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Economics PhD student @StanfordEcon . Lightning strikes maybe once, maybe twice.

Norfolk, VA

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Lavar Edmonds

2 years

🚨 Working Paper Alert! 🚨 I’ve basically been soft launching this for a while now, but I’m ready to share my first Big Kid working paper. Join me for a 🧵 on HBCUs, teachers, and Black student achievement! Comments and suggestions are much appreciated!

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2 years

It’s PhD application season. My advice? Never throw out your theory books after the first year. You might find yourself wanting stir fry, and I assure you that tofu won’t drain itself

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Tl;wr Black elem school students in North Carolina score higher on standardized math tests/are less likely to be suspended when assigned to teachers from Historically Black Colleges. Effects are independent of teacher race: students score well w/ Black AND White HBCU teachers

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3 years

Periodic reminder: Stop using “Blacks.” Black students, Black professors, Black homeowners — write it out. It’s not that hard it’s not that hard you’re killing me here it’s not that hard 🙃

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4 years

Well, I want to see more Black people in economics — *lots* of ground to cover there. In the meantime, though, I might as well go do something myself: I’m immensely honored to share that, this fall, I’ll start a PhD in the Economics of Education at Stanford University!

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3 years

Don’t worry, I’ll tweet my thoughts on the Econ Nobel awards soon. Just still trying to figure out the most clever way to make it about me

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1 year

Sorry for cringe on main, but wanted to say: Econ (and academia tbf) isn’t always so welcoming, esp to (the relatively few) people who look like me, so I’m very grateful to have a supportive network of truly kind people here/beyond. Thanks for helping things not always suck 😭

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11 months

I can’t believe this needs to be said, but let’s not conflate or link mental health struggles with saying abhorrent, hurtful things on the internet Sometimes, a racist posts racists things because they’re racist

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7 years

@TheEconomist "Stealing jobs" isn't a thing. #DACA recipients aren't "illegals"; just people trying to live, safely in the only place they've known

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Lavar Edmonds

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Last night on a date she asked me how my research is economics. I immediately gave her my spot in the program, as she’s clearly more of an economist than I’ll ever be

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Lavar Edmonds

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I don’t say this pejoratively, and I don't think I’m being hyperbolic: Go to a top 10 econ program and pick someone at random — a grad student, a post doc, a tenured professor — put them in a high school classroom as a teacher, and I’d bet money that wouldn’t last a year.

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2 years

I’m writing this paper. I called it first

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Program director of TSU’s Health Administration program reveals to TMZ that since Megan Thee Stallion graduated, there’s been an influx of one-time dropouts re-enrolling to finish their degrees.

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4 years

First day of macro: I... kinda liked it? 🤡

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3 years

Question out into the ether: How do people find co-authors? More relevant down the road, but, as a fairly introverted person who enjoys working alone but also sees the value in comp advantages/returns to multi-person problem solving, it’s something I think about from time to time

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Lavar Edmonds

4 years

Alright, so begins day 1 of math camp. Maybe if I keep a loop of me smiling and nodding over Zoom, the rest of the class won’t see the anxiety and terror in my eyes. Quick, what's a proof?

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1 year

(For those curious, it was this, and I can't wait to read it. One of the first in a while that I saw and thought, "Dang, I wish I'd done this.")

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1 year

Attended a seminar here today for genuinely one of the most interesting papers I’ve seen presented in recent memory. Let this be your casual reminder we really should all be doing more economic history

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1 year

Rudeness in econ seminar culture discourse should also include folks (professors!) who sit in the back and talk the entire time. I hear you! Your voice carries way more than you think! Ain’t no way this is *the only time* you can talk to your colleague for an hour straight

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Lavar Edmonds

3 years

Today I sank a ton of time into understanding the modeling of a paper, only to realize it was a product of poor writing/odd notation choices Lesson for fellow impostors: Never underestimate how much your perceived incompetence is really just their failure to communicate clearly

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Lavar Edmonds

4 years

1st year grad school can be a bit debilitating, studying stuff so removed from what got me interested in research. But dang if I ain’t motivated by two days of NBER Econ of Ed presentations. There’s just so much cool work out there!

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11 months

That’s me!

