Annaliese Paulson
@annaliesep.bsky.social
Present: Postdoc @annenberginstitute.bsky.social & computational social scientist studying higher ed.
Past: Marsal School of Education & Ford School of Public Policy; 2024 Spencer Dissertation Fellow; Most Fashionable Boy 2010, Kaukauna High School 🏳️⚧️
Past: Marsal School of Education & Ford School of Public Policy; 2024 Spencer Dissertation Fellow; Most Fashionable Boy 2010, Kaukauna High School 🏳️⚧️
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"information about potentially adverse effects of unstructured AI use negatively shifts beliefs about the merits of AI, but does not change demand...highlights social pressure driving individual technology adoption despite widespread support for restricting its use." www.nber.org/papers/w34488
Social Dynamics of AI Adoption
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"information about potentially adverse effects of unstructured AI use negatively shifts beliefs about the merits of AI, but does not change demand...highlights social pressure driving individual technology adoption despite widespread support for restricting its use." www.nber.org/papers/w34488
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I'm committed to fully enjoying my weekend but lord I am excited to read this when I have time
arxiv.org/abs/2511.044...
arxiv.org/abs/2511.044...
Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Difference-in-Differences Study of Cursor's Impact on Software Projects
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in their application to softw...
arxiv.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I'm committed to fully enjoying my weekend but lord I am excited to read this when I have time
arxiv.org/abs/2511.044...
arxiv.org/abs/2511.044...
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Attending #APPAM2025?
I’m excited to present the first paper from an emerging project documenting the Trump administration’s unlawful erasure of data, information, and resources across federal agencies.
Hope to see you on Saturday morning! 👋
I’m excited to present the first paper from an emerging project documenting the Trump administration’s unlawful erasure of data, information, and resources across federal agencies.
Hope to see you on Saturday morning! 👋
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Attending #APPAM2025?
I’m excited to present the first paper from an emerging project documenting the Trump administration’s unlawful erasure of data, information, and resources across federal agencies.
Hope to see you on Saturday morning! 👋
I’m excited to present the first paper from an emerging project documenting the Trump administration’s unlawful erasure of data, information, and resources across federal agencies.
Hope to see you on Saturday morning! 👋
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Hi #APPAM2025 #2025APPAM folks - live today, our department at Vanderbilt is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor higher education scholar this cycle! Find the posting here: apply.interfolio.com/177753
Let me know if you're in Seattle and want to chat at all about the position/department.
Let me know if you're in Seattle and want to chat at all about the position/department.
Apply - Interfolio
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November 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Hi #APPAM2025 #2025APPAM folks - live today, our department at Vanderbilt is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor higher education scholar this cycle! Find the posting here: apply.interfolio.com/177753
Let me know if you're in Seattle and want to chat at all about the position/department.
Let me know if you're in Seattle and want to chat at all about the position/department.
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👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
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Hi folks attending #2025APPAM #APPAM2025! Excited to see many of you in Seattle this week.
As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).
As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Hi folks attending #2025APPAM #APPAM2025! Excited to see many of you in Seattle this week.
As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).
As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).
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Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy.
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy.
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
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Come check out our panel this Friday!! Very excited to share some new work at #APPAM2025
In particular, I’m super excited for this panel on Friday afternoon, organized by grad student @micahybaum.bsky.social, on political polarization & higher ed.
Come watch me, Micah, @mememedianmode.bsky.social, & Mayan Kolerman share our latest work on this pressing topic!
Come watch me, Micah, @mememedianmode.bsky.social, & Mayan Kolerman share our latest work on this pressing topic!
November 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Come check out our panel this Friday!! Very excited to share some new work at #APPAM2025
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Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
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Hot damn yall look at this abstract
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hot damn yall look at this abstract
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🚨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...
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...
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🚨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...
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...
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New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Our new working paper is out and free to access! The paper is about all of the the human collaboration that is working "behind the scenes" of a technology-based student-support intervention.
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Behind the scenes of student success interventions: Faculty & staff collaborate and make key changes that strengthen low-touch supports
🔍@ellenbryer.bsky.social, @catherinematah.bsky.social, @katharinemeyer.bsky.social & @linzpage.bsky.social
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1314
🔍@ellenbryer.bsky.social, @catherinematah.bsky.social, @katharinemeyer.bsky.social & @linzpage.bsky.social
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1314
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Our new working paper is out and free to access! The paper is about all of the the human collaboration that is working "behind the scenes" of a technology-based student-support intervention.
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Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
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Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
Economics Literature Search
Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.
paulgp.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
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The @aefpweb.bsky.social LGBTQ+ Community Group is looking for folks interested in participating in our annual mentoring program!
If you're a PhD student or looking for your first job, you can sign up here: bit.ly/AEFPMentee.
If you're a PhD student or looking for your first job, you can sign up here: bit.ly/AEFPMentee.
Mentee Application
Please use this form if you would like to apply for the AEFP LGBTQ+'s mentoring program as a mentee (have not yet received your PhD OR received your PhD but have not yet started your first job after c...
bit.ly
October 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The @aefpweb.bsky.social LGBTQ+ Community Group is looking for folks interested in participating in our annual mentoring program!
If you're a PhD student or looking for your first job, you can sign up here: bit.ly/AEFPMentee.
If you're a PhD student or looking for your first job, you can sign up here: bit.ly/AEFPMentee.
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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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Given how strong institutional isomorphism is in higher education, this news would push colleges that strive to be like New College to also sign the Compact.
The challenge is that not many institutions are striving to be like New College as spending tops $130k per FTE and reputation drops.
The challenge is that not many institutions are striving to be like New College as spending tops $130k per FTE and reputation drops.
October 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Given how strong institutional isomorphism is in higher education, this news would push colleges that strive to be like New College to also sign the Compact.
The challenge is that not many institutions are striving to be like New College as spending tops $130k per FTE and reputation drops.
The challenge is that not many institutions are striving to be like New College as spending tops $130k per FTE and reputation drops.
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@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree
Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...
www.michigandaily.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
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the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
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I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness
transwrites.world/who-are-the-...
transwrites.world/who-are-the-...
Who are the dolls which must be protected? - Trans Writes
Ari Drennen, journalist and LGBTQ+ director at Media Matters, tweeted the above on 14/10/25. There are three ways I can think of to analyse her comments:
transwrites.world
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness
transwrites.world/who-are-the-...
transwrites.world/who-are-the-...
Love reading my gen z RA's code and trying to decipher comments like "aura test fr."
October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Love reading my gen z RA's code and trying to decipher comments like "aura test fr."
The @aefpweb.bsky.social LGBTQ+ Community Group is looking for folks interested in participating in our annual mentoring program!
If you're a PhD student or looking for your first job, you can sign up here: bit.ly/AEFPMentee.
If you're a PhD student or looking for your first job, you can sign up here: bit.ly/AEFPMentee.
Mentee Application
Please use this form if you would like to apply for the AEFP LGBTQ+'s mentoring program as a mentee (have not yet received your PhD OR received your PhD but have not yet started your first job after c...
bit.ly
October 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The @aefpweb.bsky.social LGBTQ+ Community Group is looking for folks interested in participating in our annual mentoring program!
If you're a PhD student or looking for your first job, you can sign up here: bit.ly/AEFPMentee.
If you're a PhD student or looking for your first job, you can sign up here: bit.ly/AEFPMentee.