New TSMP: EXERCISE AS MIRACLE DRUG Two big studies in the last 12 months: 1. Euan Ashley, the chair of medicine at Stanford, and a team of bioinformatics researchers put rats on treadmills, cut into their tissues, and found that exercise basically improved every measurable

When I got tenure, I decided to use it start a new research agenda, studying US science in the 20th century, how it became dominant, what held it back, and what we can do better. Here's the first pub (with Scott Kim).

Today, Opportunity Insights released new research illuminating differences in credit access across the U.S. by race, class, and where you grow up. 🔗 shorturl.at/PxYvH

Missed it live? Yesterday, OI Co-Director Nathaniel Hendren presented new research on credit access in the U.S. at the NBER Summer Institute. You can now watch the full presentation and explore the findings. 📺Watch: shorturl.at/CIwZr 📚Explore: shorturl.at/gigae

Our friends Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) are hiring a senior research program manager. They're seeking someone with a Master’s or PhD in economics, public policy, or a related field, and solid experience managing applied research projects. Please share! careers.nd.edu/search-careers…

Check out how professional forecasters' partisan bias affects GDP growth forecasts Marginal Revolution. Link to the full paper below by colleague Aeimit Lakdawala Aeimit Lakdawala WFU Economics, former colleague Jane Ryngaert Notre Dame Economics, and Benjamin Kay. Partisan Bias in Professional Macroeconomic

Universities help their communities offset the negative effects of recessions.

It's fascinating that the effects of cell phone bans on GPA are nearly identical to those estimated in this study from Norway. Norway: 0.08 standard deviations U.S.: 0.09 standard deviations

A big moment for education in Botswana. Yesterday movers & shakers in education across the country took stock of progress made to date and the road ahead to improving learning at scale with a keynote by Honorable Minister of Child Welfare and Basic Education Nono Kgafela-Mokoka.

Chris Cronin's recent Review of Economic Studies (The Review of Economic Studies) article, "What Good Are Treatment Effects Without Treatment? Mental Health and the Reluctance to Use Talk Therapy," with Forsstrom and Papageorge, is one of their "featured" articles. academic.oup.com/restud/article…

Excited to see our research with Parker Rogers featured on NPR's The Academic Minute this week! 🎧 Check out this 2-minute podcast summary of our study: academicminute.org/yunan-ji-georg…

🚨 Join us on August 28 at 3 pm ET for a conversation on moving from evidence to impact in homelessness prevention—part of the Evidence Matters series co-hosted by J-PAL North America, King County, Washington, and Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO). 🔗 Learn more and register here forms.gle/aWuEf7XezAVtSh…

The ViCE seminar schedule for early fall 2025 is up! We start back up again next week (Aug 14).

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Conviction, Incarceration, and Recidivism: Understanding the Revolving Door,” by Humphries, Ouss, Stavreva, Stevenson, and van Dijk: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "Intergenerational mobility in socio-emotional skills" By Orazio Attanasio, Aureo de Paula, & Alessandro Toppeta sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #econtwitter #publiceconomics UCL Economics UCL Policy Lab Yale Department of Economics Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies

Sunrise run on the campus of University of Notre Dame. Excited to spend the day planning new research with Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO); combining principles of economics and faith to alleviate poverty. Notre Dame Economics

Our colleague Patrick Turner's work was just highlighted in this recent Marketplace story on the new H1B policy (includes a quote from Patrick). Check it out: marketplace.org/story/2025/09/…

We are hiring (again!). We are searching for up to four tenure-track hires. Two of these are open-field/open-rank. Two are endowed at the full professor level -- one with a focus on applied micro and poverty, the other with a focus on demography.

The next ViCE seminar is this Thursday, October 16, at 1pm ET. Maddalena Totarelli will present: "Prison Rehabilitation Programs, Recidivism, and Labor Market Outcomes"

📣 Our paper is out on 12 A/B tests all pulled together showing *big* efficiency gains! So excited about this paper and broader approach. We optimize tutoring programs, which are famously effective but hard to scale. Highlights below👇What Works Hub for Global Education Youth Impact Blavatnik School of Government