Tulane Prof. & Chair, Dept of Econ; Dir. of @ERA_NOLA & @REACHcentered; K-12 & highered policy to improve well-being, fight poverty. @Brookings Senior Fellow
Apr 24 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Why does the free mkt logic fail in education? A long thread below. Very relevant to current #vouchers #ESA debate. You can see the whole paper (ungated) here: + journal version here: edworkingpapers.com/authors/dougla… journals.sagepub.com/stoken/default…
One useful way to answer the questions is to list the assumptions that have to hold for the mkt to work well & then show how they fail in distinctive ways in the case of schooling. Here it goes...
Jan 27, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
1/ Excited abt our latest @REACHCtrEd report on the effects of charter schools nationally: reachcentered.org/publications/d…. I did this with my PhD student Feng Chen. A thread on results…
2/ One contrib is studying system-wide outcomes, ie, a weighted avg of trad public schls (TPS) & charter results. This means: a) little worry abt self-selection of students into charters; & b) we capture net effects of various ways charters affect student outcomes, incl thru TPS
May 11, 2021 • 15 tweets • 10 min read
New paper w/ Jon Mills abt coll financial aid, incl #freecollege. edworkingpapers.com/index.php/ai21…. We build on past res espec @dynarski@jscottclayton@saragoldrickrab@rkelchen & others, but our study is fairly different & relevant to Biden #AmericanFamiliesPlan. #EconTwitter#highered
We studied The Degree Project (TDP) for 10 years (& counting) using a randomized trial. 1/2 of 9th graders in Milwaukee were promised $12,000 for college, enough to cover all tuition/fees at the local 2y college ("free" 2y). Same funds could also be used at 4y colleges
Jan 4, 2021 • 20 tweets • 9 min read
I’m pleased to say @REACHCenterEd has released: “The Effects of School Reopenings on COVID-19 Hospitalizations.” We think it’s the 1st US study involving COVID health *outcomes* & 1st w data on whole country. Thread: reachcentered.org/publications/t…
Conclusion: We find no effect of school reopenings on #COVID hospitalizations for counties where pre-opening new hosp rates <=36-44 per 100k population per week. As of mid-Dec, 58% of counties across the country have rates this low.
Dec 18, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Is it safe to reopen schools in-person? Pleased to announce important new evid coming soon from @REACHctred. We think it’s the 1st US study to get causal effects of reopening or to look at COVID health *outcomes*. We do both w near-census of whole country. Below, I describe how…
Almost all prior work focuses on COVID positivity rates/contact tracing. Well known problems with this: rare & unsystematic COVID testing, incomplete contact tracing, & vast majority of transmission don’t result in neg health outcomes--& we care most about outcomes
Jul 24, 2018 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
1/ We appreciate @dleonhardt’s @NYTimes columns the past 2 weeks re: our study on NOLA reforms’ effects on long-term student outcomes. My co-author Matthew Larsen deserves a ton of credit. This thread addresses questions & comments that have come up.
2/ Before I dive in, here are links to the @NYTimes columns and our @ERA_NOLA report: nyti.ms/2mjy9MM, nyti.ms/2uPmtX1, bit.ly/2JQ06Ft
