Recent grads interested in a PhD in economics/health policy, go work for Lauren! A great opportunity to get deeply involved in research, guided by a great mentor (plus you can live in the mountains!) Econ RA Listings

I’m thrilled to share that … this awesome group made it to their last final of the first year of the PhD #GoBlue

As the first year comes to a close, I present to you: my favorite economists! youtu.be/fvHbK6w-k1A #econtwitter

Check it out, folks! New NBER WP w/ Brian Jacob. We study enrollment responses to district COVID policies (learning modes/masking) using data covering 90% of US public school students. We ID stark within-district differences by race/ethnicity.

🚨Thrilled to share my JMP with #EconTwitter! 🚨 "The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets" Here is a short thread🧵 (1/n) 🔗 aaron-kaye.com/home

Our study documenting racial disparities in pandemic-era school enrollment declines is now out in PNASNews! Paper is open-access, linked here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Fantastic paper!

Michigan's Transitional Kindergarten program increases third grade math and reading scores by 0.29 and 0.19 standard deviations respectively, from Jordan S. Berne, Brian A. Jacob, Tareena Musaddiq, Anna Shapiro, and Christina Weiland nber.org/papers/w32236

Today, we are releasing a subset of the findings from the (unofficial) 2024 U-M Community Survey on Anti-Palestinian Bias and Islamophobia. Full report here: tinyurl.com/5n89yrwm A🧵on the survey, some highlights, and what the findings mean 1/n

New version of paper split from my JMP now out as a Centre for Economic Performance DP. Below I document some of the new and old results. Read on if you're interested in wage setting power + using concentration measures, or like maps! 1/13

I have a new paper exploring the role of college students’ beliefs about teaching in shaping their major and career decisions. In this paper, we survey students at a large selective public university (Go Blue). I want to highlight 5 findings. nber.org/papers/w32641

📢New WP!📢 The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia, w/ Kyra Rodriguez Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

In the crossover event you didn't know you needed, I'm part of a proposed SXSW panel on the economics of dementia, please vote here to help make it happen! panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/148060

Invest in regional publics! Those with good grad rates, like GVSU (profiled in this terrific article), have a large return on state investment bc their grads tend to stay in state. Short thread👇