I just got to hear Matthew A. Kraft present two of his excellent papers on teacher coaching. The Effect of Teacher Coaching on Instruction and Achievement: A Meta-Analysis of the Causal Evidence scholar.harvard.edu/sites/scholar.… Taking Teacher Coaching To Scale educationnext.org/taking-teacher…

The graph below shows how well the richest Top 1% have done across different countries over the past 200 years. Some interesting patterns explored in 🧵. #dataviz

"Parent Training and Child Development at Low Cost? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Mexico" is now forthcoming! #PaperAccepted #GetYourManuscriptOut by Sergio Cárdenas, Peter A. Holland, and me

Shocks to the home environment can disrupt a child's development of skills & abilities. Kjell Salvanes, Pedro Carneiro, @bartonwillage & Alexander Willén show that such disruptions in early adolescence matter as much or more as in early in life. hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/worki…

Economists Reconsider Industrial Policy by Dani Rodrik, et al Project Syndicate prosyn.org/GIQaYlp

In Study 2, I asked citizens to design their preferred income tax structure, setting rates for the poor all the way up to the super-rich. I then matched their answers with registry data on what people at different incomes actually pay in tax.

Here's what that comparison looks like. For the bottom 99%, it's a pretty good match. However, at the top of the distribution, the discrepancy gets increasingly larger. This is because actual payed tax rates are _regressive_ towards the top (this is the case in many countries).

The divergence between public opinion and actual effective tax rates can be observed across a wide range of subgroups.

Study 3: So why is it like this? A lot has to do with the fact that capital incomes (which the rich rely on) are taxed at flat rates, often lower than labor income. I did a follow-survey to see if this system aligns with public opinion. It does not. Here are the main result:

Main take-away from the paper: Even in a relatively egalitarian country like Norway, the rich pay considerably less in tax than what they probably would have if public opinion decided.

Steve Levitt on the writing process in economics:

📣Let's put #teachers at the center of policymaking for student success! 👩🏾‍🏫In advance of #WorldTeachersDay, Luis Benveniste, our WorldBank Global Director for #Education, reflects on what we are doing collectively to support them in their key roles. ℹ️ wrld.bg/tnwf50PSYrr

✏️Six years ago, the WorldBank released its groundbreaking World Development Report dedicated entirely to #education. Today, Halsey Rogers & Deon Filmer highlight what the World Bank’s flagship report achieved. Read our new blog: wrld.bg/uXnt50PYJwG #EndLearningPoverty

We are in the midst of Season 2 recording! Check out the website for Season 1 episodes: econ4everyone.uchicago.edu

This new book on teacher policy is worth reading (of course I maybe biased ;))

1 - My #JMP studies how universities respond to changing student demand for courses and skills. I use novel data to peek inside the black box of #highered supply. TLDR: Universities respond inelastically, both in course quantity and content #EconTwitter jacob-light.github.io/catalog-projec…

🧵Here's a thread about an obscure economic theory from a century and a half ago, which is about to become a MASSIVE deal. ⚡️It helps explains why tackling climate change is going to be v v hard. Some say impossible. The story begins with this building👇

In our recent World Bank report, Making Teacher Policy Work, we argue that teacher policies fail to scale and be sustained  because their design and implementation do not consider the individual and system-level barriers that prevent teachers from adopting the envisioned changes.