Join our team BIP Lab Harris Policy The University of Chicago 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!

🚨 Job alert: The SSRC seeks a postdoctoral fellow to join a research team aimed at producing estimates of the Marginal Value of Public Funds for programs related to criminal justice policy. Apply below and please share widely! ssrc.org/ssrc-postdocto…

This year's Econ job market has, by all accounts, been brutal. If you're still not sure what you're doing next year, applying for external funding to continue your work is a great way to buy yourself time & options. It's a way to "build your own post-doc." Check out AV's open

Jason Abaluck and I are organizing the Cowles Labor and Public Economics Conference at Yale, June 2-3. Submit your papers by March 24: cowles.yale.edu/conferences/fo… Yale Department of Economics, Cowles Foundation, Tobin Center for Economic Policy Jason Abaluck

Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient brookings.edu/articles/cutti…

A Statement from Jessica Heppen, AIR President & CEO: “Like many organizations, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) has had to make difficult decisions in response to recent federal funding cuts, including reducing our workforce by 18%. (1/4)

NCME and our organizational colleagues call on Congress to protect federal educational databases, including ensuring that expert staff remain to maintain them: aera.net/Portals/38/Edu… For other recent NCME actions in support of our members, see here: ncme.org/blogs/nathan-d…

This is an amazing opportunity!

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Andrew V. Papcahristos: Why America can't afford to silence its universities chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/opi…

We’re hiring! 🥳 The Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice team is hiring an Economic Policy & Innovation Fellow. This 2-year position will focus on applying insights about incentives and market forces, to identify innovative strategies that address public safety. Please RT!

The journal Research in Higher Education is seeking manuscripts using data from the National Center for Education Statistics for a special issue. Please read the full call for papers here and circulate to your networks! #RIHE link.springer.com/collections/hi…

I recently had the chance to share some thoughts on the implications of the roll back in federal support for research on policy and practice on UChicago Inclusive Economy Lab's blog. medium.com/inclusive-econ…

It just makes you want to cry how cruel it all is

At a recent House approps subcommittee hearing, Sec'y Linda McMahon confirmed several times that ED would abide by Congressional laws. But, in some cases, it may be too understaffed to do so. hechingerreport.org/proof-points-c…

Terrific story about Choose to Change - a CBT-based program for high-risk youth that was recently evaluated using an RCT. My team is eager to fund replications of this program/study elsewhere, to see if it remains effective in other contexts. themarshallproject.org/2025/06/05/chi…

NEW JOB POSTING! Hiring an Associate Director to work with me at Notre Dame Economics to launch the Stregthening Families Research Initiative. In conversations with policy makers, journalists, non-profit leaders, & others about challenges facing families in the US, people always ask "but

Looking forward to listening to my colleague, Nour Abdul-Razzak discuss our paper on Jennifer Doleac's podcast!

Starting to see consequences from the mass cancellations and firings at ED. A month ago, I reported about a missed June 1 deadline for a statistical report. Now NAEP science scores are delayed. hechingerreport.org/proof-points-d…