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I've been getting used to gganimate and thought it would be useful to put together some illustrations of what various causal inference methods *actually do to data* and how they work. Here, for example, is what it means to control for a (binary) variable

A well deserved award!

The urban poor in India sleep terribly, but increasing their sleep has low economic returns. Alternatively, high-quality sleep and naps both produce high benefits, from Pedro Bessone, @raogautam, Frank Schilbach, Heather Schofield, and Mattie Toma nber.org/papers/w26746

Poverty-related bandwidth constraints reduce the value of consumption pnas.org/content/118/35…

New NBER working paper with Supreet Kaur Heather Schofield Prof. Geeta Kingdon showing: - how formal schooling contributes to the development of fundamental cognitive skills, like attention - attention appears to be highly malleable, at least in childhood nber.org/papers/w30133?… 🧵 (1/x)

There are large differences in children's attention skills by socioeconomic status, but increasing the time children spend on sustained, independent work during school improves attention skills, from Christina Brown, Supreet Kaur, Geeta Kingdon, and Heather Schofield nber.org/papers/w30133

Open letter to AEA Executive Committee regarding the locations of the next ASSA meetings (scheduled for New Orleans & San Antonio). Letter: pjakiela.github.io/AEA-open-lette… Joint w/ Allison Shertzer Corinne Low Steven N. Durlauf Owen Ozier Eeshani Kandpal Sign here: forms.gle/y1m9KN9FymBf8e…

On the latest episode of #TheReportCard, Nat Malkus interviews Christina Brown and Heather Schofield. They discuss what cognitive endurance is and why it’s important, PISA, an elaborate field experiment they ran in India, and disparities in American schools. 1/3 bit.ly/3S3Vakt

↳For more on cognitive endurance, be sure to check out Christina Brown, Heather Schofield, Prof. Geeta Kingdon, and Supreet Kaur’s paper Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital. 3/3 bit.ly/3b8mIEI

Thanks to an R01 from The National Institute on Aging (NIA), a team led by Heather Schofield, PhD, will conduct a 4-year randomized controlled trial to study the consequences of income volatility and uncertainty on mental health, wellbeing, and biomarkers of stress. bit.ly/3AQLO59

(10+ years of) persistence pays! Now forthcoming in JEEA

What is economic vulnerability & what are its spillover effects for health and health care? Sign up for this free webinar by The National Institute on Aging (NIA) to learn about research, data & measurement needs in this area. I'm excited to both learn and be a part of it! nia.nih.gov/research/dbsr/…

New Blog Alert! Thank you to Mattie Toma et al for highlighting the importance of field experiments in understanding #sleep among the urban poor. The data from the Urban Poor in Indian cohort is available on #NSRR. Check out their findings here: sleepdata.org/editor/blog/sl…

3/ The benefits of policies to ⬆️ financial security go beyond food security. As Heather Schofield and Atheendar Venkataramani's work suggest, they may also affect whether families *enjoy* consumption of food (and other activities), a critical dimension of well-being. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

We are hiring for a pre-doctoral fellow role Cornell University. Please apply if you are thinking of grad school and you are interested in behavioral and/or development. Econ RA Listings #predoc #EconTwitter cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerP…

We are hiring for a pre-doctoral fellow role Cornell University starting in the summer of 2024 . Please apply if you are thinking of grad school and you are interested in behavioral and/or development. Econ RA Listings #predoc #EconTwitter cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerP…

Great predoc opportunity at Cornell University!