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3 years

Look, I know it can seem therapeutic for Econs to dunk on that Greta Thunberg paper as "less rigorous," but I've seen how the field "studies" race, gender, and class. Maybe y'all wanna sit this one out? 👀

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9 months

Me bookmarking new papers every Monday

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3 years

I try not to give attention-seekers attention, but this is embarrassing. If you are (ostensibly) an academic who’s got the time and think there’s value in trying to bully grad students online, then you are every bit as unserious and ignorable as I pegged you to be

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3 years

@RandolphHohle Hi! Quick question: In what way is you, a tenured professor, saying this to a young grad student on the job market a generative, helpful endeavor? Because it feels like unnecessarily punching down, but I’m open to other explanations

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Lavar Edmonds

4 years

But when is it too late? Asking for... a friend

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It’s never too early

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Lavar Edmonds

2 years

It’s recently come to my attention that, for the 3rd time, I was the last person someone dated before they met the person they eventually got engaged/married to. Don’t know what this is, but I’d like to go on record to say this is NOT the super power I asked for

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3 years

Sorry, the façade is up: This is, in fact, my real voice. If you can get past that and are interested in research on HBCU teachers, Black student achievement, and how I think they fit into lit on same-race match effects, check out my recent interview with @HaveYouHeardPod !

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New @haveyouheardpod features ear-opening research by @lavaredmonds on the impact of HBCU-trained teachers on Black student achievement. Congrats Lavar for being the runner up in our Grad Student Research contest!

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11 months

Saddening: Overeager parents with advanced kids never think of people like me, the poor researcher cleaning data and trying to figure out whether these 6th graders in high school-level geometry are entry errors or legit

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Lavar Edmonds

3 years

On net, I do really like economics — it's how I ended up in grad school — and there are plenty of good people doing great work, but I'll never quite get the urge to get on here and "Not all men" whenever a critique is lobbed at the field

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2 years

There’s no way I could do them justice in a few tweets, but I’ll try: HBCUs comprise roughly 100 institutions founded before 1964 with the purpose of educating Black Americans locked out from higher education

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1 year

One 13-hour drive later (😵‍💫), I’ve reached my research home for the next month! 🙏🏽

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2 years

Stopped by @urbaninstitute today to talk HBCUs and Black student outcomes! Thanks for the invite and great feedback, @chingos @EricaHGreenberg and team!

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Yet they’re clearly outperforming more “qualified” teachers. At a minimum, this raises the question of what we’re measuring if exams purported to capture teacher preparation are under-predicting what these HBCU teachers are bringing to the classroom for Black students

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Lavar Edmonds

4 years

And I found myself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife, asking myself, "Well... how did America get here?"

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1 year

Lots of flights this year have made me more familiar with SFO than I’d like, but it’s worth it to check out all the cool work folks are doing! Grateful to get to present my research @DukeEcon today at such an awesome conference 🙏🏽

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As a kid, I thought adulthood would be more disco. Now I realize it’s mostly just panic

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They have a rich history of educating Black teachers, many founded or existing as normal schools (institutions designed to train teachers). This has continued to today: in 2019-2020, they graduated about 8% of Black college grads, but just over 20% of Black grads with ed degrees

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What are the effects on test scores for Black students assigned to HBCU-trained teachers? Positive! Black 3rd-5th grade students in NC score ~0.033 SD higher on math exams when assigned to HBCU-trained teachers, equivalent to ~5% of the estimated Black-White test score gap

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6 years

Reminder: anyone who says "anyone can teach" hasn't sat in on the modal grad class lecture at a university focused on research over instruction. No shade to those professors (some are great), but content knowledge ≠ pedagogical knowledge Teaching is hard, folks. Pay K-12 more

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2 years

Not to brag, but you wouldn’t BELIEVE the sheer number of things I’ve gotten wrong this week. Simply astounding, really

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3 years

Well let’s not kid ourselves here: Plenty of young conservatives are reading our tweets and going back to EJMR where they can say any and all vile garbage to their heart’s content

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6 months

Aah but you see, the trick here is to choose a subfield where they don’t ask you for predictions about anything

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3 years

Just got that J&J, and, to my needle-fearing self's surprise, I made it through without needing someone to hold my hand—please clap.

