Riley Acton
@riacton.bsky.social
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education economist ap at miami university (yes, the one in ohio)
https://www.rileyacton.com/
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🚨 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
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Steven Nelson
about 7 hours ago
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
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Melody Schreiber
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I still think it's meaningful that we saw Liam in him. Every Liam deserves to have a chance to pursue his dreams.
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Meade Krosby
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I’ll take this America, please.
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Martha Bailey
7 days ago
I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - February 1, 2026 - July 31, 2026
https://www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2026-01_111477167
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Miami University Economics
3 days ago
Be sure to check out recent work from our Eco alum Dan Hungerman ('00) and former Economics Advisory Board member.
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Dominique Baker
4 days ago
Welp
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Postsecondary Education & Economics Research Center
5 days ago
🚨 Applications open for
@PEERresearch.bsky.social
Summer Scholars! 🚨 We'll host early-/mid-career scholars in DC from June 3-5, costs covered, to learn more about federal policymaking from scholars/experts who have been there. Applications due March 1!
www.peer-center.org/research/sum...
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APPLY NOW: PEER Center Summer Scholars Program — PEER Center
June 3-5, 2026 | Apply by March 1 The Postsecondary Education & Economics Research (PEER) Center invites early- and mid-career academics conducting higher education policy research to apply to…
https://www.peer-center.org/research/summer-scholars-2026
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NBER
5 days ago
Women’s college attendance delivers wage and job-quality gains that grow over the life cycle, alongside improvements in children’s early-life health, from Na'ama Shenhav and Danielle H. Sandler
www.nber.org/papers/w34767
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Today is National Girls & Women in Sports Day
#NGWSD
and I'm thinking about this
@betseystevenson.bsky.social
paper that, when I read it as an undergrad, (a) confirmed what I knew about the amazing impact sports can have on young women, and (b) made me realize that economists studied cool things! 💪
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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Abstract. Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates in order to comply with Title IX. This paper examines the causal implications of this expa...
https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/92/2/284/58583/Beyond-the-Classroom-Using-Title-IX-to-Measure-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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Rob Ford
6 days ago
Absolutely no one will be shocked by the answer
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Miami University Economics
8 days ago
Interested in the faculty you may work with in our MA program? To just name a few are Dr. Riley Acton, Dr. Peter Nencka. Dr. Chuck Moul, Dr. Jonathan Wolff, Dr. Jing Li, Dr. David Lindequist, Dr Kim Berg, and Dr. Jim Flynn. Take a look at their research!
miamioh.edu/fsb/director...
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Scott Imberman
8 days ago
Let’s be clear- the cost here is dead kids.
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Upjohn Institute
10 days ago
Working on your PhD? Looking for dissertation funding? The Russell Sage Foundation and the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research jointly support dissertation research on employment-related topics in any discipline.
#Fundsocsci
,
#Econsky
,
@russellsagefdn.bsky.social
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Filipe Campante
10 days ago
Americans may not appreciate how unique the US college experience is. In Brazil, you go into a degree in, say, economics or engineering or law or whatever, and you take the courses that the Ministry of Education has deemed that someone needs to take to get that degree. That’s pretty much it.
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Miami University Economics
11 days ago
February 1st is the deadline for completed MA apps for financial assistance. Apps will still be looked over after. Be sure to get your apps complete to join our great program!!
miamioh.edu/fsb/graduate...
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Christoph Kronenberg
11 days ago
For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by
@caroartc.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
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Kevin Schnepel
12 days ago
ATTN ECON JMCs: We are searching for a postdoc through to work with Steve Billings, Ludo Gazze and myself on a project to better understand impacts of lead exposure and potential benefits of remediation using linked administrative data in Colorado. Details here:
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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PostDoctoral Associate
https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=69465
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Mimi👻
12 days ago
If you want to help the Haitian community in Springfield, consider donating to the Haitian Community Help and Support Center. They are a local non-profit that helps Haitians in their city with education, economic security, legal services, and more.
haitiansupportcenter.org
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Victor Ray
12 days ago
This happens once a week teaching undergraduates.
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Kevin R. McClure
14 days ago
Question for my higher ed people: is your teaching load connected to a specific research output? For example, you have a 2-2 load if and only if you hit certain research targets, otherwise your load goes up? Thanks!
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Robert Kelchen
15 days ago
New research by
@imbernomics.bsky.social
and colleagues using Texas data dives into different economic returns to college majors by race and gender. There are differences in the share of students going into high-paying fields, as well as earnings within those fields.
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The Contribution of College Majors to Gender and Racial Earnings Differences
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34726
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Leah McElrath
16 days ago
Alex Jeffrey Pretti was the victim’s name. He was a nurse. ICE executed a nurse.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Bitsy Perlman
17 days ago
❤️ Minnesota
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John Voorheis
17 days ago
Don't kill people Don't lie Don't lie about killing people
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Miami University Economics
18 days ago
Be sure to check out some work from our own Professor Riley Acton
@riacton.bsky.social
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Conrad Hackett
20 days ago
Please share - multiple summer 2026 in-person undergrad internship opportunities at
@pewresearch.org
! - religion - digital - social trends - data journalism - global - news - internet - AI - admin - race - science - methods - politics Apply soon!
