Barbara Biasi
@barbarabiasi.com
Econ Assistant Prof at Yale SOM. Education, innovation, gender. Born & raised in Monopoli, Italy. Mom of 3.
Hello #econtwitter community: if any of you has been teaching any of my papers, would you mind shooting me a DM? I would hugely appreciate that 🙏 and thanks in advance!
June 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Hello #econtwitter community: if any of you has been teaching any of my papers, would you mind shooting me a DM? I would hugely appreciate that 🙏 and thanks in advance!
Laureandi/laureati in Economia in cerca di esperienze di ricerca con forte impatto su politiche pubbliche: venite a lavorare all’Evaluation Lab del Fondo per la Repubblica Digitale! Dettagli qui: 👇🏼
📢 Stiamo cercando 1 Research Associate per un'esperienza di lavoro pre-doc all'#EvaluationLab del #FondoRepubblicaDigitale.
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cc: @raffasadun.bsky.social @barbarabiasi.com @francedrago.bsky.social
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cc: @raffasadun.bsky.social @barbarabiasi.com @francedrago.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Laureandi/laureati in Economia in cerca di esperienze di ricerca con forte impatto su politiche pubbliche: venite a lavorare all’Evaluation Lab del Fondo per la Repubblica Digitale! Dettagli qui: 👇🏼
I'm looking forward to visiting OIGI in 2026!
Congratulations to these members of the ninth cohort of Institute visiting scholars: David Altig @atlantafed.bsky.social; Shifrah Aron-Dine @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social; @barbarabiasi.com @yalesom.bsky.social; @florinbilbiie.bsky.social Cambridge University; 2/5
May 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I'm looking forward to visiting OIGI in 2026!
I've done my part to combat the trend this week!
Birthrates Languish in Record Lows, C.D.C. Reports
Despite a 1 percent increase in 2024, U.S. birthrates remained in a historic slump, a trend that worries demographers and cultural critics.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I've done my part to combat the trend this week!
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A 2011 Wisconsin reform weakened teachers' unions, raised test scores, and was a political win for its main proponent, from Barbara Biasi and Wayne Aaron Sandholtz https://www.nber.org/papers/w33666
April 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A 2011 Wisconsin reform weakened teachers' unions, raised test scores, and was a political win for its main proponent, from Barbara Biasi and Wayne Aaron Sandholtz https://www.nber.org/papers/w33666
🚨🆕 In a new NBER working paper out today (tinyurl.com/2vv3vnhf), with
@wsandholtz.bsky.social we ask a 🔥question: Can controversial public policies end up being political successes even when they cause lots of backlash? And if the answer is yes, what drives pol success? A thread 👇
@wsandholtz.bsky.social we ask a 🔥question: Can controversial public policies end up being political successes even when they cause lots of backlash? And if the answer is yes, what drives pol success? A thread 👇
April 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🚨🆕 In a new NBER working paper out today (tinyurl.com/2vv3vnhf), with
@wsandholtz.bsky.social we ask a 🔥question: Can controversial public policies end up being political successes even when they cause lots of backlash? And if the answer is yes, what drives pol success? A thread 👇
@wsandholtz.bsky.social we ask a 🔥question: Can controversial public policies end up being political successes even when they cause lots of backlash? And if the answer is yes, what drives pol success? A thread 👇
Watching history happen. The longest filibuster ever was 24h 18m long.
Cory Booker is doing something incredible on the Senate floor. If you're not watching, you need to watch: www.youtube.com/live/Ej6locU...
LIVE: Cory Booker goes for floor speech RECORD
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Watching history happen. The longest filibuster ever was 24h 18m long.
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Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start!
Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall).
Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768
Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!
Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall).
Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768
Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!
March 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start!
Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall).
Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768
Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!
Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall).
Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768
Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!
I was glad to contribute to the @aefpweb.bsky.social livehandbook.org with a chapter on Teacher compensation. Check it out!
Evidence-Based Education Policy Research | Live Handbook
Explore evidence-based education policy research at our digital hub. Access data-driven insights to improve learning outcomes and shape effective policies.
livehandbook.org
March 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I was glad to contribute to the @aefpweb.bsky.social livehandbook.org with a chapter on Teacher compensation. Check it out!
The news over the weekend and this morning have been terrifying. I'm dismayed at the total lack of action but I also have no idea how to act. I can't believe I'm watching America as I know it collapse in front of my eyes.
March 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The news over the weekend and this morning have been terrifying. I'm dismayed at the total lack of action but I also have no idea how to act. I can't believe I'm watching America as I know it collapse in front of my eyes.
