Russell Legate-Yang
@rclegateyang
PhD student @MITEcon | PDSoros Fellow, @NSF GRF | @UChicago โ22
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20-03-2021 18:56:10
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๐ Drumroll, please! Meet the 2024 #PDSoros Fellows! ๐ฝ Selected from 2,300+ applicants, these 30 exceptional graduate students are changing the game in their respective fields. Click the link to get to know these trailblazers! #ImmigrantExcellence ๐๐ pdsoros.org/meet-the-classโฆ
Russell Legate-Yang, ABโ22, will pursue a PhD in economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a 2024 PD Soros Fellowships Fellow, continuing his research efforts to improve K-12 public school effectiveness. CCRF @ UChicago / UChicago Alumni college.uchicago.edu/news/2022-uchiโฆ
Excited to share: I'll begin a PhD MIT Economics this fall. I'm honored to received the PD Soros Fellowships Fellowship for New Americans and thrilled to join this community. I also received the U.S. National Science Foundation GRF. Thanks to my mentors and loved ones. Excited for the coming years! pdsoros.org/meet-the-felloโฆ
๐จ Blueprint is hiring research fellows ๐จ Join Josh Angrist, Parag Pathak, Nikhil Agarwal, David Autor, Daron Acemoglu, and Simon Johnson to research some of the most pressing questions related to education, health care, AI, and job inequalities. youtube.com/watch?v=XOAE7uโฆ
Do school quality measures like test scores and survey responses predict long-term student outcomes? New research by Blueprint Directors Josh Angrist and Parag Pathak, Affiliates Peter Hull and Christopher Walters, and RA Russell Legate-Yang explores this question: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/research/puttiโฆ
Comparing the long-run predictive validity of surveys gauging school quality with that of conventional test score value-added models, from Josh Angrist, Peter Hull, Russell Legate-Yang, Parag Pathak, and Christopher Walters nber.org/papers/w33622
