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AEFP Live Handbook @aefplivehandbook.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Student loans can help students pay for college, but their effects depend on how and why students borrow. In a new chapter, Jeffrey T. Denning examines student loans, borrowing, student debt, college prices, and income-driven repayment. Learn more: livehandbook.org/higher-educa...

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 12/11/2025

Popular discourse attributes falling college enrollments to the rising cost of four-year college. That story is wrong in multiple ways, as @mattbarnum.bsky.social points out in his latest roundup of the evidence (citing a new working paper of ours): www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...

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Is college enrollment plummeting?

Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 15/10/2025

Don't forget that the deadline for SOLE is coming up. The meeting will be in Denver on May 1-2 this year. I am a big fan of SOLE and will be on the program committee reviewing higher education papers, so *definitely* submit if you have papers in higher education. Link below

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 18/09/2025

I like a good fast action rod but I agree. Fishing a fiberglass rod is definitely slows you down, in the right way

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 17/09/2025

Now you have to say which rod it was

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 04/09/2025

If you know of a student who is looking for a education post doc (now, odd timing I know), I may have an opportunity for them. They would be working Texas admin data so experience with that would be a big plus.

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 04/09/2025

First time being on the receiving end of this

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 03/09/2025

Nothing makes me feel more like a professor than checking out a dusty old library book for research. Economics rarely looks like this—but it’s exactly what I thought professors did when I was a kid

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 02/09/2025

I almost said in the original that it was not Josh Goodman level just to tamp down expectations

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 02/09/2025

One of the best feelings in research is coming up with a great title. I may have come up with my favorite yet, stay tuned

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Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The graduation part II: Graduate program graduation rates" By @jeffdenning.com & @lesleyturner.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 22/06/2025

Had to make sure to catch a bow on this trip too

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Michael Petrilli @michaelpetrilli.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

IES REBORN? On today's Education Gadfly Show podcast, Fordham's Amber Northern (of "Amber's Research Minute" fame) announces that she's joining the Trump Administration for six months to help develop a plan for a new IES. Listen now (starts around 24:30): fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 30/05/2025

Happy surprise to see this discussion of our paper in Jessica Hoel's substack (which is good generally!) liberalartsledger.substack.com/p/day-14-gra...

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Day 14: Grades, graduation rates, and actual learning

A series following my new class: The Economics of Higher Education

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 30/05/2025

My intermediate micro students would be proud

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Upjohn Institute @upjohninstitute.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

We're thrilled to announce three outstanding researchers are joining the Upjohn Institute: Chloe Gibbs @chloergibbs.bsky.social and Monique Davis @monique-e-davis.bsky.social in August and Ethan Jenkins June 2. Welcome! #laboreconomics #econsky

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 23/05/2025

I will also be involved with the University of Texas Austin Education Research Center so if you have questions about that data--send them my way!

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 23/05/2025

Next year I'll be joining the LBJ School of Public Affairs and College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. It's a dream come true to be back at UT. I want to thank @ndecon.bsky.social for the last two years--it has been a great place for me and my family.

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 13/04/2025

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

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Todd Jones @toddrjones.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start! Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall). Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768 Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 25/03/2025

At the district spell bowl, a night for the nerds. Let's get ready to rumble!

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 24/03/2025

Would be pretty interested in that. But I'm biased having been at two places with undergraduate business degrees

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 24/03/2025

I'd be interested to see the list for schools that have an undergraduate business degree. In some of these places econ is de facto business

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 22/03/2025

Thanks to @chloergibbs.bsky.social and @jeffdenning.com and others for a great visit to Notre Dame (and great feedback on our paper studying the past 15 years of declines in community college enrollment). Among many highlights of the visit was the branded waffle I just made myself for breakfast.

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 17/03/2025

All of the topics have this format, very nice I think

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 17/03/2025

Happy to contribute this chapter on student loans in the United States to the @aefpweb.bsky.social live handbook. I try to summarize what we have learned in student loan research recently. livehandbook.org/higher-educa...

