Banning #smartphones in over 400 schools led to:
-decreased psychological symptoms among girls by 29%
-decreased bullying by boys and girls by 43%
-increased GPA among girls by .08 SDs
Effects were larger for girls from low SES families openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bits…

Listen to this excellent Probable Causation podcast episode with Amanda Agan and host Jennifer Doleac. Fascinating results! probablecausation.com/podcasts/episo…

💫Today we launch the Segregation Explorer!💫

Visualize and download school segregation data for every state, county, metro area, commuting zone, geo school district, and local educational agency in the US since 1991.

edopportunity.org/segregation

'vaccination has averted 154 million deaths'

WHO launched the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in 1974 to make life-saving vaccines available to all.

On the 50th anniversary of EPI, authors quantify the public health impact of vaccination: hubs.li/Q02w0Qpd0

📢New Preprint!📢
@JayVanBavel, Kareena del Rosario and I go inside the 'Funhouse Mirror Factory' of Social Media to explain how SM is distorting our perception of social norms-- by making moderate opinions practically invisible and over-representing the most extreme voices.

Unemployment rate has now been below 4% for *27 straight months*
Again, the last time this happened, Nixon was in office

“For the first time in the history of the United States, billionaires had a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.” Free link: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Violent crime is down in the 1st quarter of 2024 in the 68 large cities tracked by Major Cities Chiefs Association:
Murder -17%
Rape -17%
Robbert -3%
Agg assault -8%
majorcitieschiefs.com/wp-content/upl…

Today, we are proud to introduce the #JusticeOutcomesExplorer ! JOE is a publicly available data dashboard that provides a fresh glimpse into how the criminal justice system touches the lives of millions of Americans every year: joe.cjars.org [1/10] 🧵

Nearly half of all U.S. reproductive-age women live in states where abortion is either completely banned or banned after 6 weeks.

cc: The Wall Street Journal

BREAKING: In a historic shift, the U.S. moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, AP sources say. apnews.com/article/mariju…

A lot of fantastic data visualizations and data reporting over the last decade.

10 Years, 100 Stories: The Work That Defines the Upshot. Free link: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

This is a really big deal—Biden administration just published a rule giving new overtime protections to 4.3 million workers! epi.org/press/epi-pres…

With compelling figures and stats to boot. Definitely read this one all the way through.

This week I had the opportunity to visit SCI Chester, a state prison outside Philly, to see one of the most interesting experiments in incarceration.

Given that 95% of inmates will eventually be released, it's imperative that time spent in prison is rehabilitative and promotes…

Are immigrants more innovative?

Yup.

Immigrants tend to 1.) make up a higher share of business owners and 2.) operate more innovative and productive firms.

This 'implies [immigrants make] large contributions to U.S. innovation and growth.'

osf.io/preprints/soca…

Whatever your views on optimal sentence lengths, truth-in-sentencing policies that remove the possibility of parole are extremely costly.

The incentive to invest in rehabilitation and practice good behavior—which the possibility of parole provides—is very helpful. /1

The US organizes voting data on a bunch of random local spreadsheets & PDFs, many aren't even online.

This makes answering basic questions about voting rights a herculean task of data compiling, cleaning.

There has to be a better way, writes Dara Gold: boltsmag.org/election-data-…