Joshua Goodman

@joshua-goodman.com

10K followers 490 following 1.9K posts

Education economist @ BU Wheelock & Economics Dept | Wheelock Education Policy Center | Co-editor @ JHR | White House CEA 2022-23 | www.joshua-goodman.com

Videos

Education 57%

Economics 13%

Posts Replies Media Videos

Pinned

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 2d

Just got the best out-of-office message I've ever seen from a fellow academic:

"I am currently away on leave. If this is an emergency... well, I doubt it. What could possibly be an emergency in my line of work?"

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1h

@abbyfrancis.bsky.social

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1h

As I read the comments more carefully, I'm very impressed with refine.ink. If you want a free review of your first paper, use this link to sign up:

www.refine.ink?ref=ZWRlY2pv...

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1h

It's definitely catching weaknesses of interpretation of tables, inconsistences in numbers, empirical questions, etc. Feedback is of the form:

"Tension between Table 3 results and textual summary"
"Contradiction in interpreting completion elasticities"
"Handling of ... in log-level specification"

Reposted by Joshua Goodman

Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 2h

5 years post-pandemic, Massachusetts public schools have seen sustained enrollment declines. Is this a temporary disruption, or did the pandemic change how families evaluate schools?

@joshua-goodman.com, Abigail Francis, & James Wyckoff will dig into the data with Susanna Loeb.

buff.ly/dByipCW

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 3h

@bengolub.bsky.social

Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 3h

I just used refine.ink to proofread a paper that's nearly ready for circulation.

It had 23 comments. The first caught us using "reduces" instead of "increases" when describing our main treatment effect in the abstract.

I highly endorse this tool for preventing such embarassing errors!

refine

AI feedback for research.

refine.ink

Reposted by Alistair Munro, Joshua Goodman

Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · 13h

Full paper here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/65r3g...

www.dropbox.com

Reposted by Brad R. Humphreys, Joshua Goodman, Kathleen J. Mullen , and 1 more Brad R. Humphreys, Joshua Goodman, Kathleen J. Mullen, Todd Pugatch

Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 17h

If anyone has a job market paper they would like me to repost, tag me and I will do my best to do so! Would love to follow what people are working on more closely.

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Scott A. Imberman

Brian Heseung Kim @brhkim.bsky.social · 20h

🚨Calling all education+social science researchers! 🚨

For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse!
www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...

A screenshot of the title page of the Common App Call for Research Proposals, AY 2025-2026. The Executive Summary and main requirements for the Letter of Intent are visible. Exact text can be found at the link in the main post.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Joshua Goodman, David R. Miller , and 2 more Brendan Nyhan, Joshua Goodman, David R. Miller, Todd Pugatch, David L. Anderson

Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 22h

This is such a bizarre talking point; I've thankfully never had to use most of the types of insurance that I have for me and my family

This is a good excuse to share my WSJ letter to the editor explaining that "not filing a claim doesn’t mean you didn’t need insurance" www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Reposted by Joshua Goodman

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23h

Lol look at education shining

Screenshot of article which reads: On the other hand, four of the five programs not included as “professional” have higher earnings than debt, with nursing and educational administration being the only programs with sufficient data that had debt levels below 60% of earnings. More than one-third of rehabilitation programs had debt over the new $100,000 cap, while few programs in other fields had that high of a debt level. (Education looks pretty good now, doesn’t it?)

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1d

That voters/media often don't focus on counterfactuals is a serious problem for public policy.

Biden got hammered for inflation that was happening across the globe.

Trump gets credit for a stock market rising more slowly than across the globe.

This leads to counterproductive electoral outcomes.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.

A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.

U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Jon H. Fiva , and 5 more Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Jon H. Fiva, Joshua Goodman, Iikka Korhonen, Trevon D. Logan, Aaron Sojourner, Richard Moorhead

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Samuel L. Perry, Pierre Bataille , and 11 more Richard S.J. Tol, Samuel L. Perry, Pierre Bataille, Calvin K. Lai, Joshua Goodman, Niclas Berggren, Daniel W. Drezner, Aaron Sojourner, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Amy W. Ando, Roddy Theobald, David Rosnick, Judith Scott-Clayton, Peter Bergman

Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 1d

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Joshua Goodman, Michael W. Kraus , and 3 more Brendan Nyhan, Joshua Goodman, Michael W. Kraus, Aaron Sojourner, Scott A. Imberman, Simon Wiederhold

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 1d

New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1d

Silly me!

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1d

GOP really stress-testing the hyperplane separation theorem.

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1d

He is literally reposting fake news 🤦‍♂️

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 2d

Fed one of my published papers to an AI, which promptly and correctly noted that the single most important exhibit in it was Figure 7, which means we wrote the paper wrong.

a person is standing in front of a window with a bullet hole in it .

ALT: a person is standing in front of a window with a bullet hole in it .

media.tenor.com

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 2d

They're going to have some very competitive, strategic children.

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 2d

Coupling this, fertility that.

Why don't you academics actually do something about it?!? 😂

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 2d

Now explain that ranked choice voting (or getting rid of the Senate entirely) might get us closer to her solution...

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 2d

Yeah, and my sense is that one result is less overall engagement with social media (which is good in some ways but does eliminate some of the nice communal aspects that have always made me appreciate these networks).

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 2d

Seriously! Most of us need a little more humility about the urgency of our emails.

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 2d

Literally "this issue".

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 2d

Drumlin! Haven't been there in a while. Great reminder. Thanks.

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 3d

Where is that? I'm in need of a petting zoo.

Reposted by Joshua Goodman

Allison Shertzer @econhist-allday.bsky.social · 3d

After 15 years together, it was time to refresh DRECON.

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 3d

If either of you has ideas about how to change this, I'm all ears and happy to help.

Light upyour news

Sign in to Lightnews

Sign up to start reading

Connect Bluesky

Connect with Bluesky

Light up
your news