True story: This project started as a 30-minute meeting between an invited seminar speaker (me) and two graduate students (Maggie Jones David Rosé). Several years later, the first paper in our project is now forthcoming QJE with Dr. Lisa D. Cook A🧵with a happy ending! 1/N

A thread summarizing Bill Sprigg's letter to economists.

#EconTwitter intro and question: Hi, I'm Danielle, a PhD student at BU. I focus on econ history and education and have a nice dog. Do any of you fine folks know if the census of housing has been digitized? I'm specifically interested in county level housing prices from 1950-1975

#EconTwitter I have created a new DiD Resources page on my website. It has links to all of my DiD teaching slides, coding exercises, and packages I've created. All this info was technically already online, but hopefully this makes it easier to find it! jonathandroth.com/did-resources/

One day early in my career I realized everyone on my 5-person team had gone golfing without me, the only woman. They never asked, but I'd been playing since I was a kid. New paper says schmoozing may cause 33% of the gender gap in promotions. No doubt similar for other groups.

"An average user’s conversational exchange with ChatGPT basically amounts to dumping a large bottle of fresh water out on the ground... Microsoft’s water consumption has increased 30% y/y to keep AI supercomputers online"

Standard advice is to "apply to as many schools as possible." Taking the GRE is $$, sending scores is $$, and each uni's app fee is +$75. Last year, Chicago Harris' fee was $200! The potential implications for inequalities w/i the discipline merit further thought

all i want in this life is for IO economists to write a paper about my hometown’s greatest store: unclaimed baggage npr.org/2023/11/24/121…

Had a very “room where it happens” vibe today w/Wheelock Educational Policy Center’s Olivia Chi presenting to legislative leaders, 2 MA commissioners & countless educator diversity champions I so admire. Pics = definition of policy-relevant research. Thx to MassINC & Latinos for Education for involving us

Excited to present my work on segregation academies (all white segregated private schools started in the south in response to integration in the 1960s and 1970s) at NBER this spring. Thank you to the organizers for this opportunity!

Does anyone know of good school or school district level test data prior to 2008? (SEDA is post 2008 and OCR is best post 2010) You'd be helping my students that want to evaluate the effect of reforms that occurred in the early 2000s #EconTwitter

Tomorrow! The NBER Working Group on Race and Stratification in the Economy will hold its fourth conference Friday April 5, 2024. Stream via YouTube! Thanks to Ellora Derenoncourt Bradley Hardy Marcus Casey for helping me organize! The program is here: nber.org/conferences/ra…

grateful to EHA for supporting my work (and congrats to the other winners)! EHA does such a wonderful job cultivating a welcoming environment for grad students

On 6/5 ProPublica will discuss how “segregation academies” in the Deep South continue to preserve divisions within communities: tinyurl.com/2wau99a8. For more on segregation academies, see our op ed: tinyurl.com/3v5pts8c. @profshaefer Tim Nelson

Academics LOVE to talk about their research and boy did I LOVE talking with the very detail-oriented propublica team. Getting to meet Annah Rogers, PhD and Amberly was the cherry on top!

@Insurgent_Prof Read Danielle Graves Williamson work on this. Segregation academies (1) do not provide superior education but (2) blunt intended desegregation in rural areas.

Delighted to share new CEA research highlighting the foundational role of child care for the US economy. It shows that investments in childcare are associated with increased overall economic activity. Child-Care-is-Infrastructure-Issue-Brief-9.27.24.pdf (whitehouse.gov)

As of October 2024, over 1 million public service workers have been approved to have their debt discharged via Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF). A new CEA blog highlights the role of PSLF in strengthening our public service sector. 1/ whitehouse.gov/cea/written-ma…

The 2025 Economic Report of the President is now available. There's a chapter on K12 education! whitehouse.gov/cea/written-ma…

Today, the Council of Economic Advisers released the 2025 Economic Report of the President, the 79th report since the establishment of CEA in 1946. /1