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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

1 year

Some professional news: I'll be moving to the University of Notre Dame @nd_econ this fall! I'm really excited about the move. I'm really excited for my new colleagues and department.

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1 year

At the risk of being too personal, Lindsey is one of the reasons that I do the research I do. (The following shared with her permission) Lindsey was on track to be valedictorian of her high school, but instead enrolled early in college during what would have been her senior yr

Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

1 year

A happy day in our home. My wife, Lindsey graduated with a degree in Visual Art. Congrats Lindsey! They let me be part of the ceremony, hence the robes.

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Jeff Denning

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🚨🚨New Working Paper🚨🚨 "PLUS or Minus? The Effect of Graduate School Loans on Access, Attainment, and Prices" with @Econ_Sandy and Lesley Turner What happened when student loan limits for graduate school were essentially uncapped?

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Jeff Denning

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6 months

Our paper is officially out today! "Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being" Expanding student loan access increased graduation, earnings, and decreased delinquency

AEA Journals

@AEAjournals

6 months

The December 2023 issue of the American Economic Review (113, 12) is now available online at .

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@JeffDenning

10 months

@Econ_Sandy @dynarski I remember Joe Altonji sitting next to me at the NBER clambake when I knew no one there and having a very nice conversation. It meant a lot to me then and I still remember it years later. In contrast, I remember none of the talks I saw that week

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1 year

A happy day in our home. My wife, Lindsey graduated with a degree in Visual Art. Congrats Lindsey! They let me be part of the ceremony, hence the robes.

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

3 months

Please RT! @Kasey_Buckles and I are hiring a pre-doc to start this summer as part of @NotreDame 's poverty initiative. The person will work closely with Kasey and I on our projects. Kasey is working on economic history/demography using the Census Tree

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Jeff Denning

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6 months

Excited to see this paper in print--it was started when I was a grad student! This paper changed over time and now discusses the identification of rank effects. Thanks to the referees who pushed us to make this change which I now view as the largest contribution of the paper.

The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat)

@restatjournal

6 months

Class rank in 3rd grade has long run effects on HS graduation, college going, and earnings as adults. In the November 2023 issue, by Jeffrey T. Denning ( @jeffdenning ), Richard Murphy ( @RichMurphy_Econ ), Felix Weinhardt ( @FelixWeinhardt )

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Jeff Denning

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8 months

We're very excited this paper is now forthcoming! Thanks to @Econ_Sandy @lisajdettling Sarena Goodman and Lesley Turner. Maybe will do a thread later. Big picture take away is that student loans seem to affect investment in college as well as the labor market/credit markets

AEA Journals

@AEAjournals

8 months

Forthcoming in the AER: "Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being" by Sandra E. Black, Jeffrey T. Denning, Lisa J. Dettling, Sarena Goodman, and Lesley J. Turner.

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Jeff Denning

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1 year

That's why I've tried to get students to file the FAFSA or claim tax credits (without much success). It's why I study financial aid. College has such positive effects on graduates, and often a small amount of money can make a big difference, it would have for Lindsey

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Jeff Denning

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6 months

I'm officially old. My wife sent me a text that my jeans (Levis 511s) were being sold at...Costco She asked if I wanted some and I said, with heaviness in my heart, yes #wardrobebycostco

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Jeff Denning

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6 months

Very cool paper, increasing courses taken reduces GPA. Seems relevant for policymakers who advocate for students taking more courses

Journal of Public Economics

@JPubEcon

6 months

Recently published short paper in the @JPubEcon : "Are Students Time Constrained? Course Load, GPA, and Failing" Vol 225 (Sept 2023) by Aaron Phipps ( @AaronRPhipps ) & Alexander Amaya ( @AmayaAAlex )

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Jeff Denning

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11 months

Hello from South Bend! That's our new backyard. People keep asking about fishing in Indiana, which I don't know much about. But I do know that I have a bunch of fish in my backyard already.

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Jeff Denning

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1 year

The NBER Spring Education Meetings will be livestreamed tomorrow at the following link: The program (with times) is here--I'm excited about several of the higher ed papers.

NBER

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

10 months

What are your favorite papers that use a Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition?

