Jiee Zhong

Interesting! I will try it for intermediate micro class.

Thank you, Umut!

I am very happy that my JMP found a sweet home!

Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings (Forthcoming Article) - This paper provides new causal evidence on the effects of grade retention on educational attainment, behavioral outcomes, and labor market performance by analyzing Texas’s read...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings" by Jiee Zhong. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

🚨🚨🚨New working paper 🚨🚨🚨

We find that sleep loss due to late-night sports watching led to a significant increase in fatal car crashes in the US during the 2002 World Cup.

A 🧵... #EconSky #EconTwitter

www.iza.org/publications...

Updating my master's-level "topics" (labor/public/ed) class syllabus for this spring! Plug recent papers on any of the following topics, please. 🤗

- Labor supply & taxes
- Min. wage
- Paid leave programs
- Statistical discrimination
- Early childhood ed
- K-12 spending
- Student loans

Call for Papers: 2025 Northeast Labor Symposium for Early Career Economists 2025 Northeast Labor symposium seeks to build community among junior faculty working on labor economic topics. Deadline to submit proposals is December 22, 2024.

Send your labor papers and come present at Princeton!

Deadline is Dec 22.

irs.princeton.edu/news/2024/nl...

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More info here: miamioh.edu/fsb/graduate...

Might as well use this as a reminder to encourage your undergrads to apply to our 1-year econ MA program! We offer funding & our grads (like @joalkhafajiking.bsky.social) go on to do great things 🥳

Could you add me? Thanks

Could you add me? Thanks

Huge, huge thanks to @shooshan.bsky.social who took on the work of compiling many more health economists than I had yet added to the Starter Pack. So many names I recognize for early health econ Twitter, and so many new voices that I don't but look forward to hearing from.
bsky.app/starter-pack...

I would love to join, thanks

Here's my original Starter Pack of professors, researchers, and communicators of education policy and economics.

It's almost full but I'll shift some of the writers to the 1st pack above, so let me know if you're an ed policy or econ of ed professor/researcher who belongs here.

go.bsky.app/GHJzy4L

Hi Josh, I an assistant professor at Miami University studying Education policy. Could you add me in? Thanks

I’ve made a Women in Econ starter pack (s/o @vinisingh.bsky.social for sparking the idea!). Share, follow, and comment below if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