Hi #EconSky
📣 Introducing "Applied Econ Collective" 📣
Academia is full of fees: for submissions, workshops, software...😔
@yajnagovind.bsky.social, @ckronenberg.bsky.social & I created an initiative to cover these costs
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🙋 The analysis shows that in treated schools, test scores in mathematics and langauge improve by about 0.1SD in 2nd grade and 5th grade. They also find that schools that receive larger per-student grants experience greater improvements.
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👩🎓 The paper studies the EU's “National Operational Program”, that provide grants to improve educational performance in the less developed regions. For identification the authors exploit the staggered adoption from 2011/12 to 2018/19 in a (matching) DiD design using data from Italy.
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📢 New paper accepted at #EconomicsofEducationReview by De Benedetto, Silipo, and Ciccarelli: "Bridging the gap: The effect of National Operational Program (PON) on primary school performance"
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2 PhD positions at the Department of Economics at NTNU available
1. Open field
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2. EduGAP. Work with Jon Iversen, myself, @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, @gillwyness.bsky.social, and Richard Murphy to understand assessment effects on student outcomes.
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Wow!
🙋 Teachers hired after the reform had higher prior achievement than those hired before the reform. This change was mainly driven by gains at the lower end of the achievement distribution
Also, PISA-data shows that the reform was linked to improved test scores in maths (but not reading)
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👩🎓 The paper studies a reform in Mexico that mandated centrally managed, competitive examinations to determine hiring decisions for teachers. The pre-reform setting was a system where local officials and teachers’ union representatives managed such decisions.
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📢 New paper accepted at Economics of Education Review by Bedoya, Hoyos & Estrada: "Rule-based civil service: Evidence from a nationwide teacher reform in Mexico"
#EconSky #EconomicsOfEducationReview
@ckcarruthers.bsky.social
@tyleransom.bsky.social
@sandramcnally.bsky.social
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Call for papers -- Wages, Employment and Inequality, part IV. Uppsala Sep 4-5. Keynotes @simonjaeger.bsky.social & Anna Salomons. Also confirmed Alexander Willén and Lena Hensvik. Its the 4th time I do this with @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social, great fun every time - join us! verotutkimus.fi/en/wei-2026/
They find that, on average, the wage return to a year of primary schooling for men aged 24–44 is an insignificant 2–4 percent, but the returns are three to four times larger for men from underprivileged backgrounds.
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Full manuscript: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The paper studies the consequences of a reform in Egypt that reduced the length of primary schooling from six to five years in 1988.
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📢 New paper accepted at Economics of Education Review!
Assaad, Aydemir, Dayıoğlu and Kırdar: “Wage returns to human capital resulting from an extra year of primary school: Evidence from Egypt”
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That’s correct
🙋 What does this difference imply for learning outcomes? The results suggest that each additional weekly hour of instruction in a given math topic increases test scores in that topic by about 4.3%SD
👉 The article is available (open access) here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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👩🎓 The paper exploits within-subject variation in instructional time across topics using TIMSS data. For example, in the United States, 25% of students receive less than 1.26 hours per week of algebra instruction, while another 25% receive more than 3.33 hours.
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📢 New paper accepted at Economics of Education Review!
@simonbriole.bsky.social “From teacher quality to teaching quality: Instructional productivity and teaching practices”
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4th Workshop on Education Economics and Policy (WEEP) to be held 7th-8th September in Trondheim, Norway.
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Keynotes: Elizabeth Cascio (Dartmouth) and Björn Öckert (IFAU)
Call for papers open soon
Funded by EduGAP project
samforsk.no/prosjekter/e...
#EconConf
The telly- beer!
Female presenters are interrupted 10% more
I wrote about the new seminar dynamics paper in the AER here: open.substack.com/pub/hanshenr...
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⭐New paper!⭐
About generative network modelling - a key approach for understanding network structures.
First half:
We give a general introduction to generative network models
Second half:
We consider their use in animal behaviour research
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🌟New paper!🌟 Very happy to have been part of this fun project with @delphinedemoor.bsky.social and coauthors.
Super important work by @profsimonb.bsky.social and the team 👍
How do we make sure kids get access good school? Check this ⬇️ work analysing policy alternatives!
they do a difference in disc. study and find increases in absence...
- for low achieving students.
- They also find worse ACT scores.
Read the full paper here: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Or my summary here: hanshenriksievertsen.substack.com/p/do-lenient...
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Just looking at the raw scores they find a massive shift in the distribution
This could of course be
- reduced efforts by students
- teacher responses
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This week I read the forthcoming paper in AEJ: EP by
Bowden, Rodriguez, Weingarten studying how a more lenient grading policy affected student behavior and outcomes
As the table shows
- pre: min effort for D -> 69 points
- post: min effort for D -> 60 points
#econsky
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🚨 @andrealanauze.bsky.social & I are organizing the 2nd women & femme-id ppl in enviro econ workshop ♀️🌱📈
#EconTwitter
Key dates: submit full paper or long abstract by Dec 3
Workshop: 9-10 April, in Venice, Italy
Thx to @cagewarwick.bsky.social for 💰 & @cepr.org for support
Link in 🧵 👇
Second, the crazy new QJE paper.
Crazy as in crazy impressive. I mean several sources of identification. As a little side note friends are defined by pre-determined friends network based on who calls who. 😮
I wrote about papers here: hanshenriksievertsen.substack.com/p/oh-these-s...
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