Hannah Betesh
@hannahbetesh.bsky.social
Research & evidence review on employment and poverty alleviation. Biggest nerd passions: implementation science, administrative burdens, designing RCTs in social policy. Adjunct instructor, @au-spa.bsky.social. Prev @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social
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Important column by the brilliant Ninez Ponce at our sister center at UCLA on federal changes and disappearances to key public data.
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Data Democracy in Crisis: How Changing Federal Data Reshapes Research and Representation | Milbank Memorial Fund
Recent political events have data custodians and users across the country asking an important question—if the federal government is backing away from its historical role as a leader in advancing data ...
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April 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Important column by the brilliant Ninez Ponce at our sister center at UCLA on federal changes and disappearances to key public data.
www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...
www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...
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New in @jpam-dc.bsky.social: required interviews are an administrative checkpoint that reduces SNAP participation. Communicating flexible interview policies increases take-up. W @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social @sebjilke.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social
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April 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
New in @jpam-dc.bsky.social: required interviews are an administrative checkpoint that reduces SNAP participation. Communicating flexible interview policies increases take-up. W @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social @sebjilke.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social
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***APDU Statement on Education Research and Data***
"Running the nation’s education system without IES will be like flying without air traffic control."
Read our full statement at the link 🔗 in 🧵
"Running the nation’s education system without IES will be like flying without air traffic control."
Read our full statement at the link 🔗 in 🧵
March 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
***APDU Statement on Education Research and Data***
"Running the nation’s education system without IES will be like flying without air traffic control."
Read our full statement at the link 🔗 in 🧵
"Running the nation’s education system without IES will be like flying without air traffic control."
Read our full statement at the link 🔗 in 🧵
“A lack of data and data infrastructure also makes it increasingly difficult, if not nearly impossible, to identify programs that are effective and might merit scaling up versus those that are ineffective and require reform or sunsetting. Without data, we cannot have evidence-based policy.”
🚨New post live on Empirical Truths🚨
Written with my PhD Day 1 @estebanjq.bsky.social. The "Friday Night Massacre" of .gov websites and datasets has many of us terrified, and researchers are trying to make heads or tails of what to do and how to go forward.
Written with my PhD Day 1 @estebanjq.bsky.social. The "Friday Night Massacre" of .gov websites and datasets has many of us terrified, and researchers are trying to make heads or tails of what to do and how to go forward.
The “Friday Night (data) Massacre”
When government data disappear, how do we make evidence-based, informed policy decisions?
empiricaltruths.substack.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“A lack of data and data infrastructure also makes it increasingly difficult, if not nearly impossible, to identify programs that are effective and might merit scaling up versus those that are ineffective and require reform or sunsetting. Without data, we cannot have evidence-based policy.”
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🚨New post live on Empirical Truths🚨
Written with my PhD Day 1 @estebanjq.bsky.social. The "Friday Night Massacre" of .gov websites and datasets has many of us terrified, and researchers are trying to make heads or tails of what to do and how to go forward.
Written with my PhD Day 1 @estebanjq.bsky.social. The "Friday Night Massacre" of .gov websites and datasets has many of us terrified, and researchers are trying to make heads or tails of what to do and how to go forward.
The “Friday Night (data) Massacre”
When government data disappear, how do we make evidence-based, informed policy decisions?
empiricaltruths.substack.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨New post live on Empirical Truths🚨
Written with my PhD Day 1 @estebanjq.bsky.social. The "Friday Night Massacre" of .gov websites and datasets has many of us terrified, and researchers are trying to make heads or tails of what to do and how to go forward.
Written with my PhD Day 1 @estebanjq.bsky.social. The "Friday Night Massacre" of .gov websites and datasets has many of us terrified, and researchers are trying to make heads or tails of what to do and how to go forward.
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When some of the most valuable datasets in human history briefly vanished from U.S. government websites, it felt like watching the Library of Alexandria go up in smoke. wapo.st/3X0HcEc
Column | This data may vanish under Trump, so we charted it
When some of the most valuable datasets in human history briefly vanished from U.S. government websites, it felt like watching the Library of Alexandria go up in smoke.
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February 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
When some of the most valuable datasets in human history briefly vanished from U.S. government websites, it felt like watching the Library of Alexandria go up in smoke. wapo.st/3X0HcEc
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They're dismantling the Institute for Education Sciences to create the illusion of meritocracy. Because no data means no evidence of systemic inequities.
February 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
They're dismantling the Institute for Education Sciences to create the illusion of meritocracy. Because no data means no evidence of systemic inequities.
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One of the cruelest things about the NSF/NIH situations is that federal funders have been asking for acknowledgment about disparate impacts, inequality, etc. for years. To get a grant at all you had to (rightly) address those things. Now is the punishment for both caring and following the rules.
February 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
One of the cruelest things about the NSF/NIH situations is that federal funders have been asking for acknowledgment about disparate impacts, inequality, etc. for years. To get a grant at all you had to (rightly) address those things. Now is the punishment for both caring and following the rules.
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Honestly not sure I've ever read a paper in my field that didn't use the word "socioeconomic"
February 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Honestly not sure I've ever read a paper in my field that didn't use the word "socioeconomic"
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“The scale of this is quite stunning,” O’Hara said.
Researchers are still stumbling on what was taken down or changed, she added.
“We are finding out about omissions when somebody goes searching for it...
www.whec.com/national-wor...
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Researchers are still stumbling on what was taken down or changed, she added.
“We are finding out about omissions when somebody goes searching for it...
www.whec.com/national-wor...
www.whec.com/national-wor...
Trump administration's data deletions set off 'a mad scramble,' researcher says
NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers are in what one described as “a mad scramble” to sort out what public data the Trump administration has deleted from government websites and electronic publications.
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February 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“The scale of this is quite stunning,” O’Hara said.
Researchers are still stumbling on what was taken down or changed, she added.
“We are finding out about omissions when somebody goes searching for it...
www.whec.com/national-wor...
www.whec.com/national-wor...
Researchers are still stumbling on what was taken down or changed, she added.
“We are finding out about omissions when somebody goes searching for it...
www.whec.com/national-wor...
www.whec.com/national-wor...
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Timely scholarship in the context of plans to introduce more work requirements to reduce SNAP take-up.
This article shows that a) lower burdens (using existing administrative data) increases SNAP take-up which b) contributes to greater earnings later in life.
This article shows that a) lower burdens (using existing administrative data) increases SNAP take-up which b) contributes to greater earnings later in life.
Excited to see this WP by @mpbitler.bsky.social and Ted Figinski - new evidence on the long-term effects of Food Stamps using admin data, plus cool analyses of how the program built onto existing infrastructure in the Commodity Distribution Program #EconSky www.nber.org/papers/w3318...
Long-Run Effects of Food Assistance: Evidence from the Food Stamp Program and Administrative Data
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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November 25, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Timely scholarship in the context of plans to introduce more work requirements to reduce SNAP take-up.
This article shows that a) lower burdens (using existing administrative data) increases SNAP take-up which b) contributes to greater earnings later in life.
This article shows that a) lower burdens (using existing administrative data) increases SNAP take-up which b) contributes to greater earnings later in life.