It’s legal! The main law to governing age discrimination in the private sector is the ADEA, which narrowly prohibits employment discrimination against those 40 and older.

The value added by election forecasters is mainly to aggregate polls. If we compare the raw polling average to Nate Silver’s Bulletin and SplitTicket, we see that the raw polling average I posted on November 4th performs as well as forecasts that incorporate many more variables.

Sounds like an incredible program! Looking forward to seeing the results that come out of this!!

Amazingly, this student-level data is publicly available (anonymized, of course), due to a public records request.

This means any of us (i.e. you) can explore these patterns in any way you like.

Good potential resource for those of us hunting for data sets students can get their hands on easily!

I think the 2 typos in the above post are another good illustration of why it’s helpful to have more than one set of eyes on a paper. 😭

Yes, robustness checks can balloon the length of a paper but, if the topics we study are important, then surely it is important to understand the full story and hold our empirical claims to a high standard.

These effects materialize when students are still in school and college and persist well into their 50s. On balance I find that peer socialization likely plays an important role in the observed effects.

Full Paper: www.DanielFiroozi.com/workingpapers

I also make use of a top percent admission policy at UC campuses called eligibility in the local context (ELC). Essentially, students in the top 4% of their HS class had an admissions advantage. They end up less likely to register to vote as Republicans when they reach the age of roughly 30.

The impact of high school is larger for whites, men, and Gen z, but effects also exist for women, people of color, and older people stretching back to Gen Xers born in 1969.

I use compulsory schooling laws (CSL) that bind on date of birth to identify the impact of high school education in Florida and California on partisanship. People born before the cutoff start school younger and must remain in HS longer before they can legally drop out. For them, GOP affiliation ⬇️.

For reference, my students are familiar with causal inference, including RCTs, RDs, IVs, and Diff-in-Diffs. If one of your PhD students is interested, please send me their paper over email! You can find my contact info on my website: www.DanielFiroozi.com

Thank you, going to use this in class!