🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Felicitaciones Maria Paola Sevilla, Paola Bordon y Fernanda Ramirez-Espinoza!

1/ New paper available online at the Economics of Education Review! Maria Paola Sevilla, Paola Bordon, and yours truly investigate the impact of having a female teacher 👩‍🏫 on vocational high school (VTE) STEM students 👷‍♀️ Free access for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/c/1hKzc~1QC4gEo

Early view from JPAM: "The thin blue line in schools: New evidence on school-based policing across the U.S." by @lucy_sorensen, Montserrat Avila-Acosta, John Engberg, Shawn Bushway. doi.org/10.1002/pam.22…

New (forthcoming) paper alert! Transportation Logics: How Charter School Leaders Make Choices about Student Transportation | American Journal of Education journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… W/co-author extraordinaire Ayesha Hashim NWEA UCSB Gevirtz School (1/5)

Representation is said to matter, but I didn't see myself in the world around me growing up. Whom did I see? With whom was I supposed to identify? What about my children? And what about in children's books? What do children see? How to measure it? (a thread 🧵👇🏾) 1/n

The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) "Social Exclusion and Ethnic Segregation in Schools: The Role of Teachers' Ethnic Prejudice" co-authored by Sule Alan, Enes Duysak, Elif Kubilay, and Ipek Mumcu: direct.mit.edu/rest/article/1…

Many are skeptical that capital spending matters for students. Summary of older papers shows it does aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… However, this impressive new study by Barbara Biasi and others provides compelling evidence of benefits for low-income kids. insights.som.yale.edu/insights/does-…

Excited to present some work on teacher motivation in a panel on teacher supply, diversity, and quality tomorrow at APPAM! Also grateful to present alongside Andrew Bacher-Hicks Melanie Rucinski Francisco Lagos Come check us out in Embassy G at 10:15!

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…

Estudio del BID revela: El SAE en Chile tiene limitado efecto en la segregación.Familias desfavorecidas buscan en las escuelas: menos violencia y discriminación, más autoeficacia,valores religiosos, deportes,nombres extranjeros y menos calidad académica publications.iadb.org/en/navigating-…

So many great UMD and MEP students, postdocs, and faculty are presenting at AEFP next week! Check out our presentation schedule below.👇 You won't want to miss them! Jing Liu David Blazar Meghan Comstock Francisco Lagos Tifanee McCaskill (she/her) Rolonda L. Payne, EdD just to name a few!

New paper from David Blazar Wenjing Gao Dr. Ramon Goings and colleagues identifies the importance of race-conscious policies for addressing racial disparities in teaching. docs.iza.org/dp16928.pdf

💫Today we launch the Segregation Explorer!💫 Visualize and download school segregation data for every state, county, metro area, commuting zone, geo school district, and local educational agency in the US since 1991. edopportunity.org/segregation

We've been working on papers and policy briefs related to the teacher workforce, educational equity and access, and the Blueprint for Maryland's Future that have implications relevant for Maryland policymakers/practitioners. Find them on our website! 👇 education.umd.edu/research/cente…

New paper alert! Disparate Pathways: Understanding Racial Disparities in Teaching, with Max Anthenelli, Wenjing Gao Dr. Ramon Goings & Seth Gershenson Maryland Equity Project Full paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai24-945, docs.iza.org/dp16928.pdf Shorter research brief: tinyurl.com/53sxjsnr

Our team + Francisco Lagos has another new paper that shows positive effects of a high school pathway program (on HS grad, college enroll, teaching, and wages), which I will write a thread about separately. Full paper: docs.iza.org/dp16983.pdf Research brief: tinyurl.com/3bds2w9s

Do Grow-Your-Own (GYO) Programs Work? We think so and provide causal evidence from a high school pathway program in MD called the Teacher Academy of Maryland (TAM) Wenjing Gao Seth Gershenson Dr. Ramon Goings Francisco Lagos Maryland Equity Project docs.iza.org/dp16983.pdf edworkingpapers.com/ai24-958

How can rigorous research inform policies against ethnic and racial-based discrimination in Latin America and the Caribbean? 🌎 Find out at Inter-American Development Bank's #REPLAC Conference. 🗓️Jan 30 🕣8.30-3.30 ET Register now! ➡️events.iadb.org/calendar/event…

Full agenda here! Interpretation will be available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Zoom link (registration needed): iadb-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Thank you, Anjali Adukia! It was truly our honor to have you speak at the #REPLAC conference! Learning from your research work and insights on policy implications was a great way to kick-off this conference!