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Tony Yates
@t0nyyates.bsky.social
Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC. I sometimes write things and even appear on them now and then. I have concepts of a plan.
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Paul will go down in EconTwitter history as he administered the 'EconTwitter' Mastodon server which helped the first wave of migration out of Twitter in late 2022 after Musk's purchase. [Since closed].

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Universal Pre-K has huge income benefits for parents, despite limited academic effects for kids. "Excluding impacts on children, each dollar of net government expenditure yields $5.51 in after-tax benefits for families, almost entirely from parents' earnings gains." www.nber.org/papers/w3303...

This paper asks whether universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) raises parents' earnings and how much these earnings effects matter for evaluating the economic returns to UPK programs. Using a randomized lottery design, we estimate the effects of enrolling in a full-day UPK program in New Haven, Connecticut on parents' labor market outcomes as well as educational expenditures and children's academic performance. During children's pre-kindergarten years, UPK enrollment increases weekly childcare coverage by 11 hours. Enrollment has limited impacts on children's academic outcomes between kindergarten and 8th grade, likely due to a combination of rapid effect fadeout and substitution away from other programs of similar quality but with shorter days. In contrast, parents work more hours, and their earnings increase by 21.7%. Parents' earnings gains persist for at least six years after the end of pre-kindergarten. Excluding impacts on children, each dollar of net government expenditure yields $5.5
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I view that as more ignominious than anything else, but glad you view it as somewhat positive!

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Although the server is no more [it costs a lot to run it, as eg the FT found out], it acted as a dress rehearsal, a feasibility study of the migration of a defined community. For a while it operated very well. Ultimately, as we all know, Mastodon's moment came and went.

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It’s still up! econtwitter.net/explore

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EconTwitter

A Mastodon instance for Economists.

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Good to know. Followed him. Thank you!

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Tony Yates
@t0nyyates.bsky.social
Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC. I sometimes write things and even appear on them now and then. I have concepts of a plan.
8.8k followers1.1k following6.4k posts
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