To Attend a College Aligned With Their Politics, Students Would Pay Higher Price The study also explores the changing politics of student bodies over the past four decades, showing that liberal campuses have grown more liberal and conservative campuses more conservative. https://bit.ly/4nbiPPh

Haven't been on Bluesky in awhile, but popping in to say I wrote a policy piece based on my transfer paper for @brookings.edu Chalkboard! Many thanks to @econsarahreber.bsky.social, @katharinemeyer.bsky.social, & Michael Hansen for the opportunity and the editing. www.brookings.edu/articles/com...

Check out my @peerresearch.bsky.social policy brief with Minseon Park about tuition caps and freezes!

Happy to have our paper on distance to college & educational disparities covered in the @nber.org digest today! @loismiller.bsky.social @camilantmorales.bsky.social (& @ need to get Kalena Cortes on here!) www.nber.org/digest/20250...

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!

A special thank you to Michal Kurlaender and the program committee for all of their work on an excellent conference program this year! We appreciate your time and service. #AEFP2025

Join us bright and early tomorrow for the annual @aefpweb.bsky.social 5K! Meet in the Mayflower hotel lobby at 6:15 or at Lafayette Square at 6:30 #AEFP2025

It’s hard times for education research but I have been heartened connecting with so many people at my favorite conference/organization @aefpweb.bsky.social & am beyond honored to receive their dissertation award 🥲

Starting bright & early Thursday AM, my coauthor @loismiller.bsky.social will present our joint work with @camilantmorales.bsky.social & Kalena Cortes on distance to college and postsecondary outcomes. And @bakerdphd.bsky.social will chair! What more do you need to kick off your conferencing!?

Fascinating study from Texas on the effect of distance to community colleges on enrollment and degree completion: www.nber.org/papers/w3333...

TLDR: White, Asian, and rich students who don't live near community colleges are more likely to go to 4-year colleges and are more likely to graduate from college while the exact opposite is true for Black, Hispanic, and poor students. #highered #education #econsky

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 👇

Academically entitled students have stronger expectations that a female (vs male) professor will grant their special favor requests These expectations increased students’ likelihood of making these requests and exhibiting negative emotional and behavioral reactions to having these requests denied

"We Wish You A Merry Christmas" #QuarantineHobby 🎄 🎄🎄

Our keynote speaker for #AEFP2025 is Dr. Cecilia E. Rouse, President of the Brookings Institution 🎉

Thanks @iza.org for including us on this fun Advent Calendar! ☺️ See below for a short non-technical summary of our paper 👇

A new paper from the Journal of Political Economy investigates how PhD program ranking, department status, and other author connections impact peer review decisions. Read the full findings here: ow.ly/sfLx50UiGII #EconSky

Here's my higher ed fact of the day for you (courtesy of Nick Hillman & the NPSAS)! Many academics are used to moving all over for education and work, but most students go to college VERY close to home. Looking forward to doing more work on this topic with a great team of coauthors 👀

First time talking to a reporter about my research ✅ Thanks so much to Lexi Lonas Cochran for the coverage, and to my coauthor @riacton.bsky.social for passing this one off to me to talk about our work with Kalena Cortes and Camila Morales 😊 thehill.com/homenews/edu...

Shoutout to my friend & coauthor @loismiller.bsky.social who is presenting her cool paper on college transfers at NBER this afternoon! Tune in to hear about it 👀

There are many layers here, but I want to comment on one aspect of these findings for now--the editorial board representation. Some will see this and immediately think: we need to get more POC on our boards! I understand that impulse, but encourage you to think a few steps down the game tree 1/n.

6 days, 3 conferences, 4 presentations, 3 discussant pres, and a poster later, I am done conferencing 😅 wouldn’t necessarily recommend doing that much in one go but I loved connecting with so many of you at ED, #APPAM2024, and #SEA2024! Now time for some rest 😴

Fantastic session on Pathways & Outcomes in Higher Ed at #SEA2024 today! Kudos to @loismiller.bsky.social, Lauren Russell, and others for sharing their work! Special thanks to Xiaozhou Ding for organizing! Check out Lois Miller’s paper on opening community colleges in Texas (see photo). #econsky

Come find us hidden away in Columbia 8 if you’re at #SEA2024!

