The art is also literally by a Japanese artist (Hiroshi Nagai) who lived in America for a few years.
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The art is also literally by a Japanese artist (Hiroshi Nagai) who lived in America for a few years.
"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!
More than just select officeholders and policies, election results signal to political actors where to invest their time and resources, from Patrick A. Testa www.nber.org/papers/w34585
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It was a my JMP a few years back so I included *all of the robustness checks* when I went on the market lol.
Curriculum shapes more than skills as taking STEM in high school boosts tech careers—but also shifts politics as boys grow more conservative and girls more progressive, from Robert Ainsworth, Rajeev H. Dehejia, Andrei Munteanu, Cristian Pop-Eleches, and Miguel Urquiola www.nber.org/papers/w34502
I’m a professor teaching econ 101 this semester and today we covered externalities. I used the smallpox vaccine as an example of a positive consumption externality
In BOTH classes students asked if I was smallpox vaccinated because I’m “old”.
I’m 29. 😭
It’s legal! The main law to governing age discrimination in the private sector is the ADEA, which narrowly prohibits employment discrimination against those 40 and older.
The value added by election forecasters is mainly to aggregate polls. If we compare the raw polling average to Nate Silver’s Bulletin and SplitTicket, we see that the raw polling average I posted on November 4th performs as well as forecasts that incorporate many more variables.
Before the 2024 election, I put out a simple forecast that accounted for the within-state, across time polling errors that have persisted since at least 2000.
As it turns out, simple adjusted polling average outperforms the two best election forecasters from 2024.
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Super exciting paper showing that high schools vary in their impacts on civic engagement. Schools that are better at improving academic outcomes are also better at creating voters.
Kirsten was a @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social postdoc when she began this work, so it's thrilling to see the result.
Sounds like an incredible program! Looking forward to seeing the results that come out of this!!
Amazingly, this student-level data is publicly available (anonymized, of course), due to a public records request.
This means any of us (i.e. you) can explore these patterns in any way you like.
Good potential resource for those of us hunting for data sets students can get their hands on easily!
I think the 2 typos in the above post are another good illustration of why it’s helpful to have more than one set of eyes on a paper. 😭
Yes, robustness checks can balloon the length of a paper but, if the topics we study are important, then surely it is important to understand the full story and hold our empirical claims to a high standard.
There are many complaints about peer review process out there, but most of referee comments on my papers have substantially improved them.
I thinks one understated benefit of detailed robustness checks from refs is that they help mitigate the fact that non-experimental work is rarely pre-specified.
Did you know that your siblings can influence whether you vote?
Well, because of our new working paper you do!
@mike-bloem.bsky.social, @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social, sam imlay
These effects materialize when students are still in school and college and persist well into their 50s. On balance I find that peer socialization likely plays an important role in the observed effects.
Full Paper: www.DanielFiroozi.com/workingpapers
I also make use of a top percent admission policy at UC campuses called eligibility in the local context (ELC). Essentially, students in the top 4% of their HS class had an admissions advantage. They end up less likely to register to vote as Republicans when they reach the age of roughly 30.
The impact of high school is larger for whites, men, and Gen z, but effects also exist for women, people of color, and older people stretching back to Gen Xers born in 1969.
I use compulsory schooling laws (CSL) that bind on date of birth to identify the impact of high school education in Florida and California on partisanship. People born before the cutoff start school younger and must remain in HS longer before they can legally drop out. For them, GOP affiliation ⬇️.
Does educational attainment impact partisanship? Yes.
In my working paper “Education and Partisanship”, I use multiple RD designs and admin data on millions of voters to show that education reduces Republican affiliation across generations, settings, institutions, and demographics.
Results below!
New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960.
What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out.
🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Do Tuition Subsidies Raise Political Participation?" by Daniel Firoozi and Igor Geyn. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
This is a great paper on a timely topic! Congrats @danielfiroozi.bsky.social!
I had a lot of fun talking to @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social on her Probable Causation podcast about the IGNITE program: an innovative jail-based rehabilitative program in Flint, Michigan
www.probablecausation.com/podcasts/epi...
For reference, my students are familiar with causal inference, including RCTs, RDs, IVs, and Diff-in-Diffs. If one of your PhD students is interested, please send me their paper over email! You can find my contact info on my website: www.DanielFiroozi.com
Hi folks,
I’m looking for two education economists who would be interested in presenting their JMPs on May 6th virtually to my econ of ed students. If you have a PhD student going on the job market soon, this is a great opportunity for them to get feedback on their paper & practice their job talk.
Thank you, going to use this in class!
Really cool new working paper by @cohodes.bsky.social and @camarnzen.bsky.social ! Definitely worth checking out if you’re interested in the intersection of education and political economy.