1/ Wow. Nice work from Valerie Michelman Joe Price and @SethDZimmerman takes on myths about merit and mobility, and show how much private, exclusive social groups shape upward mobility. The three findings: …d1a-wp-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/faculty/wp-con…

New work with Joe Price and @SethDZimmerman! See Seth's thread below for the highlights. Full working paper available nber.org/papers/w28583

🚨Read that AEFP Fall 2021 Newsletter closely! 🚨 Valerie Michelman Amy Cummings, Ph.D. and I are co-chairs of a community group for phd students. First meeting is 10/1. We're hoping to organize sessions for socializing, PD (e.g., methods), panels on being a student (job market)...

Mark Mark Chin, Amy Amy Cummings, Ph.D., and I are thrilled to be co-chairing the new AEFP community group for PhD students! Our first meeting is October 1, open to all PhD students interested in education policy. More info here: aefpweb.org/wp-content/upl…

.Mark Chin, Valerie Michelman, and I are so excited to co-chair AEFP's inaugural Doctoral Students Community Group! Our 1st (virtual) meeting is October 1st and any doc student (incl. non-AEFP members) is welcome to join! aefpweb.org/community-grou…

Research often involves working in independent, isolated situations. Community is always valuable, but may be particularly so for those who are part of a group that is not in the majority. Thus, at AEFP, we are creating AEFP Communities! AEFP membership not required.

Thanks to everyone who joined the inaugural AEFP Doctoral Students Community Group Meeting today! Mark Chin Valerie Michelman and I are excited to plan out the rest of the year! 🤗 You can join the group at any time here! aefpweb.org/community-grou…

Get ready for NBER Economic Mobility Conference Live Streaming TOMORROW. It is a GREAT lineup! And, if you can't make it in real time, the video will be up for a few days after.

Valerie Michelman JMP: "Sex, Drugs, and R&D: Missing Innovation from Regulating Female Enrollment in Clinical Trials" Website: sites.google.com/view/valeriemi…

Thank you Jennifer Doleac for raising the profile of my work and the work of all the female JMCs! This paper is joint work with the truly excellent @LucilleMsall. Keep an eye out for more exciting work from her in future years!

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Old Boys' Clubs and Upward Mobility among the Educational Elite,” by Michelman (Valerie Michelman), Price (Joe Price), and Zimmerman (@SethDZimmerman): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Two weeks from now the AEFP Doc Student community group welcomes an awesome panel of policymakers & practitioners to share the experiences on connecting with researchers. If you are a doc student studying ed policy interested in joining the conversation, please reach out!

I could not do my job Massachusetts K-12 without the work and insights from incredible research partners. Excited to share more!

Happening today at noon!

Economics Dept Lerner College Univ. of Delaware had a monster hiring season--5 new hires! Tenure track Sept: Emily Battaglia (labor/health) Hans Holter (macro) Feb '24: Francesca Truffa (Francesca Truffa, labor/gender) Sept '24: Valerie Michelman (Valerie Michelman, labor/public) 1/2

Our last (!) AEFP doc student community group meeting is on 4/28 - and we are especially pumped for it! We have an awesome group of panelists (Riley Acton Jerome Graham @AlbertoGuzAlv) chatting with us about preparing for the job market. Join us!