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Julia Turner

@julia-turner.bsky.social
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PhD student @ Northwestern SESP formerly: CEA, Blueprint Labs, Amherst College

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thrilled to be organizing this conference with Kalena Cortes, @loismiller.bsky.social, @camilantmorales.bsky.social, & @julia-turner.bsky.social, thanks to generous support from Ascendium! Send us any & all work on CCs! Descriptive, mixed methods, & interdisciplinary research encouraged. 🥳
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Lois Miller @loismiller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you work on community colleges (or adjacent), consider submitting a proposal for a book chapter to present at our conference! Extended abstracts due Dec 10. Excited to be organizing with @riacton.bsky.social @camilantmorales.bsky.social @julia-turner.bsky.social and Kalena Cortes ✨
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Julia Turner @julia-turner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just in case you need something to look forward to in 2028 🥳 Super excited to organize this convening with Kalena Cortes, @riacton.bsky.social, @loismiller.bsky.social, and @camilantmorales.bsky.social Please send us your research proposals and come hang out!
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NBER @nber.org · 24/09/2026
Open call for paper submissions: The Economics of Community Colleges conference April 6-7, 2028 in Cambridge, MA. Full information www.nber.org/economics-co...
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thank you @j-palna.bsky.social for funding this work! Want to hear more this fall? You can catch: 📍 @julia-turner.bsky.social at AFE 📍 @camilantmorales.bsky.social in the virtual @asheassa.bsky.social seminar series 📍 me at the Northeast Econ of Ed conference 📍 @loismiller.bsky.social at APPAM!
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J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
📣NEW results from J-PAL affiliated professor Kalena Cortes and coauthors Riley Acton, Camila Morales, Julia Turner, and Lois Miller evaluated how early childhood education employers value bachelor’s degrees from community college baccalaureate (CCB) programs. Learn more🧵👇
Image divided into two sections. The top shows a photograph of two people in business attire at a table, one person with folded hands while another reviews a resume on a clipboard. The bottom section displays text on a beige background with a teal banner reading 'NEW RESEARCH RESULTS,' followed by the title 'The Labor Market Value of Community College Bachelor's Degrees: Initial Evidence from a Resume Audit Study in Early Childhood Education' in orange text, and author names 'Riley Acton, Camila Morales, Julia Turner, Lois Miller, and Kalena Cortes' in gray text.
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Delighted to be chairing the postsecondary access, choice, and affordability section of the #AEFP2027 program. Send us your best papers & join us in San Diego! ☀️
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The median college student enrolls at an institution 17 miles from home
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Thoughtful piece in @nytopinion.nytimes.com today by Neil Gross about the ways students are increasingly sorting themselves along political lines both across and within colleges. Glad to see it cite research on the topic by Emily Cook, Paola Ugalde, and me!
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Opinion | College Is More Political Than Ever. But in a New, Insidious Way.
Students are self-segregating by ideology.
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Rajeev Darolia @rajdarolia.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
We are hosting the MidSouth Education Policy Workshop again this year on Oct 8-9 at UK! The goal is to bring researchers and policy professionals together to share work, get feedback, and network. Call for papers (due Aug 21) and more information here: martin.uky.edu/2026-midsout....
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2026 MidSouth Education Public Policy Workshop | Martin School of Public Policy and Administration
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Great 🧵 on our (yes, dream) team's latest research from my coauthor @julia-turner.bsky.social... who fails to mention that she will be on the market this fall with a killer JMP about the roll-out of these community college bachelor's degrees in Washington. 👀
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Julia Turner @julia-turner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🚨 New NBER WP out from this dream team of coauthors! @riacton.bsky.social, @loismiller.bsky.social, @camilantmorales.bsky.social, Kalena Cortes, and I are excited to share results from our pilot resume audit study of community college bachelor’s degrees (CCBs). www.nber.org/papers/w35404
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The Labor Market Value of Community College Bachelor’s Degrees: Initial Evidence from a Resume Audit Study in Early Childhood Education
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
So proud of @addstaylo.bsky.social, a budding health economist and stellar human being, on her way to do great things down at Vandy! 🥳
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It’s been a pleasure to get to know Luke the past 2 years, where he’s been a rockstar RA for me, @loismiller.bsky.social, @camilantmorales.bsky.social, @julia-turner.bsky.social, and Kalena Cortes. Look for him to apply to your PhD programs after a few years as a predoc with the West Point crew!
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
A summary of what @loismiller.bsky.social, @camilantmorales.bsky.social, @juliaturner.bsky.social, Kalena Cortes, and I are learning about community college bachelor’s degrees so far 👇
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Julia Turner @julia-turner.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Riley rocks! The NESCAC rocks! Riley in the NESCAC double rocks!! Congrats to Bowdoin 🐻‍❄️
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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Lots of great options for making donations via the site below. MN must not stand alone against this fascist administration. God bless Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and all those who are putting their lives, limbs, and eyes on the line to protect their neighbors 💔
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Lois Miller @loismiller.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Growing phenomenon that you might not be aware of: a lot of community colleges offer bachelor’s degrees! This descriptive piece is the start of a research agenda with my wonderful coauthors @riacton.bsky.social @julia-turner.bsky.social @camilantmorales.bsky.social and Kalena Cortes
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Happy to have this descriptive piece with @camilantmorales.bsky.social, Kalena Cortes, @julia-turner.bsky.social, & @loismiller.bsky.social out! Look for more causal work on this topic from our team in the near future 👀
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Danielle Graves Williamson @daniellecgw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->
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CJ Libassi @clibassi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
🧵 New working paper! In joint work w/ @jscottclayton.bsky.social, Veronica Minaya, & Joshua Thomas, we use admin data from a large public univ system to examine earnings gaps for high- vs low-SES college grads 5 years out & the role of first jobs in explaining the gaps. 1/ www.nber.org/papers/w34366
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Who Rides Out the Storm? The Immediate Post-College Transition and its Role in Socioeconomic Earnings Gaps
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Speaking officially as the host of Jeopardy!, Cal Raleigh is the correct MVP vote.
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🚨 New working paper alert! 🚨 #econsky Emily Cook, Paola Ugalde, and I are thrilled to share "Political Views and College Choices in a Polarized America" — now out with both @iza.org and @annenberginstitute.bsky.social EdWorkingPapers www.iza.org/publications... edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1280
Political Views and College Choices in a Polarized America

