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Liquidity Affects Job Choice: Evidence from Teach for America*
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 Teach For America (TFA), a prestigious teacher placement program, we randomly increase the financial packages offered to nearly 7,300 potential teachers who requested support for the transition into teaching. The first two years of the experiment reveal that although most applicants do not respond to a marginal $600 of grants or loans, those in the worst financial position respond by joining TFA at higher rates. We continue the experiment into the third year and self-replicate our results. For the highest-need applicants, an extra $600 in loans, $600 in grants, and $1,200 in grants increase the likelihood of joining TFA by 12.2, 11.4, and 17.1 percentage points (or 20.0%, 18.7%, and 28.1%), respectively. Additional grant and loan dollars are equally effective, suggesting a liquidity mechanism. A follow-up survey bolsters the liquidity story and also shows that those drawn into teaching would have otherwise worked in private-sector firms.
Young Graduates Face the Grimmest Job Market in Years
Artificial intelligence could reshape work, but for now a low-hire, low-fire labor market is the main impediment for young people seeking employment.
Could Shades of Asperger’s be the Secret to Becoming a Billionaire?
Success always leaves clues…
Import AI 451: Political superintelligence; Google's society of minds, and a robot drummer
Are there any genies that can be put back in the bottle?
Hedge Funds: Even Millennium and Citadel's Losing Traders Are Hot Recruits
With talent in short supply, top firms are looking at rival loss-making portfolio managers as a rare hiring opportunity.
Palantir’s billionaire CEO says only two kinds of people will succeed in the AI era: trade workers — ‘or you’re neurodivergent’ | Fortune
Billionaire Alex Karp tells Gen Z to skip elite college degrees, as one-fifth of Fortune 500 companies recruit more neurodivergent talent by 2027.
Andrew Yeung on Twitter / X
Holy crap. This is possibly the most insane job posting I've seen.Founders School is hiring a "Simulation Game Director" for $400,000 a year. That's just the base salary.If you haven't heard of Founders School, they're a radical new high school launching in New York City this… pic.twitter.com/sYjJZGkGA9— Andrew Yeung (@andruyeung) July 27, 2026
No Plans to Merge
On this episode we try to figure out how Caleb can avoid getting a real job. Sponsorware?? Spoiler alert: It's sponsorware.
Clay Christensen: The Jobs to be Done Theory
The High School That Guarantees You'll Make $1 Million (Ep. 325)
Our conversation with Nat Eliason
The $100,000 Tutor Test
A new study will ask how far one-to-one tutoring can take a child. The bigger question is which parts families actually need to buy.
Charlie Kirk had a message for the over 2 million unemployed Gen Z NEET men: You don’t need college to make your dreams happen
From dropout to multimillion-dollar nonprofit leader, Kirk claimed college was overrated—and many Gen Zers share his skepticism.
Chief people officers—and Jamie Dimon—say AI can’t learn ‘human skills.’ The world's youngest self-made billionaires want to prove them wrong | Fortune
What's the price of training an AI to take your job someday (soon)? Mercor has contract gig listings as high as $150 per hour.
one of the only people i've ever worked with who consistently and intentionally hired junior / early career people, and prioritized their mentorship.
Jimmy Lee
One of the highlights of my life is finding incredible webmaster youths to transfer all my remaining skill and resource to ✌️🙌⚔️ Thanks for everything
College admissions insanity is substantially explained by this fact: The number of elite entry level jobs (e.g. McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Google, The Economist) is flat, demand for them has exploded, and hiring managers and people teams have no cap on the # of hires they can make from target schools
SE Gyges
at some point in looking at university admissions scandals it becomes inescapable that elite colleges are, functionally, granting admission to an aristocracy, which makes this sort of thing much, much more legible the lesser noble houses are upset that their children are not being elevated
