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Education Economist, @AU_SPA, @iza_bonn, @cardguy338. MY BOOK: https://t.co/3xqevwgSEo…
Apr 12, 2022 22 tweets 8 min read
so happy this is out. always a pleasure to work with @MichaelSHayes & @DrJingLiu. quick thread 1/n
sciencedirect.com/science/articl… the main contribution here is extending/replicating a clever @J_HumanResource paper by @ajmceachin @JonValant Barret & Mills 2/n

jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/…
Feb 5, 2021 7 tweets 6 min read
This is hopefully a useful reading for upper-level ug and graduate courses in econ of ed / ed policy / teacher policy classes! Enjoy. It's a nontechnical review (ok fine I snuck in one equation) of several literatures an topics:

-value added
-classroom observations
-returns to teaching experience
-teacher diversity
-teacher training programs
-in-service PD
-teacher labor supply (and teacher absences)
Oct 2, 2020 18 tweets 5 min read
Super excited that our book on teacher diversity, w @DrMikeHansen & @Dr_ConstanceL will be published by @Harvard_Ed_Pub in Feb 2021. It’s available for pre-order now !! so claim your copies today: hepg.org/hep-home/books… The book's premise is that newish causal evidence, along with older qualitative evidence, on the benefits of same-race teachers points to teacher race as an important but often overlooked policy lever. 2/
Sep 2, 2020 15 tweets 5 min read
on-boarding a new grad student this fall and formalizing my previously haphazard, "need to know" approach to sharing readings.

goal is to assign one "skills based" reading per week in addition to the regular research stuff.

here's what I have; comments and suggestions welcome 1. how to do good descriptive work by @loeb_susanna @dynarski @econsarahreber et al.

ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/2017…
Oct 15, 2018 11 tweets 4 min read
Some under-the-radar applied metrics papers that have proven useful in revising some papers: a thread 1. Simple Tests for Selection: Learning More from Instrumental Variables by Dan Black et al. (HT @mic_d_bates )
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Jan 28, 2018 35 tweets 14 min read
This tweet was more popular that I expected. So here's a thread of other user-written @stata commands that I find useful 1/ But first, why did u like the tweet? Did it make u feel... 2/