Riley Acton
Miami University & IZA

Emily Cook
Texas A&M University & CESifo

Paola Ugalde A.
Louisiana State University

We examine the role of students’ political views in shaping college enrollment decisions in the United States. We hypothesize that students derive utility from attending institutions aligned with their political identities, which
could reinforce demographic and regional disparities in educational attainment and reduce ideological diversity on campuses. Using four decades of survey data on college freshmen, we document increasing political
polarization in colleges' student bodies, which is not fully explained by sorting along demographic, socioeconomic, or academic lines. To further explore these patterns, we conduct a series of survey-based choice experiments that quantify the value students place on political alignment relative to factors such as cost and proximity. We find that both liberal and conservative students prefer institutions with more like-minded peers and, especially, with fewer students from the opposite side of the political spectrum. The median student is willing to pay up to $2,617 (12.5%) more to attend a college where the share of students with opposing political views is 10 percentage points lower, suggesting that political identity plays a meaningful role in the college choice process.
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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This action by Lisa Cook is courageous, principled, and deserves broad support.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The first “removal” (if this stands) of a Federal Reserve Board Governor in the institution’s 112 year history. Totally unprecedented. No due process. A totally authoritarian move.
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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I can't stress how damaging this is. Destroys trust in core government statistics.
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Kyle Meng @kylemeng.com · 11/07/2025
@mikegeruso.bsky.social and Dean Spears' book After the Spike is out! One of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking books on population out there.
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CJ Libassi @clibassi.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
New at @pseocoalition.bsky.social, @julia-turner.bsky.social & I have a new report on grad school debt & earnings over the medium term. For some key professional fields (🩺⚖️🦷💊🐾), we show the varied patterns both within & across areas of study, looking at the first decade of earnings after graduation
Scatter plot comparing median program debt (x-axis, $50k-$300k) vs 10-year cumulative earnings (y-axis, $0.5M-$2M) for professional programs. Medicine MD programs (pink squares) cluster in upper right with high debt ($150k-$250k) and high earnings ($1.4M-$1.8M). Law programs (blue circles) cluster in the bottom left corner with lower debt and lower earnings, though some elite programs show medicine-level earnings and somewhat higher debt than other law schools. Veterinary Medicine (green diamonds), Dentistry (plus signs) and Pharmacy (X marks) are distributed across middle ranges of earnings, but across wide ranges of the distribution of debt, with almost all pharmacy programs having lower debt than almost all dentistry programs. Physical therapy and veterinary programs have law-like earnings (between half a million and a million over 10 years), and while PT has law-like debt as well, veterinary debt is generally much higher and closer to medical school.
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CJ Libassi @clibassi.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Wanted to highlight a new report we have just released at the Office of the Chief Economist at ED: "An Overview of Graduate Borrowing and Outcomes." Below are a few graphs that might entice you to read more. First: distributions of annual borrowing for top 25 credentials in terms of annual volume
A stacked density plot showing distribution of annual graduate program borrowing in 2019 across different programs. Professional programs like dentistry and medicine have highest borrowing ($80k-120k), while master's programs in education and business typically borrow much less ($20k-40k). Programs ordered by average borrowing amount.
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C. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The 2025 Economic Report of the President is now available. There's a chapter on K12 education! www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...
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The 2025 Economic Report of the President | CEA | The White House
Today, the Council of Economic Advisers under the leadership of Chair Jared Bernstein released the 2025 Economic Report of the President, the 79th report since the establishment of CEA in 1946. The 20...
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