magdalena bennett

🚨Working Paper Alert🚨 "QB or Not QB? Measuring Discrimination in Football Labor Markets" TL;DR I find that there is significant discrimination when recruiting QBs from HS to college (and from college to the NFL!) based on their race.. and this costs teams wins🏆 and money💰 1/n

Because chaotic and intense work + peak marathon training are not enough (?), I made some new pants! PS: Don’t look too closely.

Just saw that Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is available for streaming on Hulu. Do yourself a favor and watch it, so good. Sam Rockwell is a national treasure.

Our department at Vanderbilt is seeking an assistant/associate professor of higher education policy. The position is intended for a quantitative researcher with a PhD in a social science, public policy, or education. Please circulate and let me know if you have questions! apply.interfolio.com/193891

Just did my longest run to date, 41 days out of the NYC marathon… and to think that I still need to run 10 more miles after that, makes my head hurt 😑

I’m excited to share a new EdWorkingPaper with @andydebarros.bsky.social. Evaluations are an increasingly common way school systems globally are trying to help teachers improve, but is more always better? A 🧵 doi.org/10.26300/ms3...

New post on AI in (economics) writing paulgp.substack.com/p/how-do-we-...

New paper alert! “Heritability and social interaction in labor market outcomes: Evidence from the population of twins in the United States,” with David Card and Moises Yi, out today in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I didn’t even know this was a thing until I started teaching, and yes, apparently they “remember the name” (or so they told me). I just think that (a) they never go back to the file or (b) redownload it 1000 times.

We’re in the thick of marathon training, and nothing prepares you for how little time you’ll have outside of work and running… mainly because whatever spare time you do have, it will be spent doing f***ing laundry.

Forthcoming in the AER: "Difference-in-Differences with a Continuous Treatment" by Brantly Callaway, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, and Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna.

Brown just opened a cluster hire for two tenure-track positions in Education Policy. Come join our vibrant community of scholars at @brownedudept.bsky.social & @annenberginstitute.bsky.social! apply.interfolio.com/190527 Please help spread the word.

“Door has been closed, so now you can pretend to put your phone on airplane mode”.

The Cubs making us sweat it, as always #LetsGoCubs

Oh, the Midwest: The land where the Old Fashioneds come to die.

I just love that I get to live in this city 💕

In Halaand we trust! 🇳🇴

What a game!! Let’s goooo Mexico!! 🇲🇽 El deporte mas bonito del mundo 💕

A very sad day for the most beautiful sports in the world.

Upstate New York for the 4th.

The Supreme Court is on fire this morning, ah?

Just went to the Cubs - Mets game here in NY, and saw the dumbest ump call I’ve ever seen, when PCA was supposedly tagged out. WTAF. This country is profoundly divided, but one thing everyone can agree (even Mets fans) is that the call was bullshit. And still we won🙃. #GoCubs🐻

this is honestly an excellent celebratory and motivational speech from Mamdani at the Knicks parade. i'm ready to run through a wall, and i'm not even a Knicks fan

Validated against contemporaneous responses, a survey of 916 trainees and their career intentions finds a –22 percentage point change in academia intentions and a US-departure shift concentrated among foreign-born scientists, from Azoulay, Sadun, and Scur www.nber.org/papers/w35330

I have no allegiance whatsoever to any NBA team, but tonight we’re rooting for the Knicks! The vibes are so awesome in the city. We have a great mayor. People have hope. Let’s go NYC #KnicksIn5

New NBER working paper. We meta-analyze 82 RCTs of low-cost parent programs in 20+ countries. We use data on unwritten RCTs from funder records, RCT registries, author queries, etc. to estimate a model that adjusts for publication bias and characterizes the effect distribution for unwritten studies.

As a palate cleanser for your TL: Friends came over for dinner 💕

New research from Card, Rothstein, and Yi finds no evidence that Black workers live farther from “good jobs” than White workers. Proximity doesn’t explain the racial earnings gap. What other factors may be at play? Learn more in @lisacamnermckay.bsky.social 's latest piece: https://bit.ly/4aDA5YZ

What you doin'? (What you doin'?) Where you at? (Where you at?)

Gelman is fire 🔥

A TL cleanser: Here’s BobDylan looking dapper as always.

Even in shitty days, I’m so happy to be back in NY 💕

Social media platforms and how academics use them change, but one thing doesn't

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Quarto 1.9 brings Typst even closer to LaTeX parity with 📖 Typst Books, ✍️ margins for figures, tables, and citations via the Marginalia package, and 🛜 new typst-gather tool for reliable, offline rendering. Details here: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

Simon Johnson and I are hiring a postdoc at MIT to research the history, social implications, and future of technology. The job description and application link are available here: shapingwork.mit.edu/careers/jame...

I'd love to learn more about how y'all are using AI for data science, so I've set up some times where you can chat with me: scheduler.zoom.us/hadley-wickh.... I'm interested in it all, whether it's your struggles, your successes, or what you're still trying to get your head around. #rstats

Re-watching The Newsroom to soothe the soul, and being reminded: “If liberals are so fucking smart, how come they lose so god damn always?”

Weezer is one of those bands that is all bangers, no skips. Yes, even the Teal Album, you haters. youtu.be/okthJIVbi6g?...

#econ_ra

Four small Quarto extensions to sharpen your Reveal.js slides: animated list fragments, step-by-step code annotations, auto-repeating headings, and keyboard-driven tabsets. Each one fixes a single friction point. 🎯 mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-0... #Quarto #QuartoPub #SlideCrafting #RevealJS

1/ "Silicon samples" are becoming more and more common in research and polling. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. The updated version of this preprint is now online! THREAD🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2509.13397

After being 23hrs in the Caribbean, I hold the strong belief that I would be a much less stressed out individual if I’d have been born here. Absolutely causal, not questions asked. #BadBunnyWasRight

Great profile from a superb academic 👏🏽

Dear Spotify, I swear I don’t like Kasabian or the Killers. I’m not lying when I down-vote them. I don’t care how close you think they are to The Kooks or The Wombats, stop putting them in my playlists. Sincerely, me.