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Student Loans

This report analyzes the effects of student loans on education, jobs, & finances. Key findings include loan access, college costs, & repayment options.

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Jill Barshay @jillbarshay.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I was just informed that the Department of Education has taken down all its Civil Rights data. If you need it, alternative sites are now hosting it for the public. See links in this thread. ocrdata.ed.gov/notfound

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Civil Rights Data | U.S. Department of Education

Understand trends in student opportunity, security, and diversity.

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 05/03/2025

Fine...I'll do it. (JK I really just want to cite something here)

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 05/03/2025

Anyone have cites for the effects of graduate school tuition on enrollment? I can't think of any offhand but could use one. Thanks!

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 24/02/2025

Parents are also less likely to be delinquent on their debt if their child gets a Cal Grant. In this case, focusing on students would miss most (all) of the changes in financial outcomes highlighting the importance of looking at parents Check out the paper for more details/results.

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 24/02/2025

The next part of the paper uses sharp discontinuities in the Cal Grant to study how the price of college affects families. We see very little effect on students. But, we see that parents reduce educational loans and HELOCs.

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 24/02/2025

Why is this? Hard to say for sure but it may be greater access to loans or a change in expenditures on kids when they go to college.

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 24/02/2025

Overall indebtedness doesn't increase, but parents shift debt from auto loans and credit cards to student loans. We find that parents also see increases in credit scores. We also see for lower income parents a reduction in overall delinquency and bankruptcy.

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 24/02/2025

We borrow from the child penalty literature and show how parent finances evolve when their kid goes to college relative to parents whose kid has not yet gone to college but will soon

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 24/02/2025

We use data from CA to link student financial aid data to parent outcomes. This allows us to show how parents are affected when their child goes to college. It also allows us to see how parents are affected when college is unexpectedly cheaper (via a grant).

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 24/02/2025

As college costs and student debt have risen, many papers have been written asking how this affects students schooling, earnings, etc. Up until now, we've known very little about how parents are affected. We show that ignoring parents misses a big piece of the puzzle.

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 24/02/2025

How are parents affected by their kid going to college? How are they affected when their kid gets a scholarship or grant? New working paper with @palaashbhargava.bsky.social @econsandy.bsky.social @odedgurantz.bsky.social and Rob Fairlie www.nber.org/papers/w33497

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 20/02/2025

In a moment of weakness this morning I looked up flights to Florida *leaving today* Pretty ready for mornings that start with temperatures in the single digits to be over for the year

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 19/02/2025

Should be on every econ of ed syllabus (and labor too imo)

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Andrew Bacher-Hicks @abacherhicks.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Back by popular demand! We just released another call for proposals using RCTs and quasi-experiments. 3-page LOIs are due March 14. Details here: bit.ly/4ambjv3 (1/2)

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Arnold Ventures | Two New Ways to Learn What Actually Works

The Evidence and Evaluation team has launched two new requests for proposals to strengthen and build evidence of proven programs, policies, and…

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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The @arnoldventures.bsky.social Criminal Justice team will soon launch a monthly newsletter! Subscribe here to get fresh CJ research, policy, and advocacy developments delivered to your inbox. I promise we'll keep it interesting.🥳 www.arnoldventures.org/subscribe

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chloe gibbs @chloergibbs.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I know lots of stuff is off the rails, but just got another R&R, so for now, we celebrate 🎉 🎉 🎉

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 29/01/2025

I have a project where one of @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social 's papers is relevant. He has slides posted which were very helpful in understanding what is going on etc. I like this convention and hope others adopt it. Not sure what is says about me that i find slides easier to digest than a paper...

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 22/01/2025

It's the time of year when economics-trained faculty can be nominated to become NBER affiliates. If you primarily work on the economics of education and would like me to nominate you, send me an e-mail. Though budget constraints prevent all nominees from being chosen, it's worth trying!

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