#AEFP2023 has begun and education researchers are presenting critical topics to improve student outcomes! Today (3/23), Ed Policy Initiative researchers present: 😷Parent Response to COVID School Policies 🏫Role of Siblings in College Decisions 👨🏽‍🎓Skills, Majors, & Jobs see more⬇️

En route to #AEFP2023! Looking forward to presenting some early findings from my dissertation work tomorrow morning and chairing a session on Saturday 😊

The Education Law Center found funding gaps were greater in city and rural districts with lower-income populations. Wealthier districts saw smaller gaps. freep.com/story/news/edu…

NEW: Stanford economist Eric Hanushek is well known for arguing for decades that most studies show no link between school spending and student outcomes. But now his new summary paper shows the opposite. chalkbeat.org/2023/5/16/2372…

In a Chalkbeat article looking at the debate around whether school spending matters, C. Kirabo Jackson said, “The vast majority of the time whatever school districts choose to spend the money on tends to improve outcomes. spr.ly/6012OxzLo

ICYMI: Michigan schools will see big funding gains for their neediest students detroit.chalkbeat.org/2023/6/28/2377…

Our NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship with NAEd is now open! These $27,500 fellowships support doctoral students whose dissertations show promise for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to education research anywhere in the world. Read more. naeducation.org/naedspencer-di…

The illustrious C. Kirabo Jackson and I wrote a new Point/Counterpoint piece for Journal of Policy Analysis and Management on why money matters for schools and how that translates into student outcomes. You can read it here for free: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa…

Recently accepted by #QJE, “What We Teach about Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children’s Books,” by Adukia (Anjali Adukia), Eble (Alex Eble), Harrison (Emileigh Harrison), Runesha (MiiE Lab), and Szasz (Dora): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Delighted that this project with Claire Mackevicius is out in print. It is a good-faith effort to present the facts, and even school-spending skeptics agree with the conclusions. We believe it can help the policy conversation evolve. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

🚨🧵📜David Schönholzer, Julien Lafortune and I have a new wp! Perhaps the longest-standing debate in education is on whether money matters. Esp. in the case of capital (building /renovating school facilities), conflicting results have led scholars to conclude that “it depends.”

We find that *what* we spend money on matters a lot. Spending on HVAC and removal of dangerous materials (“safety/health”) increases test scores a lot, but not house prices. Spending on athletic facilities, instead, raises house prices but not test scores.

Recently, the Rackham community gathered to celebrate the 2024-2025 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Award recipients. 🎉 Celebrate this year’s fellows and explore their abstracts: myumi.ch/zXNdy #UMich #GradSchool #WeAreRackham

Happy to see this important paper in print! direct.mit.edu/rest/article-a…

"Students exposed to additional funding during elementary school were substantially less likely to be arrested in adulthood."

Students exposed to more school funding during elementary school are less likely to be arrested as adults. Just Accepted new paper by Jason Baron (Jason Baron), Joshua Hyman (Joshua Hyman), Brittany Vasquez (Brittany Vasquez) zurl.co/tpBm

The evidence on the importance of school funding keeps piling up.

Forthcoming in The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat): "Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime" by Jason Baron, Joshua Hyman, & Brittany Vasquez doi.org/10.1162/rest_a…