In case you missed our paper last week or are short on time - we have a quick writeup of it on the Community College Research Center blog: ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/easyblog/new...

🧵 New working paper! In joint work w/ @jscottclayton.bsky.social, Veronica Minaya, & Joshua Thomas, we use admin data from a large public univ system to examine earnings gaps for high- vs low-SES college grads 5 years out & the role of first jobs in explaining the gaps. 1/ www.nber.org/papers/w34366

Whoa, White House withdraws Trump’s controversial nominee to lead BLS after ousting predecessor over jobs data www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

one amazing feature here is simply loading the entire dataset would probably freeze your laptop! instead you can run this regression quickly and not worry about memory problems, thanks to the magic of duckdb and dbreg

Anyone know if anyone is doing any formal benchmarking of LLM performance on Stata tasks? www.statalist.org/forums/forum...

Vis method for decomposition now merged to main, feedback welcome!

Man, when @dieworkwear.bsky.social weighs in on EJ Antoni's outfits, it may shake the earth.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

AEA Statement on Dismissal of BLS Comm. "The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions."

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

ICYMI last week - take a peek at our new report to better understand the earnings prospects of the professional school programs Congress just (nearly) uniformly & dramatically changed liquidity provision for: pseocoalition.org/wp-content/u...

@jdmatsudaira.bsky.social and @clibassi.bsky.social explain what new graduate loan limits will mean, not only for borrowers in medical school but across the graduate education landscape. Check out this thread/follow @peerresearch.bsky.social for more!

House/Senate are set to eliminate Grad PLUS, and put in place loan limits that would dramatically restrict graduate borrowing. Media coverage emphasizes impact this may have on very expensive programs like Medicine and Dentistry, but @peerresearch.bsky.social finds impact will be much(!) broader 1/

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

Absolute banger of a review by @economeager.bsky.social in the JEL of "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" by Mara Kardas-Nelson www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... Particularly enjoyed this concluding paragraph:

The journal Research in Higher Education is seeking manuscripts using data from the National Center for Education Statistics for a special issue. Please read the full call for papers here and circulate to your networks! #RIHE link.springer.com/collections/...

Chicago Pope, notorious for asking tough questions in seminars.

The Prime Minister faced yet another setback this week as the ongoing scandal over two-way fixed effects produced two more estimators for Canadians to learn. ‘You’re telling me these regressions produced negative weights and the Liberals knew nothing?!” the Conservative Party leader tweeted Sunday

The Pope didn't die without performing one last miracle.

Much of the voter participation gap by gender may be explained by the fact that women are more educated than men and that more educated citizens vote more often. New work by Cameron Arnzen and @cohodes.bsky.social. edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1152

NEW REPORT: @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social knows the data on graduate student debt better than most -- and you should read his @peerresearch.bsky.social brief on the topic to learn more! www.american.edu/spa/peer/upl... 1/

does there exist any helpful document out there that is like "a checklist of things every experienced researcher checks their tables and figures for to see if something is off?" I'm thinking of items such as "do N's change across regression model specifications and if so why?"

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Random Stata tip, mostly for future me. If you want to add /// to the end of many lines at once (this comes up for me when copying SQL queries from other code editors or code that uses a ; delimiter), you can find & replace, check the regular expression option do: find: "$" replace: " ///\0"

Wanted to highlight a new report we have just released at the Office of the Chief Economist at ED: "An Overview of Graduate Borrowing and Outcomes." Below are a few graphs that might entice you to read more. First: distributions of annual borrowing for top 25 credentials in terms of annual volume

Any device can be a mobile device if you believe in yourself.

I’m excited to build this hub for bringing rigorous economic research to higher ed and workforce policy at SPA, together w @claremccann.bsky.social and Steph Cellini. Look out for opportunities to come study, work, and partner with us!

I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring. The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)

To me the surprising thing about the Meta decision is how many people seem to have believed that their fact checking was effective in the first place?

