Jesse Bruhn

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: @jessebruhn.bsky.social, Michael Gilraine, Jens Ludwig & @sendhil.bsky.social analyze 1.31 billion student-item responses from Texas and find that item-level data contain rich, decision-relevant information that aggregate scores miss.

📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1343

imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone

Unveiling the social fabric through a temporal, nation-scale social network and its characteristics - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Unveiling the social fabric through a temporal, nation-scale social network and its characteristics

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What does the social fabric of an entire country look like?
We built a nation-scale social network of Denmark — 7.2 million people, 1.4 billion ties, 14 years of data.
Here’s what we found 👇
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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YouTube video by NBER Labor Studies, NBER Summer Institute

Next was the highly recommended 1st day of the @nber.org labor studies conference, w/standout talks by M Notowidigdo (returns to permanent residency) C Miller (effects of a criminal record) & @jessebruhn.bsky.social (long-run effects of early career experience) www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mY... (3/4)

Y’all, I wrote a book!

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It seems pretty funny to allow the WSJ to cover a paper and then when it’s revealed to be fraudulent start crying about how it wasn’t even peer reviewed and the system worked etc. Why did our discipline tell the WSJ it was credible if it wasn’t peer reviewed then ?

A bit of personal/professional news: I'm sad to be leaving the wonderful editorial team at @restatjournal.bsky.social now that my terms are up, but excited to be joining AEJ: Applied as editor in January. www.aeaweb.org/news/member-...

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I finally have a publication date for my new Experimental Economics textbook: December 12. Equally as important, I am proud to have negotiated a low price for the book: $38.10...for a nearly 800 page book!
You can find the book here: www.amazon.com/Experimental...

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a man says wherever you go there we are ALT: a man says wherever you go there we are

Our BU Wheelock Education Policy Center is going to be everywhere at next week's AEFP conference!

Between our current faculty and PhD students and our alums, we'll be in 20+ sessions.

Here's what we're presenting:

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2025 Brown Postdoctoral Excellence Awards

Honored to be one of the recipients of the 2025 Brown Postdoctoral Excellence Awards!

Huge thanks to Brown Postdoctoral Affairs for this recognition and to @linzpage.bsky.social and the Annenberg Institute for their support in advancing my research! ¡Seguimos!
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How are parents affected by their kid going to college? How are they affected when their kid gets a scholarship or grant?

New working paper with @palaashbhargava.bsky.social @econsandy.bsky.social @odedgurantz.bsky.social and Rob Fairlie

www.nber.org/papers/w33497

Amazing opportunity!! Send you talented undergrads / soon to be graduates this way 👇

USAID Kept My Troops Safe in Afghanistan If not for American aid, we would have faced more enemies and won fewer friends.

"People who like to sound tough reflexively back the guys with guns over the guys in jeans with sacks of grain or the guys in suits with papers. But take it from someone who spent nearly 1,500 days downrange over the course of 20 years: USAID is worth every penny." www.thebulwark.com/p/usaid-kept...

If the president / secretary of defense really believe that eliminating DEI efforts will make things more "merit" based then they should probably eliminate the explicit veteran preferences in federal hiring too.

The fact that they aren't tells you everything you need to know...

Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago

Army Blackhawk helicopters are crashing into passenger planes at DCA while the Secretary of Defense is on Fox News ranting about DEI

TRUMP'S DANGEROUS FREEZE OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL HIRING Washington, D.C. — Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Aviation Steve Cohen (D-TN) released the following statements after President Trump froze the hiring of Air Traffic Controllers, among other safety-critical positions. "The bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 directs the Administration to hire the maximum number of air traffic controllers. That's what the law says, so the Administration must rescind this ridiculous executive order," Ranking Member Larsen said. "Hiring air traffic controllers is the number one safety issue according to the entire aviation industry. Instead of working to improve aviation safety and lower costs for hardworking American families, the Administration is choosing to spread bogus DEl claims to justify this decision. I'm not surprised by the President's dangerous and divisive actions, but the Administration must reverse course. Let's get back to aviation safety and allow the FAA to do its job protecting the flying public." "Our top priority must be the safety of the flying public so an order freezing the hiring of air traffic controllers is a misguided decision and goes against the directives of our FAA Reauthorization bill," Ranking Member Cohen said. "The aviation community will speak with one voice in condemning this short-sighted policy and reaffirm our

the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin

Racial Discrimination in Contemporary America | CEA | The White House Equal opportunity is the bedrock of American democracy, and our country’s diversity is one of our greatest strengths. However, in recognition of the fact that many Americans still face systemic barrie...

This is highly relevant today. While we can debate the merits of specific 'DEI' policies—some may indeed be misguided—it’s undeniable that racial discrimination persists in this country. The evidence is clear for those willing to engage with it!

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And as a kind of meta-point lurking behind this whole discussion: I think we do research a disservice but ceding the point that we need to have real world impact to justify our existence. So many revolutionary ideas started as shit that smart people thought was cool but that was otherwise useless.

But I just don’t see advocating for that change as part of my job. So many factors go into that which are orthogonal to doing good research and I just have no real desire to make that part of my job.

I mean, don’t get me wrong. I would be pumped if someone read my deployments paper and it led them to ask me to help them make some real changes that would improve veteran well being. And I would definitely be excited to help out.

But I’m content with just being part of that process — I don’t need to see my research have a direct impact to know what I’m doing is worthwhile.

IMO the miracle of academic research is that when you give creative, hard working people the freedom to pursue the things that interest them, then it tends to yields insights that transform the world.

Doesn’t play a role. Directly tracing my impact on the real world is just not how I see my job description.

Now, why anyone get's paid to do what I do is another question and way above my pay grade...

(If only there was a field of academia that made it's intellectual claim-to-fame by studying how society chooses to allocate it's scarce resources. They could probably shed some light...)