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Jeff Denning

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1 year

My favorite reaction to me going to Notre Dame so far: "You know that's a big Catholic school?" Yes I do know that

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

1 year

Say it with me, "at current wages"

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

2 months

My kid has a recorder concert at his school this week. There are 12 songs but they only know 3 notes. Pray for us

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@JeffDenning

1 year

What does this have to do with my research? Basically, I think there are a lot of Lindseys out there who would benefit from a grant () or a loan ()

TakingtoLimit.pdf

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

9 months

We're hiring an assistant prof at @nd_econ this year! It is open field but we are especially interested in candidates in Micro Theory and Econometrics. Deadline is Nov 15 Please share with your network! See JOE for details ,,

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

1 year

I've finally figured out how to have a hit tweet--move universities unexpectedly

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Jeff Denning

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1 year

When I move to @nd_econ I'll be teaching PhD Labor in the fall. This is exciting, but also new for me. If you teach a PhD Applied Micro-type course would you mind sending me your syllabus? Am trying to get a sense of how people structure their course. Thanks!

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

9 months

What I meant when my out of office said "no access to email"

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

5 months

A lot of SAT predictiveness talk today. I'm surprised I haven't seen more reference to @rothstein_jesse 's work (below) I'm not sure how the very nice opportunity insights study addresses the concern of sample selection (only see SAT for matric. students

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Jeff Denning

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1 year

This was in addition to all the other things she was doing like being a mom to two kids. I'm so proud of her and the hard work she did both as a younger student and this past year.

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@JeffDenning

1 year

Prices increased almost dollar for dollar with new Grad Plus loans. We also show that grants increased by about 1/3 as much as prices, so net price grew by 64%

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

2 months

If you're interested in a similar phenomenon in higher education you can check out or for a non technical write up @ATabarrok

Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?

(July 2022) - We document that college completion rates have increased since the 1990s, after declining in the 1970s and 1980s. We find that most of the increase in graduation rates can be explained...

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Stefan Schubert

@StefanFSchubert

2 months

"Between 2007 and 2020 the average graduation rate at public high schools in America leapt from 74% to 87%...Yet SAT scores fell. Results from the latest PISA test show that maths and reading literacy are flat or down."

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1 year

Her grades suffered from the long hours of work, she experienced a tragedy with one of her friends, and ultimately dropped out after 3 years of college. She went back to school this year and finished her degree earning straight As while taking 18 credits this semester.

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Jeff Denning

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4 months

Submissions are open for NBER Education Spring Meetings held May 9, 10 in Chicago. Submissions are due Feb 22

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

4 months

You should consider submitting to this conference in memory of Rodney Andrews. There are also special issues Review of Black Political Economy or EER for this conf. The conf will focus on the topics that Rodney studied. Submissions at . Deadline Feb. 9th.

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

5 months

This is a popular refrain with a lot of people. The market suggests differently, the schools the kids want to go to all have professors who do more research than teaching. I'm not sure why that's the case but it is. I suspect it's about buying prestige but I don't know

Tyler Austin Harper

@Tyler_A_Harper

5 months

Academia would be healthier if more professors were empowered to focus on teaching, rather than producing work they don't care about for journals nobody reads. We are incentivized to prioritize the part of our jobs that matter least, cutting corners on the part that matters most.

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Jeff Denning

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1 year

I like to imagine someone who accepted a job at Notre Dame and found out after that it was a Catholic school

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1 year

So what did we learn? Grad PLUS increased borrowing without increasing access or graduation meaningfully. It also increased prices that students paid for graduate school.

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

1 year

As an economist, I prefer catching two fish at once for efficiency reasons

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Jeff Denning

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1 year

Excited to have this opinion piece come out in the @chronicle on grade inflation. Punchline, we should be talking about grading practices more! There are important tradeoffs to consider Joint with @EricEide1 @KJMumford @Richwpatt @merrilldub

Opinion | The Grade Inflation Conversation We’re Not Having

GPAs are going up, but colleges aren’t talking about it.

www.chronicle.com

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

1 year

Not all of my meetings with co-authors look like this but the best ones do. This is @benconomics view of our meeting yesterday. I'm in the brown jacket

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Jeff Denning

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19 days

Celebrating a colleagues tenure decision by attending mass with them seems like a fitting end to a great first year at @nd_econ Now just a bit more grading to do...

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

10 months

This does seem relevant to debates about test optional admissions at top universities

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

10 months

A standardized test alone can’t capture the full portrait of a student

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Jeff Denning

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6 months

Job market season is stressful for candidates but I have started to really enjoy it. When someone more established releases a paper I usually know what it will look like--job market candidates are more likely to have totally new areas of research.

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1 month

While I was gone an impaired driver drove through our yard, got their car stuck, and ran. Didn't know that was a thing that could happen. Fortunately everyone is safe

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

1 year

I'll be sad to leave @BYUecon . BYU econ is where I learned economics from great faculty who became my colleagues. I have spent something like 11 of the last 16 years at BYU. It was a great place to start my career and I am a huge fan of BYU economics.

