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Mayors and superintendents from Hartford, Bridgeport, Waterbury, Stamford, and New Haven asked for an increase of $545 million in education funds to address youth disconnection in Connecticut.

For decades, Lawrence Katz has worked with federal and local housing agencies to learn how public housing policy might more effectively support economic opportunity. In this talk, Katz will discuss his work on three landmark projects. Learn more and register: bit.ly/4hgIzqx

NIH, NSF, and other public research are a small part of the federal budget (1%ish), and generate a dollar of GDP for cents of spending. That makes the rest of the 99% easier to pay for, with surplus to spare. Golden goose.

🚨 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…

You can put your current org as your institution or another org, like SSRC, that lets academics run grants through them.

Achieving Govt efficiency, requires more, not less investment open.substack.com/pub/goodscienc… via SSRC Chair Anna Harvey David Oliver (also on Blue Sky) 𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic

SSRC Pres Anna Harvey, for Good Science Project: “Government efficiency doesn’t mean that the government does less. It means that the government does more for every dollar it spends.”

Announcing the launch of the Policy ROI Project! By producing reliable measures of the net social returns to alternative criminal justice policies (MVPF), this project will help policymakers adopt policies producing more safety at lower cost.

This project, made possible through support from Arnold Ventures, is currently seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join the Policy ROI Project team in the summer of 2025. ssrc.org/ssrc-postdocto…

🚨 Funding opportunity! The SSRC welcomes new applications for the Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship, supporting policy-relevant causal research on US criminal justice practices. The fellowship begins in Sept. 2025, lasting up to two years.

Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis. Apply now, and please share widely: bit.ly/414wNsj

The SSRC is seeking applicants for two postdoctoral fellowships in criminal justice. First, apply now for the Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship, supporting policy-relevant causal research on US criminal justice practices: bit.ly/414wNsj

I'm leaving a conference where there was lots of conversation & energy focused on how to seize this current, unusual moment to positively reform higher education in the US. Soul-crushing bureaucracy plus an absurd tolerance for illiberal views (as in, anti-freedom of thought)

Can SMS messages cost-effectively increase preventive health behaviors? Two Mercury Project teams tested different SMS messages targeted at nearly 4M Americans, finding that SMS messages are a cost-effective way to increase preventive health behaviors.

An idea I’ll float here while I figure out how to operationalize: Lots of researchers with strong causal inference/impact evaluation training have recently lost their jobs due to federal funding cuts. Meanwhile, there are a zillion (approximately) policies my team would love

In a new The Brookings Institution memo, SSRC President Anna Harvey and coauthors Jennifer Doleac Jenni Owen Jonathon Attridge Tony Pipa Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) Georgia Policy Labs call for investment in university-government partnerships aimed at increasing the innovation capacity of state and local govts.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working with Anna Harvey on a proposal through the The Brookings Institution 17 Rooms project. The goal was to envision a new initiative that could spur innovative university-government partnerships, creating value for researchers and communities alike.

A new proposal from Room 16 of #17Rooms calls for a government innovation fund to unlock collaborations with universities. Read the research by Jennifer Doleac, Anna Harvey, Tony Pipa, Jonathon Attridge, and co-authors: brookings.edu/articles/build…

I spent Friday with researchers and practitioners at a J-PAL North America convening, talking about the value of causal evidence (including RCTs) for making policy work better. A question that came up again and again is how to move forward in this moment of uncertainty about research