John Conlon
@JohnConlon7
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Pittsburgh, PA
Joined August 2012
📢 Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference 2026 It's that time of year: Help spread the word to your early-career colleagues, and submit your wonderful papers! UChicago, July 9-10, 2026 More info: https://t.co/5KAleuiA7S
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One of the most important economic decisions many people ever make is what to study in college. But @JohnConlon7 (@HarvardEcon) & @dev_a_patel (@HarvardEcon) show students have incorrect beliefs about the relationship between majors and careers: https://t.co/Ithvg7tN8e
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New WP for New Year! What skills underpin huge wage diffs between college majors? Which majors are general vs. specialized based on skill content? https://t.co/2PrUsJDipR 1/
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🚨New paper with @simon_jaeger @cp_roth @Schoefer_B measuring worker beliefs about outside options reveals systematic biases: https://t.co/TLC06JyTs3 Catch our pres at 1pm EST TODAY at NBER-SI LS w/ discussion by @alanmanning4 : https://t.co/OO3BcqQC8k 🧵👇
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New WP & 🧵: In response to COVID-19, 186 countries gave cash transfers, and 181 subsidized utilities like electricity and water. But which form of aid do recipients prefer? w/ @BerkouwerS, @pbiscaye, @E_o_hsu, @1KenLee, @TedMiguel, & Catherine Wolfram:
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"The New Era of Unconditional Unconvergence"--the paper by @dev_a_patel @JustinSandefur and me--has been accepted by the Journal of Development Economics. Here's the latest version:
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India is in the throes of a horrendous COVID surge Horrendous They are struggling to get more people vaccinated We are sitting on 35-40 million doses of Astra Zeneca vaccine Americans will never use Can we please give or lend them to India? Like may be now? It'll help. A lot
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Yes, we need evidence-based policy. But we also need policy-based evidence! Without experimentation on policies, we cannot realistically answer what their effects are. But a corollary: don't get ideologically attached to a policy, and be willing to move with evidence! 14/14
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Interesting paper on global education comparisons from @dev_a_patel and @JustinSandefur: https://t.co/I2qjK7FrRd
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#JPAM Winter 2020 #2: “How Local Economic Conditions Affect School Finances, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement: Evidence from the Texas Shale Boom” by Marchand & Weber: https://t.co/pgWNmyFO59
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Basit Zafar ... amazing researcher ... so much great work on preferences and expectations from surveys ... also one of my favorite discussants at Summer Institute this year
Keynote by Basit Zafar at AASLE today: male undergraduate students are more likely to have regrade because they are more likely to request. Gender gap partly explained by differences in confidence, risk preference, and optimism. Cool combination of admin+survey+experimental data.
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Big news: @usedgov just posted the brand new version of the College Scorecard (are we up to 3.0?), now with program-level debt and earnings information available for some programs. https://t.co/3ejydyOEkk
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Excited to share my JMP: “Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual Guidance Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment” It provides the first quantitative evidence on counselors’ large effects on a variety of educational outcomes.
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#QJE Nov 2019 #10: “Liquidity Affects Job Choice: Evidence from Teach for America,” by Coffman (@CoffProf), Conlon (@JohnConlon7), Featherstone (@cfeather82), and Kessler (@juddkessler):
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Abstract. Can access to a few hundred dollars of liquidity affect the career choice of a recent college graduate? In a three-year field experiment with Tea
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Thanks to @CoffProf for the advice on this project and for shooting down other (now mercifully forgotten) ideas until I landed on this one.
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My paper is now forthcoming at @J_HumanResource! tl;dr: US college freshmen make big mistakes about average salaries by major. Correcting these beliefs has large effects on their eventual major choice. Mechanisms don’t seem cut-and-dry, however. https://t.co/7cHpcDTPqA
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Thanks to @CoffProf for the advice on this project and for shooting down other (now mercifully forgotten) ideas until i landed on this one.
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Recently accepted by #QJE: “Liquidity Affects Job Choice: Evidence from Teach for America,” by Coffman (@CoffProf), Conlon (@JohnConlon7), Featherstone (@cfeather82), and Kessler (@juddkessler):
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Striking statistic: the unemployment rate among Indian women with a secondary education or higher is nearly 20 percent in urban areas. More than double that of men with the same schooling
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