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Unemployed workers are privately willing to accept jobs below the prevailing wage, but rarely do so when this choice is observable to other workers, from Emily Breza, Supreet Kaur, and Nandita Krishnaswamy nber.org/papers/w25880

Striking statistic: the unemployment rate among Indian women with a secondary education or higher is nearly 20 percent in urban areas. More than double that of men with the same schooling

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#QJE Nov 2019 #10: “Liquidity Affects Job Choice: Evidence from Teach for America,” by Coffman (Prof Coffman), Conlon (John Conlon), Featherstone (@cfeather82), and Kessler (Judd Kessler): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Excited to share my JMP: “Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual Guidance Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment” It provides the first quantitative evidence on counselors’ large effects on a variety of educational outcomes.

Big news: U.S. Department of Education just posted the brand new version of the College Scorecard (are we up to 3.0?), now with program-level debt and earnings information available for some programs. collegescorecard.ed.gov

Basit Zafar ... amazing researcher ... so much great work on preferences and expectations from surveys ... also one of my favorite discussants at Summer Institute this year

#JPAM Winter 2020 #2: “How Local Economic Conditions Affect School Finances, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement: Evidence from the Texas Shale Boom” by Marchand & Weber: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa…

Interesting paper on global education comparisons from Dev Patel and Justin Sandefur: aeaweb.org/conference/202…

Yes, we need evidence-based policy. But we also need policy-based evidence! Without experimentation on policies, we cannot realistically answer what their effects are. But a corollary: don't get ideologically attached to a policy, and be willing to move with evidence! 14/14

India is in the throes of a horrendous COVID surge Horrendous They are struggling to get more people vaccinated We are sitting on 35-40 million doses of Astra Zeneca vaccine Americans will never use Can we please give or lend them to India? Like may be now? It'll help. A lot

"The New Era of Unconditional Unconvergence"--the paper by Dev Patel Justin Sandefur and me--has been accepted by the Journal of Development Economics. Here's the latest version: scholar.harvard.edu/files/devpatel…

New WP & 🧵: In response to COVID-19, 186 countries gave cash transfers, and 181 subsidized utilities like electricity and water. But which form of aid do recipients prefer? w/ Susanna Berkouwer, Pierre Biscaye, @E_o_hsu, @1KenLee, @TedMiguel, & Catherine Wolfram: nber.org/papers/w29086

🚨New paper with Simon Jäger @cp_roth Benjamin Schoefer measuring worker beliefs about outside options reveals systematic biases: ninaroussille.github.io/files/JRRS_Bel… Catch our pres at 1pm EST TODAY at NBER-SI LS w/ discussion by alan manning : youtube.com/channel/UC79EL… 🧵👇

New WP for New Year! What skills underpin huge wage diffs between college majors? Which majors are general vs. specialized based on skill content? nber.org/papers/w29605 1/

One of the most important economic decisions many people ever make is what to study in college. But John Conlon (Harvard Department of Economics) & Dev Patel (Harvard Department of Economics) show students have incorrect beliefs about the relationship between majors and careers: youtu.be/bj3jmpCnpFM