The ViCE seminar returns this Thursday! Check out the spring schedule here: jenniferdoleac.com/vice-seminar/

Academic job market candidates: Did you know you can "make your own post-doc" by applying for external research funding? Many/most departments would be happy to provide office space to someone who brings their own funds. Arnold Ventures currently has multiple open RFPs. Apply

Thankfully, many people are acting individually to back up datasets which are being deleted from the web. reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/.

🚨 Job alert: The SSRC seeks a postdoctoral fellow to join a research team aimed at producing estimates of the Marginal Value of Public Funds for programs related to criminal justice policy. Apply below and please share widely! ssrc.org/ssrc-postdocto…

We streamlined six new DID-like estimators and created this tutorial for implementation in R. yiqingxu.org/packages/fect/… Hope you no longer need to spend months figuring out what these estimators are and how to use them. w/ Ziyi Liu

If you're an academic job market candidate studying causal questions related to crime/CJ policy, and you're still looking for a job for next year, could you email me? I'm trying to keep track/would love to help if I can.

This paper has been in the making for so long that eight children across the co-author group were born between the time we started and now! But it is finally out, and you can check it at arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13323

Baby wake up, new paper on RDD just dropped arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09907

AV's latest #BRIDGEseries convening brought researchers, practitioners, and law enforcement personnel together to discuss "civilianization", the process of employing civilians within police departments to address staff shortages, improve operations, and reduce crime.

Please join me in congratulating Kyu Matsuzawa. You can now call him Dr. Q.

Kyutaro Matsuzawa (U of Oregon PhD) extends Card and Dahl to show how upset losses in NFL lead to intimate partner violence since sports betting has been legal. Biggest effects during payday weeks.

Y’all, I wrote a book! The Science of Second Chances is based on my decades of work studying crime and criminal behavior, first as an economics professor and now as a policy expert at Arnold Ventures. It shares what we know from cutting-edge research about how to intervene at

Sometimes it's hard to say goodbye to former students. Kyu Matsuzawa headed off to make the world a better place.

Legalized sports betting increases intimate partner violence.

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

The next ViCE seminar is this Thursday, August 14, at 1pm ET. Kyu Matsuzawa (Kyu Matsuzawa) will present: "Sports Betting Legalization Amplifies Emotional Cues and Intimate Partner Violence"

Interested in the individual - and household-level financial, social, and behavioral impacts of legalized sports betting – or about how regulation, enforcement, and consumer protections influence these outcomes? Apply for our new ‘Causal Research on the Impacts of Legalized

CHEPS & @SDSU_ECON welcome Kyu Matsuzawa to our faculty and as new CHEPS Chief of Staff! Yang Liang & Joe Sabia also welcome three Postdoctoral Researchers to the team: Tessie Krishna, Jooyoung Kim, & Nikolaos Prodromidis. Here's to a productive 2025-26 academic year!

The 15th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior, sponsored by School of Public Affairs, will be held July 8–9, 2026 in Cagliari, Italy! 🇮🇹 Keynote: Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University) Organizers: Erdal Tekin (American University) & Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, Marco Nieddu (University of

This morning, the @chicagofed introduced new labor market indicators that combine private sector data with official labor statistics to provide a real-time view of hiring, layoffs and other job separations, and an early forecast of the unemployment rate. chicagofed.org/research/data/….