Aspirasi masyarakat menjadi prioritas yang akan terus kami sampaikan pada Pemerintah. Semoga tidak ada jembatan yang terputus dalam upaya ini. Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=-1YCiK… Demonstrasi yang terjadi ialah akumulasi kekecewaan dari berbagai faktor, di antaranya dari

Mississippi’s education miracle: A model for global literacy reform medium.com/@international…

One of my favorite recent papers in historical political science is Gray & Smith (2023). It uses the Roman Empire as a case of a long-running autocracy without stable hereditary succession and with quasi-republican institutions to show that the monarchical succession principle is

Economic freedom raises the quality of education New research from the Fraser Institute and H. Feldmann fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget." Public Universities FTW!

Finally the position that will piss everyone off: the minimum wage is good because it eliminates unproductive companies and positions

Human capital is central to growth, and the elimination of poverty. Discussing obstacles to human capital accumulation and evidence on policies that can promote it, from Philippe Aghion, Ingvild Almås, and Costas Meghir nber.org/papers/w34602

Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? New evidence from German reforms of compulsory religious education, by Arold, Woessmann, Zierow in JHR: jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/…

Paper menarik. Bagaimana Hitl*r dapat dukungan meski pemerintahannya otoriter? Bangun infrastruktur jalan tol (Autobahn).

🚨New paper🚨on the long-term effects of elite high school. 5 and 10 yrs after admission, marginally admitted students are less likely to be employed in the formal sector, and, if employed, earn lower wages. The gaps close after 15 yrs. With Francisco Cabrera-Hernández Andrew Dustan Daniel Osuna

Tutoring has evolved into a scalable, cost-effective solution for improving learning outcomes gettingsmart.com/2025/11/25/can…

How to boost learning in low-income countries -- "with an average annual spending of just $55 per child (PPP$172), spending on education in LICs is in stark contrast even to lower-middle income countries" blogs.worldbank.org/en/education/h… via WorldBank

Third grade retention can improve academic outcomes for students who are not meeting proficiency benchmarks Review by Daniel Hamlin ou.edu/content/dam/Ed…

More than 25 additional children in school every minute -- yet the number of children and young people out of school has risen for the 7th consecutive year, up to 273 million -- from the UNESCO 2026 Global Education Monitoring Report unesco.org/gem-report/en/…

Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioral sciences: > Miske et al examined 600 papers published between 2009 and 2018 across 62 journals in the fields of business, economics, education, political science, psychology, sociology > 72% of these papers shared

Forthcoming in the AER: "Friendship Networks and Political Opinions" by Yann Algan, Nicolò Dalvit, Quoc-Anh Do, Alexis Le Chapelain, and Yves Zenou. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Advice for PhD students in economics about using AI, from the brilliant Isaiah Andrews. This should probably be circulated to all PhD cohorts economics.mit.edu/sites/default/…

The importance of deep reading and critical thinking as our brains adapt to digital distractions and AI shortcuts is the subject of this year’s Princeton Pre-read book for the Class of 2030, “Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World” by Maryanne Wolf:

New paper (open access): The learning crisis - 3 years after COVID-19 Using global TIMSS data: 📉 Achievement −0.11 SD below trend ⏳ Longer closures → bigger losses ⚠️ Low performers hit hardest (−0.23 SD) ⚖️ Gaps widened This is divergence, not recovery. Targeted action

New NBER: "How Have Universities Survived for Nearly a Millenium" nber.org/papers/w35079