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Had a lovely time at book event for Having It All by @corinnelow.com last night. Can’t put this book down now that I’ve started it! Highly recommend.
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by Joshua Goodman

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The comms team @buwheelock.bsky.social is dragging this text-based poster into the age of video communication.

Below I explain why you should join us tomorrow for a webinar on the ongoing enrollment shifts out of public schools and into private and home schools.

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Recently released BU Wheelock research shows that five years after the pandemic's onset, Massachusetts' enrollment is down 2% in public schools, up 16% in private schools, and up 50% in home s...
Recently released BU Wheelock research shows that five years after the pandemic's onset, Massachusetts' enrollment is down 2% in public schools, up 16% in private schools, and up 50% in home schools. ...
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by Joshua Goodman

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Now this is social science that I can live with.
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Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Elizabeth Saunders

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SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵
DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees
Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.
www.aip.org
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Crazy, Waymo is soon going to be in London AND Tokyo, AND New York
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by Joshua Goodman

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I just had a great experience with Econ of Ed Review.
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Anybody know any econ of education journals that take short papers?
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Don't forget that the deadline for SOLE is coming up. The meeting will be in Denver on May 1-2 this year.

I am a big fan of SOLE and will be on the program committee reviewing higher education papers, so *definitely* submit if you have papers in higher education.

Link below
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by Joshua Goodman

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My favorite part is the "respectfully", which 100% of the time signals the opposite.
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by Maya Sen — Reposted by Joshua Goodman

mayasen.bsky.social
“Less qualified than an economist?” is legitimately a very funny response to someone calling RFK Jr unqualified
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Reposted by Joshua Goodman

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Administrators at Harvard University said that the majority of the school’s research grants canceled by the Trump administration have been restored following a federal judge’s ruling last month that the cuts were illegal.
Harvard says majority of research funding canceled by Trump has been restored - The Boston Globe
A federal judge ruled last month that the Trump administration's cuts were illegal. But the administration has vowed to appeal the ruling and declared Harvard ineligible for future grants.
trib.al
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Reposted by Joshua Goodman

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It's that time of year to start thinking about who you'd like to nominate for an AEFP award (4 options: early career, dissertation, use of evidence in policy/practice & justice, equity diversity inclusion). Get your noms in by 12/5! And thanks!
aefpweb.org/awards @aefpweb.bsky.social
AEFP
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by Joshua Goodman

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I'll shortly write a longer post, but I just wanted to say that I'm ranking Burhan Azeem as my #1 City Council choice, largely because of his relentless and successful push to fix our city's housing policy (largely by eliminating zoning restrictions that drive up rents and sales prices).
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Cllr. Burhan Azeem @burhanazeem.bsky.social · 1d
For the first time in a generation, triple-deckers and affordable apartments are legal again in Cambridge.

Impossible? It wasn’t.
Inevitable? It’s wasn’t that either.
It was a choice.

Vote Burhan #1 on Nov 4th and keep choosing housing.
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Reposted by Joshua Goodman

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For the first time in a generation, triple-deckers and affordable apartments are legal again in Cambridge.

Impossible? It wasn’t.
Inevitable? It’s wasn’t that either.
It was a choice.

Vote Burhan #1 on Nov 4th and keep choosing housing.
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Reposted by Joshua Goodman

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Hey Bluesky friends, how can we get more folks on the left to support gifted education? Would my 3 ideas help? schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/how-can-we...
How can we depolarize “gifted education”?
SCHOOLED | Monday, 10/14/25
schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com
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Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Christian Odendahl, Caroline Krafft , and 2 more

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I’ve decided not to post my annual “women on the Econ job market” thread this year. Social media has splintered too much, and now that I’ve left academia I’m focused on other priorities.
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by Trevon D. Logan — Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Aaron Sojourner

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Through segregation, violence, redlining, and sundown towns, Black families traveled. How did they know where to go? What places were safe? What places were welcoming? Search the data on this important part of American history: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap
#EconSky
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Reposted by Joshua Goodman

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It looks like a bubble to us:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...
Opinion | A.I. Sure Looks Like a Bubble. Watch Out When It Pops.
www.nytimes.com
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by Aaron Sojourner — Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Brendan Nyhan, Scott A. Imberman , and 1 more

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The Friends of BLS steering committee is sponsoring a member webinar noon to 1pm ET Thurs, Oct 23.

