Delighted to announce that @elianalaferrara is joining the HKS faculty starting July 2022. Welcome to HKS, Eliana! Huge win for dev econ @Kennedy_School @gordon_h_hanson @rodrikdani @aikhwaja @rema_nadeem
David Deming
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David Deming
@ProfDavidDeming
Danoff Dean of Harvard College @harvard. Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy @Kennedy_School. Newsletter - forklightning.substack.com
- My piece in @TheAtlantic today: Break Up Big Econ The economics profession has become insular and status-obsessed, and not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world.
- Saturday was my last day as Coeditor of AEJ: Applied. I am stepping down to serve as the Academic Dean @Kennedy_School. I learned a ton from the AEJ coeditor team and became a better researcher. Here is a final public audit of my 3.5 years at AEJ plus some reflections 1/X
- I wrote a piece for @TheAtlantic about the growing perception that college is no longer worth it. It's important for people to know that the value of a BA increases with work experience, peaking at ages 45-55. Tuition (and loans) must be repaid long before that. College seems"The long-term value of a bachelor’s degree is much greater than it initially appears," @ProfDavidDeming writes. "If a college professor or pundit tries to convince you otherwise, ask them what they would choose for their own children." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
- In the @UpshotNYT this morning – nytimes.com/interactive/20… - coverage of an important paper by Raj Chetty and @nhendren82 about race and economic opportunity in the US. Here are my initial thoughts on this landmark piece of research: 1/x
- Professional News! Starting July 1st, I will be faculty director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School hks.harvard.edu/announcements/… 1/n
- 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!
- New column! nytimes.com/2020/09/17/bus… Here I make the case that we should make community colleges the centerpiece of a plan to get Americans back to work 1/x
- Incredibly honored to receive the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to labor economics - sole-jole.org/sherwin-rosen-…HKS's @ProfDavidDeming has been awarded the Sherwin Rosen Prize for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Labor Economics by the Society of Labor Economists ken.sc/3w3UzGz
- Check out my new column today in @nytimes ! I am writing about the importance of making socially valuable data available to the public nytimes.com/2021/02/19/bus… 1/x
- New paper alert! “The School to Prison Pipeline: Long-Run Impacts of School Suspensions on Adult Crime” with @abacherhicks and @billingsecon nber.org/papers/w26257 1/X
- Proud of my employer for seeing the light. The fairest admissions policy IMO is universal testing + a thumb on the scale for disadvantaged applicants.
- Replying to @ProfDavidDeming and @Kennedy_SchoolWhat I did right 1) I wrote every R&R decision letter like a contract. Do these X things and we will publish. And now here are some suggestions that you should do but don’t have to do. Very straightforward and transparent. 7/X
- 1.5 years into coediting AEJ: Applied, here is a public audit on my job performance and then some thoughts on being an editor 1/X
