Job offer! We (Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Ludwig Straub, Xavier Gabaix) are hiring a #predoc to join us at Harvard, starting summer 2025. You'll work on a range of macro and/or finance projects with us. Apply here: rb.gy/8ghunc Econ RA Listings PREDOC.org

A 2011 Wisconsin reform weakened teachers' unions, raised test scores, and was a political win for its main proponent, from Barbara Biasi and Wayne Sandholtz nber.org/papers/w33666

If I were interested data on the amount of revenue school districts collect through property taxes measured at either the county or school district level, where could I find such data? Thank you!

Development and estimation of a model of student behavior in multiple-choice exams that incorporates the effects of time constraints, from Kala Krishna, Pelin Akyol, and Esma Özer Öztürk nber.org/papers/w33679

Is this the most successful meat reduction in history? They’ve served “2+ million plant-based meals [w/ a] a 98% satisfaction rate. The average vegetarian meal costs 59 cents less than meat, so the program has also saved the city more than $1 million.”

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Do Tuition Subsidies Raise Political Participation?" by Daniel Firoozi and Igor Geyn. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

This is incredible -

What's really heartbreaking is the med students who complete school but then don't get matched to a residency. In 2024, 44,853 applicants,competed for just 38,494 first-year residency slots

Wait, so parents don't want a $5000 check from the government when they have a newborn if Republicans suggest it and call it a "baby bonus", but they do want a $3600 check from the government when they have a young child if Dems suggest it and call it an "expanded child tax

New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960. What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out. 🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797

Does divorce actually have a long-term impact on kids? If you read outlets like The Atlantic, NYT, or WaPo, you'll might think the story is unclear. But a new study from NBER used tax records to compare millions of siblings, finding more divorce exposure -> worse outcomes.🧵

This looks interesting and makes economic sence. Merit based finanacial aid leads to sizable tuition increases, while need-based aid leads to little of this. nber.org/papers/w33833?…

Mothers exposed to depressed peer in their mother group have a higher uptake of mental health-related care. Just Accepted new paper by Anne Toft Hansen, Jonas Cuzulan Hirani, and Miriam Wüst zurl.co/5imVG

What do you make of this finding? Divorce increases kids' anxiety, depression, school absenteeism, and crime victimization.

We've had three working papers from three very different contexts (U.S., Denmark, and New Zealand) come out in the last few weeks that all argue that divorce harms kiddos and noticeably so.

By a pretty huge margin Americans think that having international students at US universities is good for the country, not bad -- 56% to 14% (+42)

Does educational attainment impact partisanship? Yes. #EconTwitter In my paper “Education and Partisanship” I use admin data on millions of voters and multiple RD designs to show that education reduces GOP affiliation across generations, settings, demographics, & institutions.

I find it interesting that there is a “girl-dad” label for men who are the father of girls. From what I can tell it’s meant to indicate that it’s ok to care for and nurture girls if you’re a dad. My question is “Why not for boys?”

NEW JOB POSTING! Hiring an Associate Director to work with me at Notre Dame Economics to launch the Stregthening Families Research Initiative. In conversations with policy makers, journalists, non-profit leaders, & others about challenges facing families in the US, people always ask "but

Come work in our department as the associate director of our Strengthening Families Initiative, which will be run by our fantastic new colleague Melissa Kearney (Melissa S. Kearney). The link was previously broken. Econ Jobs Bot #econtwitter #academicjobs careers.nd.edu/search-careers…