@profsimonb.bsky.social
Researching pupils, teachers and schools. Professor of Economics, University of Bristol. FBA. Views my own.
We usually rely on GDP, trade, or wages to study the past. This amazing paper flips the script.
It analyzes 630,000 paintings (1400-2000) to extract emotions and shows how art tracks living standards, wars, inequality, and even climate shocks.
(How is this economics? Everything is economics!)
Go on … switch it … what could possibly go wrong ??? (Note that I disclaim any responsibility)
22.08.2025 10:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are looking for a postdoc to work on exciting RCTs circling around scaling up mentoring interventions, starting in July 2026 💪🏻🚀
Amazing team at @ifoeducation.bsky.social & the perfect place to thrive with ifo, @cesifo.org + @econmunich.bsky.social 🫶🏻🌟
Please share widely 🙏🙏
Link below 👇
Our paper made it to TikTok!
lnkd.in/e5U3ECp9
#econsky
Proud to have named this new seminar series designed to help education researchers navigate the new landscape we're in.
I hope the name conveys the optimism that there is a destination worth reaching on the other side of this.
Sign-up here for the first session: aefpweb.org/ev_calendar_...
The Harvard Graduate School of Education started a small online master's program for education leaders during COVID
It has been a great success
Now we are launching an online program for *international* education leaders
Apps due in early July
www.gse.harvard.edu/degrees/mast...
Chart shows the effects of Sure Start on academic achievements by age, SEN support by age, probability of hospitalisation by age and criminal behaviour up to age 16.
NEW: Sure Start generated widespread, long-lasting benefits for children in education, health, absences, and SEND.
Every £1 of up-front spending on Sure Start could generate around £2 in total benefits over the long run.
THREAD on our new @nuffieldfoundation.org-funded report:
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Day 3 of the 2025 Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM)! After two fantastic days on development economics, we continue with the meeting on “Gender, Diversity, and Human Capital”. Stay tuned for some excellent papers!
08.05.2025 07:13 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
@saralowes.bsky.social delivers a keynote lecture on "Culture and Development Policy" discussing how culture shapes incentives, persists and evolves, and documenting cultural mismatches between policymakers and target populations
06.05.2025 13:20 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Welcome to the 2025 Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM)! We’re kicking off with Development Economics. We have an exciting lineup of speakers, incl. @saralowes.bsky.social as keynote and Devesh Rustagi & @deanyang.bsky.social as invited speakers. Stay tuned for one key takeaway per talk!
06.05.2025 08:36 — 👍 32 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2
"ChatGPT as Economics Tutor: Capabilities and Limitations"
econpapers.repec.org/paper/briuob...
New funding & immigration schemes to attract top scientific talent from abroad to EU universities would have a measurable impact on European innovation over a 5-year horizon - 87% of top European economists agree @kentclarkcenter.bsky.social
#ChooseEurope
www.kentclarkcenter.org/filterable-c...
This lunchtime
27.03.2025 09:53 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Out tomorrow: our @nuffieldfoundation.org report "Inequalities in Access to Professional Occupations" @clairetyler.bsky.social & Catherine Dilnot
Why are working class & ethnic minority young people underrepresented in professional jobs? Do they not apply? OR do they apply, but just not get hired?
Two weeks left to submit your papers to the BÆM development workshop in Bristol! 👉https://www.baem.info/
14.02.2025 10:52 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Keep your papers coming and join us for the Bristol Applied Economics Meeting (BÆM) on Development Economics, May 6-7!
📢 Invited talks by the brilliant @saralowes.bsky.social, Devesh Rustagi & @deanyang.bsky.social
📅 Submission deadline: Feb 28.
Details here👉http://baem.info
Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
This is joint work with Eric Taylor (Harvard) and Shenila Rawal (OPERA) and provides RCT evidence on the effectiveness of teacher peer observation.
One key finding is that the pupils of the ^observing^ teachers gain more than the pupils of the ^observed^ pupils.
Very pleased to be cited in the just-published Economic Report of the President 2025: www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-..., in the section on maximising educators’ potential.
13.01.2025 12:34 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Image of Education Director Josh Hillman and the words - The IFS’s analysis outlines the complex web of factors influencing the government’s decision-making on funding for the early years, school pupils, and further and higher education students.
The latest #NuffieldFunded annual report on education spending in England from @theifs.bsky.social delivers independent analysis of the winners & losers.
Key insights include:
📉 A continued spending squeeze for schools & colleges
📈 Some gains for the under-5s
Read it here:
ow.ly/9qVA50UBKB4
Also true of Banglasheshi students who now outperform White British students at GCSE despite having significantly lower average incomes.
08.01.2025 13:22 — 👍 58 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Students of Pakistani origin are now more likely to go university than white British. Just one of many datapoints showing why Jenrick's comments were so profoundly ignorant.
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I didn’t hear of it, but maybe I was too young …
I’d definitely left Oxford by the 1930s …. 👨🦳
03.01.2025 18:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#EconConf
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This morning, around sunrise, a short walk from home in North Somerset. About -6deg C.
This field is patrolled by Barn Owls, which we saw about an hour later.
Not a new paper, but a new presentation & discussion of a previous paper.
An interview and discussion of our paper on school admissions and inequality (some nice work by our uni Bristol marketing team!)
www.bristol.ac.uk/research/imp...
🚨 We are hiring!
The #OECD is looking to hire one or several Economists / Policy Analysts to work on labour market and social policy, including on #inequalities.
The vacancy is open until 3 January 2025.
Please spread the word, retweet and apply! #EconSky
smrtr.io/pfCMb
Looking at it now again (it came about 24 hours ago) , it’s described as from a deleted account, so maybe that’s a good sign.
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