Excited to share our meta-analysis on home maths activities and children's maths skills is published in Society for Research in Child Development! It’s been an amazing project with Dr Emma Blakey, Claudia von Bastian, and Carmel Brough. I’m thrilled to share our key recommendations for the field🧵 shorturl.at/tgMLH

🚨 In a new article with my UMN Psychology colleagues, we found that police intrusion (e.g., racial slurs, stop-and-frisks), which on average occurred at age 13, was associated with more epigenetic age acceleration at age-15, controlling for age-9 epigenetic age acceleration.

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

This is a BIG #aurora forecast for tonight with it possibly rivaling the May event G4 "severe" geomagnetic storm predicted with kP >8, and we will have mainly clear skies!

Join us for The 9:30 Call next week! Looking forward to hearing from Commissioner Amy Kershaw. Strategies for Children #The930Call Sign up here to get the Zoom link: strategiesforchildren.salsalabs.org/930Callsignupf…

How to decompose neighborhood differences in mobility between self-selection, locational characteristics, and irreducible heterogeneity, and applying to Denmark, from Neil Cholli, Steven N. Durlauf, @r_landersoe, and Salvador Navarro nber.org/papers/w33035

Using a randomized lottery design shows that full-day universal pre-k raises parents' earnings by 22 percent, with gains persisting for at least six years after pre-k, from John Eric Humphries, @chrisaneilson, Xiaoyang Ye, and @SethDZimmerman nber.org/papers/w33038

Meet me on Zoom in 1 hour! Join me at 9 am ET for "Enhancing Early Education and Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries." Speakers include Nirmala Rao, Candice Potgieter, & NIEER's Milagros Nores. Certificates available! 🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Thank you Daniel Mollenkamp and EdSurge for the very nice coverage of our -- @Bustamante_AS Henrik D Zachrisson #DVandell -- Educational Researcher - Editors paper on cumulative opportunity gaps! AERA Boston College Boston College Lynch School BC Research News

Norway’s goals for its citizens: Build a nation of thriving adults by providing childhoods that are joyful, secure and inclusive. Jackie Mader's extraordinary look at a country where early childhood education is a national priority: hechingerreport.org/norway-law-dec…

In Norway, having a joyful, secure childhood is a right enshrined into law. Child care isn't just a place to put children so parents can work, it’s a place where childhood is protected, with access guaranteed and heavily subsidized for all. My latest: hechingerreport.org/norway-law-dec…

Educational opportunities during childhood are strongly linked to educational attainment and earnings in early adulthood, according to a study led by @BCLynchSchool Professor Eric Dearing. on.bc.edu/ChildhoodEdStu…

Associate Professor Elida Laski received three new external grants totaling almost $1 million to help advance her research and efforts in improving numeracy and mathematics knowledge in primary school students through modified board games. Congratulations Dr. Laski!

"At a time when the U.S. has yet to meaningfully invest in widespread, high-quality child care for all, especially for infants and toddlers, Norway provides an example of what affordable, universal, child-centric early care can look like." Jackie Mader hechingerreport.org/norway-law-dec…

Little is known, although much is theorized, about the long-run benefits of boosting children's social-emotional skills. Across 450 post-test & follow-up impacts from 86 RCTs, we found similar fadeout rates for intervention impacts on social-emotional & cognitive skills. 1/11

📢 Join us for the official launch of The Lancet series on #earlychildhooddevelopment on Nov 19, highlighting the critical “next 1000 days” of a child's life & exploring key factors that shape healthy development. Mark your calendars & register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

I and twenty-two other Nobel economists signed a letter endorsing Kamala Harris for President. We believe Harris's policies will result in a stronger economic performance, with economic growth that is more robust, more sustainable, and more equitable. cnn.com/2024/10/23/pol…

ECE & policy folks: I'm looking for a postdoc to join our (really terrific) SEE-Partnerships team, doing research on ECE access & workforce issues! Please spread the word! UVA School of Education and Human Development UVA Batten School EdPolicyWorks uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/Ch…

Student attendance problems start early. The brilliant @TiffanyxWu led a new paper shining light on how machine learning may help.

moving to where skies are bluer