Submission deadline July 15 for a small workshop on the impacts of the opiate epidemic to be held at West Virginia University in October (best time of year, fall foliage and such). We have some funding available (thanks to Arnold Ventures) to cover hotel stays and offset travel.

This new paper from Lisa A. Gennetian et al. evaluates the impacts of monthly unconditional cash transfers on family investments. Dr. Kimberly Noble Katherine Magnuson Hirokazu Yoshikawa nature.com/articles/s4156…

A great opportunity! And if you want to include a rigorous evaluation of your new program's impacts (which I recommend you do!), Arnold Ventures can fund that. Check out the RFP on our website. Talk to folks at Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) and J-PAL North America for help with evaluation plans.

The UCR School of Public Policy (UCR School of Public Policy) is hiring! We have 2 posts this year and will hire up to 4 faculty lines. The first, focusing on the policy process, is now live: aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01951 Please share and feel free to reach out with any questions!

UNC Public Policy is hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor for the upcoming year. We'll have a permanent position available starting 7/1/25. Some combination of teaching competence in policy analysis, ethics and policy, and politics and policy welcome. appam.mcjobboard.net/jobs/158489

Science paper shows pregnancy requires 10x more energy than we previously thought. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… How should this impact parental leave policy? 🧵1/n

For child abuse researchers out there, child abuse is a crime, and falls into the purview of community safety. If you do rigorous, policy-relevant, causal research focusing on interventions to reduce child abuse check out this RFP!

For those of us with new fac starting this fall, remember what it was like to start anew. There are so many acronyms and so many hidden norms. How can you make those visible for new faculty? One thing I try to do is every time I get a new email, look at it with a newbie in mind

I keep thinking about the diff between parents & non-parents. 60% of the sample had a child. But I don’t see a subgroup analysis based on parenthood. It’s easy to critique (sorry!), but given how parents have responded to cash in other settings, this distinction seems important!

At our school they don’t even call it recess anymore! My first grader’s schedule has 20 minutes of “fresh air time.” I can’t even get my kid outside in 20 minutes, much less back in. They need more play.

So excited to go “home” this fall!

Besides workday, my favorite part of this job is the excessively burdensome cybersecurity & IRB protocols for research that is harmless, relies on secondary data analysis & isn’t technically even human subjects research. The semester must be nearing as I begin my griping again.

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So happy I was able to listen to this episode of Probable Causation before the semester began! I was able to add it to my syllabus to go with episode 8 on ban the box policies (by the same author!) *chef’s kiss*!

Year #7 Georgia Tech! New title, new office views, new lines of scholarly inquiry. Feeling great and grateful. Georgia Tech School of Public Policy

🚨Cool Job Alert! Come join me on the Evidence + Evaluation team at Arnold Ventures! We're looking for an analyst to join our NYC or DC office. Feel free to reach out with questions, and stay tuned for another posting next week (we're growing!) arnoldventures.org/careers/eviden…

Lots of cool jobs available at Arnold Ventures right now…. arnoldventures.org/careers

If you are a PhD student studying causal questions related to crime/CJ in the US, could you email or DM me with the following info: 1. specific topics you are studying/interested in 2. your email address & web page (if you have one) We are often looking for junior scholars

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I don't love the "register as a vendor to the university to get reimbursed" trend for invited seminars