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drewhalbailey.bsky.social
education, developmental psychology, research methods at UC Irvine
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Surreal read of the day: a paper using USAID-funded and now terminated Demographic & Health Surveys to count the huge number of lives saved by the now frozen US PEPFAR program to fight HIV, co-authored by current US admin’s nominee to lead cuts in health research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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A clear and compelling read on IES. I hope policymakers pay attention to this. There is a very strong bipartisan case to be made for continuing to fund the development, evaluation, and syntheses of evaluations of educational programs.

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Check out my amazing colleague, collaborator and leader of the Playful Learning Landscapes work in Orange County: news.uci.edu/2025/02/07/u...

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New essay on NIH and indirect costs: goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

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Free million dollar idea: food truck that sells mapo tofu and cornbread.

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Cool new review from @drewhalbailey.bsky.social that’s well worth the read! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Do you know a US-based researcher who wants to update their meta-analysis skills? #MATI2025 is accepting applications for our one-week training workshop in Chicago from July 28th – August 1st. Apply by March 2nd: www.meta-analysis-training-institute.com/application-...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

As I am now handling papers at AEJ:Policy again, I want to encourage authors of papers that identify partial equilibrium effects to consider (in a rigorous manner) how they relate to policy effects or general equilibrium effects.

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 54 days ago • 35 comments

Academics, let's make 2025 the year where we are more explicit and honest about our causal aims and interpretations Using, for instance, the terms "risk factor" or "associated with a decrease in" is not a clever way to avoid the issue

submitted 61 days ago • 7 comments

Overpromising on results to get a program running is ubiquitous but backfires in the long run. Figuring out how to best communicate the need for good programs and evaluations despite unrealistic views of what a worthwhile program is likely to accomplish is an important area for further work.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access. Causal inference is hard: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 72 days ago • 10 comments

Please repost! We are hiring an assistant professor (W1) of Educational Psychology. We are looking forward to working with you!! uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties...

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

Policymakers adjust their views of policy effectiveness when an experiment shows disappointing results but also show reduced demand for experiments. Also in response, the public supports experiments but reduces trust in the implementing institutions www.nber.org/papers/w33239

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Do you need educational and psychological item response data to do your research? The IRW has 600 item response datasets (more coming!), distributed in a standardized format and ready for analysis.

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

Our new review, with Tyler Watts, Emma Hart, and April Yu, summarizing some work in the past few years on "Learning about Development from Interventions" is published open access at Annual Review of Developmental Psychology. Comments, questions, insults welcome. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Good writing advice from an excellent academic writer.

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Applications are open for the Jacobs Foundation fellowship program — in addition to $$$ from Jacobs, new fellows also get to hang with the previous fellows, & we are fun jacobsfoundation.smapply.org/prog/jacobs_...

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Adam writes about a recent study on the effects of HEPA filters on acute respiratory infections:

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I had a rough year, super busy with my private matter. Now I'm slowly back. It seems many moved here and it's my first post! We published a new paper on cross-lagged panel models and causal inference in Psych. Methods (OA). We give guidance for applied researchers. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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Here’s a share link for my overview of the effects of environment on three types of spatial thinking using the experience expectant vs dependent lens. Lots of gaps remain! nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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🚨 New tutoring meta-analysis w/ @bethschueler.bsky.social & Grace Falken Effects decline w/ scale across 265 RCTs Bundle of recommended design features helps to sustain effects Evidence-based policymaking requires attention to internal AND external validity edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1031 🧵

submitted 150 days ago • 1 comment