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Jonathan Smith

@jonisaacsmith.bsky.social
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W.J. Usery, Jr. Chair of the American Workplace @ Georgia State University, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Economics Department | Co-editor Economics of Education Review | sites.google.com/site/jonathansmith…

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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New: There's a lot of rhetoric about how dropping the SAT/ACT affects who gets into college and how prepared they are. I took a detailed look at the research www.chalkbeat.org/2026/09/22/s...
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Who wins when colleges drop SAT requirements?
Colleges have fought over admissions tests for years. Research suggests changing the rules matters — just less than either side might think.
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Brown University Department of Education @brownedudept.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Please join us in celebrating Dr. Lindsay Page as she steps into her new role as Chair of Brown's Department of Education. 👏 education.brown.edu/news/2026-09...
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Leading Brown’s Department of Education: A Conversation with New Chair Lindsay Page
Dr. Page discusses her new role as Department Chair, the colleagues who shaped her first five years at Brown, and the impact of generative AI on teaching and learning.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Test-optional policies reduce college admissions of high-achieving, disadvantaged students Under test-optional policies, too few of these applicants submit test scores; they more than double their admission probability (from 2.9% to 7.2 %) by reporting scores. drive.google.com/file/d/10mW5...
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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
"high-achieving underrepresented minority college-goers were up to 10 percentage points less likely to enroll in highly selective colleges... “cascading” down the college selectivity distribution into less selective colleges with lower graduation rates and earnings." edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1392
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College Enrollment Patterns After SFFA v. Harvard
We study how U.S. high school students’ patterns of college entry changed in the first year after the Supreme Court’s 2023 SFFA v. Harvard ruling. Drawing on a rich dataset linking more than 12 millio...
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Lauren Hoehn-Velasco @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Thrilled to kick off the Spring 2026 Economics Seminar Series at @gsueconomics.bsky.social 🎉 If you’re in Atlanta and would like to join one of the talks, feel free to reach out!
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Andrés Barrios-Fernández @andresbafer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🚨📢 Call for papers - IV Workshop on Economics of Education, Valle Nevado 🇨🇱⛷️ 📅 August 18-21 📍Valle Nevado, Chile Keynotes by Josh Goodman ( @buwheelock.bsky.social ) and Chris Neilson (Yale) Submit by March 6 👇 bit.ly/49QSsd3 @joshua-goodman.com @christopherneilson.bsky.social
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 05/01/2026
"The College Backlash Is a Mirage" Americans are more pessimistic than ever about the value of a degree—but enrollment keeps going up. By @rosehorowitch.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The College Backlash Is a Mirage
Americans are more pessimistic than ever about the value of a degree—but enrollment keeps going up.
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Austin Slaughter @austinslaughter.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
MDRC's THE-RCT data file, an individual-level data file including 33 higher ed RCTs and 80k students, is now available on OpenICPSR with a couple updates: -Two new studies (MMA and ASAP Westchester) -More years of data for three studies (EASE, DPP, and ModMath) www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/pr...
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MDRC's The Higher Education Randomized Controlled Trials Restricted Access File (THE-RCT RAF)
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,” by Chetty (@Oppinsights), Deming, and Friedman: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges*
Abstract. We use anonymized admissions data from several colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and ACT test scores to study the determinants and ca
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition www.vox.com/politics/466...
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The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi
Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.
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Jordan Matsudaira @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Econ of Ed (and other) friends: what are the best studies linking in-college interventions to labor market outcomes? Especially interested in those that improve outcomes via different mechanism than completion. E.g. if a college wants to improve earnings of grads, what should they do?
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Lauren Hoehn-Velasco @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Meet the 2025–2026 job market candidates from GSU Economics! 🎉 @gsueconomics.bsky.social #econsky 👇 Here’s a quick introduction to each candidate.
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 20/09/2025
Huge thanks to @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social for arranging my visit. GSU has an impressive econ department, full of great applied micro folks and the Georgia Policy Lab that supports work directly relevant to improving public policy.
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Lauren Hoehn-Velasco @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Our 2nd annual @gsueconomics.bsky.social PhD Summer Symposium was a success! 🎉 It was great to showcase our GSU Economics JMCs for 2025–26. Thanks to @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social y.social for co-organizing, and a big thank-you to our endowed chairs for sponsoring this event!
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Sounds about right to me.
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Hopkins shows clearly that this is not about wokeness, or antisemitism, or whatever other excuse they may claim. It’s about bringing universities to heel, following the playbook of authoritarians everywhere.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It's a paper about voting, yes. But really, it's a paper about peer effects. We think we are uniquely able to identify causal peer effects in a vitally important behavior.
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Deep cut. And better/accurate spelling of Marcia.
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Depends on whether Marsha voted. Marsha, Marsha, Marsha..
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The suspense is killing me...I hope it will last.
