I said this in the other site but I count 3 of the authors quoted in that NYT article, and their paper was released as an NBER WP so not exactly hidden. Quite unfair in my opinion for the journalist to put the blame on the researchers and not on the media!

Haha all good just thought it was funny 😄

Thanks Nathan!

More in the paper! @alexbartik.bsky.social @evavivalt.bsky.social @elizabethrds.bsky.social @dbroockman.bsky.social

The transfer doesn’t seem to have affected births in either linked admin records or in our survey measures. So much for kids being “normal”!

Linking to admin records on college going for the kids, the point estimates suggest positive effects but most of the kids are just too young for this to be conclusive. We’ll just have to wait..

Statewide standardized math test scores may have somewhat worsened for the treated kids, although the effect is not significant after adjusting for multiple hypothesis testing and we see no similar effect for English.

We linked kids to administrative records from schools. We don’t find much of a change in these outcomes like attendance or repeating a grade.

We don’t find changes in many other outcomes we might have thought would have improved—like the home or neighborhood environment, children’s food security, or parental satisfaction.

But! Parents in the treatment group also reported that their kids had more stress and developmental difficulties. Possibly because they were monitoring them more closely and picked up on problems they might not have noticed.

Parents also spent more $ on their kids, especially those with low baseline incomes. Among these parents, the use of and quality of non-parental care (like daycare) also increased.

Treated parents reported better parenting behaviors, with the biggest improvements among the parents with the lowest baseline incomes; monitoring and supervision improved and reports of using corporal punishment fell.

I’m sorry to hear this. Unfortunately this is not the first example I’ve heard of…

Amazing work—congratulations! Wow!!

Woah congrats!

Wow, huge get!! Massive! Congrats to Brown!

Link to paper: public.websites.umich.edu/~mille/OHIE_...