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Very interesting interview with @sendhil.bsky.social on AI. Fresh perspective on several topics, including value of AI in education. youtu.be/z_svj3NP968

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There isn’t much like ending the week with an R&R !!!! 🥂🤩🥳🥂🤩🥳

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Another R&R with @nsalamanca.bsky.social @econfeld.bsky.social and @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social What a week!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

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Now heading to UNSW for ESCoE conference to present « Same-sex teacher effects in education » with @econfeld.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social — paper here 👉🏽 adegendre.github.io/papers/deGen... — we even made a website with interactive effects ! www.role-model-effects.com

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Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...

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I'm thrilled to see this site building a serious community of researchers, writers and policymakers focused on education policy and economics. Below are links to 3 Starter Packs I've made to help you connect with such folks. Please let me know if I've missed you. The volume of requests has been 😮

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It was the blurst of times

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New WP w/ @adegendre.bsky.social, @nsalamanca.bsky.social, Zenou: www.nber.org/papers/w3242.... Using random assignment to classrooms, we show that exposure to minority peers ⬇️ student effort, parental investments, & teacher engagement & results in ⬇️ test scores. Check out our new model too.

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So happy and excited to release this WP with @econfeld.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social and @superstudy.bsky.social ! Full thread on paper here 👇🏽

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Are teachers generally better at teaching students of their own sex? NO in primary education, YES in secondary education. A 🧵 generalizability and same-sex teacher effects www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23...

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‪New work with awesome coauthors @adegendre.bsky.social , @econfeld.bsky.social and @superstudy.bsky.social exploring the generalizability of same-sex teacher effects by combining existing multi-country data and met analysis tools. Check out the thread below! ‬

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Our work with @adegendre.bsky.social , @chriskarbownik.bsky.social and Yves Zenou combines a simple model and awesome data to show how and why disadvantaged minorities in the classroom to affect behaviors of students, parents and teachers, and ultimately test scores. Check it out!

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Great work from a great team!!! Congratulations! Very well deserved

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This is very good advice! When you need it, use the slack. There’s lots of it around our lives and that’s what is there for.

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I am very very happy to see this paper by @econfeld.bsky.social out! Writing does matter, in quantifiable and important ways. We should all invest more in learning how to do it better.

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Hi #EconSky my friend and coauthor @econfeld.bsky.social is on Bsky! Follow him for content on economics of education, personality traits, academic writing, meta-science and many other cool stuff!

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"Two wheelers like e-bikes and electric mopeds] are actually displacing four times as much demand for oil as all the world’s electric cars at present, due to their staggering uptake in China and other nations where mopeds are a common form of transport" theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

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Not sure I have the bandwidth to learn another social media platform, but here goes...my first post here:) Excited to share a new paper: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐩 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬: 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 w/ Dave Macdonald & Jerry Montonen. Abstract pictured below!

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We have a new working paper: “The (Un)importance of School Assignment”. 1/9 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wuizq...

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Re the IZA situation, you'll likely see a letter publicized soon, written initially by others with an even clearer sense of what's going on. I will be a signatory to that letter.

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We have another new DP out now! de Gendre, Feld and Salamanca replicate, test robustness, and test using different data Hanushek et al.'s (2021) 'Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment Across Countries' https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4rdps/48.htm

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In favor of a ceasefire: Democratic voters 80% House Democrats 8% Republican voters 56% House Republicans 0% All voters 66% All House members 4% Chart by @stephensemler.bsky.social

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This is one of the features I LOVED of EconTwitter, so glad people have imported to BlueSkye! ❤️🥰 Econ Job Market season is the best time of the year to discover what PhD Candidates are studying and how they do it! 🤩

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Reminder #econsky We at CREST-ENSAE-Polytechnique are hiring we have several positions at assistant/associate level, any field econjobmarket.org/positions/9867 Deadline for applications is next Wednesday, Nov 15

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Oh man, I yanked this 11/24. Much harder than it seems at first!

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An underrated benefit of being a professor is that you get paid to continuously LEARN stuff 🥰

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🎉 Attend the inaugural Monash HELP (Health/Ed/Labor/Public) Workshop, Dec 11 & 12 in Melbourne! Program: stefaniejfischer.github.io/assets/docs/... Details: stefaniejfischer.github.io/assets/docs/... Register by Nov 24 (conditional on space): events.humanitix.com/monash-help-...

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✨Join Monash Econ as a postdoc! careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... Deadline Nov. 23 Come work w/ faculty (labour/public/macro/IO/enviro/health) on policy-relevant projects using newly available linked Australian admin micro data. @ClaudioLaba @M_Gravoueille @corey_d_white @KMajlesi

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🚨Hey #EconSky📉📈! We’re looking for a new Director at the Melbourne Institute!! 🚨 Fantastic position for a senior researcher to make an impact through evidence-based policy at a large scale. Check out the job posting below: jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91445...

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This is very very good news! And a lesson for all those programs that want to increase labor force participation in disability support recipients. It’s often a constraints, not incentives!

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The positive externalities of WFH www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

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Welcome!!

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This chart gives an overview of 3.4 million years of accelerating technological change. → We live at a time when the world can change dramatically within our lifetime. From my article on the history and future of technology: ourworldindata.org/technology-l...

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New economics reproducibility project is seeking collaborators to conduct reproduction and robustness tests of published development economics findings. Contributors earn 2500 euros and co-authorship on the overall project paper. Details: www.rwi-essen.de/fileadmin/us...

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"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ Robert Schultz is now out in the JEP Here's the paper: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/... and the Twitter thread from Mar 2022 (aka before I was on Bsky - sorry!) twitter.com/annastansbur...

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🚨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

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One of the most striking charts from our paper imo is this one: The vast majority of Economics PhDs at top-ranked programs have a parent with a graduate degree - particularly among the American students. That is, we are drawing from an extremely narrow socioeconomic pool.

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Our first full research paper on the evaluation of the UK’s demand flexibility service. Upshot: these subsidies changed consumer energy demand and such subsidies have great value for money when the energy grid needs flexibility. Paper: www.centrefornetzero.org/wp-content/u... 📈📉

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I am starting a new project with Mackenzie Alston on the academic job market. Hoping to informally chat with 5 econ PhDs and 5 PhDs from psych, sociology, or polisci who graduated last year. If you're available for a 15-minute Zoom convo in Nov., please DM or email [email protected]!

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Really nice Emma Green New Yorker piece on the complexity of testing those who want to be public school teachers. It gets into many of the thorny issues: adverse racial impacts, what licensure requirements states should have, sources of inequity, etc. www.newyorker.com/contributors...

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Very happy to see our new paper published in Demography, in which we show that welfare reform had plausibly causal and substantively important negative effects on the quality of emotional support in the home environments of young children. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Coverage of my recent work on barriers to higher education in Australia in the Times Higher Education bit.ly/40llU4K. The original article can also be found here: go.unimelb.edu.au/rs9s

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Teachers matter a ton, but so do school counselors. Counselors can have big impacts on educational attainment, particularly for low income students. Thrilled to see Christine Mulhern's important work published this morning in the AER. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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