Zachary Bleemer
@zbleemer
Assistant Professor of Economics @PrincetonEcon and @nberpubs. Faculty Associate @OppInsights. Research tweets on economic mobility and education.
New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960. What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out. 🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797
It used to be that rich kids and poor kids got about the same benefits from going to college. Today, that’s no longer the case — rich college-goers earn a premium nearly 3x larger than poor students. What’s changed?
This new working paper argues that female economics PhD students benefit tremendously from having female economics faculty around. How do they back up this claim? They look at the timing of sabbatical leaves. When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female…
From the NBERs in the last few weeks, a study that I think explains a lot about this political moment: Higher education has lost much of its power as an economic equalizer. nber.org/papers/w33797
The wage premium has halved for lower-income collegegoers since 1960 due to disinvestment from teaching colleges, diversion to two-year colleges, and a shift toward humanities majors, from @zbleemer and Sarah Quincy nber.org/papers/w33797