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1 year

Not to ruin my econ street cred, but confession: I’m often skeptical of models in papers (can find them superfluous/superficial/placating some reviewer) Working on it, tho! What are your favorite (applied micro) papers you read and thought, “Yea, this model belongs here?”

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3 years

I shouldn’t have to say this to researchers who are so heavily focused on endogeneity, but if your research’s key point is “It’s X driving observed differences, not race,” but you can’t understand or even reasonably measure X without talking about race, you’re doing it wrong.

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2 years

Moreover, with culturally-fluent instructional practices key to teacher education at HBCUs, it’s clear they have historical and contemporary grounding in preparing teachers to excel in the classroom especially with Black students. Can we quantify any effects? We can!

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Lavar Edmonds

4 years

Profiles in courage: Where were you when you learned you weren't an intellectual heavyweight? I was 16, working as a server in a restaurant, using a lighter for the first time and singeing the tip of my thumb by lighting a candle wrong

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@instrumenthull Lol of all people to learn from, THAT’S the summary he chose to read? He’s deeply unserious, and I’m tired of so many economists collectively pretending otherwise

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2 years

Driving in rural Maryland this morning, I saw a lifted truck with a combo crab-thin blue line flag sticker By the power vested in me as a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, I’m ordering a complete and total shutdown of MD until we figure out what the hell is going on

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2 years

I’m so thrilled to share that, after two years here, I’ve finally found my nemesis! And it’s the best kind: we don’t even really know each other! So excited to see how our subtle, passive-aggressive slights towards each other grow over our careers and beyond. Watch this space

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I also argue they’re the successors to 20th century Black educator pedagogy, an edifying period with curriculum developed by Black teachers and principals across the country explicitly geared towards educating Black students in all-Black K-12 schools

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3 years

Hi, my name is Lavar Edmonds, and I will never take a new picture again, instead using the exact same one for the rest of my life. AMA

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Wrapping up: HBCUs very much still matter in today’s higher ed landscape and excel at producing exemplary teachers, seemingly independent of teacher race, to the benefit of Black student academic and social-emotional outcomes

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2 years

Love this paper. IIRC, it was the first I read as an undergrad in what would become a now long-standing “Lavar has an education paper idea -> finds @KiraboJackson already did it” research pipeline

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Teachers teach better when they have great peers! Published Open access

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4 years

A real byproduct of the bias against qualitative research is the proliferation of bad quantitative research. Sometimes the question you want to ask can’t be answered with the ~big data~ you have, but you’ve got lots of data!

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2 months

You’d think, after 4 years in grad school (and 3 hrs off from the east), I’d learn that most people have real, normal jobs and I can’t just be calling family and friends in the middle of the day to chat. Alas, I just be calling family and friends in the middle of the day to chat

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3 years

Somehow missed responding to this before, but I’ll say now this is yet another ex of how Ellora’s brilliance is matched only by her kindness/generosity. If you ever hope for a more inclusive and responsive econ that’s every bit as thoughtful and rigorous, you’re looking at her

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Follow @lavaredmonds & his ground-breaking research on the positive effects HBCU-trained teachers (Black or white!) have on Black students. The paper not only sheds lights on broader FX of HBCUs, it raises important Qs re: "role-model" interpretations of same-race match effects.

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How does this fit w/ same-race teacher effects? Isn’t this all just driven by teacher race? I don’t think so! Black students score higher paired w/ Black HBCU teachers over other Black teachers, but they also score higher with *White* HBCU teachers over other White teachers

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During this period, many K-12 principals and schools worked directly with HBCUs to develop a pipeline for sending their students to HBCUs for training, ultimately helping to facilitate a labor market for Black teachers to return to those K-12s

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2 years

(And don’t worry: I don’t spend this much time on EconTwitter just to post a TWFE paper without doing some homework. I try out lots of different estimators, all of which point to the same conclusions. If anything, TWFE may be underestimating the “true” effect of HBCU teachers)

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Lavar Edmonds

3 years

Four years ago, my car got broken into, and my violin/cello were stolen. Just now getting to financially comfortable enough to buy a new violin, so I’m making the rounds to shops in the area Forgot what it’s like to play lots of high-quality violins — dang, it feels good!

