We had a fantastic couple of days at the 2nd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on Economics of Education!🥳

Thanks everyone for making this such a terrific event!🫂

Congratulations to Carolyn Tsao (@PrincetonEcon) for winning the best paper award!

Travel well!

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Very excited for this!

A movie about 2 economists who invent time-traveling to collect pre data for their diff-in-diff design until one goes rogue and tries to change the past so their pre-trends look better.

[After leaving the farmer market]
ME:
ADAM SMITH:
ME:
ADAM SMITH:
ME: This butcher sure was a nice gu-
ADAM SMITH: NOOOOO

“Grad school really wasn’t that bad…”

Had such a good time in Padova the last couple of days. Great lineup, amazing keynotes and fun colleagues! Thanks for having me!

Figuring out DiD
Is like doing a self autopsy
I could regress all night long
And never figure out what went wrong

'HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM EFFECT?'

Wish I was visiting Cornell

Never, stop, fighting!

My first Grand Slam title, lost for words, forza!!!!!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆

Stop telling me your ETA and start giving me the entire probability distribution function for your time of arrival.

Can you guess what happens when you (randomly) have more girls in a high school classroom?

...

▪️Girls' STEM test scores/course-taking durably ⬆️
▪️Girls' participation in class ⬆️
▪️Boys misbehavior ⬇️

Improvements are driven by disadvantaged students

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'sure the academic job market is tough, but at least we're all in the same boat'

The boat:

I just cannot believe they're bragging about this!

Happy New Year from Rishi Sunak as he extends the warm hand of welcome to all the fantastic students around the world who want to come and spend their money in the UK gaining an education. Or not.

Rishi Sunak New Year’s Day and this is your opening tweet?!

Rishi Sunak Imagine bragging about this.

Embarrassing.

'Would you like to hear about my job market paper?'

An inspiration to all economists. We will miss you Bob Solow.

'You didn't make good choices. You had good choices.' - One of the best ways to explain privilege I've ever seen.