Reposted by Joshua GoodmanJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 7hWhat’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌ 29459134
Reposted by Joshua GoodmanKevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 6hOne consequences of the left's hostility to economics is that they rally behind solutions that will probably make things worse. Economics is not the enemy of the left, and hasn't been for nearly half a century 28414
Reposted by Joshua GoodmanMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 6hPeople keep analogizing rent control to the minimum wage, suggesting that maybe empirical work will refute the theoretical work. But the empirical work is generally showing what theory would predict. 1629630
Reposted by Joshua GoodmanGabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · 9h🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 Birth weight isn't the whole story. Birth length predicts health better — and among babies born small, whether the head kept growing while the body didn't predicts cognitive outcomes 30 years on. Out now, open access: cup.org/4yGMwgA #twins #dohad #birthweightcup.orgNeonatal Health and Long-Term Outcomes: Twin-Based Evidence From Linked Scandinavian Registers | Twin Research and Human Genetics | Cambridge CoreNeonatal Health and Long-Term Outcomes: Twin-Based Evidence From Linked Scandinavian Registers 092
Reposted by Joshua GoodmanOlivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 03/10/2026The US is, or was, the world’s leading scientific power in economics. The Trump administration is inflicting extraordinary damage on what was once an infrastructure of excellence. The open question is how much of that damage will prove permanent. 0198
Reposted by Joshua GoodmanStuart McDaniel @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“For four decades, the United States has run one of the most profitable trades in the world economy… import young people that the global labor market has underpriced—graduate students whose ability outruns their résumés—give them a place to prove themselves, and keep much of the upside” 04020
Reposted by Joshua GoodmanErin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses... 9480297
Reposted by Joshua GoodmanMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this. 27777298
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 02/10/2026I'd certainly trust it to help him make AIoli or Pad ThAI. 140
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 02/10/2026The debt figures you cite aren't quite right. SA-12 blends grad borrowing and accrued interest. For bachelor's recipients (SA-14A), avg debt fell from ~$35K (2018-19 grads) to ~$30K (2023-24), and the share of undergrads borrowing federally fell from 38% to 23%. 000
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 02/10/2026I'd settle for "stopped rising, modestly reversed" over "falling." Public 4-yr sticker tuition is ~2x its 1995 level though the last decade is -7%. For full-time in-state freshmen at public 4-years, real net cost of attendance was ~$21.0K in 2006-07 and ~$21.3K now. 110
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 02/10/2026This is consistent with our recent work showing that stronger labor markets since the Great Recession's peak explain much of the large declines in community college enrollment. And that students on the margin between work and CC are unlikely to complete their degrees. www.nber.org/papers/w34498 071
Reposted by Joshua GoodmanReview of Economics and Statistics (REStat) @restatjournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When minimum wage goes up, 2-year college enrollment goes down. Little change in degree receipt though. In the September issue, by Diane Schanzenbach, Julia Turner, and Sarah Turner. zurl.co/Qic3g 094
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 02/10/2026I might be traveling a bit too much this semester. My schedule from August to December includes 5 states and 3 continents: Chile (U de los Andes) Western MA (Williams) Tennessee (UT-Knoxville) Maine (Bowdoin) Michigan (U Michigan) Australia (U Monash) Texas (Dallas Fed) This is my life now 👇static.klipy.comMr. Bean Smiling on a Plane MemeALT: Mr. Bean Smiling on a Plane Meme 140
Reposted by Joshua Goodmansamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 02/10/2026early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here 1018154
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026Hobson's choice in K-12 education: You can pick any school as long as it's the one closest to your house. 030
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026I don't remember who got the group fixed effects and who got the time fixed effects in the recent divorce between econometricians and applied microeconomists. 090
Reposted by Joshua GoodmanThomas S. Dee @tomdee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The new academic year is finally underway at Stanford. Here's a real-time photo of me as I discuss the need for—and feasibility of—preregistering quasi-experimental studies. More here: tom-dee.github.io/files/QED_Pr... 1224
Reposted by Joshua GoodmanPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 01/10/2026drives me insane paulgp.substack.com/p/the-median...paulgp.substack.comThe median college student does not spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on college tuitionNet tuition and the opportunity cost of living 1203
Reposted by Joshua GoodmanDan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This paper is for the wonks out there who want to think/learn more about how to use LLMs to assess teacher applicants (or job applicants in general) 👇 042
