Are you new to #econsky? Here a nice thread with a lot of starter packs / people to follow (If you're lazy, you can easily click "follow all" 😜)
(figured out how to thread...) 📢New WP!📢 The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia, w/ Kyra Rodriguez Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - academia...🧵
Two great write ups of work by my Tufts Econ Colleagues: Elizabeth Setren's work on METCO: now.tufts.edu/2024/02/14/s...now.tufts.edu/2024/02/27/h...
A Tufts study finds that the METCO school desegregation program in Boston benefits urban K-12 students in test scores, attendance rates, and college outcomes.
📢 Call for papers 📢 CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education (co-organized with Rick Hanushek) 13-14 Sept 2024, Munich Keynote: @mdoepke.bsky.socialwww.cesifo.org/en/event/202...sites.google.com/view/woessma...
Busing students to the suburbs has benefits for those being bused and no downside for the rest. Read more about this great work from Tufts own Elizabeth Setren www.wbur.org/news/2024/01...
Excited to share my new WP (which also happens to be my job market paper!) How does online recruitment impact the geography of the labour market? Full paper here sites.google.com/view/mariaba... and a thread below:
Nearly 50 ppl have signed up! Spread the word so the list includes everyone :) Last year, lots of ppl said they found it helpful.
ICYMI, I'm posting my women on the econ job market thread. It's too much to fully cross-post here (sorry) but please check it out, and share any papers you think look interesting! x.com/jenniferdole...
"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ Robert Schultz is now out in the JEP Here's the paper: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...twitter.com/annastansbur...