Analyzing a mechanism for assigning CPS investigators to child maltreatment cases finds that the mechanism can reduce prediction mistakes by up to 10 percent, in a revenue-neutral way, from Jason Baron, Lombardo, Ryan, Suh, and Valenzuela-Stookey nber.org/papers/w32369

Took a long break from Twitter. You can tell since I’m still saying “Twitter”. Trying to reconnect now as I’m heading over to #SOLE2024 and want to meet people! Let me know if you want to chat/hang out/go session-hopping together. Also, come to our Education Choices session!

Happy to see this important paper in print! direct.mit.edu/rest/article-a…

In this new paper, ⁦EdFund⁩ board member ⁦Jason Baron⁩ finds that increased funding for elementary schools leads to a significant reduction in arrests later in life | The Review of Economics and Statiatics direct.mit.edu/rest/article/d…

Happy to see this coming out in print soon! TL/DR, good schools are particularly helpful for less-advantaged kids. Who Benefits from Attending Effective High Schools? | Journal of Labor Economics journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10…

I am delighted to share that I am joining the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy Georgia Tech School of Public Policy as an Assistant Professor next January! This was a serendipitous opportunity and I am so thankful it did not pass me by. Looking forward to starting a new chapter in Atlanta!

Students exposed to more school funding during elementary school are less likely to be arrested as adults. Just Accepted new paper by Jason Baron (Jason Baron), Joshua Hyman (Joshua Hyman), Brittany Vasquez (Brittany Vasquez) zurl.co/tpBm

Invest in public education, reduce crime. New research published in the Review of Economics and Statistics finds that increases in school funding levels are outweighed by reduced criminal justice spending down the road. We can build strong kids or house broken adults.

#QJE May 2024, #5, “Discrimination in Multi-Phase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection,” by Baron (Jason Baron), Doyle (@josephjdoylejr), Emanuel (Natalia Emanuel), Hull (Peter Hull), and Ryan: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Forthcoming in The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat): "Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime" by Jason Baron, Joshua Hyman, & Brittany Vasquez doi.org/10.1162/rest_a…

Please RT/spread the word about this online causal inference course! Starting September 9th -- I'm very excited for it!

Our new field experiment (w/ Anujit Chakraborty, Matt Lowe, Gareth Nellis) shows how brief interactions with multiple outgroup members (broad contact) and longer interactions with a single one (deep contact) shape intergroup relations. Paper: researchgate.net/publication/38…

Introducing our 2024-2025 job market candidates, all seeking employment starting Summer 2025. For more information, visit: econ.duke.edu/graduate/hire-…… or see 🧵 below.

I have a new NBER WP out with Jason Baron, Joe Doyle, @nataliahemanuel, and Joseph Ryan on racial discrimination in foster care decisions. Check it out! nber.org/books-and-chap… (short summary thread👇)

🚨📢 3rd Workshop on Economics of Education, Valle Nevado, 🇨🇱 (Aug 19-22) Confirmed speakers 🎓 JOHN FRIEDMAN (Brown) 🎓 STEVE PISCHKE (LSE) ✅ Submissions by March 2nd, 2025. uandes.cl/workshop-on-ec… 2024 edition ⛷️ youtu.be/Qb3gw1IFjnk?si… #econtwitter Human Development Lab UANDES

Sunset at Duke with cherry blossoms today — looks like we are ready for the campus visit of all PhD admits this Friday.

📢New working paper with Kirill Borusyak: "Optimal Formula Instruments"! We derive the most powerful recentered IVs for treatments given by complex formulas, and propose an algorithm for approximating them in practice This approach yields *huge* power gains, relative to a

I'm excited to help organize Opportunity Insights' 2025 Conference on Economic Mobility (Oct 9-10)! Submit your papers by August 1st here: opportunityinsights.org/updates/2025-c…. Looking forward to reading your submissions! #EconTwitter

Leveraging the quasi-random assignment of investigators, the authors show that foster care reduces later-in-life crime. Just Accepted new paper by E. Jason Baron @jasonbaron4 and Max Gross zurl.co/KDMa7

Did you know that 1/5 of the prison population in the U.S. is comprised of former foster children? But (!) it appears that relationship is not causal. This new ReStat leverages quasi-random assignment of kids to foster care in Michigan to show that placement actually