'Dear Editor,

I have incorporated all suggestions from reviewer 2, and I hope you find the changes an improvement to the manuscript as a whole.'

In the spirit of the olden days of #EconTwitter , I thought I’d write down some notes on finishing up my first year on the tenure track (in a liberal arts setting) in economics. These will be in no particular order and kind of stream of conscious. Let’s have a convo about it! 1/N

Me agreeing to write a paper. And me now, writing that paper

Thanks to NC Public Schools for hosting a convening of the Recovery Research Network (NCRRN) at DPI today. Great to see so many colleagues and catch up about the great work they are doing.

I really recommend the 2023 nber methods lectures on linear panel event studies. Very good for building intuition + practical advice.
nber.org/conferences/si…

Happy 2024! EEPA is excited to begin new projects with old friends by starting the semester with a coffee kick off!

🚨🧵📜David Schönholzer, Julien Lafortune and I have a new wp!

Perhaps the longest-standing debate in education is on whether money matters. Esp. in the case of capital (building /renovating school facilities), conflicting results have led scholars to conclude that “it depends.”

The wonderful Mike McShane of EdChoice delivering a keynote address at #ISCRC2024 in Madrid, Spain.

Macke Raymond doing a fantastic job of urging the researchers at #ISCRC2024 to always take the next step of translating their research for policy.

Enjoyed my conversation w The Atlantic about the absenteeism crisis. They included the background on how I got interested in absence research as a grad student way back when!

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

This is a terrific, careful, and much-needed overview of the research on teacher diversity from Anna J. Egalite educationnext.org/what-we-know-a…

NEW—During the return to in-person instruction, chronic absenteeism in US public schools nearly doubled → an increase of 6.5 million students:
osf.io/bfg3p/.

The magnitude, breadth & implications of these increases are sobering & merit serious national attention.

am I doing this right

Motivated by a Marshall Burke question & Johannes Haushofer request, I've written up 7 ways you can improve power in an experiment without increasing the sample size n (number 4 may surprise you by saying you might want to reduce n) blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati… 1/3