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Education Dept. Cancels Over $600M in Grants for Teacher Pipeline Programs - new from @the74.bsky.social's @lrj417.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/educ...

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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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We are excited to join Bluesky! J-PAL North America is a regional office of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, based at MIT, seeking to reduce poverty by ensuring policy is informed by scientific evidence. www.povertyactionlab.org/na

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DATA RELEASE WHEN DATA FEELS SCARCE! Check out data.epi.org -a data repository with 78,000+ series on topics like employment, wages, poverty, and inequality. You can get many measures by gender, race and state! I've been working with our @epi.org team to build this and am so proud of the result

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NIJ and other federal agencies have paused research funding, but @arnoldventures.bsky.social has not! Check out our open RFPs. We're looking for causal studies across a range of issues, including crime/criminal justice. www.arnoldventures.org/grantees

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NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."

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Call for papers: Econ of Ed @nberpubs.bsky.social Spring Meeting at Stanford. Submissions are welcome from researchers with and without NBER affiliations, from early career scholars, and from researchers from under-represented groups. #EconConf www.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

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Just had our data access rescinded for a projected using federal microdata to study and reduce disparate impact in housing markets.

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Updated paper: A lot of work on the effects of tracking in education, which is a widespread practice globally. We show 1) algorithms can track students far more effectively than test scores 2) test scores discriminate 3) algorithmic placement has infinite MVPF static1.squarespace.com/static/60d0c...

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Submit your papers to NBER @nberpubs.bsky.social Children's Spring meeting by January 31st! The meetings will be held April 3-4 in Cambridge, MA! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

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Always tough questions with this guy 😁 Top 20 definitely incudes 'Unwarranted Disparity in High-Stakes Decisions: Race Measurement and Policy Responses' ✒️ E. Jason Baron, Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Natalia Emanuel, Peter Hull, & Joseph Ryan

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What's happening under the hood at our lab? Take a look at today's email blast: www.learningcollider.org/campaigns/vi... #econ #sci #research #ds

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🧵 Our takeaways from Ludwig, @sendhil.bsky.social and Rambachan on the reliability and validity of LLMs in research: 1️⃣ LLMs should only be used if the training data does not overlap with the research data, preventing the model from "cheating" #econ #sci #data #ai

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new WP y'all www.nber.org/papers/w33236

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🔖 Looking forward to digging into the latest working paper from Jens Ludwig, @sendhil.bsky.social and Ashesh Rambachan on the use of LLMs in economics research. #econsky #scisky #phdsky arxiv.org/abs/2412.070...

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A very interesting new working paper by the greats Ashesh Rambachan, Rahul Singh, and @vivianodavide.bsky.social: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10959 It seems that this is another area where the empirical common practice was "too fast,'' and econometrics is catching up! Cool and empirically relevant stuff!

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Interesting-looking JMP on using quasi-experiments to measure discrimination in high-stakes settings nikh-rao.github.io/site_files/d...

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Great discussion, with folks far smarter than I am, giving seminar audiences all over the world further free license to question the speaker about their standard errors. (But really, a helpful discussion.)

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Just published: 🔥 Algorithmic bias and racial inequality: A critical review🔥 https://maxkasy.github.io/home/files/papers/Algorithmic_bias_inequality.pdf Thoughts and comments welcome! Part of the OXREP special issue on Race, Caste, and Economic Policy: https://academic.oup.com/oxrep/issue/40/3

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A little teaser on our lab's work ... Stay tuned 📻

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I have a new WP out today with Jason Baron, Joe Doyle, and Natalia Emanuel, on discrimination in foster care placement www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/l6nft... This time we study the whole united states, and look at heterogeneity over time and space A few key takeaways 👇

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👀 📖 "...we find that a large share of evictions are not prevented by three prominent tenant-protection policies: short-term rental assistance, procedural delays in eviction court, and increases in filing fees..." New WP www.nber.org/papers/w33155 @nberpubs.bsky.social #econ #policy #data

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Check out the latest Econimate video summarizing Benjamin Arold's paper in @qjeharvard.bsky.social: “Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education.” #econ #edu #policy #science www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeZw...

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Does anyone have publicly available data from a populous state (eg CA, TX, NY, FL) with detailed variables about each high school? I’m aware of National data from CCD and PSS and in fact, I want to link the state data to them, so an NCES school identifier is required. Thanks!

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A+ round-up of #edu #policy and #econ folks 📚 Great to see affiliates @aadukia.bsky.social, @alexeble.bsky.social, @cohodes.bsky.social and founder @peterbergman.bsky.social. Bonus follow: @mattbarnum.bsky.social, formerly of Chalkbeat now at WSJ, still awesome at covering education research.

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"It takes courage to rigorously evaluate one’s life’s work—and even more to accept disappointing findings—but it is this courage that is necessary to do the hard work of finding solutions to the challenging problems facing society’s most vulnerable..." #policy #econ www.westword.com/news/opinion...

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"Not only were families searching and applying to units in neighborhoods with higher quality school but they were subsequently leasing up in those neighborhoods as well. We saw changes all the way from search behaviors to where they lease up." @peterbergman.bsky.social youtu.be/FL8TCoX6bR8?...

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Education economists: I teach a PhD economics of education seminar next semester. What should the students learn? Seeking syllabi, snippets of syllabi (e.g., the education unit of your labor/dev class), & papers. Self recommendations welcome! #EconSky 📉📈

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Hi #EconSky, I'm very excited to present our new working paper (nber.org/papers/w33050) at Brown today! A mid-sized 🧵 TL;DR: "Racial differences in income unable to explain a meaningful share of gaps in ambient air pollution exposure."

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As early voting starts in many states and campaign workers everywhere are gearing up for #GOTV, I want to highlight research from my awesome colleague Angela Cools that shows parents (especially moms) of young children are less likely to vote. 📈📉 #econsky

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Judgment and Decision Making (JDM) starter pack Happy to add you go.bsky.app/8nDKmwG

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📃 To randomize or not to randomize... That isn't the question...but we answered it anyway 🤷 For a round-up of randomization resources to help researchers inform partners and policymakers, check out our post 📃 #science #econ #policy www.learningcollider.org/blog/randomi...

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