Jonathan Smith
@jonisaacsmith.bsky.social
Education economist and professor @ Georgia State University, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Economics Department | Co-editor Economics of Education Review | https://sites.google.com/site/jonathansmithphd/
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,” by Chetty (@Oppinsights), Deming, and Friedman: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges*
Abstract. We use anonymized admissions data from several colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and ACT test scores to study the determinants and ca
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November 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,” by Chetty (@Oppinsights), Deming, and Friedman: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition
www.vox.com/politics/466...
www.vox.com/politics/466...
The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi
Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.
www.vox.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition
www.vox.com/politics/466...
www.vox.com/politics/466...
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Econ of Ed (and other) friends: what are the best studies linking in-college interventions to labor market outcomes? Especially interested in those that improve outcomes via different mechanism than completion. E.g. if a college wants to improve earnings of grads, what should they do?
October 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Econ of Ed (and other) friends: what are the best studies linking in-college interventions to labor market outcomes? Especially interested in those that improve outcomes via different mechanism than completion. E.g. if a college wants to improve earnings of grads, what should they do?
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Meet the 2025–2026 job market candidates from GSU Economics! 🎉
@gsueconomics.bsky.social #econsky
👇 Here’s a quick introduction to each candidate.
@gsueconomics.bsky.social #econsky
👇 Here’s a quick introduction to each candidate.
September 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Meet the 2025–2026 job market candidates from GSU Economics! 🎉
@gsueconomics.bsky.social #econsky
👇 Here’s a quick introduction to each candidate.
@gsueconomics.bsky.social #econsky
👇 Here’s a quick introduction to each candidate.
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Huge thanks to @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social for arranging my visit.
GSU has an impressive econ department, full of great applied micro folks and the Georgia Policy Lab that supports work directly relevant to improving public policy.
GSU has an impressive econ department, full of great applied micro folks and the Georgia Policy Lab that supports work directly relevant to improving public policy.
What better way to end my trip to Georgia State University, then to run into Chloe Gibbs coming back from giving a talk at Duke!
When the Boston and South Bend gates are next to each other at ATL… great to see @joshua-goodman.com on his way home from Georgia State on my way home from Duke!
September 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Huge thanks to @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social for arranging my visit.
GSU has an impressive econ department, full of great applied micro folks and the Georgia Policy Lab that supports work directly relevant to improving public policy.
GSU has an impressive econ department, full of great applied micro folks and the Georgia Policy Lab that supports work directly relevant to improving public policy.
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Our 2nd annual @gsueconomics.bsky.social PhD Summer Symposium was a success! 🎉 It was great to showcase our GSU Economics JMCs for 2025–26.
Thanks to @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social y.social for co-organizing, and a big thank-you to our endowed chairs for sponsoring this event!
Thanks to @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social y.social for co-organizing, and a big thank-you to our endowed chairs for sponsoring this event!
August 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Our 2nd annual @gsueconomics.bsky.social PhD Summer Symposium was a success! 🎉 It was great to showcase our GSU Economics JMCs for 2025–26.
Thanks to @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social y.social for co-organizing, and a big thank-you to our endowed chairs for sponsoring this event!
Thanks to @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social y.social for co-organizing, and a big thank-you to our endowed chairs for sponsoring this event!
Sounds about right to me.
"[Black] students initially enrolling in a HBCU are 14.6 percentage pts more likely to earn a bachelor's degree and, ... have higher household income and more student loan balances... driven by relatively broad-access HBCUs in lieu of a two-year college or no college." www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes
(August 2025) - Using data from nearly 1.2 million Black SAT takers, we find that students initially enrolling in a historically Black college and university (HBCU) are 14.6 percentage points more lik...
www.aeaweb.org
July 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Sounds about right to me.
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Hopkins shows clearly that this is not about wokeness, or antisemitism, or whatever other excuse they may claim. It’s about bringing universities to heel, following the playbook of authoritarians everywhere.
June 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Hopkins shows clearly that this is not about wokeness, or antisemitism, or whatever other excuse they may claim. It’s about bringing universities to heel, following the playbook of authoritarians everywhere.
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It's a paper about voting, yes. But really, it's a paper about peer effects.
We think we are uniquely able to identify causal peer effects in a vitally important behavior.
We think we are uniquely able to identify causal peer effects in a vitally important behavior.
Did you know that your siblings can influence whether you vote?
Well, because of our new working paper you do!
@mike-bloem.bsky.social, @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social, sam imlay
Well, because of our new working paper you do!
@mike-bloem.bsky.social, @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social, sam imlay
June 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It's a paper about voting, yes. But really, it's a paper about peer effects.
