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Great talk by Peter Arcidiacono, presenting a big-picture framework to reconcile conflicting evidence on the impacts of affirmative action in college admissions. Stone Centre at UCL

Jack Mountjoy (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business) presents “College as a Marriage Market” to examine assortative marriage by college type and its economic consequences. (1/4) Stone Centre at UCL

Anaïs Fabre (Institute for Fiscal Studies) presents “The Geography of Higher Education and Spatial Inequalities” to identify the sources of spatial education gaps. (1/5) Stone Centre at UCL

Susan Dynarski (Harvard University) presents “Experimental Evidence on the Effects of College Quality on Educational Outcomes”, examining how a scholarship program closes college quality gaps between low- and high-income students. (1/5) Stone Centre at UCL

Caterina Calsamiglia Costa (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) presents “Can Single-Sex Schooling Shape the Gender Differences in Response to Pressure?” to investigate where gender differences in performance under high-stakes settings originate. (1/5) Stone Centre at UCL

Thanks to the Stone Centre at UCL for funding this conference, which I had the pleasure to co-organise with the fantastic Anaïs Fabre Pedro Carneiro and Camille Terrier.

New results from our study of the long-term impacts of affirmative action in college admissions (with Michela Carlana and Enrico Miglino), using Chile’s PACE program. How far down the academic achievement distribution can you go while still benefitting the students you target?

Preparing a lecture on subjective expectations for the Econometric Society summer school in Dynamic Structural Econometrics, and I found a Wolpin paper from 1985 (!) on the use of expectation data to estimate choice models.

London friends, honored and excited to give the UCL CEPEO annual lecture at Central Hall Westminster next Thursday, July 10th (starts at 6pm)! I'll be discussing the evidence on making smart investments in early childhood care and education. I hope you'll join us (link below):

🚨 Replication update! The Journal of Population Economics has RETRACTED Ciacci (2024) 🚨 It seems like the scientific record can be corrected after all. This paper does not show that the Swedish law that criminalized the purchase of sex led to an increase in rape. 1/4

What a pleasure to teach in the The Econometric Society summer school in structural dynamic econometrics, and in such great company! All lectures will be on YouTube soon. dseconf.org/dse2025course-…

Thanks to VoxDev for stopping by to discuss how developing-country cities can leverage existing privatised networks to provide better 'public' transit.