Schools & Universities
Colleges, school districts, and the people they produce — cost and earnings, alumni networks, grade inflation, and who gets through.
9 pieces
AppCollege Ledger — Every U.S. College, on the Record
Cost by family income, graduate earnings and debt, and three decades of trajectory for 6,273 accredited U.S. colleges — College Scorecard + IPEDS, shown honestly: suppressed is suppressed, never zero.
BlogThe Toll Booth
College is sold as the great equalizer. Across 6,400 U.S. institutions it looks more like a toll booth: a for-profit earnings penalty, a net-price schedule that bills a poor family a third of its income, and 2,200 counties with no four-y…
BlogNewThe Economics of Scientific Publishing
An empirical overview of the scholarly publishing industry: free inputs, margins above Apple’s, thirteen years of rising concentration measured on 4.2 million articles a year, and why open access re-priced the model rather than breaking it.
BlogNewTwo Social Sciences
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BlogThe University Shaped Like New York
What Wikidata's selected archive of notable alumni says—and cannot say—about NYU and 23 U.S. comparison universities.
BlogTwenty-Four Universities, Five Fingerprints
A clustering case study of occupational fingerprints in Wikidata's selected archive of notable university alumni.
BlogThe Alumni Factory
One million notable alumni of 250 institutions: what each school actually produces, and when its famous women finally appear.
BlogThe Nobel Pipeline
A thousand laureates' education records show genius aging, migrating across the Atlantic, and passing through a startlingly small set of doors.
BlogReading Is a Girls' Country
Across 12,360 school districts, girls out-read boys in 99.9 percent. Math is contested ground — and which side wins tracks the district's affluence.