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1 year

So thrilled to be presenting my research at the NBER Race and Stratification conference today! If you happen to have an opening this afternoon/want to check out all the other fantastic papers being presented, it’s being live-streamed on YouTube! ⬇️

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The @nberpubs Race and Stratification Conference is coming this Friday! Full program here: Can't get to Cambridge, MA? Watch online:

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2 years

To say Black students perform better with Black teachers b/c the teachers serve as role models implies a lot about Black student backgrounds and teacher agency that doesn’t seem entirely empirically grounded

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2 years

There, I think that about ties everything together. Thanks for reading this far! I hope this has been at least somewhat insightful. Feel free to reach out with any feedback; I’m very much still learning as I go, so, agree or disagree, I’d love to talk with you! 😁

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I’d been thinking about/planning out a project for a few months — interesting question, already have the data, was really excited to work on it after the quarter ends. No need to rush, right? Just saw a tweet that someone else’s version is now forthcoming in one of the AEJs 🙂

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Sometimes I worry about how few hobbies I have, but then I go to a perfume-making class and use basic scents to construct smells more terrible than you thought possible, and I remember I’m limited by ineptitude, not imagination

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2 years

I hate to be like that kid who briefly studies abroad in France and comes back thinking they’re a sommelier, but, after spending some time outside the US for the first time in three years, I’ve been reminded again: Our cars are WAY too large here. Good Lord, it’s out of control

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1 month

Flight delayed by three hours, lurking around Chicago Booth, this door has no knob or handle. What are you hiding?

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1 year

I like it here Thanks for the invite, @EDerenoncourt !Got to talk with some great undergrads about my research on school desegregation

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3 years

Such fascinating, important empirical methods used to answer just the most boring, often inconsequential questions imaginable

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2 years

Wrapped up my short stint at Princeton today and couldn’t have wished for a better visit! A really great community of insightful + kind faculty, staff, grad students, and RAs in the IR section Thanks @EDerenoncourt for the invite; hopefully I’ll be back in some capacity soon!👀

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Lavar Edmonds

2 years

Somehow picked a fine, rainy time to step away from Stanford’s comparatively lovely weather, but part of me did miss this place. Fingers crossed for no parking tickets today! 🙏🏽

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What about effects on other students? Do non-Black students do worse with HBCU-trained teachers? Nope!

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Moreover, in this setting, I find weak evidence of a same-race teacher effect at all: there’s basically zero difference in Black student test scores with Black teachers. In fact, I only note a same-race teacher effect for Black students when that teacher *went to an HBCU*

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4 years

@tressiemcphd Photos have been used for nearly 10 years, and I got a $25 gift card to the university bookstore 🥴

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Completely unrelated, but look at that author name ordering! Respect 🫡

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A study of 34 countries finds that, culture — in particular individualism — is the biggest factor explaining international differences in working from home, from @PabloZarate98 , Dolls, Davis, @I_Am_NickBloom , @Jose_MariaRD , and @cevatgirayaksoy

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1 year

20+ 15-minute presentations over the past two days from some of the best labor economists around — you wouldn’t believe how much I learned 😵‍💫 Grateful to get to celebrate the IR section’s Centennial with so many great friends and mentors here! #princetonirs100

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3 years

Aah yes, I see we've reached the part of my grad school career where I've got to start taking structural models seriously and either get better at math or better at programming (ideally both) Can he do it? Tune in next time...

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2 years

I do like doing research, but sometimes I really miss teaching high schoolers. When you’re right, you’re right!

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2 years

What do we know about teachers at HBCUs? Tricky! W/o pre-teaching data, it’s hard to rule out a selection story (e.g., of course White students at HBCUs get there non randomly). I offer conjectures, but I hope some enterprising scholars continue after me and expand on this point

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Currently reading for a paper on HBCUs and... good Lord. "Doing more with less" doesn't even begin to describe it. Even when you (kinda) know things, seeing everything quantified at once can be sobering, to say the least This can't stand

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1 year

Haven’t gotten enough of me talking about HBCUs and teacher effects yet? Happen to be in New Orleans this Friday afternoon? Then come on out to this fantastic #ASSA2023 session on HBCUs! Tons of great work being presented, so I hope to see you there!

