I've found null effects in 95/100 research projects I've done. That's how I know I'm doing it right.

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B O S T O N

too soon

never been there, but this is how Tropicana Field is based on in-game audio and announcer commentary. awful

Chat, should I start a Tiktok channel dedicated to utilitymaxxing? I'd calling myself Concavular. "Take the hammer and smash your preferences bro."

someone found footage of my first job talk

Signs of #spring 🌸🐣 The peregrine falcons are back on #UBuffalo's South Campus with a few additions on the way! Watch the live feed ▶️ www.buffalo.edu/sustainabili...

The impact of early childhood care and education on maternal employment in Jordan Caroline Krafft,1 Ragui Assaad, 2 Paloma Avendano, 3 and Ruotong Li4 Abstract Globally, women’s employment rates decline with family formation, due to their disproportionate unpaid care responsibilities. Policies and services such as early childhood care and education (ECCE) can potentially reduce care responsibilities for mothers, increasing their employment rates. This paper examines the impact of ECCE on mothers’ employment outcomes in Jordan, a context with very low rates of female employment. Analyses rely on a regression discontinuity design, namely age cutoffs that drive eligibility for the first grade of kindergarten (age 4), the second grade of kindergarten (age 5), and basic schooling (age 6). The results reveal no significant changes in mothers’ employment or other labour-market outcomes across age groups, and no heterogeneous effects by mothers’ or fathers’ education, region, or travel time to school. The results remain robust under a range of alternative specifications. Our findings suggest that ECCE is not guaranteed to increase women’s employment rates in low employment rate contexts.

🧵 We just released our new working paper examining whether expanding early childhood care and education (ECCE) increases employment for mothers in Jordan (with Ragui Assaad, @pavendano.bsky.social and Ruotong Li. You can read the full study here: #EconSky www.theigc.org/sites/defaul... 1/10

just don't get budgetconstraint-mogged

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exactly

Bold prediction: students will claim they didn't know about the 10% at the end of the semester.

"Digital credit is not a silver bullet. Complementarities definitely matter, especially given that farmers face multiple constraints simultaneously." Monica Lambon-Quayefio on VoxDevTalks today:

Why wish failure on someone trying to educate people? "These people are my enemies. I have only ill will for this project and wish them failure..." What a mean-spirited piece.

I, too, believe in human-centered education. But if this project provides value to someone, why is that bad?

How Economics Discovered Women by Shelly Lundberg - Hardcover Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

My book (!) How Economics Discovered Women is now available for pre-order from the University of California Press. The book is a survey and critique of how the economics of gender has developed since the mid-1970s. www.ucpress.edu/books/how-ec...

Tell Congress to Save NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate! On April 3, the Trump Administration released its budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2027. In it, the Administration states its intent to dismantle the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Social, Beh...

Hey, #EconSky! The administration is trying to cut NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate. Click below to contact your representatives and urge them to save it. Tell your friends. Our research matters and is worth funding!

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Call for papers for the 2026 AI in social science conference: submit by May 1. Conference will be held October 8-9, 2026 at the University of Chicago

Submit your work using AI in the social sciences to the annual AI in Social Science conference at the University of Chicago! Submissions due May 1!

The conference will be held October 8-9 in Chicago, IL, USA.

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@caai-booth.bsky.social

Today!

The @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev group meets this F Apr 10, 11am US eastern. Presenters:

@wsandholtz.bsky.social (NOVA): Information & the Politics of School Quality
@adautheville.bsky.social (NHH): Private & Social Returns to Public University Scholarships

Contact me for Zoom link. #econsky #edusky

This is why I’m ambivalent when the university sends those emails with tips on how to increase response rates on student evaluations. Do I really want that?

Is anyone thinking about submitting to APPAM this year a project on school segregation/composition or on high schools? I have an abstract that would fit nicely on a panel (but don't quite have the bandwidth to put a panel together myself)

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The hostage-takers are the programs that delay their admission decisions until now. C'mon already!

If the student knows for sure they will or won't go, they should let the schools know! But no need to rush such an important decision just because they get pressure from an admissions committee chair.

Advisors of students admitted to grad school: make sure they know they have a right to the April 15 deadline to decide. Many schools will pressure for earlier notifications. If the student has decided, they should let schools know right away. But some students interpret reminders as a new deadline.

I'm one of the lucky ones to land an audio version of the @planetmoney.bsky.social book from my library. Excited to listen!

Mentors — GAIN

Call for mentors: The Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN) supports prospective graduate students from Africa applying for graduate programs in economics and closely related fields. I've mentored for several years and find it tremendously rewarding. #econsky gain-network.net/mentors

ITS GREAT. TO BE. A MICHIGAN WOOOOOLLLLLVERINE ITS GREAT….

If you teach intro to Econ and would be interested in being part of an RCT on AI homework tutor I have a good lead on funding. Participating faculty will get $500 to $1000. DM me or email sgitter@towson.edu
Please repost! Repost and I'll buy you a drink at ASSA 2027 or future conference

Yes, but maybe the real Bluesky is the friends we made along the way