Good morning @appam.bsky.social! We are starting off strong in the Building Human Capital in Underserved Populations session! Thank you to @riacton.bsky.social, @loismiller.bsky.social, @blakeheller.bsky.social, and others for sharing their work! #2024APPAM #APPAM2024 #econsky 📈📉

Happening soon! #2024APPAM #APPAM2024

I’m in DC for a marathon week of conferences! First up, the US Dept of Education Office of the Chief Economist Inaugural Research Conference this afternoon. I’m excited to see lots of higher ed research from this awesome group!

For those attending APPAM this coming week: Join Arnold Ventures, the Russell Sage Foundation, Equitable Growth, & the Policy Academies for a big, fun, joint reception on FRIDAY 11/22, 6:30-8:30, at Fogo de Chão (very close to the conference hotel). 🥳 pages.equitablegrowth.org/2024-APPAM-R...

Submit your papers for the spring 2025 NBER Gender in the Economy meeting! The theme is "Women in the Digital World". Submission Deadline: 12/9/24 Meeting: 2/28/25 in Cambridge www.nber.org/conferences/...

Hey all, I created a starter pack with a list of Black economists and academics for an easily accessible list of folks doing research that we can all follow and cite #Blacksky #AddtoBlacksky #Econsky: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb

Hello new Bluesky friends! Here's where you can find the rest of the @insidehighered.bsky.social team . go.bsky.app/UkzHfDg

Since I have some new followers I'll re-introduce myself 👋 📈📉 I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of South Carolina. I research the economics of higher education with a focus on how college access & resources interact with inequality and social mobility.

The Race and Stratification Working Group at NBER will have its annual meeting on Friday, April 4, 2025! Dania Francis, Vicki Bogan, Ellora Derenoncourt and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper before the December 19, 2024 deadline! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

@aeacswep.bsky.social announces Sandra E. Black as the 2024 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award winner! Visit aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... for the full announcement. Congratulations to @econsandy.bsky.social

Good question. An answer is clearsky.app

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

I want to shift the focus of my "Educ and Labor Econ" to "Labor Econ". @joshgoodmanbu.bsky.social created an Econ of Educ starter pack that's far more complete - link below. So it makes sense to specialize. Can u please all raise your 🙋‍♀️ if youre a labor economist or tag your favorite labor econs?

Re-launch of the Applicant Mentoring Programme (AMP): a joint effort by PhD candidates at Cambridge, LSE, Oxford, UCL & Warwick to help individuals from under-represented backgrounds applying to PhD programmes in Economics by reducing the information barrier. Help us spread the word. 👇 #EconSky

Nows a good time to remind new peeps that @joshgoodmanbu.bsky.social created a fantastic Ed Econ and Policy Starter pack. #academicSky #highered #education

Thanks @insidehighered.bsky.social for more great coverage of our work on college proximity! @loismiller.bsky.social

Absolutely loved this conference! Thanks so much to @jeffdenning.bsky.social @chloergibbs.bsky.social and @kmichelmore.bsky.social for organizing and honoring my midwestern roots by including me 😅

Thank you to Jeff Young at EdSurge for the great coverage of my new working paper with Kalena Cortes, @loismiller.bsky.social, and Camila Morales! www.edsurge.com/news/2024-10...

Honored to be an honorable mention for APPAM’s dissertation award 😊

Left #AEFP2024 with a full heart and a renewed excitement for my research, as always! Thanks to all the people who make this conference special ✨

I’m very happy to share that I will be joining the University of South Carolina as an Assistant Professor of Economics this fall!

Nice CCRC write up of data our Office of the Chief Economist at ED released on transfer student success across institutions: ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/easyblog/new... You can find the data (and see our other work) here: sites.ed.gov/ous/office-o...

Once again had an amazing @appam.bsky.social #APPAM2023 engaging with excellent research, catching up with friends, and making new connections. Til next year!

That's a wrap for #APPAM2023. Education researchers, I know this is mostly considered an Econ-like conference but it ain't. Lots of people here would deeply appreciate your work as they do mine. There was lot of interest in the #PSLF CRT paper that @VanCarlito2003 led for us.

I never knew Rodney personally but have seen and felt what an amazing impact he’s had on the profession. So glad to have learned more about his legacy in this lovely session honoring him today ❤️