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
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Lois Miller
20 days ago
Keep an eye out from more work from us as a group and solo work from
@julia-turner.bsky.social
who will be on the job market next year!
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Lois Miller
20 days ago
Growing phenomenon that you might not be aware of: a lot of community colleges offer bachelor’s degrees! This descriptive piece is the start of a research agenda with my wonderful coauthors
@riacton.bsky.social
@julia-turner.bsky.social
@camilantmorales.bsky.social
and Kalena Cortes
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NBER
21 days ago
Community college bachelor’s degrees pay off in some fields but not all, offering higher earnings than associate degrees and mixed returns relative to traditional BAs, from Riley K. Acton, Camila Morales, Kalena Cortes, Julia A. Turner, and
@loismiller.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34684
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Cara Jackson
21 days ago
#EdResearch
folks - early bird registration for the annual Association for Education Finance & Policy conference ends TODAY! Join us in Chicago for lots of great discussions about the research and policy.
aefpweb.org/2026conference
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AEFP
https://aefpweb.org/2026conference
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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 👀
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You have cute 2016 pictures to re-share on your Instagram. I just have pictures of whiteboards with MWG problems on them from my first year of grad school. We are not the same. 🥲
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A great syllabus addition to your micro, education, or public policy course!
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AEFP Live Handbook
25 days ago
Learn more about the difference between posted and net tuition and how it impacts students in Emily Cook and Sarah Turner's chapter on College Pricing in the U.S.:
lnkd.in/gn-Hciw6
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Miami University Economics
25 days ago
MA in Eco? Try ours! Focused on innovation and real-world application, after completing the program, you'll be prepared to, frame and answer questions from unstructured situations, excel in eco or policy Ph.D. programs, and achieve success in quant tracks.
miamioh.edu/fsb/graduate...
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Master of Economics
Level up your career in analytics, government, or finance, or prepare for a PhD program in just 12 months with our Master of Economics degree.
https://miamioh.edu/fsb/graduate-programs/economics/
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David M. Perry
26 days ago
A lot of disabled kids who require 1:1 aides won’t get educated online, but may not be safe to go to school.
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Marisa Kabas
26 days ago
BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally. Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.
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CSWEP
29 days ago
@aeacswep.bsky.social
enjoyed hosting the reception to honor the inaugural Janet L. Yellen Award for Excellence in Public Service at
#ASSA2026
! A full house toasted her achievements in economics in public service and many were able to meet Janet Yellen!
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To add to this: we know so little about how internal resource allocation decisions are made within and across higher education institutions and what their impacts are on students, faculty, etc. A ripe area for an enterprising grad student to try to get their hands on some data!
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Cara Jackson
29 days ago
Immigration policy is
#EdPolicy
😞
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈
29 days ago
93% of economists polled by IGM markets earlier this year agreed that "Giving the President more direct influence over monetary policy would lead to substantially worse monetary policy decisions", half of the people who disagreed were people who actually agreed but just pressed the wrong button
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EconReporter
29 days ago
This is a Powell-ful speech
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It’s my civic duty to alert you all to the fact that excellent NCAA gymnastics is happening LIVE on ABC right now! And there’s still two more rotations to go! 🤸🏼♀️
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Morgan Polikoff
about 1 month ago
Fabulous postdoc opportunity at Stanford to work on the politics of education with one of the best
@bethschueler.bsky.social
postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
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Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Beth Schueler | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
https://postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/opportunities/open-postdoctoral-position-faculty-mentor-beth-schueler
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Kevin Reuning
about 1 month ago
Semester ended.
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Michael Clemens
about 1 month ago
There is a threat to Minneapolis so extreme that *every child in the city* has been forced to stay home from school. That threat does not come from immigrants. There has only been one murder in Minneapolis in 2026. It was federal agents' killing of a 37 year-old US citizen/mother in her minivan.
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Walt Ecton
about 1 month ago
Do you (or does someone you know) research emerging & advanced technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence, virtual/augmented reality) in education? If so, apply to come work with us in Ann Arbor!
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Associate Professor or Full Professor | U-M Careers
https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/271886/associate-professor-or-full-professor
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Maggie Astor
about 1 month ago
Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them
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Joshua Goodman
about 1 month ago
We
@wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social
are hiring a director for our Policy-Aligned Research Agenda Buildling Lab (PARABL), to help education system leaders build research roadmaps to effect change in a particular area. More info here:
wheelockpolicycenter.org/wp-content/u...
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Trevon Logan
about 1 month ago
Congratulations Rene Crespin!
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