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To be absolutely, 100% clear, THIS is something that ends in “then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out”
This extreme escalation is an egregious violation of first amendment rights. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.
March 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
To be absolutely, 100% clear, THIS is something that ends in “then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out”
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Overwhelmingly the biggest saving that Musk has delivered to the American people is that they can now buy Tesla stock much more cheaply.
Tesla stock has lost one-third of its value since Trump became president and Musk became whatever he is now.
The company was worth $1.35 TRILLION dollars then. It's worth $929 Billion now. That's a loss of $421 billion
The company was worth $1.35 TRILLION dollars then. It's worth $929 Billion now. That's a loss of $421 billion
February 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Overwhelmingly the biggest saving that Musk has delivered to the American people is that they can now buy Tesla stock much more cheaply.
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Devastating news at IZA yesterday. More than 25 years of hard work, earned reputation, and valuable institutional knowledge and public good provision wiped out with a single stroke. It’s hard to find the words.
February 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Devastating news at IZA yesterday. More than 25 years of hard work, earned reputation, and valuable institutional knowledge and public good provision wiped out with a single stroke. It’s hard to find the words.
Silly me for thinking "well at least there's Europe"... This is so sad.
It's a very sad day. Just notified that @iza.org is closing its doors as of 31 December 2025. At a time when labor is under attack and technological change moves at an ever-faster pace, I can't help but think that this is a short-sighted decision. My heart goes out to those folks who work there.
February 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Silly me for thinking "well at least there's Europe"... This is so sad.
*Impressive* piece of work showing differences in intergenerational mobility of immigrants across countries. Finding that resonated the most w/me is importance of access to citizenship - which is still unreasonably hard in many countries, esp. my home country of Italy.
1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨
How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky
How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky
February 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
*Impressive* piece of work showing differences in intergenerational mobility of immigrants across countries. Finding that resonated the most w/me is importance of access to citizenship - which is still unreasonably hard in many countries, esp. my home country of Italy.
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.,” by Biasi (@barbarabiasi.com), Lafortune, and Schönholzer (@davidschonholzer.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.*
Abstract. This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and which and are valued by homeowners. Using novel data on school dis
doi.org
February 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Recently accepted by #QJE, “What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.,” by Biasi (@barbarabiasi.com), Lafortune, and Schönholzer (@davidschonholzer.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Super happy to see this accepted! academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...
What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.*
Abstract. This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and which and are valued by homeowners. Using novel data on school dis
academic.oup.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Super happy to see this accepted! academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
Useful (although sobering) summary of NAEP scores by @cedr.bsky.social. tl;dr: there is nothing to be happy about and tons of work to do. It's chilling to think of the harm cuts to essential K-12 federal programs may do if this is where we are today.
New results from "The Nation's Report Card" just dropped and they are pretty bad. I got a sneak peek as a member of IES’s Standing Committee, so I had an extra day or so to ruminate about them. A few thoughts 👇
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January 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Useful (although sobering) summary of NAEP scores by @cedr.bsky.social. tl;dr: there is nothing to be happy about and tons of work to do. It's chilling to think of the harm cuts to essential K-12 federal programs may do if this is where we are today.
Me after this week: man, I am in terrible need of a good news
NCES: here are the 2024 NAEP scores
NCES: here are the 2024 NAEP scores
January 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Me after this week: man, I am in terrible need of a good news
NCES: here are the 2024 NAEP scores
NCES: here are the 2024 NAEP scores
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Just a heads up. I can only speak to education but Title IV funds, which include the Pell Grant, are currently excluded from the "freeze." This is still incredibly catastrophic (and illegal? though lol what are laws?). Just don't take this list as the final word, it's an evolving situation.
January 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Just a heads up. I can only speak to education but Title IV funds, which include the Pell Grant, are currently excluded from the "freeze." This is still incredibly catastrophic (and illegal? though lol what are laws?). Just don't take this list as the final word, it's an evolving situation.
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Congratulations to @barbarabiasi.com who was recognized for the AEJ Best Paper Award for Economic Policy at #ASSA2025 for the paper “The Labor Market for Teachers under Different Pay Schemes.” #econsky aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
January 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Congratulations to @barbarabiasi.com who was recognized for the AEJ Best Paper Award for Economic Policy at #ASSA2025 for the paper “The Labor Market for Teachers under Different Pay Schemes.” #econsky aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Vertical integration
December 16, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Vertical integration