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026Including room and board doesn't change the time trends substantially, if you read the full College Board report. 100
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026If I learned one thing from the show Veep, it's that VPs are very important. 100
Reposted by Joshua GoodmanDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The article itself is mainly talking about publics and that is a strong trend even when looking before aid bsky.app/profile/bake... 121
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026Seriously, update your calculations to assume something much less dramatic about the rate of tuition changes. 010
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026I'd be happy to manage your money :) [And fortunately I ignored Vanguard, which told me that if I saved $1,000/month for 18 years straight I'd still only have 3 years of tuition at the end.] 110
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026Even sticker prices show a fairly different story than the one that most people have in their heads. 020
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026Ha. I never know exactly how many years defines a generation :) 010
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026But I couldn't necessarily blame Vanguard. It was just extrapolating from the experience of the 1990s and 2000s. Turns out the 2010s and 2020s were just different, with real college costs plateauing or even declining. Why that happened is an interesting (and arguably open) question. 020
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026My oldest was born in 2010. When I went to start a college savings account that year, Vanguard essentially said "tuition has been rising at 8% a year" and, assuming this continued for 18 years, tuition in 2028 would be $250,000/year. Needless to say, that prediction was very very wrong. 4100
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026For those interested, here are the inflation-adjusted costs (tuition+fees) of 4-year public, 4-year private, and 2-year colleges over the last few decades. From: research.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/Tr... 0122
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026This report has exactly that information and it doesn't change the story terribly much: research.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/Tr...research.collegeboard.org 000
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026Costs are definitely much higher than a generation (or two) ago. The update is that they're not more expensive than 10 years ago, which is harder for people to update on. 230
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026Yeah, my oldest was born in 2010 and Vanguard was telling me the predicted real annual rate of tuition increase was 8%! That was true in the decade prior but turned out not to be true in the last decade. 120
Reposted by Joshua Goodmanboo ming @wu-ming.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it's a generation still furious about that sharp increase from 2000 to 2015, worried about paying for their kids' college while they still have loans to pay. the shock of that experience is the sort that permanently locks in worldviews. same reason why it's hard to believe that wages went up. 221
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026It surprised me too when I learned about this a few years ago! 000
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026Sorry, that was sticker prices not net prices. Can see similar net price patterns in the report (but I don't have time to track it down now). 020
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026That doesn't change the basic story of declining/plateauing prices: 100
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026Public colleges have shown steeper net price drops: 200
Reposted by Joshua GoodmanSustainableED @edsustainable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026MONDAY 10/5: @joshua-goodman.com will be presenting the first of this year's SustainableED Virtual Seminar Series at 1pm EST. Open to all and hosted on Zoom! Register: tinyurl.com/22jrpect 044
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026When I worked at the White House, we constantly had to correct the speeches and memos that started with "The cost of college is rapidly rising." It's one of those zombie ideas that is hard to kill. College can be expensive, and moreso than it was for our parents, but let's get the facts right. 1812520
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026I recently received two rejections from the same journal and in solidarity Gmail has started sending all content alerts from that journal to my spam folder. 0120
Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026It's gratifying to see our work featured on the @nber.org home page. www.nber.org/papers/w35670 0121
Reposted by Joshua GoodmanThe Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026📢📢We now know the Tourists and Hosts for the 2026 REStud North America Tour!📢📢 The Tour brings promising doctoral students in economics and finance from European universities to academic audiences across North America. Let's meet the Hosts and Tourists! 1/12 193
Reposted by Joshua GoodmanJohn Cawley @johncawley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026From our AEA cttee on the job market, here's the first update on the status of the job mkt for PhD economists of the 2026-27 cycle. A thread with graphs follows... #EconJobMarket #EconSky @aeainformation.bsky.social @aeacswep.bsky.social @joelistings.bsky.social 1/9 22721