Actress & advocate #JenniferGarner believes in the power of Head Start! She joined the TODAY to highlight the vital educational & social services Head Start provides to 800,000 children & their families across the country.📽️ Watch now: today.com/video/jennifer…

I'm honored and delighted to join the German Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB) as a BiB Fellow. Looking forward to spending more time with my friends and research colleagues in Wiesbaden!

Congratulations to our HCEO members who were named members of the National Academy of Sciences: > Parag A. Pathak (Parag Pathak) of MIT; > David B. Grusky (David B. Grusky) of Stanford; and > Daniel S. Nagin of Carnegie Mellon University, Kudos to all! nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-…

There already exists an excellent economics paper by Dubois, Ashvin Gandhi and Shosh Vasserman on this (disastrous) economic policy. The equilibrium result will be only slightly lower prices in the US but much higher prices everywhere else.

Head Start is making a big difference nationwide! And we have the maps to prove it. 🗺️ This collection of clear, easy-to-navigate maps provide valuable insights into how the program supports young children, their families, and entire communities. ffyf.org/resources/2025…

On @thedailyshow, HCEO member Matthew Desmond (Matthew Desmond) explains that SNAP is an investment in children that yields lifelong economic health benefits and generates an enormous return. instagram.com/reel/DG37fHRIG…

New piece in MarketWatch from Venessa Wong and Andrew Keshner on what's missing from the recent tax package. Sarah Rittling highlights what can be done to fix it. marketwatch.com/story/why-the-…

Innovation drives growth, and understanding who invents can help reduce inequality. This project from Ufuk Akcigit (UChicago Economics) & Nathan Goldschlag links census data to 760K+ inventors with patents from 2000-2016 for new insights. Explore the interactive: ow.ly/fksf50VX7LS

📣 SURE START FINAL REPORT OUT!! 🌟So proud to have been part of this journey! 🔟 years of hard work + rigorous analysis, & the evidence speaks clearly: #SureStart worked. 💷 SS returned £2 for every £1 spent. A milestone for #EarlyYears policy. 👉🏻 ifs.org.uk/publications/s…

New paper out in Science Magazine! Brain drain or brain gain? Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

HCEO members Mariacristina De Nardi and Fang Yang and colleagues estimate how much life factors -- health, marital status, wages, mortality, retirement, and bequest motives -- influence how much people work and save. nber.org/papers/w33874

In a new working paper, HCEO member ZHIXIU YU and coauthor Abdoulaye Ndiaye model the dynamics of retirement and identify novel, welfare-enhancing retirement policy prescriptions. hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/worki…

Very excited to be presenting our paper on the drivers of firearm ownership at the NBER Economics of Crime sessions tomorrow 2 pm. Also live-streamed on YouTube nber.org/conferences/si…. Full paper here: socialeconomicslab.org/research/worki…

Head Start improves life outcomes because it builds multiple skills, HCEO’s Prof. James Heckman and Alison Baulos tell Second Wave Michigan. Children develop motivation, patience, resilience -- traits for life success. secondwavemedia.com/features/60-ye…

Neighborhoods matter less to a child’s success than what his parents do, @HeckmanEquation & Sadegh Eshaghnia argue, debunking the "ZIP code is destiny” idea. In reality, outcomes are due to attributes & actions of parents who self-sort into neighborhoods. bit.ly/469WWIR

More evidence from Orla Doyle & Preparing for Life that the home visiting program has lasting benefits. At age 14, adolescents in the high-treatment group had better cognitive skills & working memory, fewer attention problems, & lower obesity risk. bit.ly/4nJg1Zp

New from Prof. James Heckman and Jin Zhou: a new model to study the microdynamics of early childhood learning. With this new approach they study the weekly evolution of skill development using detailed data from a successful home visiting program in China. nber.org/papers/w34294

A new study of the Abecedarian project by HCEO members Sylvi Kuperman, Frances Campbell, et al. from the Abecedarian project suggests that boosting children’s verbal skills is key to longer-term ECE program impacts. bit.ly/432cT2