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I'm lucky enough to have Alex as my new-ish colleague! Go @gsueconomics.bsky.social!
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Mike Bloem @mike-bloem.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Very cool to see this paper (my former JMP!) forthcoming at one of my favorite journals!
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Georgia State Economics Dept. and Seminar Series @gsueconomics.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Congrats to our own Economics faculty member @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social for receiving the 2025 GSU Ignite Faculty Research Partnership Award for his work with Achieve Atlanta !!! Economist Jonathan Smith Receives Georgia State Ignite Research Award news.gsu.edu/2025/04/04/e...
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Economist Jonathan Smith Receives Georgia State Ignite Research Award
The Faculty Research Partnership Award recognizes an individual who, in partnership with an external, non-academic entity, conducts research that makes a significant impact.
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Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A new practitioner's guide to staggered difference-in-difference designs arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13323
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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"International students increase schools’ funding via tuition payments, which leads to increased in-state enrollment and lower tuition prices." Link to working paper below
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Thad Domina @t-h-a-d.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is the way. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The JHR @j-humanresources.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Access to public four-year colleges boosts earnings and stability. @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social, @joshua-goodman.com, and Michael Hurwitz analyze college access’s long-term effects, showing students gain greater career mobility and security. doi.org/10.3368/jhr....
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The Economic Impact of Access to Public Four-Year Colleges
Jonathan Smith, Joshua Goodman and Michael Hurwitz
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We estimate the economic impacts of students’ access to an entire sector of U.S. public higher education. Approximately half of Georgia high school graduates who enroll in college do so in the state’s public four-year sector, which requires minimum SAT scores for admission. Regression discontinuity estimates show enrollment in public four-year institutions boosts students’ estimated household income around age 30 by about 17 percent and has even larger impacts for those from low-income high schools. Access to this sector has little clear impact on financial health or student loan balances. For the marginal student, and particularly for those from low-income high schools, enrollment in such institutions has large private returns in the short run and positive returns to state budgets in the long run.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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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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Erica Greenberg @ericahgreenberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟 #EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer
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Education Data Explorer
Explore education data
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I'll be visiting Copenhagen Business School on March 27th and giving a brown bag seminar. I hope the broader Copenhagen economics community can attend!
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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
You can still submit for the NBER's Children & Families spring meetings on April 3-4. Submit by Jan. 31 here: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...
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Submission: Children and Families Program Meeting, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Same! Well, the Muppet Christmas part.
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
We hope to start reviewing applications very soon. If you haven't applied, now's the time! If you have questions, shoot me an email and ask me now!
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Georgia State Economics Dept. and Seminar Series @gsueconomics.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Great to see so many of our faculty, colleagues, graduate students, and alumni at the @appam.bsky.social Fall Research Conference! #APPAM2024
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Now that’s the way to return to Bluesky! This was a great collaboration and the paper is even better, imo. For those interested in what HBCUs offer to students, in terms of access and returns, this is your kind of paper!
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes" by Ashley Edwards, Justin Ortagus, Jonathan Smith, and Andria Smythe. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes
(Forthcoming Article) - Using data from nearly 1.2 million Black SAT takers, we estimate the impacts of initially enrolling in an Historically Black College and University (HBCU). We find that student...
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Georgia State Economics Dept. and Seminar Series @gsueconomics.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
📢 We're hiring at @gsueconomics.bsky.social ! Come join our Economics department at Georgia State University! 📢 We're hiring an endowed chair position. This is an open field full professor position, with the option for promotion upon hire! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... #EconSky
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The fun doesn’t stop here.
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
We're hiring at @gsueconomics.bsky.social ! Come join our econ dept at Georgia State University! ATL is amazing! We are hiring for two tenured chair positions The first position is active on JOE and is open field; the second position will be posted soon. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... #EconSky
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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Go Carycruz, very distinguished @gsueconomics.bsky.social alum.
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Does anyone have publicly available data from a populous state (eg CA, TX, NY, FL) with detailed variables about each high school? I’m aware of National data from CCD and PSS and in fact, I want to link the state data to them, so an NCES school identifier is required. Thanks!
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 07/03/2024
Great article by Dave Deming on how to better use standardized test scores in college admissions ("test-optional" ain't it). Cites our research that "super-scoring", as many colleges do, exacerbates income gaps by encouraging excessive retaking. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Econ of Ed folks (and skiers!). Great conference alert. I went last year, met some great scholars and skiers. Submit my March 1st. Workshop on Economics of Education - Universidad de los Andes (uandes.cl) In Valle Nevado, Chile.
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Correction - BEST Job Alert!
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Jonathan Smith @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Come work with me @ GSU! Interested in all ranks. Particularly interested in building on our existing fields (i.e., applied micro) and metrics, ATL is awesome and the department is even better! Please reach out if you have any questions. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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