Doug McKee

Know anyone interested in doing a postdoc on Interdisciplinary Education Research at Cornell? Great opportunity to work in a great community! More info here: cder.as.cornell.edu/cider-postdo...

Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Cornell Collaborative for International Development Economics Research (CIDER), Cornell University CIDER: The Cornell Collaborative for International Development Economics Research (CIDER) is a new cross-campus venture at Cornell University encompassing 23 faculty from multiple units across the Cor...

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CIDER development economics pre-doc fellows program now accepting applications for a July 2025 start date. Come work with me, Jenny Aker, John Hoddinott, Martina Occelli, Heather Schofield, Joanna Upton, @johanneshaushofer.com, and more cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

Former Ghana leader pulls off historic comeback after crucial presidential election | CNN Ghana’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has conceded defeat a day after a tense presidential election, marking a historic political comeback for former one-term leader and opposition presidential cand...

Ghana has problems, but regular, no-fuss democratic alternation is not one of them. www.cnn.com/2024/12/08/a...

Love to see this story on the front page of The NY Times! Thank you @scwolla.bsky.social ! #FREDisindeedawesome

My first was a red 1989 Honda CRX (like this one). Loved it so much. It was so light you could nose into a parking spot and then get a friend to help drag the tail in. external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%...

Celebrate the submissions, be calm about the decisions—Lots to celebrate today! #ctree2025 #assa2025 #eea2025

Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap between Immigrants and the US-Born, 1870–2020† By Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, Santiago Pérez, and Juan David Torres* We provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than the US-born for 150 years. Moreover, relative to the US-born, immigrants’ incarceration rates have declined since 1960: immigrants today are 60 percent less likely to be incarcerated (30 percent relative to US-born Whites). This relative decline occurred among immigrants from all regions and cannot be explained by changes in observable characteristics or immigration policy. Instead, the decline is part of a broader divergence of outcomes between less-educated immigrants and their US-born counterparts.

Panels plotting incarceration rates for immigrants and US-born men between 1870 and 2019. Data are restricted to males ages 18–40. Data spanning 1870–1940 are from the full-count decennial censuses. Data spanning 1950–1990 are from the largest available subsamples from the corresponding decennial censuses. Data from 2005 onward are from the annual ACS. Cross markers indicate that fewer than 10,000 immigrants were used to calculate the corresponding incarceration rate. Panel A compares US-born men to all immigrants. Panels B–F compare US-born men to immigrants from a particular country-of-origin group. “Old Europeans” are immigrants from countries in the north and west of Europe. “New Europeans” are immigrants from countries in eastern and southern Europe. The “Rest of the world” category includes immigrants from countries not included in panels B–F. Migrants typically show lower incarceration rates

accounting for individual-level characteristics, migrants as a group or by subgroups (old Europeans, new Europeans, Chinese, Mexicans and Central Americans, or Rest of the World) are incarcerated at lower rates

I've posted several times about the working paper, but the publication on "AER: Insights" is a good occasion to do it again: immigrants to the US have been less likely to be incarcerated for over 50 years **even without controlling for demographic characteristics.**
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I def learn about what my students have learned from grading the first 10-20 exams but after that it’s a terrible chore. Thank goodness for TAs! (My classes are 100-300 students)

Totally true—we need to unteach misconceptions as much as teach new concepts in our intro courses. At least it gets better in the more advanced courses

I am getting more engaged on here and looking to help. I created a #Teachecon starter pack but want to make sure I didn’t miss anyone. Here is what I have so for, please share with reply with who I missed

go.bsky.app/NrQoJEn

This book looks fun—I’m slowly making my way through Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver. Good story, likeable characters, a little spooky, perfect comfort food!

My older is applying for the driving learner’s permit.
Kid: I don’t think I want to be an organ donor.
Me: Why?
Kid: Oh wait—They mean after you die.

I’ve heard wonderful things about this department AND Purdue as an institution seems to really value Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER) #teachecon

The CTREE submission deadline (Dec 1) always conflicts with the Thanksgiving holiday, but the calendar makes work life balance particularly tough this year. #teachecon

Sci-fi is so much better on book form. Maybe try some audiobooks? Fire Beyond the Deep by Vernor Vinge is one of my faves. And if you want darker more ambitious more complicated than the Expanse, Alasdair Reynolds work is incredible. Start with Chasm City.

I just saw this the other day and loved it. I didn’t find it creepy, but then I was shocked after the fact to hear it described as a “psychological thriller”—and I especially loved the ending!!

As much as I hate grading exams, it is really valuable to learn what mistakes your students are making

Just discovered the Science Fiction Book Review Podcast—Great for having semi-conversations about books you’ve read in case no one you know has also read them! Thx @lukeburrage.bsky.social and Juliane Kunzendorf Berlin (not yet on Bsky)

Me too! I’ll def be at CTREE in June, though that’s a long way’s off. Hope you’re having a great conference!!

Sad not to be at #SEA this weekend-My flight got so delayed I was going to be arriving in DC at 3am (assuming no further delays) so I just drove home. Hope to see everyone at CTREE!!

I'm excited and on the road too as long as you define "on the road" as marooned at the Syracuse airport for 8 hours. Sigh.

Free at last!

First post! Duke’s policy school is trying to hire two awesome Econ lecturers—can some folks that actually know something about teaching apply for these please? academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26469