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

2 years

My papers using Texas data

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@Fdmdarkshadow

2 years

These are four separate movies

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

2 months

Looks like the @nytimes doesn't know economics

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

1 year

One of the best feelings of being a professor is when a student gets great news. I don't think I anticipated how exciting their success would be when I was starting out as a prof. I won't say more than that, but I'm very happy today about one of my students' bright future.

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

1 year

My colleague, good friend, and noted snowboarder Brigham Frandsen is teaching a machine learning and causal inference class on Feb 23-24. Talking with Brigham has improved my understanding of econometrics more than anything else You can see details here

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@JeffDenning

1 year

Nice to see this from my new employer

University of Notre Dame

@NotreDame

1 year

Happy #PrideMonth ! We celebrate all LGBTQ+ identities and reaffirm our commitment to being a welcoming, safe and supportive place for ALL members of the Notre Dame family. We see you. We're glad you're here. You are an important member of our community.

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Jeff Denning

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4 months

@analisapackham Think that market is pretty well saturated

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

10 months

Excited to dig in to the new Chetty @ProfDavidDeming @John_N_Friedman paper. From my read this morning: I wonder if this will have any impact on grad admissions in econ. They show there are many equally qualified students attending non-Ivy that don't go to elite grad school

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

10 months

Go Irish!

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

4 months

This was an immediate add to my grad labor class, was a great paper to teach and really moves this literature forward

Barbara Biasi

@BarbaraBiasi

4 months

🚨🧵📜 @davidfromterra , Julien Lafortune and I have a new wp! Perhaps the longest-standing debate in education is on whether money matters. Esp. in the case of capital (building /renovating school facilities), conflicting results have led scholars to conclude that “it depends.”

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

4 months

NBER Labor Studies Submissions for the Spring Meetings are open until Jan 28. Anyone can submit

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@JeffDenning

5 months

@mattyglesias Relevant. Legalizing MJ doesn't increase accidents/fatalities

Carly Urban

@carly_urban

5 months

@kearney_melissa A 2023 JEL paper reviews the effects of medical & recreational marijuana legalization on public health outcomes, including traffic accidents/fatalities. Results are null to negative (bc they lower alcohol-related accidents, which are likely worse).

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

9 months

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. 13s for my kid this morning

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

1 month

My favorite paper on this topic: Matt also touches on issues about STEM v not STEM which I really like this paper's take on:

The Falling Time Cost of College: Evidence from Half a Century of Time Use Data

Abstract. Using multiple data sets from different time periods, we document declines in academic time investment by full-time college students in the United States between 1961 and 2003. Full-time...

direct.mit.edu

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

1 month

Contemporary students don’t spend enough time on studying and schoolwork.

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11 days

It's shocking how a data task that has been on my to do list for a month only takes a couple of uninterrupted hours. The uninterrupted part is key, but given the multifaceted nature of being a prof it's very easy to not have uninterrupted time. Or in other words, Happy Summer!

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Jeff Denning

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1 year

Yesterday was a good day

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

2 years

Writing the first draft of the introduction a new project is one of my favorite research tasks. IDK if these are common preferences, what is your favorite research task?

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

11 months

Moving to eastern time has had a big impact on my mornings. It's weird to not wake up with a bunch of emails already piled up in my inbox

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

2 years

Destined for burgers, tallow, and brisket

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2 years

Turkey is in the oven for tomorrow

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Jeff Denning

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2 months

What are some higher education facts that you think undergraduates would be interested in?

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Jeff Denning

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1 year

My kids first day on back mountain at Sundance, big step

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5 months

Second round rejection

Flame (炎)

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1 year

She did not fill out a FAFSA because no one told her she should or that she would get aid. She would have qualified for a large Pell grant. Instead, she worked 20+ hours a week as a janitor. She was also discouraged from taking a student loan by people around her.

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

4 months

Please apply to water in Utah

Mike Lee

@BasedMikeLee

4 months

The law of supply and demand is the ONLY law that should be used to set prices

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1 year

New results are such a fun part of the job

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2 years

Nice to be back on skis

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

7 months

A headline an economist can love @BrianCAlbrecht

Star-Advertiser

@StarAdvertiser

7 months

The price of oil depends on how much of it is getting used and how much is available. More:

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

7 months

Cool job alert! @LEOatND here at is looking for someone familiar with the research process who can help match external researchers to LEO projects. They would also be part of managing data partnerships LEO does great work on anti-poverty programs

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@JeffDenning

2 months

Recently discovered that I'm 1/32nd Irish, suddenly my new employer seems more fitting

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Jeff Denning

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9 months

Everyone is talking about Jackson Hole today...but I'm here to talk about Lander

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2 years

@ModeledBehavior @ecarl_economics

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1 year

Merry Fishmas to all who celebrate!

