C. Kirabo Jackson

Economist at @sesp_nu, @NorthwesternU
Editor-in-chief @AEAjournals

PERSONAL ACCOUNT

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

Pretty compelling and transparent analysis

[Arin Dube @arindube]

We've been running an unprecedented natural experiment running for a decade and half. 30 states have raised their minimum wages. 20 have not.

What happened to pay? What happened to jobs? The good news is that it's pretty easy to figure out now.

Link next post.

[Arin Dube @arindube]

We've been running an unprecedented natural experiment running for a decade and half. 30 states have raised their minimum wages. 20 have not.

What happened to pay? What happened to jobs? The good news is that it's pretty easy to figure out now.

Link next post.

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

@bluestein 😂

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

Delighted to share our revised paper (w/ @jaturner73 & @JacobBastian25) showing that Universal Pre-K has broad effects on local labor markets — effects well beyond only mothers. Larger effects for full-day programs. https://t.co/NpRlSqvy1C

#EconTwitter #EarlyChildhood #ECE

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

Delighted to share our revised paper (w/ @jaturner73 & @JacobBastian25) showing that Universal Pre-K has broad effects on local labor markets — effects well beyond only mothers. Larger effects for full-day programs. https://t.co/NpRlSqvy1C

#EconTwitter #EarlyChildhood #ECE

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

@mioana Congrats!

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

Breaking Bad!

[AEA Journals @AEAjournals]

A cancer diagnosis increases the likelihood of criminal behavior, representing a previously overlooked negative externality on society, say researchers at @nationalbanken, @UCPH_Research, and @TilburgU #Chart https://t.co/IWwZ0kKpTs

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

@C_Garthwaite :(

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

So instead of a cost- benefit analysis, it's just a cost analysis. That makes little sense?

Also, if we don't put any value on life, what's the rationale for limits in the first place?

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses. https://t.co/uYom4BthnT

[J-PAL North America @JPAL_NA]

In an #RCT in Virginia, @JPAL affiliated professor @KiraboJackson and @citizen_math found that classrooms using high-quality, online lessons significantly boosted student achievement in math: https://t.co/HMXavNhIpe

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

@basiimadd @Jindo_1307979 @Shahzadi_7979 What he means is, the second is 2 plus the first, the third is 4 plus the second, the fourth is 8 plus the third, and so on, until you get 63. It is a valid approach.

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

@paulnovosad Lol. Is that Larry?

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

The brilliant Kate Ho has passed away.

She was an amazing economist and a genuinely kind human being. Her work shaped how we think about healthcare markets and her generosity touched everyone lucky enough to know her.

The profession and the world are poorer without her.

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

Have a favorite AEJ: Economic Policy paper from the past three years? Submit your nomination at the link below!
https://t.co/SdDIwVTuJD

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

Fundamentally, it depends on whether you want to measure (a) how well someone understands the material or (b) how well they can demonstrate understanding under time pressure. These are BOTH potentially important things to measure and are different.

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

This stuff is such bullshit. If you have a condition that makes it hard for you to complete work in a time limit, that’s something your grades should measure, not something they should avoid measuring.

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

This is too gentle. In 2024, Biden said the economy was strong when the numbers supported him — tone-deaf maybe, but factual. Now the numbers are weaker, so that claim now has little basis in reality… aside from the stock market, which many argue may be in bubble territory.

[Betsey Stevenson @BetseyStevenson]

The difference between Biden telling people the economy was good when they were feeling down about it and Trump telling them its good is that the economy is actually worse now.

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

@amooh001 Powerful

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

This is pretty accurate.... Sadly.

https://t.co/lTqWSu5O4z

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

What's the counterfactual?

[Matt Grossmann @MattGrossmann]

Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college���noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3
https://t.co/qbjxdFVPlr

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

@uozek I mainly want to let people know that it's real and not just isolated incendents with "the criminals" . The push is to expand on this, so soon it will be in all your towns and schools.

[C. Kirabo Jackson @KiraboJackson]

In Evanston yesterday, immigration agents went around with guns drawn, interrupting Halloween gatherings (my kid’s school moved theirs indoors), and pulling people from cars. Local police had to step in to separate agents from residents. This cannot become the new normal.