We aim to build nonpartisan support for a strong BLS & need your perspectives & energy.

Former Commissioners @ericagroshen.bsky.social, William Beach, & @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social will...
#EconSky
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by Michael A. Clemens — Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Nathan Nunn, Mariapia Mendola , and 1 more

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Innovation is at the center of economic growth. Congratulations to three who’ve taught us so much.

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Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Kris Inwood

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I hope philosophers of science will chime in on the Prize Committee's discussion about kinds of knowledge, and its dissemination, as drivers of innovation and competition: www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2025... #PhilSci #NobelPrize
Useful knowledge So – what creates this sustained economic growth? This year’s laureates used different methods to answer this question. Through his research in economic history, Joel Mokyr has demonstrated that a continual flow of useful knowledge is necessary. This useful knowledge has two parts: the first is what Mokyr refers to as propositional knowledge, a systematic description of regularities in the natural world that demonstrate why something works; the second is prescriptive knowledge, such as practical instructions, drawings or recipes that describe what is necessary for something to work. Mokyr shows that prior to the Industrial Revolution, technological innovation was primarily based on prescriptive knowledge. People knew that something worked, but not why. Propositional knowledge, such as in mathematics and natural philosophy, was developed without reference to prescriptive knowledge, which made it difficult, even impossible, to build upon existing knowledge. Attempted innovations were often haphazard or had approaches that someone with adequate propositional knowledge would have understood were futile – such as building a perpetual motion machine or using alchemy to make gold.
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Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Yves Zénou, Ryan Enos , and 3 more

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🎖️ The Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt!

Over the last two centuries the world has seen sustained economic growth. This year’s laureates explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress.

#PrizeinEconomicSciences #NobelPrize
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Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Sascha O. Becker

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If you're teaching causal inference here is a podcast on the topic 4 non-Econ.
Thanks 2 R. Taylor (staggered DID), @essobecker.bsky.social (IV), & S. Rahman (RDD), for thoughtful chats 📚 problem sets available 2.
m.youtube.com/@embracingda...
#CausalEffects #Econ #Teaching #Podcast #EmbracingData
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Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Jennifer Clark, Melanie C. Green , and 1 more

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I missed this yesterday: the AAU has come out against the compact. I am pleasantly surprised. I think it makes it pretty hard for any university to accept the deal now, with a possible exception of Texas. www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...
We have significant concerns, however, about any compact or policy that could damage or depart from our nations competitive merit base system for research grant funding. That system has been the foundation for science and and innovation for decades. Since World War II that special partnership among the federal government, industry, and research universities has fueled tremendous growth in our economy and educated the next generation of highly skilled American workforce contributed to the health of our people and made our nation more safe and secure.
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by Kevin Carey — Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Jonathan Hopkin, Laurent Pech , and 2 more

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It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Adam Gamoran

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New working paper on contemporary child labor in the U.S. and its impacts on school attendance ⬇️

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With absolute dream team @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social @stevebholt.bsky.social & PhD student Ji Hyun Byeon
Contemporary Child Labor and Declining School Attendance in the U.S.
The United States has experienced a 400% increase in reported child labor violations over the past decade, coinciding with declines in K-12 school attendance and enrollment. We examine the causal rela...
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Kim L. Scheppele, Lisa W. Fazio , and 4 more

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Every targeted institution (my own very much included) should cut and paste this letter onto their letterhead.
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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 5d
A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
Dear Madam Secretary, I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters. I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education. As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples: • MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions. • MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%. source: https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact • We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree. These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law. The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education. As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation. Sincerely, Sally Kornbluth
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We will continue to work hard on attracting outstanding economists from around the world to Zurich, including from the U.S., and on raising the resources needed to support them—especially during the current, special times in the international higher education landscape.

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Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Dani Rodrik, Stephen M. Walt , and 51 more

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I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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