on birthweight to investigate.

The "blame the RA" defense strategy is not going to work well

What is the most interesting question in your subfield that PhD candidates could consider pursuing? I’ll start:

My favorite event study ever.

Ok, I’ll bite: who’s Taylor Swift?