Jesse Rothstein

@jrothst.bsky.social

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Economist, public policy wonk, professor at UC Berkeley, faculty director of California Policy Lab & Center for Studies in Higher Education

FRED graph of seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally-adjusted employment in local government education, July 2016-July 2026.
Seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally-adjusted employment in local government education from July 2016-July 2026. Source is the Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Employment Statistics series; the graph was made by FRED, a tool provided by the St. Louis Fed.
Figure 1 from Bitler-Hoynes-Iselin paper (National Tax Journal, 2020) showing per capita expenditures in constant dollars in SNAP, WIC, UI, SSDI, EITC, SSI, and TANF from 2001 - 2019.
BLS establishment survey response rates
The unemployment rate over time for college graduates, age 20-24 and 25-34, from the FRED site.
The unemployment rate over time for 16-24 year olds and for age 20+, from the FRED site.
Graph of unemployment rate for 16-24 year olds over time, from the FRED site.
Time series graph of Economic Policy Uncertainty index for the last year, showing a visible increase in November and another one in January/February. From https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USEPUINDXD#.
Quote from pre-analysis plan: "Everyone was informed that they will receive ”$50 or more” each month for three years and that the specific amount will be randomly assigned, but the fact that some partici- pants will receive $1000 each month was not disclosed. This reduces the likelihood that the control group will know they are in the control group, as that knowledge may change their behavior in ways that would bias the results (including differential take up or attrition and a negative reaction to learning one is receiving less than others). Additionally, we did not want the prospect of a large cash transfer to coerce anyone into participating in the study."
Sign on fence in Berkeley, California, with complaints that another sign (not pictured) posted by the Berkeley Historical Plaque Project is inaccurate.
Sunset over the water in Hawaii
Fundraising text message, purportedly from Barack Obama, promising if I just donate $7 it will enable us to "HUMILIATE Trump"
Letter to the New York Times editor regarding David Leonhardt's "The Misguided War on the SAT." First paragraph: "David Leonhardt's, "The Misguided War on the SAT," argues that eliminating standardized tests from college admissions "harm[s] vulnerable people," denying some "the opportunity to change their lives - and change society - for the better." He offers no evidence for this claim.
quote from legal filing: "SCHMIDT created a Word document entitled, 'Important information to share with Chinese government.'
National Academies report on Reducing Intergenerational Poverty
Title and abstract of "The Lost Generation? Labor Market Outcomes for Post-Great Recession Entrants", published in the Journal of Human Resources