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Building AI that Expands Human Opportunity
Research lab founded and led by UT-Austin economist Peter Bergman. peterbergman.bsky.social
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The many, multiplying challenges imposed by the WH on K-12 education shouldn't define the quality of edtech. We can build better, rigorously tested digital tools that improve learning outcomes. With Bibi Groot of Eedi, @peterbergman.bsky.social explains how: the-learning-agency.com/the-cutting-...
Building Smarter Ed Tech Through Real-World Research - The Learning Agency
Partnerships between academics and ed tech are crucial to navigating the current uncertainty in education policy and industry.
the-learning-agency.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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startingupgood.bsky.social
Advice from @learningcollider.bsky.social, @waltonfamilyfdn.bsky.social, Valhalla Foundation & Renaissance Philanthropy at @sxswedu.com 2025 for #socent & #startups about how to use #AI, measure progress, & take risks to succeed.

📖 Learn More: medium.com/startingupgo...

#SXSW25 #SocialImpact
Breaking Barriers: Smart Funding Fuels Innovation in Education
How Startups Use AI, Measure Progress, & Take Risks to Succeed
medium.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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jillbarshay.bsky.social
I was just informed that the Department of Education has taken down all its Civil Rights data. If you need it, alternative sites are now hosting it for the public. See links in this thread. ocrdata.ed.gov/notfound
Civil Rights Data | U.S. Department of Education
Understand trends in student opportunity, security, and diversity.
ocrdata.ed.gov
March 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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gtoppo.bsky.social
Education Dept. Cancels Over $600M in Grants for Teacher Pipeline Programs - new from @the74.bsky.social's @lrj417.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/educ...
Education Dept. Cancels Over $600M in Grants for Teacher Pipeline Programs
Many of the efforts focused on increasing teacher diversity, which now, officials say 'is inconsistent' with the administration’s priorities.
www.the74million.org
February 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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beckerfriedman.bsky.social
Sending conversation prompts to low-income parents encourages them to discuss vocabulary with their preschoolers, boosting children's vocabulary and strengthening parents' belief in their role. New brief from @arielkalil.bsky.social @harrissocial.bsky.social & co-authors. ow.ly/9tQj50V3OS0
Talking about Words Boosts Preschool-Age Children’s Vocabulary: Evidence from a Parent Intervention | Becker Friedman Institute
Language development is a fundamental aspect of formation, and researchers continue to explore the most effective ways to support young children in acquiring new vocabulary. Evidence indicates that pa...
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February 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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j-palna.bsky.social
We are excited to join Bluesky! J-PAL North America is a regional office of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, based at MIT, seeking to reduce poverty by ensuring policy is informed by scientific evidence. www.povertyactionlab.org/na
J-PAL North America | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
J-PAL North America, based at MIT, leads J-PAL’s work in the North America region. J-PAL North America conducts randomized evaluations, builds partnerships for evidence-informed policymaking, and help...
www.povertyactionlab.org
February 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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hilwething.bsky.social
DATA RELEASE WHEN DATA FEELS SCARCE!
Check out data.epi.org -a data repository with 78,000+ series on topics like employment, wages, poverty, and inequality. You can get many measures by gender, race and state!

I've been working with our @epi.org team to build this and am so proud of the result
Topics - EPI Library
The EPI Data Library offers comprehensive, up-to-date labor data from Economic Policy Institute analysis, covering wages, inequality, and economic trends across demographics.
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February 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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jenniferdoleac.bsky.social
NIJ and other federal agencies have paused research funding, but @arnoldventures.bsky.social has not! Check out our open RFPs. We're looking for causal studies across a range of issues, including crime/criminal justice.

www.arnoldventures.org/grantees
January 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs.

Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
SUBJECT: Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs 'The American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and gave him a mandate to increase the impact of every federal taxpayer dollar. In Fiscal Year 2024. of the nearly $10 trillion that the Federal Government spent, more than $3 trillion was Federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans. Career and political appointees in the Executive Branch have a duty to align Federal spending and action with the will of the American people as expressed through Presidential priorities. Financial assistance should be dedicated to advancing Administration priorities, focusing taxpayer dollars to advance a stronger and safer America, eliminating the financial burden of inflation for citizens, unleashing American energy and manufacturing, ending wokeness" and the weaponization of government, promoting efficiency in government, and Making America Healthy Again. The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve. This memorandum requires Federal agencies to identify and review all Federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the President's policies and requirements. For example, during the initial days of his Administration, President Donald J Trump issued a series of executive orders to protect the American people and safeguard valuable taxpayer resources, including Protecting the American People Against Invasion (Jan. 20, 2025). Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid (Jan 20, 2025), Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements (Jan. 20, 2025). Unleashing American Energy (Jan. 20. 2025). Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (Jan. 20. ent these orders, each agency must complete a comprehensive analysis of all jal assistance programs to identify programs, projects, and activities that any of the President's executive orders. In the interian, to the extent applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency nay be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial surice tot foreign nongovernmental organizations, DEL woke gender ideology, and the pause will provide the Administration time to review agency programs of the funding for those programs consistent with the law and the he temporary pause will become effective on January 28, 2025, at 5:00 rehensive analysis. Federal agencies must immediately deadlines for assistance programs arising while the les must report this information to OMB along with an directs Federal agencies to pause all activities associated conducting merit review panels No later than Febrar - 10. 2025, agencies shail submit to OMB detailed information on any programs projects or activities subject to this pause. Each agency must pause. (i) issuance of disbursement of Federal funds under all open awards, and (il) other relevant has reviewed provided guidance to your agency with respect to the information act recordin grant and ptions allowing Federal agencies to issue new awards or take other case basis. To the extent required by law, Federal agencies may continue nistrative actions. such as closeout of Federal awards (2 CFR 200.344), or expressly required by law
January 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Call for papers: Econ of Ed @nberpubs.bsky.social Spring Meeting at Stanford.

