🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 A field experiment w/ 13M federal student loan borrowers at risk of delinquency shows we can meaningfully reduce delinquencies with well-designed reminders. Led by Rob Kuan. What reminder ingredients matter?🧵 Read more in PNASNews: pnas.org/doi/epub/10.10…

The mother of all #DiD papers just dropped and #X is completely silent about it: Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner's Guide Baker, Callaway, Cunningham, Goodman-Bacon, and Sant'Anna arxiv.org/abs/2503.13323 Comes with a complete checklist of steps!

Statistics professors, that's who.

i'm sorry, but if you wait years to do this, you've only proven that you can read *now*

Hello #econtwitter community: if any of you has been teaching any of my papers, would you mind shooting me a DM? I would hugely appreciate that 🙏 and thanks in advance!

House/Senate are set to eliminate Grad PLUS, and put in place loan limits that would dramatically restrict graduate borrowing. Media coverage emphasizes impact on very expensive programs like Medicine and Dentistry, but @peerresearch finds the impact will be much(!) broader. 1/

.Jordan Matsudaira and CJ Libassi explain what new graduate loan limits will mean, not only for borrowers in medical school but across the graduate education landscape. Check out this thread/follow Postsecondary Education& Economics Research Center for more!

PEER PRESS - Jordan Matsudaira & Tia Caldwell found in an analysis for @marketwatch that at least $4.3 billion/year in graduate borrowing today falls above the House Committee on Education & Workforce #reconciliation proposal's annual limits. Private lenders may step in. Read here: marketwatch.com/story/republic…

ICYMI last week - take a peek at our new report to better understand the earnings prospects of the professional school programs Congress just (nearly) uniformly & dramatically changed liquidity provision for: pseocoalition.org/wp-content/upl…

Congress just passed a reconciliation package that codifies a new standard for #highered programs -- check out our latest report from Clare McCann Tia Caldwell Jordan Matsudaira to learn more about which programs fall short, and what the policy leaves out. american.edu/spa/peer/uploa…

and to think they canceled stephen colbert

.@PEERResearch looked at the new income-driven repayment plan (RAP) in the reconciliation law, set to come online soon. Higher payments on the plan for the lowest-income borrowers will increase hardship among those living in poverty and increase defaults. american.edu/spa/peer/revam…

1) Erika is a career civil servant. No one is more dedicated to the integrity of the numbers than Erika. 2) If you want to get people not to believe in the numbers BLS is putting out, firing the respected head of BLS is an interesting choice

I've worked closely with Erika. I know of no economist who is more data-focused & devoted to truth in statistics. She never shied from speaking truth to power when the data were disappointing. Nothing would be worse for US credibility than political meddling in our economic data.

Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be in Denver May 1-2--you can now submit! Deadline for submissions is October 31--it should be a great conference! mailchi.mp/sole-jole/sole…

Tuition caps or freezes in #highered are supposed to lower costs for students -- but a @PEERResearch brief by scholars Lois Miller and Minseon Park explains why that's not always the case. american.edu/spa/peer/uploa…