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Terrific story about Choose to Change - a CBT-based program for high-risk youth that was recently evaluated using an RCT. My team is eager to fund replications of this program/study elsewhere, to see if it remains effective in other contexts. themarshallproject.org/2025/06/05/chi…

At today’s launch of the J-PAL North America Initiative on Effective US Crime Policy (funded by Arnold Ventures). Get ready to ask them for money!

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

Thrilled to have found such a fantastic home QJE for this paper w/ kristy buzard & Laura K Gee! tinyurl.com/5xkefck4

We’re hiring! 🥳 The Criminal Justice team at Arnold Ventures is searching for a Policy Manager to join our team. Location: Houston, DC, or NYC Salary range: $100-130k Apply ASAP if you’re interested - we move quickly! Please spread the word. 🙏

Free research idea: apply teacher value-added methods to evaluate probation/parol officers' impacts.

A super terrific team!

I’ll admit… work emails are better in the Caribbean. 24 hours in St. Thomas for a conference panel.

Can you guess what happened when girls in Zambia were given a bicycle? ... ... ... ▪️ school attendance, test scores, desire to delay marriage/pregnancy, and feelings of control over life/self-image all increased & ▪️ school dropouts went down... ...as a direct result

A judge… but still a honey. Jeez.

Before deciding to go from 2 to 3 kids, we did indeed have a very long convo about our cars.

The Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice team recently gathered top thinkers on the use of police technology to discuss what works, what doesn't, and how we can learn more as quickly as possible. The goal is improving public safety, fairly and effectively. This video highlights

Oohhhhh!!!! I’ve been waiting for this one. So excited!

I got to draft this month's AV CJ newsletter & I wrote a bit about the work we're doing to replicate promising research in new places to learn more about how programs and policies work at scale. Read! Subscribe! Email me to chat!

🚨 NEW: The Senate serves up a second helping of pork 🐷 While they trimmed some of the House’s worst tax handouts, they also kept billions in pork, and added billions more — far outside the House's budget target. Here’s what was cut, kept, and cooked up anew:

Such a fab panel! Thank you Alissa Marque Heydari for coming! And Niskanen Center for hosting!!!

London friends, honored and excited to give the UCL CEPEO annual lecture at Central Hall Westminster next Thursday, July 10th (starts at 6pm)! I'll be discussing the evidence on making smart investments in early childhood care and education. I hope you'll join us (link below):

We're excited to announce that investment expert Chris Chen has joined Arnold Ventures as our new executive vice president of mission-aligned investments. Read the press release here: bit.ly/44FvrHn

This is a really important point. Most Medicaid recipients likely have NO idea that they’re about to lose their coverage.

Meet Chauncey. East Baton Rouge’s District Attorney’s Office victim service dog. I love him.