Submissions are welcome from researchers with and without NBER affiliations, from early career scholars, and from researchers from under-represented groups. #EconConf

www.nber.org/confsubmit/b...
Submission: Economics of Education Program Meeting, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research
www.nber.org
January 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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peterbergman.bsky.social
Just had our data access rescinded for a projected using federal microdata to study and reduce disparate impact in housing markets.
January 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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peterbergman.bsky.social
Updated paper: A lot of work on the effects of tracking in education, which is a widespread practice globally. We show 1) algorithms can track students far more effectively than test scores 2) test scores discriminate 3) algorithmic placement has infinite MVPF static1.squarespace.com/static/60d0c...
December 9, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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aadukia.bsky.social
Submit your papers to NBER @nberpubs.bsky.social Children's Spring meeting by January 31st! The meetings will be held April 3-4 in Cambridge, MA!
conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...
Submission: Children and Families Program Meeting, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research
conference.nber.org
December 20, 2024 at 5:27 AM
learningcollider.bsky.social
Always tough questions with this guy 😁

Top 20 definitely incudes 'Unwarranted Disparity in High-Stakes Decisions: Race Measurement and Policy Responses'

✒️ E. Jason Baron, Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Natalia Emanuel, Peter Hull, & Joseph Ryan
instrumenthull.bsky.social Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · Dec 27
What's the best paper you read this year?
December 31, 2024 at 9:39 PM
learningcollider.bsky.social
What's happening under the hood at our lab? Take a look at today's email blast:
www.learningcollider.org/campaigns/vi...
#econ #sci #research #ds
Building Fair and Equitable AI Systems; Understanding and Reducing Discrimination in AI and Human Decision-Making; Using AI to Address Learner Variability; Creating Pathways to Economic Mobility
December 19, 2024 at 7:24 PM
learningcollider.bsky.social
🧵 Our takeaways from Ludwig, @sendhil.bsky.social and Rambachan on the reliability and validity of LLMs in research:

1️⃣ LLMs should only be used if the training data does not overlap with the research data, preventing the model from "cheating"

#econ #sci #data #ai
December 17, 2024 at 5:14 AM
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instrumenthull.bsky.social
new WP y'all www.nber.org/papers/w33236
December 9, 2024 at 5:23 AM
learningcollider.bsky.social
🔖 Looking forward to digging into the latest working paper from Jens Ludwig, @sendhil.bsky.social and Ashesh Rambachan on the use of LLMs in economics research.

#econsky #scisky #phdsky

arxiv.org/abs/2412.070...
Large Language Models: An Applied Econometric Framework
Large language models (LLMs) are being used in economics research to form predictions, label text, simulate human responses, generate hypotheses, and even produce data for times and places where such ...
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December 12, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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pedrosantanna.bsky.social
A very interesting new working paper by the greats Ashesh Rambachan, Rahul Singh, and @vivianodavide.bsky.social: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10959

It seems that this is another area where the empirical common practice was "too fast,'' and econometrics is catching up!

Cool and empirically relevant stuff!
November 19, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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instrumenthull.bsky.social
Interesting-looking JMP on using quasi-experiments to measure discrimination in high-stakes settings

nikh-rao.github.io/site_files/d...
December 2, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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peterbergman.bsky.social
Great discussion, with folks far smarter than I am, giving seminar audiences all over the world further free license to question the speaker about their standard errors. (But really, a helpful discussion.)
seema.bsky.social Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · Nov 21
Question about std errors:
In an RCT, treated people are randomly assigned to "pods" and interact (e.g., treatment = WhatsApp group membership). The norm (e.g. Cai-Szeidl) is to cluster on indiv for control group + on pod for treatment group. Why is clustering needed if any ICC is due to treatment?
November 23, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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maxkasy.bsky.social
Just published:
🔥 Algorithmic bias and racial inequality: A critical review🔥
https://maxkasy.github.io/home/files/papers/Algorithmic_bias_inequality.pdf
Thoughts and comments welcome!

Part of the OXREP special issue on Race, Caste, and Economic Policy:
https://academic.oup.com/oxrep/issue/40/3
maxkasy.github.io
November 24, 2024 at 3:30 PM
learningcollider.bsky.social
A little teaser on our lab's work ... Stay tuned 📻
November 21, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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instrumenthull.bsky.social
I have a new WP out today with Jason Baron, Joe Doyle, and Natalia Emanuel, on discrimination in foster care placement

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/l6nft...

This time we study the whole united states, and look at heterogeneity over time and space

A few key takeaways 👇
November 18, 2024 at 2:57 PM
learningcollider.bsky.social
👀 📖
"...we find that a large share of evictions are not prevented by three prominent tenant-protection policies: short-term
rental assistance, procedural delays in eviction court, and increases in filing fees..."

New WP
www.nber.org/papers/w33155
@nberpubs.bsky.social

#econ #policy #data
Nonpayment and Eviction in the Rental Housing Market
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...
www.nber.org
November 20, 2024 at 4:37 PM