Ariel Kalil
@ariel_kalil
Professor @HarrisPolicy @UChicago & @NHHnor. Co-director @HarrisBIPLab. Applying behavioral insights to understand parental decision-making & child development.
ID: 2255196478
31-12-2013 22:18:18
1,1K Tweet
2,2K Followers
1,1K Following
What role do parents play in their children's success in school? UChicago Harris Policy Prof. @Ariel_Kalil examines how simple interactions—like reading 15 minutes a day—can close the achievement gap and spark learning. ms.spr.ly/6013qZrCh
New federal data shows American kids are falling behind in reading and test scores. Harris Policy’s Ariel Kalil explores how parental habits can impact childhood development. Listen now on Big Brains Podcast: ow.ly/BVkH50VlBpj
📣Our paper now out NBER: "Human Capital at Home: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in the Philippines" w/ Dean Karlan Sarah Kabay Lau & 黃浩文 Kevin Wong (🦋kevinwongla.bsky.social). We find parents in low-resource settings can effectively support early years education w/ cheap materials & minimal
The BIP Lab is thrilled to announce the launch of our AI-powered responsive parenting tool, Chat2Learn. Thanks to tech partners MJV, partners in global research at the Development Innovation Lab and Ministerio de Desarrollo e Inclusión Social, and our funders at J-PAL North America & UChicago Global. harris.uchicago.edu/news-events/ne… .
Come work for me Center for Global Development on education evidence! This is a relatively senior role and you will be working directly with me and leading others to take the evidence from the literature and turn into policy recommendations. Great analysis and writing skills needed
Delighted that this great conversation with Scott Page where we discuss his profound work on the efficiency benefits of diversity, the use of complexity to understand systemic inequalities, among many topics.
I'm honored and delighted to join the German Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB) as a BiB Fellow. Looking forward to spending more time with my friends and research colleagues in Wiesbaden!
Congrats Thomas Kalil Kumar Garg and the Renaissance Philanthropy team!
The BIP Lab is thrilled to have been funded by Arnold Ventures for 3.5 years to evaluate an original intervention to reduce absenteeism among young children. Collaborating with our former Harris Policy PhD student, Sebastian Gallegos -- the band is back together!
Fabulous guest lecture today from Libertad González in our Harris Policy Barcelona PubPol study abroad program. We gained so many new insights from Libertad's creative research on the effects of paternity leave in Spain on gender equality, fertility, and children's development.
Spectacular city walk to explore Barcelona’s urban transformation with my The University of Chicago Harris Policy study abroad class. We examined public spaces serving children and families: superblocks, pocket parks, 40+ public libraries, and free community and climate refuge centers.
She's not on this site, but I'd like to recognize the accomplishments of my fabulous former PhD student at Harris Policy, Elise Chor, who has just been promoted to tenure in the Department of Political Science at Temple University and named incoming director of its MPP program!
A few thoughts. (1). Scenario planning is cheap. It is worth thinking about what we would do in the event of labor market disruptions, even if we attach a small percentage chance to any particular scenario occurring. Jason Furman
That's a wrap on our UChicago | Stone Center on Inequality & Mobility - Yerevan Economic School summer school! Three days of fantastic lectures at the Central Bank of Armenia research center in Dilijan. With my fellow lecturers Steven N. Durlauf, Ruben Enikolopov, and Hosny Zoabi (missing Larry Blume & Alex Monge-Naranjo).
