*New Research Alert* What financial impact has the Student Loan Pause had for 26 million borrowers, and how many borrowers will start repayment if the pause ends on May 1st, 2022? New from Niru Ghoshal-Datta, Vikram Jambulapati, and Evan White: bit.ly/LoanPause (1/7)

In Uganda, dads spend less on girls' than boys' human capital, but moms don't. Our analysis has the statistical power to show this Father*Girl effect because of a new method. We also test for the reason: Seems to be dads' lower altruism toward girls. New paper w/ Rebecca Dizon-Ross.

Amerie Jo Garza's father, a med aide, says he found out she was one of the victims when he arrived on the scene and was helping another little girl covered in blood. She told him her best friend had been shot. When he asked her name, she said his daughter's. There aren't words.

Passionate about research, data, and policy change? CPL's UCLA and UC Berkeley teams are hiring, please share these openings with your networks: ➡️Data Analyst (UC Berkeley) ➡️Research Manager, Employment & Labor (UCLA) capolicylab.org/career/

New Research: What happened when California college students received "nudges" telling them they were newly eligible to receive #CalFresh benefits? We worked with CA Student Aid Commission + CDSS + The People Lab to find out with 2 experiments: bit.ly/CalFreshNudges (Thread 1/9)

Early to mid-career researcher who wants your work to make an impact on improving California programs and policies? Join the California Policy Lab! We're hiring a PhD-level researcher on our UC Berkeley team: capolicylab.org/careers/resear…

New Research Alert: In 1994, California passed a 3 strikes law. Nearly 30 years later, a new report analyzes how the law has played out, including how many sentences were lengthened, what for, and whether it deterred crime: bit.ly/3StrikesReport Thread (1/9)

Lot of credit to go around on this mixed-methods study about academic recovery during the 2021-22 school year, but I want to start by crediting the 12 districts that are working with us on the road to recovery project (covidrecovery.us). caldercenter.org/publications/c… (1/n)

Friday job alert! The Educators and Instruction team at American Institutes for Research is seeking a Quantitative Researcher with expertise in program/policy evaluation in K-12 education. The hiring manager is Eric Larsen, and here's the job post: jobs-airdc.icims.com/jobs/12659/qua…. Please distribute widely!

Excited to participate in a 4/4 webinar on the role of equity in post pandemic academic recovery. It’s hosted by American Institutes for Research and there’s still time to register: air.org/event/prioriti…

Please share: Our UCLA team at the California Policy Lab is hiring a Data Analyst to work on research focused on preventing + addressing homelessness: capolicylab.org/careers/data-a… We'll have 2 more postings in the coming weeks for a financial analyst + a labor-focused data analyst.

Job Alert! This time it's with us CALDER Center: jobs-airdc.icims.com/jobs/12727/cal… Please share! Hope you consider applying for this RA position, lots of opportunities to work on interesting policy questions, here's where you can see the kind of work we do: caldercenter.org/publications

Please help spread the word- we're hiring for 4 openings on our UCLA + UC Berkeley teams: 1) Financial Analyst, UCLA 2) Data Analyst, Labor Specialist, UCLA 3) Data Analyst, Homelessness Research, UCLA 4) Research Assistant(s)/Associate(s), UC Berkeley capolicylab.org/career/

Are you a Data Scientist looking to make a social impact? The California Policy Lab is hiring for a Data Analyst, focused on unemployment in California. Please share with your networks: capolicylab.org/careers/data-a… #JobAlert

🚨New WP with @Jason__Cook showing that SNAP does NOT reduce labor supply for most recipients. More evidence suggesting work requirement expansions won’t increase work and will just remove eligible people from the program. Check out his thread 👇

Please help spread the word: June 30th is the deadline to apply for these 3 funding and data opportunities focused on policy-relevant research: ➡️CPL Seed Grants ➡️Graduate Fellowships ➡️Safety Net Dataset THREAD (1/5)

New @nwea research out today from @megankuhfeld and me with concerning findings on the state of pandemic recovery. bit.ly/44gHIQ3

To what extent is summer school helping students recover from COVID-related learning losses? We (big team) explore this issue in the latest CALDER Center WP with colleagues from NWEA and Harvard CEPR. Paper: bit.ly/3OPIUVm And summary: bit.ly/3DPT7L4 (1/n)

A great postdoc opportunity Stanford Graduate School of Education & earlychildhood.stanford.edu Applications due Nov 17! Come work with francis a. pearman sean reardon Phil Fisher and me as core faculty with additional mentoring from fabulous affiliates!

We just posted an exciting role on our #UCLA team for an early- or mid-career researcher who wants to design and conduct policy-relevant research with administrative data in California. Please share with your networks: capolicylab.org/careers/resear… #JobAlert #EconTwitter #economics