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Katie Albright
@kcalbright.bsky.social
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Econ/Public Policy PhD Student @ UMich | Air Force Officer | Interested in Labor/Ed, LL Bean flannels, and espousing the benefits of Costco membership
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ericahgreenberg.bsky.social
🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟

#EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC
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February 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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riacton.bsky.social
Happy to have this paper (coauthored with an amazing team: Kalena Cortes, @loismiller.bsky.social, & @camilantmorales.bsky.social!) out on NBER this morning! Take a look 👇
January 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
kcalbright.bsky.social
IYKYK

shoutout to the 30 tourists who begrudgingly moved out of the way of the shot.

@emmajlag.bsky.social @danebrink.bsky.social @robertskaplan.bsky.social
December 30, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
TLDR: A new and IMPORTANT study finds that GPA cutoffs for high paying majors (like engineering and business) not only fail to improve student outcomes, but have also disproportionately driven minorities away from high-paying fields since the 1990s.

BRUH. #econsky #blacksky #science
College Major Restrictions and Student Stratification Zachary Bleemer & Aashish Mehta X LinkedIn Email Working Paper 33269 DOI 10.3386/w33269 Issue Date December 2024 Underrepresented minority (URM) college students have been steadily earning degrees in relatively less lucrative fields of study since the mid-1990s. A decomposition reveals that this widening gap is principally explained by rising stratification at public research universities, many of which increasingly prevent students with poor introductory grades from declaring popular majors. We investigate these major restriction policies by constructing a novel 50-year dataset covering four public research universities' student transcripts and employing a staggered difference-in-difference design around the implementation of 25 GPA-based restrictions. Restrictions disproportionately filter out less-prepared students with fewer pre-college academic opportunities, decreasing average URM enrollment shares by 20 percent. They do not measurably improve allocative efficiency across majors, departments' wage value-added, or filtered students' educational attainment. Using first-term course enrollments to identify students who intend to earn restricted majors, we find that major restrictions disproportionately lead URM students toward less lucrative majors, explaining nearly all growth in within-institution ethnic stratification since the 1990s.
December 23, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
"...integrating women into previously all-male units does not negatively affect men’s performance or behavioral outcomes, including retention, promotions, demotions, separations for misconduct, criminal charges, and medical conditions..."
www.nber.org/papers/w33235
cc: reporters on DefSec nom
December 9, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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emmajlag.bsky.social
Did anyone else notice that @danebrink.bsky.social strategically chose his profile picture to make it look like he’s looking at the elephants? 🤔
December 2, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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rmac.bsky.social
Alright but this is two words
December 1, 2024 at 11:26 PM
kcalbright.bsky.social
🫡
November 23, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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emmajlag.bsky.social
Welcome, my lovely cohort-mates @robertskaplan.bsky.social and @kcalbright.bsky.social, to Bluesky! Soon we’ll have to make a starter pack for everyone’s favorite woman-majority first-year cohort
November 23, 2024 at 1:08 AM