New NBER w/ Matthew A. Kraft & Matthew Steinberg We document & examine 772 U.S. teacher strikes from 2007-23—strikes increase compensation & working conditions w/ little effect on achievement w/in 5 yrs. 10+ day strikes decrease math scores short term.🧵 nber.org/papers/w32862

Jesse Bruhn Brad Shapiro Brown University Rockefeller College Jake Rosenfeld Sarah Anzia College of Education Annenberg Institute at Brown AEFP APSA Section on Education Politics & Policy @rmc031 Vox Agreed, sometimes we have a tendency to forget that teachers are humans with their own value...they matter for their own sake...in addition to their value for student academic achievement

Brad Shapiro Jesse Bruhn Brown University Rockefeller College Jake Rosenfeld Sarah Anzia College of Education Annenberg Institute at Brown AEFP APSA Section on Education Politics & Policy @rmc031 Vox In my research, I have tried very hard to move discussions about teachers unions away from a simple question of good v. bad doi.org/10.1016/j.econ… doi.org/10.1177/089590…

RCT introduction of a pollution market in Surat, Gujarat. Pollution fell by 20–30%, and efficiently — gains came from the firms who could cut pollution most effectively. Mortality benefits are *25 times* costs. An incredible state/research collaboration. 1/2

Not that I'm volunteering (good lord no), but if I were dean of faculty, my regime would focus on 1) IT annoyances 2) Reimbursement annoyances 3) Form/paper work annoyances and then I'd tweet about how good we were on these dimensions & beat every other school in hiring

🚨Teaching Materials🚨 Last quarter, I had the amazing opportunity to teach Crime Economics to undergraduate students Sao Paulo School of Economics – FGV. The students were amazing! If you are interested in my lecture notes, check them here: dropbox.com/scl/fo/nuv967y…

We discussed many papers written by people here on #econtwitter: Amanda Agan, Jennifer Doleac, Anna Harvey, Carolina Arteaga, Caterina Soto Vieira, Diogo Britto, breno sampaio, Chris Blattman, Jesse Bruhn, @AriaGoles, Joana Monteiro, Rudi Rocha, Analisa Packham, and others.

📢 New postdoc opportunity at Annenberg! The Annenberg Institute is seeking a postdoctoral research associate for a 2‐year appointment to join a diverse community of scholars committed to educational equity and improvement! More info here: annenberg.brown.edu/opportunities/…

The Annenberg Institute has been the perfect landing spot after the PhD: amazing colleagues and stellar research support. Happy to chat more about this opportunity if anyone is interested!

Come work with us!!

Gov't agencies love these elaborate construct-a-data-set GUIs / shopping cart widgets when they'd almost certainly be more useful to their real users if they just gave you a link to a big CSV & a codebook

*NEW VERSION* alert 🔔 (1st written up in 2020, now joint with Chun Chee Kok who is on the market 📈) we study the effects of a large-scale colonial resettlement-era program in Malaysia on contemporary economic and voting outcomes. A thread 1/🧵 gedeon89.github.io/gedeonlim.com/…

It frustrates me an unbelievable amount how some universities (who will remain nameless) will send 10 emails a week about being world leaders in AI but then require a 10 step, months long security review to reimburse a chatGPT 4 subscription...

I had many reasons to vote 4 Harris. This girl’s rights, freedom, and future (and her sisters) was the biggest one.

The swings states are very relatable to me, a person who assumes I can finish everything by midnight but actually will need several more days

Highlighting the importance of nominal representation for cultivating substantive participation by women in high-stakes decision-making bodies, from Emilia Brito Rebolledo, Jesse Bruhn, Thea How Choon, and E. Anna Weber nber.org/papers/w33223

There was a substantial decline in crime reporting across US cities in the wake of George Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police, say researchers at Harvard Kennedy School, MHS Vanderbilt, Brown University, and Princeton University. #Chart aeaweb.org/research/chart…

Proud to have our work featured by AEA Journals. cc Desmond Ang Panka Bencsik Jesse Bruhn

Personal news. I am starting a new job on July 1: news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/… Still planning to do research and writing, although perhaps at a slower pace!