Fact 1: Economics is one of the least socioeconomically diverse academic disciplines. It has the lowest share of PhD recipients who are first-generation college graduates (no parent with a BA or higher). (data throughout is from NSF SED: census of all US PhD recipients).

Have you ever suspected that you earn less in your fancy job because you're from a working-class family? The Class Ceiling showed how that worked in the UK; new article out today Social Forces with Sam Friedman shows there's ALSO a big class pay gap in the US. About $23k!

New preprint! "Reasoning about others’ minds attenuates class differences in tests of logical aptitude" osf.io/preprints/osf/… TL;DR: In this work with Nick Fendinger and Andrea Dittmann, social-class gaps in deductive reasoning disappear when questions recruit theory of mind.

This semester I've been teaching "Economic Inequality and Growth" at UC Berkeley. This is a thread with some of my favorite graphs. First, the headline everyone's-seen-it graph: falling then rising income inequality in Anglophone countries.

So excited for you and this very well-deserved recognition Jenna Mueller ! 🎉🎊🥳

Wrote about something I think about a lot. Please check it out if you can!

We're *checks calendar* less than 6 months out from the 2024 election (how?!), so I'm super happy to see our paper about reframing voting as a duty to others get out into the world - please check it out! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Emory Goizueta is hiring in the O&M group! Please spread the word careerservices.aom.org/jobs/20343207/…

Time for my biannual tweet! New paper at PNAS PNASNews with Ivan A. Hernandez, Marlis Schneider, Rebecca Ryan, Ariel Kalil & Mesmin Destin! We examined how & when affluent parents hoard educational/economic opportunities for their kids at the expense of lower income families 1/6

🚨News! tinyurl.com/y3vskm73 Low-SES students are often portrayed as lacking skills. We test the effect of reframing this narrative in a field trial (N=786). Highlighting the strengths low-SES students show boosted grades over one semester, closing an SES-performance gap.

Thinking about a PhD? UCLA Anderson School of Management’s BDM area welcomes applicants from psych, econ, business, policy, & beyond! Learn more from faculty & current students at our Virtual Open House on 11/14, 2-3:30PM PST. RSVP at bit.ly/bdm_openhouse24 RT is appreciated. #PhD #BehavioralScience

We’ve been looking into ways police officers can reduce tension in interactions with their communities from the start. We find adding just one sentence—what we call a “transparency statement”—can help build trust. Read about our work now in The Boston Globe! 👇🏻