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Jonathan Smith
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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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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks. And agreed, wide open.

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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 6d
I was excited when you posted this because I wanted to know too, but I don't see any public responses. Did you get any private responses?

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 10d
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...
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

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Jordan Matsudaira @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social · 13d
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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Lauren Hoehn-Velasco @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social · Sep 22
Meet the 2025–2026 job market candidates from GSU Economics! 🎉
@gsueconomics.bsky.social #econsky

👇 Here’s a quick introduction to each candidate.

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · Sep 19
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.
joshua-goodman.com Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · Sep 19
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!
chloergibbs.bsky.social chloe gibbs @chloergibbs.bsky.social · Sep 19
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!

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Lauren Hoehn-Velasco @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social · Aug 17
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!

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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · Jul 30
Sounds about right to me.
mpolikoff.bsky.social Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · Jul 30
"[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

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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · Jul 30
"[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

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · Jun 27
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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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jun 12
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

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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · Jun 12
Deep cut. And better/accurate spelling of Marcia.
daviddarmofal.bsky.social David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · Jun 12
Greg voted for Pat Conway over Marcia :)

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · Jun 12
Greg voted for Pat Conway over Marcia :)

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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · Jun 12
Depends on whether Marsha voted. Marsha, Marsha, Marsha..
rmkubinec.bsky.social Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · Jun 12
So did the Brady brunch always vote or never vote? Need to think about real world implications

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · Jun 12
So did the Brady brunch always vote or never vote? Need to think about real world implications

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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · Jun 12
The suspense is killing me...I hope it will last.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jun 12
We are now!!

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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · Jun 10
I'm lucky enough to have Alex as my new-ish colleague! Go @gsueconomics.bsky.social!

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Jun 10
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...
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

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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · May 11
This looks familiar and great!

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Journal of Policy Analysis and Management @jpam-dc.bsky.social · Apr 21
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.....
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 ...
doi.org

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Georgia State Economics Dept. and Seminar Series @gsueconomics.bsky.social · Apr 5
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
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

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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · Mar 29
The chilling effect of canceling student visas is likely to go beyond the impacts of “typical” student visa restrictiveness, which my work shows pushes away the best and brightest students from the US. Not smart policy, but we seem to be way beyond that…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Best and brightest? The impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, student F-1 visa applicants faced a 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Recent immigration policies …
www.sciencedirect.com

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Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · Mar 28
A new practitioner's guide to staggered difference-in-difference designs

arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13323

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · Mar 21
"International students increase schools’ funding via tuition payments, which leads to increased in-state enrollment and lower tuition prices."

Link to working paper below

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Thad Domina @t-h-a-d.bsky.social · Mar 19
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

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · Mar 17
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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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · Mar 14
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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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · Mar 10
Maybe we can add an asterisk on your name, "*Published, in spite of Josh's comments."

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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · Mar 10
That looks like a good paper, even if it is so five years ago. Thanks to all who offered helpful comments along the way.