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2 years

Literally fumbling the bag for all us aspiring house husbands out here smh

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I feel very insecure about the insane disparity in income between me(28M) and my gf(28F)

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2 years

Is it about some sort of learning on the job or teacher peer effects? Probably not! Even when restricting to novice teachers (i.e., those in their first three years of teaching), HBCU-trained teachers appear more effective with Black students

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3 years

PSA: Harassing grad students, jealous of the attention their scholarship gets, is a marker of a deep intellectual insecurity and ineptitude, in which case maybe a field of intellectual pursuits isn’t for you?

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2 years

What about outcomes other than test scores? Incidentally, I also look at suspensions! Evidence is more suggestive here, but I find Black student assignment to an HBCU-trained teacher is negatively associated with their likelihood of being suspended (particularly for Black boys)

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4 months

For a small fee, I will keep your money. I will do the same for medium and large fees as well. California is very expensive, and I don’t make much money — something has to give

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early modern boy-actress (they/them)

4 months

for a small fee, i will join this same seminar, and say "just jumping off the last question, i agree with jonathan that it's obvious, but i think it's also wrong"

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Lavar Edmonds

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That said, one of the things I find most curious in the data: by conventional measures, these teachers should be “weaker” academically. They have much lower licensure exam scores (almost 0.75 SD gap in the sample), and HBCUs accept students with much lower SAT scores

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Lavar Edmonds

3 years

How it started How it's going

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Lavar Edmonds

3 years

Four years ago, my car got broken into, and my violin/cello were stolen. Just now getting to financially comfortable enough to buy a new violin, so I’m making the rounds to shops in the area Forgot what it’s like to play lots of high-quality violins — dang, it feels good!

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Lavar Edmonds

10 months

Submitted my first referee report recently. Still torn between “Yikes, why is anyone listening to me?” and “Yikes, why isn’t anyone listening to me?”

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Lavar Edmonds

2 years

Underrated: It’s nice when nice things happen to nice people

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Lavar Edmonds

2 years

Once again, the HBCU effect seems to move independently from race: Black boys are *more* likely to be suspended with White teachers in general, but *less* likely with HBCU-trained White teachers (compared against other White teachers)

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Lavar Edmonds

2 years

An overview of the empirical strategy: I specify a TWFE regression, using within-student variation in teacher assignment to estimate differences in end-of-grade math exam scores for Black 3rd-5th graders in North Carolina, 2010-2018

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Lavar Edmonds

3 years

Hi, Phil — I’ve been waiting for you. You’re so far removed from reality, I can’t imagine it’s possibly worth it to engage with you. But let’s be clear that if you have methodological or historical concerns with someone’s research, there are WAY better ways to handle them

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Phil Magness

3 years

The cry-bully phenomenon in academia is bizarre. We've somehow created a generation of grad students who (a) spend all day engaged in political bombthrowing on twitter only to (b) retreat into false claims of "victimhood" at the slightest pushback against their arguments.

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Lavar Edmonds

8 months

Went to Yosemite to hike for the first time over the weekend and didn’t die — please clap

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Lavar Edmonds

3 years

Not that anyone asked, but I think there's something deeply unsettling about this J&J response. Last wk, we lost my maternal grandma (and last living grandparent) to Covid. My immediate family and I are thankfully vaccinated, but please don't get numb: The pandemic is still here

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Lavar Edmonds

2 years

Yesterday I stumbled into making pretty decent vegetarian biscuits and gravy. Naturally this means, at even the slightest inconvenience grad school poses next, I am OUT and opening a vegetarian Southern comfort food restaurant nearby

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Lavar Edmonds

2 years

Hinge is now 3/3 for explicitly suggesting ex-girlfriends or old crushes as “most compatible.” Idk man, seems like a war crime to me

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Lavar Edmonds

1 month

He dropped a response in under an hour. This is why we need more working papers. My field trained me to expect publications at least 1.5-2 years later; now I ain’t built for that life

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Lavar Edmonds

3 years

@dynarski I found this pretty helpful! He's got lecture notes, slides, recorded lectures on YouTube, AND R code. Pretty much a one-stop-shop for structural modeling

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GitHub - woerman/ResEcon703: Topics in Advanced Econometrics (ResEcon 703). University of Massach...

Topics in Advanced Econometrics (ResEcon 703). University of Massachusetts Amherst. Taught by Matt Woerman - woerman/ResEcon703

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