Riley Acton
education & labor economist
ap at miami university (yes, the one in ohio)
rileyacton.com
- The kids, as they say, are alright ❤️
- this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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- Reposted by Riley ActonRacist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump: Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without
- Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...
- Very honored to be this year's recipient of our business school's junior research award! Thank you to my Dean, chairs past & present @jennyminier.bsky.social @mthomasson.bsky.social & all of @miamiecon.bsky.social for being been so supportive of my research agenda these past five years. ❤️
- Reposted by Riley ActonThe 2025 @aeacswep.bsky.social News Issue II: Women In Leadership by Fransica Antman, Linda Tesar, and Gina Pieters is now available at: www.aeaweb.org/content/file...
- Reposted by Riley ActonThe percentage of white men in the US pop is ~30%. Thus, as always, the complaint is that white men are not sufficiently overrepresented (as they have been throughout US history).
- the EEOC accusing Harvard of discriminating against white men b/c the % of tenured white men dropped from 64 in 2013 to 56 in 2023 and % of TT dropped from 46 to 32 I am 💀 www.chronicle.com/article/facu...
- Cool new work by my pal @julia-turner.bsky.social! 📈
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- Reposted by Riley ActonDestroying public goods to make us all worse off
- Make that 3 back-to-back econ of ed seminars for @miamiecon.bsky.social 😍 Excited to welcome alum @ajhollingsworth.bsky.social back to campus today!
- Cool idea here and one of many examples of the time, care, and creativity my Miami colleagues put into their teaching 👇
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- Reposted by Riley ActonCall for papers: Journal of Human Capital plans a special issue on “Artificial Intelligence, Human Intelligence, and Human Capital Formation,” edited by Pascual Restrepo & Editor-in-Chief Isaac Ehrlich. Deadline Dec 31, 2025. #econsky www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jhc...
- Reposted by Riley Acton📢 POSTDOC AT TEXAS A&M A postdoc position is open at the Education Research Center, which is evolving into a broader education policy center. The center is led by Profs. Dan Bowen & Andy Kwok. Please share widely! 🔗Job ad: bit.ly/3ROsEoh 🌐ERC site: erc.cehd.tamu.edu (currently being updated)
- Reposted by Riley ActonAn example of the disruption to science caused by the NSF’s 15% overhead dictate: At the University of Washington, all newly awarded NSF grants are now on hold indefinitely with no advance spending allowed.
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- Reposted by Riley ActonAnyone who wants to call basic scientific research “wasteful spending” should have to get past Reviewer 2. Seriously, I wish people knew how hard we work, often for less $ than could be made in industry, all because we care about helping society and mentoring the next generation.
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- Reposted by Riley ActonThe next @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev (Scholars of Education in Developing Countries) work-in-progress mtg is this Fri May 9, 11am US ET. Gautam Anand & Dewi Susanti (Global School Leaders) and @nikhil03.bsky.social (Harvard) will present. All are welcome! Plz reskeet. Contact me for Zoom link.
- Reposted by Riley ActonIf Trump is serious about tariffs on movies, it's a very dangerous escalation. Tariffs have not traditionally been applied to services, and the United States is a massive net exporter of services. We would be extremely vulnerable to any service-based retaliation.
- Reposted by Riley ActonThinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.
- Reposted by Riley Acton"These $25,000 grants are for activities to address immediate needs following grant cancellations, including completing a wave of data collection, analyzing already collected data or writing, thoughtful project closure with community partners, or preparing grant proposals to continue the research."
- Reposted by Riley Acton🚨Organizing a paper swap for early career edu policy researchers.🚨 Share a nearly-complete draft, exchange feedback, and connect with peers. Great if you’ve got a lingering project or diss chapter that could use feedback and soft deadlines to move it forward this summer. Sign up & learn more here:
- This is a great paper on a timely topic! Congrats @danielfiroozi.bsky.social!
- Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Do Tuition Subsidies Raise Political Participation?" by Daniel Firoozi and Igor Geyn. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
- Reposted by Riley ActonThis is not something the President can decree. Reporting like this makes it seem as if Trump has more power than he does. He does not have the power to do this. His wishes and obscene desires are not, in fact, policy. He’s just talking— essentially braying at the moon like an enraged wolf.
- It’s back-to-back econ of ed seminar season! 🤩 Welcome, @uozek.bsky.social!
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- Reposted by Riley ActonBREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by Riley ActonStudying economics and business in college makes students become much more conservative. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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- Reposted by Riley ActonI could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”
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- Reposted by Riley ActonWelp, the federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage (as in, a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage gets paid less than the poverty line for a single person). www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...
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- Reposted by Riley ActonJoin us April 28 & 29 for the 4th Workshop in Applied Micro for PhD students! Make sure to REGISTER for Day 1 and Day 2 sessions and Keynote Lectures: sites.google.com/view/amie-4t... cc @cmichaudleclerc.bsky.social @anamelo.bsky.social @priyamukherjee.bsky.social Nishith Prakash
- Registration for AMIE's 4th Workshop in Applied Microeconomics is now open! 📆 Date: 28th & 29th April 📍 Location: Zoom (Registration link available on website linked below!) Please find the schedule & registration links here: sites.google.com/view/amie-4t... We look forward to your participation!
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- This was fun! Thanks @rajdarolia.bsky.social for generously sharing your insights with our students and shoutout to my chair @jennyminier.bsky.social for supporting this event!
- Some days are just too nice to not take class discussion outside 😎
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