Aashish Mehta

Economist & Global Studies Professor. Interested in how structural change, employment, education, and public institutions can promote equitable development.

[Aashish Mehta @ProfAMehta]

I don't get on social media very much. But companies that mislead their customers deserve to be named and shamed. Here's why @perplexity_ai must immediately surrender all claims to ethical AI. Never share personal information or IP with them.

https://t.co/DOgk9mxlZQ

[NBER @nberpubs]

Black and Hispanic college graduates have been steadily earning degrees in relatively lower-paying majors since 2000. The main reason is new GPA-based restrictions on major choice, from @zbleemer and @ProfAMehta https://t.co/PH7UwhNcGO

[Aashish Mehta @ProfAMehta]

Brookings just released our policy brief outlining the alarming growth of restrictions on student access to lucrative majors at public universities, showing how they work against equal opportunity and economic efficiency, and suggesting some ways of addressing the problem.

[The Brookings Institution @BrookingsInst]

Major restriction policies imposed by universities have real costs for students that are excluded. In new research, @zbleemer, @ProfAMehta, and Amelia Davidson shed light on the issue: https://t.co/N1yi42r7eu

[Aashish Mehta @ProfAMehta]

New working paper just out with @zbleemer . Pre-major restrictions, increasingly common at public research universities, have serious unintended consequences - stratifying students by race/ethnicity across more and less lucrative majors . See thread.

[Zachary Bleemer @zbleemer]

**New paper** Over the past 20 years (but not before!), Black and Hispanic college graduates have been steadily earning degrees in relatively lower-paying majors.

The main culprit? An increasingly-common public university policy.

A thread. #EconTwitter https://t.co/FgvmSoIsqe