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Dear Mr. Musk, What we found out is that each one of us is 1. a brain 2. and an athlete 3. and a basket case 4. a princess 5. and a criminal. Does that answer your question?

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Sending conversation prompts to low-income parents encourages them to discuss vocabulary with their preschoolers, boosting children's vocabulary and strengthening parents' belief in their role. New brief from @arielkalil.bsky.social @harrissocial.bsky.social & co-authors. ow.ly/9tQj50V3OS0

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This goes to the thing I said last night about telling stories. "People are going to be harmed in an incredibly stupid way by this" is easily ignored. "This specific kid lost access to cancer treatment for no fucking reason" moves mountains.

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.

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“I’ve never seen anything like this in my 55 years,” says Beth Pratt, a regional executive director for the National Wildlife Federation, who lives near Yosemite and is working on a book called “Yosemite Wildlife.” “Just to want to gut the Park Service? I don’t understand it.”

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We've got a new paper from @biplab.bsky.social! Super excited to share promising experimental results from our new parent-child conversation tool, "Chat2Learn." Conversation prompts sent directly to parents by text significantly boost preschool-age children's vocabulary and parents' growth mindset.

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My closest academic research partner, Susan Mayer, was one of Sandy's PhD students. I'm lucky to be an intergenerational beneficiary of some of his finest qualities: incisive writing, inextinguishable curiosity, and willingness to state contrarian views. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

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Truly one of the greats. He gave us the words and the permission to study inequality in a way that has shifted so many careers and in turn impacted so many lives. Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

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Amid all the horrible news it really does give me great pleasure to report that our fabulous post-doc, Linxi Lu, has won the 2025 Society for Research in Child Development Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award and the 2024 American Educational Research Association Outstanding Dissertation Award.

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New: Project 2025, which Russell Vought is the architect of, advocates for cutting NIH funding. But, it has been NIH-funded research that contributed to Vought’s own daughter having better treatment options for cystic fibrosis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Re: the cuts to overhead from NIH grants: The leading category of study at NIH is cancer research, an area that has produced breakthrough drugs to extend survival for people with blood cancers. As the parent of a child who not long ago finished treatment for blood cancer, this policy makes me weep.

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The greatest gift in an academic career in an advisor who changes your life.

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Here for it. #nyc

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I'm not an economist but I play one on TV. Happy to make the New York Times today and delighted to see this in-depth coverage of our State of the Nation report!

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For 2 years, I've worked with a bipartisan group of scholars on the "State of the Nation." We released our report today at Brookings. Big disconnect between the US economic performance and individual well-being. David Leonhardt's analysis in tomorrow's NYT. Check out the report at stateofnation.org

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I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls

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For all our American neighbours who may be struggling to find accurate health information - thr Public Health Agency of Canada has a website you are more than welcome to use: www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

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Great piece and if the WSJ op ed page is willing to run it, maybe the dam is breaking a bit on the unscientific moral panic over teens and smartphones. @candiceodgers.bsky.social @mimbs.bsky.social

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If you'll be in DC on Monday, I'd love to see you at Brookings, where I'll be a panel discussant on a new report from the State of the Nation Project, of which I was a co-author, in which we provide a critical analysis of the US’ status on key societal measures. www.brookings.edu/events/the-s...

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Our new paper "Effects of Welfare Reform on Maternal Engagement and Involvement with Young Adolescents" in print at JMF. We find plausibly causal negative impacts on parent-child relationships, esp. for boys. Mechanism: decreased income, not employment. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online

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“all communications outside the agency, including to the State Department, must be approved by the agency’s front office.”

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We’ve forgotten who we are… marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/01/exec...

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Clay updated their review database with the decisions for the nearly 50 objections filed last month. Every single one of them was either restricted or removed. These decisions were made without reading the books and without a public review committee. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Pre-Doc opportunity to work with Profs. @arielkalil.bsky.social & Susan Mayer at Harris BIP Lab on research about children's skill development, parental investment, and interventions to close income-based parenting gaps. More info/apply: job-boards.greenhouse.io/universityof... #econra #EconSky

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Join our team at the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab at UChicago as an RP! Our RPs gain valuable pre-doctoral experience in all stages of conducting field and lab experiments and survey research as a cohort member in the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics pre-doc program. Please share!

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Miles Corak talks with Steven Durlauf about inequality and mobility. Excellent exchange! @stone-lis.bsky.social @milescorak.com @durlauf.bsky.social 👇👇👇

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I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring. The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)

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The Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab at the University of Chicago is 10 years old! Celebrating a decade of hard work with the best people.

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Yessir that's my friend @annakornbluh.bsky.social

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Echt Bavarian conference sundowner.

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Meta commentary.

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What a treat to be back in beautiful Bamberg! Looking forward to presenting some new joint work with Elena Ziege at the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) conference at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi).

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Post-doc Derek Rury @biplab.bsky.social is on the job market! Derek is a fabulous economist in public and labor economics and the economics of education. His JMP provides new experimental insights into how information increases students' human capital. Find it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Cuv3...

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University of Chicago Harris School PhD student Rohen Shah is on the job market! Rohen is a fabulous applied microeconomist working at the intersection of behavioral and labor economics. Check out his J-PAL funded JMP here: uchicago.box.com/s/fh735yvmlt... Website: sites.google.com/view/rohen-s...

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