Hello #econtwitter community: if any of you has been teaching any of my papers, would you mind shooting me a DM? I would hugely appreciate that 🙏 and thanks in advance!

Laureandi/laureati in Economia in cerca di esperienze di ricerca con forte impatto su politiche pubbliche: venite a lavorare all’Evaluation Lab del Fondo per la Repubblica Digitale! Dettagli qui: 👇🏼

I'm looking forward to visiting OIGI in 2026!

I've done my part to combat the trend this week!

A 2011 Wisconsin reform weakened teachers' unions, raised test scores, and was a political win for its main proponent, from Barbara Biasi and Wayne Aaron Sandholtz https://www.nber.org/papers/w33666

🚨🆕 In a new NBER working paper out today (tinyurl.com/2vv3vnhf), with @wsandholtz.bsky.social we ask a 🔥question: Can controversial public policies end up being political successes even when they cause lots of backlash? And if the answer is yes, what drives pol success? A thread 👇

Watching history happen. The longest filibuster ever was 24h 18m long.

Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start! Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall). Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768 Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!

I was glad to contribute to the @aefpweb.bsky.social livehandbook.org with a chapter on Teacher compensation. Check it out!

The news over the weekend and this morning have been terrifying. I'm dismayed at the total lack of action but I also have no idea how to act. I can't believe I'm watching America as I know it collapse in front of my eyes.

To be absolutely, 100% clear, THIS is something that ends in “then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out”

Overwhelmingly the biggest saving that Musk has delivered to the American people is that they can now buy Tesla stock much more cheaply.

Devastating news at IZA yesterday. More than 25 years of hard work, earned reputation, and valuable institutional knowledge and public good provision wiped out with a single stroke. It’s hard to find the words.

Silly me for thinking "well at least there's Europe"... This is so sad.

*Impressive* piece of work showing differences in intergenerational mobility of immigrants across countries. Finding that resonated the most w/me is importance of access to citizenship - which is still unreasonably hard in many countries, esp. my home country of Italy.

Recently accepted by #QJE, “What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.,” by Biasi (@barbarabiasi.com), Lafortune, and Schönholzer (@davidschonholzer.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Super happy to see this accepted! academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

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...

A propos of nothing: this is Germany right now. apnews.com/article/germ...

Useful (although sobering) summary of NAEP scores by @cedr.bsky.social‬. tl;dr: there is nothing to be happy about and tons of work to do. It's chilling to think of the harm cuts to essential K-12 federal programs may do if this is where we are today.

Me after this week: man, I am in terrible need of a good news NCES: here are the 2024 NAEP scores

Just a heads up. I can only speak to education but Title IV funds, which include the Pell Grant, are currently excluded from the "freeze." This is still incredibly catastrophic (and illegal? though lol what are laws?). Just don't take this list as the final word, it's an evolving situation.

Congratulations to @barbarabiasi.com who was recognized for the AEJ Best Paper Award for Economic Policy at #ASSA2025 for the paper “The Labor Market for Teachers under Different Pay Schemes.” #econsky aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Vertical integration

Happening in Bari next week! Raffaele Lagravinese, @barbarabiasi.com and I have organized this workshop hoping to bring together Apulian economists around the world (there are a ton!) and researchers at University of Bari (our kind hosts). Hopefully the first of many to come.

birthday present!

Just a reminder that we're still accepting applications (and likely will for a couple more weeks!)

We had a fantastic time in Chile! 🇨🇱 Thank you @jrodriguezo.bsky.social and everyone else at UAndes and @uchile.bsky.social for hosting us!

I was liking it here but @bsky.app ignoring multiple reports about an acct mpersonating me, using my photo/info/etc to scam people w/fin advice is not really making me want to stay. There seems to be 0 control for this kind of (inevitable) things. Looks like garbage will inevitably flood the place

Looks like someone is impersonating me on here and sending random messages to people. The account they’re using is barbara.biasi0 please report it if you can. Thanks and sorry to whoever was harassed!

🚨job alert with functioning link! Seth Zimmerman and I are looking to hire two full-time pre-doctoral RAs as part of Yale Tobin's pre-doc program. Details for application here: spinup-000d1a-wp-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/faculty/wp-c... (thanks to The Broad Center for sponsoring us!)

so that's where all of you who disappeared from my Twitter follower list were!

Confirmed: you do NOT need to be a CESifo affiliate to submit for this conference

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 @monika-schnitzer.com and I are organizing a workshop on Skill shortages and Reskilling at the 2024 Venice Summer Institute in San Servolo. Please submit your papers & join us for an amazing day of research and learning! @CESifoNetwork www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...

🚨Conference alert! 📈📉 Katharina Werner (ifo) and I, together w/ CESifo, are organizing a workshop on Funding Education at the 2024 Venice Summer Institute in beautiful San Servolo (ITA). Keynotes by @dynarski.bsky.social & @peterbergman.bsky.social Send us your best work! tinyurl.com/mbhwup7e

Hello 📈📉: what are examples of labor/public econ papers that use stacked DiD as in Cengiz, @arindube et al. 2019 QJE? Thank you! 🙏🏼

who did this

Transfer students make up 1/3 of all college students. This cool JMP looks at what happens to students who transfer. Looking forward to reading it! 📈📉

The Broad Center at Yale SOM is hiring! We’re looking for graduating PhD students working on education to join us as post-docs in summer 2024. Come join a vibrant community of social scientists working to make an impact on public schools! Apply here: som.yale.edu/story/2023/p... 📈📉

A short writeup about our work on school construction, appeared in Yale Insights and Yale News: t.co/OcWw8uU9cS📉📈

A short writeup about our work on school construction, appeared in Yale Insights and Yale News: t.co/OcWw8uU9cS 📈📉

Many are skeptical that capital spending matters for students. This impressive new study by @barbarabiasi.bsky.social and others provides compelling evidence of benefits for low-income kids. insights.som.yale.edu/insights/doe...

A short writeup about our work on school construction, appeared in Yale Insights and Yale News: t.co/OcWw8uU9cS

social network taxonomy

Ok, I see everyone introduces themselves on this platform and I am still trying to figure out how it works so here it goes: Hello everyone! I’m an assistant prof at Yale SOM and most of my work is on the econ of education. I’m Italian and I am a mom to a girl and a boy. I’m happy to be here! ☺️

So how does one get a code? Looking for one for a member of my household 👀

Alright. I am here too! Feels like the old times ♥️