Postdoctoral Fellow @OppInsights @Harvard. '22- Asst Prof of Economics @YaleSOM. PhD from @BerkeleyEcon. Research tweets on labor economics and education.
Dec 8, 2021 • 17 tweets • 7 min read
**New paper** Over the past 20 years (but not before!), Black and Hispanic college graduates have been steadily earning degrees in relatively lower-paying majors.
The main culprit? An increasingly-common public university policy.
A thread. #EconTwitterzacharybleemer.com/wp-content/upl…
Underrepresented minority (URM) college graduates have long earned lower-paying majors than their non-URM peers, but the gap has been growing for the past 20 years.
Today, URM graduates earn degrees with lower average wages by almost 3%. 2/n
Sep 1, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Thrilled to share that my research on the economic mobility ramifications of banning affirmative action is forthcoming at the @QJEHarvard.
Now published: Looking for a great way to explain regression discontinuity designs to undergrads? Show them the causal wage return to majoring in economics! A short thread. #EconTwitter
In 2008-2012, UC Santa Cruz limited access to its economics major to students who earned at least a 2.8 GPA in their first two economics courses. Compliance was imperfect, but having a 2.8 GPA made students much more likely to declare the economics major.