Joshua Goodman

@joshua-goodman.com

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

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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?"

Reposted by Alistair Munro, Joshua Goodman

Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · 3h

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

www.dropbox.com

Reposted by Brad R. Humphreys, Joshua Goodman, Todd Pugatch

Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 6h

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.

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Brian Heseung Kim @brhkim.bsky.social · 9h

🚨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 · 11h

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 · 12h

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 · 13h

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 · 14h

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, Jon H. Fiva, Joshua Goodman , and 3 more Will Jennings, Jon H. Fiva, Joshua Goodman, Iikka Korhonen, Trevon D. Logan, Aaron Sojourner

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 14h

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Calvin K. Lai, Joshua Goodman , and 8 more Richard S.J. Tol, Calvin K. Lai, Joshua Goodman, Niclas Berggren, Daniel W. Drezner, Aaron Sojourner, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Amy W. Ando, Roddy Theobald, Judith Scott-Clayton, Peter Bergman

Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 15h

📣 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 2 more Brendan Nyhan, Joshua Goodman, Michael W. Kraus, Aaron Sojourner, Scott A. Imberman

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 1d

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 .

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 1d

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

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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

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Allison Shertzer @econhist-allday.bsky.social · 2d

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

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 2d

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

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 3d

One of the rabbis at our synagogue is in the current season of "Squid Game: The Challenge", even though squid is not kosher.

Today headline @todayheadline.bsky.social · 6d

Rabbi stars in new season of Netflix’s ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’

JTA — Jamie Field was still a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College in New York City when she watched the first season of “Squid Game: The Challenge” and saw a call to action flash across the screen: “Could this be you? Apply…

Rabbi stars in new season of Netflix’s ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’

JTA — Jamie Field was still a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College in New York City when she watched the first season of “Squid Game: The Challenge” and saw a call to action flash across the screen: “Could this be you? Apply now.” It was 2023, and Field, who had long gravitated toward other reality television shows like “Survivor” and “The Amazing Race,” said she saw something deeply Jewish in them.

todayheadline.co

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Trevon D. Logan, Kathleen J. Mullen , and 2 more Joshua Goodman, Trevon D. Logan, Kathleen J. Mullen, Roddy Theobald, Danila Serra

Melissa Gentry @melissadgentry.bsky.social · 3d

I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics.

My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6

Photo shows the title page for an academic paper titled "Driving Inclusion: The Effect of Improved Transportation for People with Disabilities" by Melissa Gentry.

The abstract is as follows: People with disabilities face substantial barriers to economic and social participation. I explore the extent to which these barriers are overcome by the availability of reliable and flexible transportation, which may serve as ``reliability insurance'' in case other modes of transit fail. Leveraging the roll-out of Uber, I use a stacked difference-in-differences approach to show that the availability of reliable and flexible transportation leads to improvements in social and economic participation through increased marriage rates and labor force participation, and reduced reliance on public assistance. The reduction in public assistance outweighs expected rideshare costs, lending support to the recent push towards public-private partnerships in the transportation space.

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 3d

Ensuring students build skills means sometimes cutting them off from AI. From my student after I returned their paper exam:

"I use Grammarly to improve my writing on problem sets. Doing the midterm the way you had us do it helped me realize some essential skills I need to develop more. Thank you!"

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 3d

Why would you phrase it this way? Just be a normal website and ask if I'm willing to provide a reference. This is chaotic bad.

Reposted by Joshua Goodman

Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 3d

It's #jobsday! Except it isn't, because of the government shutdown. Which means that we're left sifting through alternative data sources to try to figure out what's going on in the labor market.
So, what are those sources telling us? A 🧵:

Reposted by Joshua Goodman

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 3d

I would install each and all of them #AcademicChatter

A PhDcomics cartoon showing a phone screen displaying parody academic apps: Faculty Finder, Seminar Yelp, Postdoc Tinder, and Undergrad Translator.

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