@philippmoskopp.bsky.social
Economics PhD Student at @eegmpi.bsky.social and University of Cologne | Interested in Migration, Education, and Evidence-Based Policymaking
📣 Call for Papers 📣
🌐 15th Annual International Conference on #Immigration in OECD Countries - Dec. 11- 12.
🗣️ With Keynotes from @christinafelfe.bsky.social & @profdaviddorn.bsky.social
⏳ Submit by September 15th
🔗 immigoecd15.sciencesconf.org
#EconSky #EconConf #Migration
New evidence that immigration raises intergenerational mobility, from Mark Borgschulte, Heepyung Cho, Darren Lubotsky, and Jonathan L. Rothbaum https://www.nber.org/papers/w33961
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📢 New paper in the Economic Journal (@resmedia.bsky.social):
👉 Differences in patience can account for substantial regional variation in educational achievement within countries
Data on Facebook interests allow us to derive regional measures of patience
academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...
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We hosted the SEEDEC symposium together with
@fair-cele.bsky.social, organized by @vincentsomville.bsky.social. We enjoyed keynotes from
@ggenicot.bsky.social and David McKenzie, lively discussions and great presentations. Thank you all who participated!
Giving +$313/mo ($3756/yr) in unconditional cash to low-income U.S. families with new babies doesn't seem to improve the children's development at age 4, per multi-city field experiment by child poverty & development researchers.
Relevant to debates on CTC & baby bonus
www.nber.org/papers/w3384...
Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research
Loving this NY Times article on "The Surprising Ways That Siblings Shape Our Lives."
It features our work showing that, across the globe, older sibs' college choices affect those of their younger sibs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/m...
A cityscape at twilight, from the middle of a street.
1. Can you figure out where I was standing when I took this picture?
ChatGPT could. Given the photograph (scrubbed of all header information), the new chain of thought model, ChatGPT o.3, was able to pinpoint the location with a few meters.
This was a productive episode to do since I remain with the thought that the most important area of science we can be engaged in today is the science of scaling, or the science of using science.
09.04.2025 14:24 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Understanding causality vs. correlation is genuinely hard especially on complex topics like inflation. Our research finds that 60% of Americans think high interest rates cause high inflation & support rate cuts to fight it. But high rates usually respond to inflation,not cause it
21.03.2025 14:56 — 👍 187 🔁 39 💬 10 📌 9What better way to start using this platform than to tell you about our Visiting Program on Migration 🌐. Every month a migration expert visits LISER for a few days. Among other things, we made short videos about their latest research, check them out here 👇:
@liser.lu @liser-cb.bsky.social
1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨
How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky
❗Deadline Approaching for SEEDEC 2025!
Don't miss your chance to register for the Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC 2025) in Bonn, Germany!
⏳ Registration deadline: March 1, 2025
🔗 www.nhh.no/en/research-... @vincentsomville.bsky.social
Our practical guide to shift-share IV is now out in the JEP!
www.aeaweb.org/issues/793
(Ungated version: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/el9yn...)
How much student learning do you think a school district could gain just by better assigning its teachers to schools?
Consider a quite politically-feasible change. Do not let district make any assigned teacher worse off, nor change teacher hiring, nor compensation, nor the students.
New evidence!
In case you missed it on the other site: fascinating new [preliminary] RCT evidence that use of chatgpt as an after-school tutoring method in Nigeria *dramatically* shifted learning outcomes #econsky
blogs.worldbank.org/en/education...
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Does the “Boost for Mathematics” Boost Mathematics? A Large-Scale Evaluation of the “Lesson Study” Methodology on Student Performance" by Erik Grönqvist, Björn Öckert, and Olof Rosenqvist. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
19.12.2024 16:51 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 3I'm very excited to join the Brooks School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social in January. And we're hiring pre-doc fellows in development economics! Great 1–2 year PhD preparation. Please share widely! cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...
09.12.2024 23:49 — 👍 123 🔁 18 💬 14 📌 1
We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between evidence and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself?Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question. www.michellerao.com/research
27.11.2024 05:42 — 👍 460 🔁 153 💬 29 📌 52Come work with us on international educational migration! 🌍 We’re hiring a #PreDoc at @eegmpi.bsky.social in Bonn.
Join a team of fantastic researchers to work on an ambitious RCT with real-world impact.
📢 We are excited to hear from you! career.coll.mpg.de/jobposting/c...
#econ_ra #EconSky
The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer K. Kowalski, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price NBER Working Paper No. 33164 November 2024 JEL No. 123, 124, N32 ABSTRACT We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U.S. colleges. By combining these data with more recent survey and administrative data, we assemble the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these students at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century. Second, the representation of upper-income students at elite colleges decreased after World War II, but this group has regained its high representation since the 1980s. Third, while there has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. Fourth, two major policy changes in the history of American higher education, namely the G.I. Bill after World War II and the introduction of standardized tests for admissions, had little success in increasing the representation of lower- and middle-income students at elite colleges.
Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research
Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it
www.nber.org/system/files...
This is really getting quite remarkable
• BlueSky user numbers have doubled in the past week and now total 3.5 million across US & UK 🚀
• Number of people deleting their X/Twitter account remains way up
And the next chart is particularly notable...
"Power Rules: Practical Statistical Power Calculations"
Among other things, I write about how researchers might use pilot data to inform power calculations.
Feedback welcomed!
www.carlislerainey.com/power-rules/...
