Riley Acton

Thrilled to be organizing this conference with Kalena Cortes, @loismiller.bsky.social, @camilantmorales.bsky.social, & @julia-turner.bsky.social, thanks to generous support from Ascendium! Send us any & all work on CCs! Descriptive, mixed methods, & interdisciplinary research encouraged. 🥳

Hey #econsky #econRA-- The new Wharton Workforce Futures lab is hiring! Come work with me on unlocking women's economic potential in the US and developing countries! Pre-doc posting here: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui... Post-doc posting here: apply.interfolio.com/196103 Please share!

Vote early, vote often 🫡 Let’s go, Maine!

****$59 million dollars of OH taxpayer $$***** this doesn't just mandate the centers getting to teach civics but puts ALL civics teaching in the centers' hands

Today, my 93 year old grandmother causally told me that this week she’s driving an hour… to have lunch with her 93 year old high school bestie… who herself just got back from a trip to Spain 🤯 #goals is an understatement

A non-econ prof who attended a recent seminar I gave wrote: "The seminar was great! It was my first Econ seminar, and I was expecting a bloodbath with ruthless audience questioning, but it was all quite reasonable." Off to put "All Quite Reasonable" at the top of my CV.

The realization that I’m old enough to have former master’s students publishing JMPs 😳 Endlessly proud of you, @jo-r-king.bsky.social! Great paper!

My job market paper is now online first at EEPA! I examine the impact of a suspension ban on the classification of SWDs, finding that the ban increased classification of more stigmatizing disabilities. doi.org/10.3102/0162...

Awesome to have @joshua-goodman.com visiting us @bowdoincollege.bsky.social!

The autumn view from Amtrak to Maine is gorgeous. I haven't done any public anagramming for a while, so here's your daily dose: FOLIAGE = I GO LEAF

Taking a very peaceful train north today to visit the @bowdoincollege.bsky.social Economics Dept. Grateful to @riacton.bsky.social for the invitation. Joe Biden was right about Amtrak (among other things). It's so much nicer than flying. More please!

Congratulations to Professor Jiee Zhong (@jieezhong.bsky.social) for her published paper, "Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings" at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Dear all the college kids, Get your flu shot. Sincerely, All your professors

My PhD taught me research. I wish it had taught me how to answer ten emails without needing the rest of the day off.

The postsecondary access, choice, and affordability section has an all-star team of reviewers ready & excited to read your proposals! Submit today if you haven’t already! ☀️

There’s still time to work on and submit your proposal for AEFP! We’d love to learn about what you’re working on. Looking forward to seeing folks in San Diego! #AEFP2027

New, from me, a slightly experimental project I've been working on: School Staff Shortages and the Wider Labor Market shortages.paul-bruno.com A sort of dashboard trying to put common conversations about school staff shortages into more context.

Come join our department — two slots, looking for macro-labor, monetary, or international economists. Please share! econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

Not just a great resource for JMCs, but for those advising students who are considering PhD programs!

Attention JMCs! Are you wondering where your department tends to place candidates like you? This newly updated resourse lets you explore 18,500+ placements across 82 departments and 14 countries, track hiring trends, and see where recent cohorts have landed. 🔗 www.econphdplacements.com

Great to have @gideonmoore.bsky.social (@bowdoincollege.bsky.social ‘19) present his ambitious work on the changing political content of college courses in our seminar series today! Check out all the cool stuff he’s doing here: www.gideonmoore.com. And look for him on the market next year! 👀

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Great to have @gideonmoore.bsky.social (@bowdoincollege.bsky.social ‘19) present his ambitious work on the changing political content of college courses in our seminar series today! Check out all the cool stuff he’s doing here: www.gideonmoore.com. And look for him on the market next year! 👀

The perfect bag for carrying exams & calculators around campus. Thanks, @aeacswep.bsky.social!

The animated series "Arthur" premiered on PBS Kids on Oct. 7, 1996.

Should add that I am also always happy to chat more generally about life at non-PhD-granting, undergrad-focused departments, particularly those that value teaching & research ~equally. They’re not for everyone, but for me, they’ve been an excellent fit!

Great to see this work by by friend & coauthor @julia-turner.bsky.social out in print! Julia is on the job market with an ambitious research agenda, substantial grant funding, and excellent teaching & mentoring experience. Any department that gets the chance to hire her will be SO LUCKY! 🤩

Great to see this work by by friend & coauthor @julia-turner.bsky.social out in print! Julia is on the job market with an ambitious research agenda, substantial grant funding, and excellent teaching & mentoring experience. Any department that gets the chance to hire her will be SO LUCKY! 🤩

For those interested, here are the inflation-adjusted costs (tuition+fees) of 4-year public, 4-year private, and 2-year colleges over the last few decades. From: research.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/Tr...

New-  We've all heard about the spiraling, skyrocketing, and soaring rates of college tuition. In reality, undergrad net tuition education has been stagnant or even declining for roughly two decades. So why do very few people know this? www.chalkbeat.org/2026/10/01/w...

From our AEA cttee on the job market, here's the first update on the status of the job mkt for PhD economists of the 2026-27 cycle. A thread with graphs follows... #EconJobMarket #EconSky @aeainformation.bsky.social @aeacswep.bsky.social @joelistings.bsky.social 1/9

To people on the academic job market right now: so much of this is luck. Don't forget that, and never stop doing what you think is best.

In case anyone is interested, here is a new working paper on non-binary treatments with staggered interventions. Essentially, I show under what assumptions it is valid to estimate cohort x time dose-response functions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Take my old job! It’s a great department and if I could’ve packed up our applied micro hallway and moved it to New England with me, I would’ve.

We're hiring two folks at Miami Econ this year! One health One "applied micro" Dynamic fun department in small town with big town (Cincinnati) nearby! Tell your friends and apply! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....,

The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.

You don’t gut the country's capacity to measure what's happening in its schools because you care about improving them. Guardian article below.

If you work on community colleges (or adjacent), consider submitting a proposal for a book chapter to present at our conference! Extended abstracts due Dec 10. Excited to be organizing with @riacton.bsky.social @camilantmorales.bsky.social @julia-turner.bsky.social and Kalena Cortes ✨

Just in case you need something to look forward to in 2028 🥳 Super excited to organize this convening with Kalena Cortes, @riacton.bsky.social, @loismiller.bsky.social, and @camilantmorales.bsky.social Please send us your research proposals and come hang out!