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Jeff Denning

@JeffDenning

1 year

This Th and Fri the NBER Education program will be livestreamed at this link: You can see the program here:

NBER

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1 year

Now that ski season is over, gotta fish before runoff is too crazy

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1 month

Every campus should have a meat science center

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1 year

They were out of bounds but I don't think they're at risk of losing their pass

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10 months

South Bend has some excellent disc golf

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4 months

They need some estimates of risk preferences over at amazon it seems

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why can i gamble on my amazon delivery date

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1 year

Was talking to a colleague today and this came up so passing along in case folks don't know. You should start a REPEC profile. This collects info on your cites and can result in you being on lists like "most cited economists under 5 years post PhD" etc. Can be helpful @ tenure

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11 months

I would love to see an analysis of what legal standard will be used to determine if a school is using affirmative action--what is evidence that a school is using it in the new regime?

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1 year

Marcus is great and this is a great paper. When I see this paper, I always think of my uncle that I lost to AIDS and how funding can avoid that outcome for other families

Marcus Dillender

@MarcusDillender

1 year

So proud of this paper and am looking forward to seeing it published

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Stata FTW

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College gameday in town

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1 year

Some coverage of some of my work with @Econ_Sandy and Lesley Turner. Will do a thread on the paper at some point hopefully soon-ish

The Hechinger Report

@hechingerreport

1 year

PROOF POINTS: No-limits borrowing for graduate school pushed prices up for all

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1 year

Extremely sad today about Rodney's passing. He was kind and funny and will be missed. My first memory of Rodney was that he met me as an early career researcher (I believe as a grad student) and was immediately welcoming and interested in me and my research. RIP Rodney

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1 year

Rodney Andrews has died I can’t believe I am saying these words He was a gift to the world and our profession

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Whenever I see a ban on tenure come up in a state legislature I always wonder how it will be enforced. In the end it basically always relies on other faculty in the same department to revoke employment. I think that basically means that there will be de facto tenure

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9 months

Embarking on my Notre Dame football fandom

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1 year

Today I discovered that I'm "bids on old coins on ebay" old

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2 years

Excited to be visiting my dad (and uncle)'s alma mater tomorrow! If you're interested in the effects of student loans on graduation and earnings you can watch via the zoom link.

CHEPS

@SDSUCHEPS

2 years

@SDSUCHEPS welcomes @JeffDenning from @BYUecon tomorrow to present: "School Loan Availability & Economic Well-being" (joint w/ @Econ_Sandy @lisajdettling @sarena_goodman & Lesley Turner) Join us tomorrow 9/22 @ 2PM PT in AL 660 Zoom link:

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I feel like this is one of the more western US things I've been a part of

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10 months

First fish in South Bend. This guy escaped to the top pond, had to catch him and return him to the bottom pond.

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When I listen to supreme court arguments, it seems like math but if math hadn't established a agreed upon set of rules for proofs.

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1 year

Yes, definitely Colorado is the best skiing in the country. Plan your vacations accordingly

Michael Bennet

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1 year

Colorado is home to the best skiing in the country. My SHRED Act would bring millions of dollars from ski fees to Colorado to invest in the health and resilience of our state’s National Forests. More $ for forests = more shredding. 🎿

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Super interesting JMP on elasticity of courses to student demand. The data collection on this is impressive and I suspect @jlight_ will be able to use this for several more papers...

Jacob Light

@jlight_

6 months

1 - My #JMP studies how universities respond to changing student demand for courses and skills. I use novel data to peek inside the black box of #highered supply. TLDR: Universities respond inelastically, both in course quantity and content #EconTwitter

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Jeff Denning

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Here is a policy brief about our new paper on Grad PLUS loan limit increases. It summarizes our longer paper and talks a bit about how our results fit in with broader loan limit increases in the US

Postsecondary Equity & Economics Research Project

@PeerResearch

10 months

We are thrilled to release a new brief by @Econ_Sandy and @JeffDenning on graduate student borrowing and the impacts of increasing loan limits through the Grad PLUS program.

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First photo sums up my feelings after my visit to @TAMUECON . A great group and a great place 🇨🇱