We think we are uniquely able to identify causal peer effects in a vitally important behavior.
We think we are uniquely able to identify causal peer effects in a vitally important behavior.
Deep cut. And better/accurate spelling of Marcia.
Greg voted for Pat Conway over Marcia :)
June 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Deep cut. And better/accurate spelling of Marcia.
Depends on whether Marsha voted. Marsha, Marsha, Marsha..
So did the Brady brunch always vote or never vote? Need to think about real world implications
June 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Depends on whether Marsha voted. Marsha, Marsha, Marsha..
The suspense is killing me...I hope it will last.
We are now!!
June 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The suspense is killing me...I hope it will last.
I'm lucky enough to have Alex as my new-ish colleague! Go @gsueconomics.bsky.social!
Super interesting column @equitablegrowth.bsky.social by Alex Bell on how identification by anti-instruments reveals attribute tradeoffs, applied to job quality.
Got to see him present it @upjohninstitute.bsky.social recently. New & interesting.
#EconSky
equitablegrowth.org/the-hidden-t...
Got to see him present it @upjohninstitute.bsky.social recently. New & interesting.
#EconSky
equitablegrowth.org/the-hidden-t...
The hidden trade-offs of nonwage job amenities for U.S. workers
Research shows that “amenity trade-offs” can account for as much as two-thirds of the gender pay gap.
equitablegrowth.org
June 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I'm lucky enough to have Alex as my new-ish colleague! Go @gsueconomics.bsky.social!
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Very cool to see this paper (my former JMP!) forthcoming at one of my favorite journals!
Early view from JPAM: "Time to baccalaureate degree in the labor market: Evidence from a field experiment" by Michael Bloem (@mike-bloem.bsky.social) from College Board (@collegeboardpress.bsky.social).
doi.org/10.1002/pam.....
doi.org/10.1002/pam.....
Time to baccalaureate degree in the labor market: Evidence from a field experiment
I study whether the amount of time students take to complete their bachelor's degree affects labor outcomes after graduation using a resume-based field experiment. I randomly assign a time to degree ...
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April 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Very cool to see this paper (my former JMP!) forthcoming at one of my favorite journals!
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Congrats to our own Economics faculty member @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social for receiving the 2025 GSU Ignite Faculty Research Partnership Award for his work with Achieve Atlanta !!!
Economist Jonathan Smith Receives Georgia State Ignite Research Award news.gsu.edu/2025/04/04/e...
Economist Jonathan Smith Receives Georgia State Ignite Research Award news.gsu.edu/2025/04/04/e...
Economist Jonathan Smith Receives Georgia State Ignite Research Award
The Faculty Research Partnership Award recognizes an individual who, in partnership with an external, non-academic entity, conducts research that makes a significant impact.
news.gsu.edu
April 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Congrats to our own Economics faculty member @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social for receiving the 2025 GSU Ignite Faculty Research Partnership Award for his work with Achieve Atlanta !!!
Economist Jonathan Smith Receives Georgia State Ignite Research Award news.gsu.edu/2025/04/04/e...
Economist Jonathan Smith Receives Georgia State Ignite Research Award news.gsu.edu/2025/04/04/e...
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March 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
March 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
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"International students increase schools’ funding via tuition payments, which leads to increased in-state enrollment and lower tuition prices."
Link to working paper below
Link to working paper below
March 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"International students increase schools’ funding via tuition payments, which leads to increased in-state enrollment and lower tuition prices."
Link to working paper below
Link to working paper below
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This is the way. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
www.theatlantic.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This is the way. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Access to public four-year colleges boosts earnings and stability. @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social, @joshua-goodman.com, and Michael Hurwitz analyze college access’s long-term effects, showing students gain greater career mobility and security.
doi.org/10.3368/jhr....
doi.org/10.3368/jhr....
March 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Access to public four-year colleges boosts earnings and stability. @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social, @joshua-goodman.com, and Michael Hurwitz analyze college access’s long-term effects, showing students gain greater career mobility and security.
doi.org/10.3368/jhr....
doi.org/10.3368/jhr....
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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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
New working paper with @palaashbhargava.bsky.social @econsandy.bsky.social @odedgurantz.bsky.social and Rob Fairlie
www.nber.org/papers/w33497
February 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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
New working paper with @palaashbhargava.bsky.social @econsandy.bsky.social @odedgurantz.bsky.social and Rob Fairlie
www.nber.org/papers/w33497
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🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟
#EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC
educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer
#EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC
educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer
Education Data Explorer
Explore education data
educationdata.urban.org
February 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟
#EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC
educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer
#EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC
educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer