a fun thesis to advise!

Carving out a niche as the sports econ and econ history MA thesis advisor. perhaps sports econ history next

Congratulations to Drake Peavy on his MA defense, "How NIL and the Transfer Portal Changed Competitive Balance in College Basketball."

After graduation, he'll be going to EY in Chicago as a Transfer Pricing Consultant.

Trying to build this without building a full-fledged secondary password manager.

New Claude thinks it is impossible, but it just baffles me. Has to be possible, right?

refine is cool too but it's fun to be able to tune things!

i.e., I wanted a review model to focus on writing or line editing instead of "big picture" comments -- easy to tune that on your own.

perhaps I'll fork this and try to make a web version that just does grammar/typos! cool that I could now!

This is cool and a great use of @openrouter.bsky.social

Since this is open source, I'd encourage folks to look under the hood at how these prompts are run, e.g.,
github.com/Davidvandijc...

The multi-agent logic can help you do all sorts of bespoke things on your own!

But this thread is already too long! Thanks for reading and let us know if you have any questions or comments

www.peternencka.com/assets/high_...

Channeling my new mantra "Once you start thinking about high schools, it's hard to think about anything else," we also examine:

1) marriage/childbearing delays
2) attenuation of impacts as adults age (marriage bars and #1)
3) geographic spillovers
4) impacts on parents and local labor market

And the largest effects of these early schools accrued to families with higher wage parents

But we see no impact in aggregate on Black youth.

Perhaps unsurprising given segregation and the state of many Southern schools, but early high schools increased racial gaps even as they closed gender differences

There is also significant occupational reallocation -- both men and women are more likely to work in clerical and professional (including teaching) occupations

Increased access to high school accounts for a ~third of the increase in women’s labor force participation between 1870 and 1930!

Linking both men and **women** forward via the Census Tree (ht @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and team), we study early and mid-career outcomes.

Female LFP participation rises sharply after HS entry

Male age 20s decline is consistent with observed increase in college-going

High school openings increase reported school attendance for the ages that you would think!

aside: reported school enrollment in the censuses is way too high relative to admin records (Goldin/Katz knew this first). Our result is driven by "full-time enrollment: "attendance without an occupation

That data, combined with recent innovation in historical linking and geolocating (thanks to EEH for publishing methods papers!), allow us to ask new questions about access to high schools:

For whom and how much did they matter?

A paper born of cool data:

We (starting with @ezrakarger.bsky.social a long time ago) collected information on the universe of high schools built during the "high school movement"

🎉🏫New paper! 🏫🎉 "High Schools and the Uneven Rise in American Opportunity" by myself, Alison Doxey, and Ezra Karger (@ezrakarger.bsky.social)

www.peternencka.com/assets/high_...

www.nber.org/papers/w35068

central banking?

Examining how the World War I agricultural commodity price boom affected human capital accumulation during the early decades of the high school movement in the US, from Taylor Jaworski, Carl T. Kitchens, and Luke P. Rodgers www.nber.org/papers/w35032

making an exception for this Jason Day TIAA fit (which is somehow real)

despite loving both golf and formula one

If you are sponsoring golfers and formula one teams, I'm less inclined to trust your academic product

Recently accepted by #QJE: “The Effects of Gender Integration on Men: Evidence from the U.S. Military,” by Greenberg, Wasserman, and Weber: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Add April Fools Day to the long list of already bad things made worse by AI

This is like LeBron saying "Excellent dunk," what a thrill

One of the best thesis titles (and actual theses) our program has ever produced

This (both the data and digitization method) is extremely “Peter catnip” (@riacton.bsky.social’s words)

Big loss for Miami but excited to have another excuse to visit Maine!!

I am very excited that PyFixest 0.50.0 is on PyPi, including a new graph-based solver for demeaning that makes fixed effects estimation in PyFixest significantly faster for "sparse" fixed effects structures.

Economic Measurement and Research Internship (EMRI) Program The EMRI program seeks to hire interns in economics, accounting and related fields to support the nation’s growing demand for information.

🚨 Pre-Doc Opportunity at LEHD 🚨

Do you know graduating seniors or recent graduates in economics, math or statistics? The LEHD group at Census is hiring up to 2 positions in this category.

Apply following the instructions here: www.census.gov/about/census...

If you have questions, DM me!