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Kirsten Slungaard Mumma
@kslungaardmumma.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University
Why is there no 😭 response button? I do not ❤️ this news.
October 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Also updating operating system is always a good idea
September 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I have had similar R-related flameouts… sometimes fixed by updates or reinstalling… is the answer maybe Stata?
September 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Drats - sadly, it does not :-(
September 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
About 25% of all kids in the US are kids in immigrant families --> immigration policy IS education policy (n/n)
September 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Changes in attendance are concerning for affected kids but also for their peers - absences disrupt classrooms and make it hard to teach, so these changes will likely also negatively impact non-immigrant peers (4/n)
September 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
In RI, daily absences for EL students increased by almost 4% and corresponded to anxiety/awareness of enforcement activity as proxied by google search data. (3/n)
September 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Using a difference-in-differences design that compares English learners (ELs) and non-ELS, I estimate effects on student attendance in RI and CT.

In CT, average monthly attendance declined by 0.07 standard deviations and chronic absenteeism increased by over 0.5 % pt.
September 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Thanks for the shoutout, Josh!
August 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM