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Woot woot! Happy to see this great paper out at QJE!

You should be super proud! Congrats to both of you!

So great to see you from afar and apologies that we didn’t get to catch up!

View of Tampa Bay from 27th floor of Marriott Water Street

Beautiful day at the Southerns and beautiful view from my room on the 27th floor.

Scare quotes around "brilliance" necessary in the former case

Giving them too much credit.

I hope the (not so?) subtle implication of my post is that they're generally not so good when you hand them the keys to the economy, and also not so good when you hand them the keys to our academic departments and institutions.

this ^^^

I agree with you, and am also not hopeful.

From the team that brought you the "Too Big To Fail" financial institutions, it's the "Too Brilliant To Be Held Accountable" men

🤢

only to be ghosted when said pen pal had to report to *prison*

Wish I was there to say hello!

The rot runs deep, my friends. But then I’ve read a lot of EJMR posts, so not much surprises me anymore.

arguably the only *real commonwealth in this discussion

Kentucky! But honestly I really love all the commonwealths. They are all in my top 10 states.

My group at the University of Illinois is hiring a tenure-track applied economist.

We're especially interested in environmental/public reduced-form rookies with research that complements our group.

Tell your students to apply! #EconSky

www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Upjohn Institute announces 2025 Dissertation Award honorees

The Upjohn Institute announces its 2025 Dissertation Award winners.
First Prize:
Lukas Lehner (@lukaslehner.bsky.social)
“Beyond Unemployment: An Investigation of Social Policies to Empower Workers in a Changing World of Work” for Oxford University

www.upjohn.org/Upjohn-Insti...

Screenshot of working paper title, authors, and abstract Increasing Applied STEM Curricular Opportunities in High School and Impacts on Early Post-Secondary Outcomes: The Effect of Project Lead the Way Takako Nomi, Darrin DeChane, Michael Podgursky October 2025 Project Lead the Way (PLTW) is an applied STEM Career Technical Education program that has been adopted widely across the country. Using data from Missouri, we investigate the impact of PLTW course expansion on program participation and early post-secondary outcomes. Our identification strategies rely on within-school between-cohort variation in PLTW course availability. This serves as an instrument to identify program participation impacts. We find that greater PLTW course availability is related to higher program participation, college enrollment, and STEM major declaration with greater benefits for students with strong prior STEM preparation. Males are more responsive to Engineering course expansion and females to Biomedical Science expansion. Participation impacts on five-year STEM major declaration are larger for females than males.

"Increasing Applied STEM Curricular Opportunities in High School and Impacts on Early Post-Secondary Outcomes: The Effect of Project Lead the Way"

Read with much interest with a daughter currently pursuing the PLTW engineering track in high school. Summary here: edworkingpapers.com/policy-pract...

and... Alvin Christian (U of M) presented “Academic Accommodations in Higher Education: Patterns, Predictors, and Impacts” - alvinchristian.com

@alvinchristian.bsky.social

Seth Walker (MSU) presented “Losing Aid, Losing Ground? The Academic and Career Consequences of Financial Aid Loss – Evidence from the TEXAS Grant” - sethwalker.org

Xiaomeng Li (U of M) presented “Learning the Major: The Role of Early Specialization in Educational and Labor Market Outcomes” - xiaomengli.net

Tyler Powell I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Michigan State University. I am on the 2025-26 academic job market. My fields of interest are labor economics and education. My current research focuses on access...

Tyler Powell (MSU) presented "Taking the Long Way Home: The Effects of Bus Commutes on Student Achievement" - sites.google.com/view/tylerep...

Rubina Hundal (UChicago Harris) presented "Effects of Labor Market Exposure on Transition after High School: Experimental Evidence from Urban India" - g-hundal.github.io

@hundal-g.bsky.social

Featuring the job market candidates here:

Christopher Monjaras (Notre Dame) presented "Credit Crunch in the Classroom: School District Financing Under Liquidity Constraints" - cmonjaras.github.io

Highlights of our 2nd annual gathering: the great community of scholars from across midwest institutions, Mike Lovenheim's (Cornell) keynote, "Building State Data Partnerships to Advance Education Policy," and the addition of graduate student flash talks which were -- across the board -- superb.

Picture of Notre Dame campus from the stadium

Midwest Economics of Education Conference sign

Grateful for another chance to co-organize the Midwest Economics of Education Conference with @kmichelmore.bsky.social!

With many thanks to @notredame.bsky.social's Institute for Educational Initiatives, @upjohninstitute.bsky.social, @statacorp.bsky.social, and @arnoldventures.bsky.social.

Oh that sounds fun. I’m always looking for *more opportunities to talk to insurance providers.

Trump asleep during Oval Office meeting

Me, when my husband and I are watching a movie and he asks if I’m falling asleep: “I’m just resting my eyes!”

- when similarity is measured only relative to female cmte members, gender gap disappears

which, OF COURSE, means that research similarity bias can act as a barrier in male-dominated areas and shapes who gets promoted and the diversity of ideas in academia

But, really, is it economics? 😉

The authors find that:
- promotion candidates whose research is more similar to the committee are more likely to win
- avg similarity does not differ by gender, but women have lower maximum similarity to cmte members, mainly driven by committee members being mostly male (shocked, I tell ya)

Screenshot of abstract of paper: We investigate the extent to which research similarity between senior and junior researchers is related to promotion in academia and study implications for gender diversity among academic staff. Using data on the universe of job applications for tenure track assistant professor positions in economics in Italy, and applying NLP techniques (i.e., document embeddings) to the abstract of each publication of the scholars in our dataset, we propose a novel measure of research similarity that can capture the closeness in research topics, methodologies or policy relevance between candidates and members of selection committees. We show that the degree of similarity is strongly associated with the probability of winning. Moreover, while there are no gender differences in mean similarity, the maximum similarity with selection committee members is lower for female candidates. This gender gap disappears when similarity is calculated focusing only on female committee members. The results suggest that similarity bias in male-dominated environments may have implications for gender and research diversity.

📣 BUT IS IT ECONOMICS?

*New at EJ* “Research Similarity and Women in Academia,” Piera Bello, Alessandra Casarico & @deboranozza.bsky.social, on role of research similarity btw applicants & selection committees for academic promotions, and the implications for gender diversity: tinyurl.com/mrd8cpkf