Barbara Biasi
@BarbaraBiasi
Econ Assistant Prof @YaleSOM. I mostly tweet about education and sometimes reply to random threads in Italian. Born&raised in Monopoli (ITA). Mom of 3.
🚨🆕📜In a new NBER working paper out today (tinyurl.com/2vv3vnhf), with @wsandholtz we ask a 🔥question: Can controversial public policies end up being political successes even when they cause lots of backlash? And if the answer is yes, what drives pol success? A thread 👇
Media italiani, vi imploro smettete di pubblicare notizie su maturandi che si rifiutano di rispondere alle domande dell'orale. Non sono notizie.
📣📣📣 Menaka Hampole (@menaka_hampole), Ashley Wong (@ashleyywong) and I are hiring a pre-doc at University of Michigan starting Sept 2025 to work on a project on student debt, innovation, and entrepreneurship. More details: bit.ly/3UfXp6y Apply by August 8! @econ_ra
Nothing like writing a research statement with a tight word limit to get reminded that papers should have short titles. 😑
#QJE Aug 2025, #13, “What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.,” by Biasi (@BarbaraBiasi), Lafortune, and Schönholzer (@davidfromterra): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…
We’re excited to welcome Janet Currie to the Department and @YaleTobinCenter! Her research shows how smarter policy—on education, health coverage, clean air, & mental-health care—can change the life-trajectories of kids and the families who raise them. economics.yale.edu/news/250709/we…
"This article identifies which investments in school facilities help students and which are valued by homeowners." NEW in @QJEHarvard by Barbara Biasi, Julien Lafortune, and David Schönholzer: academic.oup.com/qje/article/14…
Providing the first causal evidence on how occupational wage inequality undermines the labor movement, using three complementary research designs, from @BarbaraBiasi, @zoebcullen, Julia H. Gilman, and @ninaroussille nber.org/papers/w33978
Hello #econtwitter community: if any of you has been teaching any of my papers, would you mind shooting me a DM? I would hugely appreciate that 🙏 and thanks in advance!
Grad students: take a look at the call for papers for "Women in Central Banking", a conference for female PhD students and post-docs organized by the Bank of Italy @bancaditalia . Details here: bancaditalia.it/media/notizia/…
Laureandi/laureati in Economia in cerca di esperienze di ricerca con forte impatto su politiche pubbliche: venite a lavorare all’Evaluation Lab del Fondo per la Repubblica Digitale! Dettagli qui: 👇🏼
📢 Stiamo cercando 1 Research Associate per un'esperienza di lavoro pre-doc all'#EvaluationLab del #FondoRepubblicaDigitale. 👉 fondorepubblicadigitale.it/posizioni_aper… cc: @raffasadun @francedrago @BarbaraBiasi @orianabandiera
Amen
Signori io ve lo dico, la margherita con bufala è 'na fesseria, è stata l'anticamera delle pizze gourmet che serve a farvi pagare tanti soldi il piatto povero per eccellenza. La mozzarella di bufala rilascia troppa acqua, sulla pizza ci va il fior di latte o la provola.
Looking forward to spending time at OIGI in 2026!
Congratulations to these members of the ninth cohort of Institute visiting scholars: David Altig @AtlantaFed; Shifrah Aron-Dine @AreBerkeley; @BarbaraBiasi @YaleSOM; @FlorinBilbiie @Cambridge_Uni; @lcastillomart @DukeEcon; Jacelly Cespedes @CarlsonNews; 2/5
New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20174 The Political Consequences of Controversial Education Reform: Lessons from Wisconsin’s Act 10 @BarbaraBiasi @YaleSOM, Wayne Sandholtz @NovaSBE ow.ly/JY9I50VJyFi #CEPR_LE #CEPR_PoE #CEPR_PE #EconTwitter
Excited to announce the Northeast Political Economy Conference on October 3, 2025 at Brown U, organized by me and @gemmadipoppa! This event is co-sponsored by the Bravo Center for Economic Research and the Center for PPE. Submit a paper at forms.gle/f97gV9ZZN5cdF7… by June 16.
If any of the NJ gov candidates are interested in a NBER WP showing that education reform can win votes despite antagonizing teacher unions, they can find the link in the next tweet (cc @BarbaraBiasi)
A 2011 Wisconsin reform weakened teachers' unions, raised test scores, and was a political win for its main proponent, from @BarbaraBiasi and @wsandholtz nber.org/papers/w33666
This is definitely illegal trading. We will see if the SEC is still willing to do enforcement. If not, trust in US financial markets will evaporate. #econtwitter
Just so non-traders understand the bombshell here: Right before the S&P 500 (SPY) suddenly spiked, someone bought a huge number of call options — bets that the index would go up that same day. These were zero-day options, meaning they expire worthless by the end of the day…
Mike Miles is a national treasure! This can work in Houston thanks to teacher evals based on frequent, high-quality, standardized observations. Obama's efforts failed because he focused on value-added -- and most teachers don't teach grades/subjects where VA can be calculated.
“We should not be using the salary schedule (based on years of experience) as a profession, but almost everybody is. Instead, we should be doing what we’re about to do, which is pay people for the value that they bring with regard to outcomes and effectiveness.” @HISDSupe