Jo R. King

Prospective PhD Students:

I am planning to accept a PhD student for AY 2026-27 in the economics and education program at Teachers College. Apply if you want to use the economics of education to study immigration or politics/political engagement and public schools. :-)

Come work with us! We’re really excited about our research on attendance and chronic absenteeism. And we’d be really excited to work with you! Reach out if you have any questions.

Detroit-based preferred, but remote might be possible. Start as early as Dec 2025 or later in Spring/Summer 2026.

Hi everyone. Some exciting news. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Public Policy here at Rockefeller College. We are pretty flexible on topic areas. We have a great team here and Albany is a great place to live. #econsky #academicsky

Posting: albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

TLDR; predominantly Black schools and Black students tend to be overpoliced; we provide recommendations for policy, practice, and research for both education and police actors.

We find that:
1. Interventions are concentrated in predominantly Black schools,
2. Differences in student characteristics and behavior do not explain this concentration-- but differences in teacher resource do,
3. Disparities in intervention are greatest in areas with greater white enrollment

Overpoliced? A Descriptive Portrait of School-Based Targeted Police Interventions in New York City - Jo R. King, Luis A. Rodriguez, 2025 This study provides a descriptive analysis of police intervention as a response to student behavior in New York City public schools. We find that between the 20...

First pub on the tenure track! 📣🎉

Stoked to see my work with Luis Rodriguez out in AERA-Open. We provide evidence regarding the distribution of different types police interventions in NYC public schools across school-level demographic characteristics.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Assistant or Associate Professor in Educational Policy Studies - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

🚨 Come join us in Ed Policy at @uwmadison.bsky.social! We're hiring an Asst/Assoc Prof studying the intersection of education and the environment. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

📢 Job Posting! 📢 We are hiring TWO postdocs at Detroit PEER at Wayne State (detroitpeer.org)! We are looking for one quant/mixed methods expert and one qual/mixed expert to work with me & @jeremylsinger.bsky.social on attendance research. Apply by Oct. 10, but flexible on start date! Please share!

My department is searching for two tenure-line positions to start in August 2026. Come join our growing team and make a difference in building the future!

Assistant professor of higher education: apply.interfolio.com/172680

Associate/full professor of education policy: apply.interfolio.com/172632

Let's go! The School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a tenure track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in artificial intelligence in K-12 education starting July 1, 2026. (1/2) unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/305...

Running my robustness checks and sorting through all the .tex output to see if they pass like

Come work with us!

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

The day Rihanna releases new music is the day that the economy /really/ implodes

Tuxedo cat perched on mattress looking very accusatory

Tuxedo cat asleep on mattress

Displeased about moving; too sleepy to do anything about it

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dream crossover episode 🤩

In Search of Equity, WNBA Players Have a Nobel Laureate on Their Side Harvard economist Claudia Goldin, who focuses on the role of women in the American economy, has been advising the WNBPA in its CBA negotiations.

Spent a bit of time at the WNBA All-Star Game chatting with a new basketball fan: Harvard economist Claudia Goldin, who has been advising the WNBA players in their labor negotiations, part of a more robust strategy this year from the union

@robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social let me post the working paper

Why doesn't police reform work? Because police depts can't credibly commit to their end of the bargain (doing more/better/riskier work in exchange for more $)

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/35o94...

Last week just-out work by @joshua-goodman.com & @abbyfrancis.bsky.social was featured on the @educationnext.bsky.social podcast. Listen for interesting convo of key insights and implications.

www.educationnext.org/the-educatio...

Full policy brief at: wheelockpolicycenter.org/high-quality...

Kinda slays

I'm grateful to have been able to leave, but yeesh is it painful to watch from afar.

Coeur d'Alene was my hometown-- special sort of white nationalist, militia, conservatism that has been brewing here for decades that's been spilling over the past few years:

2022: www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/u...
2024: www.teenvogue.com/story/north-...
2025: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

Need your Letterboxd reviews on all of these!

Mine:

🔥What’s the only thing hotter than this week’s weather?🔥

Our new @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social working paper:

“School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic”

In it, BU Wheelock PhD @abbyfrancis.bsky.social and I ask:

Has the pandemic permanently changed families' schooling choices?

She is! Mostly because of the green eyes

Came across one of my favorite personal examples of potentially misleading data visualization-- two data points and the y-axis truncated between 10.5 and 11.2 so the vet could really highlight my cat's seemingly rapid path toward feline obesity (she is perfectly healthy)

Abstract of CALDER working paper, Impacts of Staff Turnover on Test Scores for Students with and without Disabilities."

New @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! A study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @natejones.bsky.social‬, & @lizbettini.bsky.social. We find staff turnover matters for SWDs. Ungated WP & one pager:
• Working paper: tinyurl.com/j3rykkp9
• One-pager: tinyurl.com/bddtzxtp

AEFP Board Nomination Form Please complete the form below if you are potentially interested in being a candidate or if you know someone who you believe could be a good fit for the AEFP Board of Directors. Board terms are three ...

Help needed! Please provide us with nominations (including self-nominations) for the AEFP Board of Directors by 5/27. We're looking for potential at-large members, governmental affiliates, teacher org affiliates, & president-elects. Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Here's the thread I wrote earlier this year about the history of TPS -- a policy that gives temporary legal status to immigrants.

SCOTUS ruled today Trump is allowed to revoke TPS of almost 350,000 people, unilaterally making these people undocumented overnight.