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School choice can give parents options outside of traditional public schools. But with a growing appetite for choice, Los Angeles wondered whether a new experiment could help its public-school system compete. Jerusalem reports in “Good on Paper”: theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi…

Awesome to hear my colleague Chris Campos talk about his research with Jerusalem. A masterclass in sharing technical research with a broader audience in an accessible way.

How does Los Angeles’s Zones of Choice program compare to neighborhood-based school assignment? Listen to The Atlantic’s Good on Paper to hear Blueprint Affiliate Chris Campos discuss his research on the LA program, recently published in the QJE. theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi…

New Working Paper! "The Graduation Part II: Graduate School Graduation Rates" with Lesley Turner We document several facts about graduation rates for graduate school using admin data from Texas nber.org/papers/w32749 Ungated: drive.google.com/file/d/1n2iDOh…

How important is access to information when making life choices? A recent working paper by Tomas Larroucau , Christopher A. Neilson , ignacio rios , and Anaïs Fabre shows that 40% of students in Chile aren't applying to their preferred colleges and majors, largely due to lack of

If you need funding for an RCT-based evaluation of a social policy/program, get us your 3-page LOI by Oct. 15! Stay tuned for more information about a Q&A webinar, but in the meantime e-mail or DM with questions!

🚨Job Alert x 2! 🚨 My team is growing and we're hiring a Manager and an Analyst. Can be located in NYC or DC. Details on both positions are on the Arnold Ventures career page. We're moving quickly, so apply soon if interested. arnoldventures.org/careers

Today I published the first installment of a multi-part series at Forked Lightning on technological disruption in the labor market. To understand the future of work with AI, look to the past. The figure below stitches together U.S. employment data from 1880 to the present.

A bunch of faculty are hiring full-time RAs, for starting next summer 2025, at Booth! Here's the posting! If you're a student, come apply! If you're a faculty, send us your best students! And ping me if you have any questions!

"Parents underestimate school quality and overestimate peer quality....The experimental evidence shows parents value school effectiveness even conditional on peer quality and that social interactions strongly influence school choice." nber.org/papers/w33010#…

We (USC Economics) are hiring this year for 3 positions: focuses are metrics+applied micro. We are also interested in current APs--feel free to message me if you're interested in moving/want to learn more. Nice dept + living in LA is pretty great, esp as winter arrives...🌞🏄‍♀️🌴🧗‍♀️

Experimental evidence from Los Angeles shows parents value school effectiveness even conditional on peer quality, and that social interactions strongly influence school choice, from Chris Campos nber.org/papers/w33010

Out today — I'm in The Atlantic's Good on Paper podcast with Jerusalem, talking about East Asian development and Taiwanese land reform (based on work w Jen-Kuan Wang)!

Using a randomized lottery design shows that full-day universal pre-k raises parents' earnings by 22 percent, with gains persisting for at least six years after pre-k, from John Eric Humphries, @chrisaneilson, Xiaoyang Ye, and @SethDZimmerman nber.org/papers/w33038

Submit your papers for the spring 2025 NBER Gender in the Economy meeting! The theme is "Women in the Digital World". Submission Deadline: 12/9/24 Meeting: 2/28/25 in Cambridge nber.org/conferences/ge… Jessica Goldberg Tavneet Suri

How does attending college really affect students in the long run? In this Chicago Booth video, Blueprint Affiliate Jack Mountjoy discusses his quasi-experimental study of Texas students: chicagobooth.edu/review/what-is…

PostDoc posting: Sabrin Beg Christina Brown #JimBerry Dr Anne Fitzpatrick & I are hiring a 18 month post-doc for a super rad development/education project in India. In person NBER or virtual. Jan 10 preferred start. Apply now! (and/or pls share) aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

🚨New paper (link in reply)🚨 Are we underestimating AI use in self-report surveys? YES, by as much as 30 percentage pts. We find 60% self-reported vs. truth closer to ~90% (!) Why? Social desirability bias, people embarrassed/worried to admit AI use, so they underreport.

New from me: A recent surge in job seeking activity on LinkedIn among government workers in DC-area—mostly federal employees and mostly post-inauguration. The increase in non-government workers applying to new roles is also large by historical standards. Link in thread.

I'm excited to help organize Opportunity Insights' 2025 Conference on Economic Mobility (Oct 9-10)! Submit your papers by August 1st here: opportunityinsights.org/updates/2025-c…. Looking forward to reading your submissions! #EconTwitter