My favorite software discovery of the year: Obsidian writing app https://obsidian.md/ Markdown-based note app with cross-references, and tons of community plugins. I use it for sketching research ideas and math, task management, email drafting, meeting note taking, etc. 1/n

Next week at #ASSA2025 I'll present new work showing that much of the last decade+ of decline in community college enrollment can be explained by strengthening labor markets. Joe Winkelmann and I started this work during our time at the CEA. I'll discuss other important results live, so stop by!

The 7th Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium will be hosted at @georgemasonu.bsky.social on Feb. 14, 2025 Details—> web.cvent.com/event/e1fd15... Submissions due Dec. 20th—> forms.gle/vwoEbEhmt2rZ...

Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years, faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. Left: in 1994 Right: after 2007 Cost per mile: £64–91 million (around 7x cheaper than London's Jubilee & Northern line expansions & 14x cheaper than Toronto's Ontario line)

Stipulating that an almost complete lack of plot is not a dealbreaker for me so YMMV but I loved this

Just saw someone doing Stata at a table in Union Station - never seen it in the wild before!

If you're using the Census Tree 📈🌳in your research, or know of someone who is, we'd like to know about it! If you aren't in our bibliography below, please reply here or email me with a link to your paper. #econhistory #econsky

Quick Stata tip: reghdfejl is much faster than reghdfe. ssc install julia net install reghdfejl, replace from(raw.github.com/droodman/reg...) webuse hdfe, clear tempfile a save `a' *N=10M: forv i=1/9 { append using `a' } areg y x, a(id a1 a2) reghdfe y x, a(id a1 a2) reghdfejl y x, a(id a1 a2)

Okay, I made an updated version of the guide "Python Packages for Applied Economists" to reorganize a bit, incorporate suggestions, and put it on Github like a grownup: github.com/clibassi/pyt... Comments welcome!

Great work in the Student Loans and Financial Decisions session this morning at @appam.bsky.social! Check out Meredith Welch’s JMP on Financial Consequences of Student Loan Delinquency, Default, and Service Quality #econsky #econJMP #2024APPAM #APPAM2024 www.meredithswelch.com

"consistent overestimation of smaller groups and underestimation of larger groups...people make the same errors when estimating the size of... Americans who have a passport or own a dishwasher"

There's a famous political scientist who often says all results of formal models are obvious (which I take to be a cousin of this claim). There's a story of a junior theorist setting up the model in a talk, stopping, and saying, "This would be the moment to tell me the results, if they're obvious."

Woah. Google Scholar now has free AI-generated outlines of all PDF articles within its database: scholar.googleblog.com/2024/11/ai-o...

I made a starter pack of government economists. go.bsky.app/K7fAcMi

I realize nobody wants 2028 to kick off, but one campaign (Jared Polis) is already over - the invisible primary never ends

A 🧵 to keep track of my #Stata #dataviz packages. Regularly updated! Check GitHub links for more info. Listed in the order they were released 👇 1) 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸: A large collection of ready-to-use #Stata #schemes. ssc install schemepack, replace github.com/asjadnaqvi/s...

I'm Daniel Sparks, a postdoc in econ & ed policy at UPenn. My #EconJMP looks at effects of counselors on school climate and college enrollment in California. I use causal inference to evaluate state and federal policies related to higher ed finance & policy. Link in bio edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1063

I’ve made a Women in Econ starter pack (s/o @vinisingh.bsky.social for sparking the idea!). Share, follow, and comment below if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ

Okay I couldn't find anything like this, so I had ChatGPT help me make one by picking the most important tools from the index of Cameron & Trivedi Stata book & tell me the Python equivalents (plus a few I added). I've tried to check it, but comments very welcome! docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Anyone know of anything like "A list of Python packages an applied economist should install to allow Python to do what stata does" - just a nice list of all the great packages people have made to get estimation tools in Python. I'm thinking e.g. pyfixest, binsreg, econml, etc. Any leads?

I swear I remember a story from a few years ago abt Facebook being sued for misrepresenting to ad-buyers the type of auction they used (claimed to be using a third price auction, but actually used second price & pocketed the dif). Can’t find anything abt it now, anyone remember something like that?