Laia Navarro-Sola

Research Assistant (temporary position) The Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) is seeking a full-time research assistant to support an active research agenda in applied microeconomics. The research assistant will work close

🚨 Job Alert 🚨

I'm hiring a full-time RA (6-months) @iies.su.se. Work with me and fantastic coauthors on labor + human capital projects using large administrative and experimental data.

📅 Start: May 1 (flexible)
⌛️Apply by: March 20

Apply here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

I have a new VoxDev Lit launching this week on education technology👇

This area has lots of froth, but also some very promising evidence on tech use (on teaching, assessments, information) across K-12.

Pulling this together was fun (with Phil Oreopoulos
and @lnavarrosola.bsky.social ).

Thanks Shush!!

Thank you Gabriel!! :)

🙌🎉🎊 Really grateful for this recognition, and honestly, getting to start working with @raissafabregas.bsky.social has been the real win. After all these years, we finally met in person for the first time a couple of weeks ago… lots more to come!

💥Research Assistant Positions💥

1. Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart, Thor Berger, Hannes Malmberg, and I are looking for a research assistant to work on a project which investigates Sweden's spectacular economic growth during the late 19th century using establishment-level data.

Excited to be part of the research team exploring how innovative edtech solutions can help close educational attainment gaps with Roma students in Spain. And so grateful to work alongside this dream team: @toniroldan.bsky.social @luciacobreros.bsky.social and Teresa 🔥

🆕🔥
"Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles:
Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap"

w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon

🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul...

🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns!

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🚨 Just published in the Annual Review of Economics:

👉 Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital 👈

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

My review of what we know so far about the role of multidimensional skills for earnings

@annualreviews.bsky.social
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🚨 Thrilled that our 🆕 paper
“Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It”
just came out in #ScienceAdvances @science.org

💡 Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

🧵A thread
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📢 Call for papers: 📢

@cesifo.org Area Conference on Economics of Education
(co-organized with Rick Hanushek)

5-6 Sept 2025, Munich

Keynote: @raffasadun.bsky.social

👉 www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...

Submission deadline: 18 May 2025

Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...

Call for papers 7th Stockholm Uppsala Education Economics Workshop

🚨🚨🚨To all researchers in Stockholm/Uppsala: submit your paper to the 7th Stockholm-Uppsala Education Ecnomics Workshop on May 5 in Uppsala.
More information and submission: jansauermann.github.io/educworkshop...
Submission deadline: March 1, 2025

First snow of the season at our annual Swedish development economics conference — even the Barcelona-born part of me can’t help but love it!

Research Associate - J-PAL LAC

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Position based in 🇧🇷. Check it out ⬇️

Buscamos RA para uma pesquisa sobre habilidades socioemocionais em programas TVET. Colabore com uma equipe de pesquisa internacional na análise de dados para apoiar a transformação da empregabilidade de jovens. Aplique agora: bit.ly/4e07QmF

A world unprepared: Missing skills for development The world is incredibly short of meeting the Sustainable Development Goal of universal quality education, as at least two thirds of the world’s youth do not even reach basic skill levels

The world is incredibly short of meeting the Sustainable Development Goal of universal quality education, as at least 2/3s of the world’s youth do not even reach basic skill levels.

Today on VoxDev, Sarah Gust, Eric Hanushek & Ludger Woessmann outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/health...

TL;DR: (1) Medir una escuela solo por las notas en pruebas estandardizadas puede no proporcionar una imagen completa de la calidad escolar, (2) los beneficios de los sistemas de elección de escuela pueden extenderse a una amplia gama de factores más allá de las notas en exámenes.

5/ Los padres de niños con alto rendimiento académico otorgan clasificaciones más altas a las escuelas que muestran contribuciones relativamente mayores a la mejora de puntajes en exámenes estandardizados. Los estudiantes con bajo rendimiento actúan en dirección contraria.

4/ Los padres prefieren escuelas que reduzcan el crimen juvenil, disminuyan los embarazos de adolescentes y aumenten la participación en el mercado laboral (después de controlar por el promedio de los resultados, la distancia, y la calidad académica de los compañeros).

3/ Los padres tienden a favorecer las escuelas cercanas, las escuelas con un mejor promedio académico y las escuelas con compañeros con alto rendimiento, lo cual concuerda con estudios previos.

2/ La relación entre el impacto de las escuelas en exámenes estandardizados y su impacto en otras áreas vitales es baja, con correlaciones 0.04-0.15. No siempre las escuelas que mejoran resultados académicos son las mismas mejorando otros factores que los padres pueden valorar.

1/ Las escuelas tienen un impacto significativo en muchos aspectos de la vida de los estudiantes, como los resultados académicos, el abandono escolar, la delincuencia juvenil, la maternidad adolescente, y la obtención de empleo formal en la edad adulta.

What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output Abstract. To explore whether schools’ causal impacts on test scores measure their overall impact on students, we exploit plausibly exogenous school assignments

El blog resume los resultados de nuestro artículo reciente en el Review of Economic Studies con @kirabojackson.bsky.social @franciscopardo.bsky.social y Diether Beuermann, con los siguientes hallazgos:

academic.oup.com/restud/artic...

¿Determinan las puntuaciones en los exámenes estandardizados la calidad de las escuelas? Por Laia Navarro-Sola En plena era de la educación estandarizada, las puntuaciones en exámenes estandardizados como los de las pruebas de ingreso a la universidad o las pruebas PISA son la brújula...

Hoy escribo en Nada es Gratis sobre si las escuelas que impulsan el rendimiento académico son las mismas que marcan la diferencia en aspectos no académicos en el largo plazo, y cuáles son los factores relevantes para los padres en la elección de escuela 🧵

nadaesgratis.es/admin/determ...

🚨Volume 7 is out!

Handbook of the Economics of Education
Edited w/ Rick Hanushek & Steve Machin

Great overview chapters on cutting-edge topics in the economics of education by top scholars

Have a look!

👉https://www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/handbook-of-the-economics-of-education/vol/7
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Enhorabona Laia!! 🙌🏻

RT from @nber.bsky.social: "School principals cannot use private-sector management tools to compel, but can act as leaders to improve teaching. Management affects learning if it changes classroom activities, from #SabrinBeg, @annefitz13.bsky.social, & [me]"
nber.org/papers/w31757

Very cool, I didn’t have it on my radar!

#Econsky 📈📉:?What are your top recommendations for cool RCT papers with null effects? 📚 (I know there has been discussions about this before; I keep bookmarking and losing them. Maybe by starting this thread, I can easily locate them later). TIA!

what i missed most when i left econtwitter was a way to crowdsource...

I'm looking for a compelling multi-arm RCT where it was not obvious which treatment would work better or the answer is ex post surprising. goal is to show non-researchers that their priors can be wrong, using an A/B example. 📈📉