Textbooks can meaningfully shape children's worldviews. Using computational methods, @aadukia.bsky.social & Emileigh Harrison find that while Texas and California public school texts are similar, religious versions depict fewer women, lighter skin, and more faith content. Read more → bit.ly/43pvNRC

This study uses computational methods, including #AI, to analyze textbooks from public, religious private, & home schools, focusing on how they portray people, topics, & values over time. Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en... #AICommunity

A fantastic day 1 of the @UChicago AI in Social Science conference! Thanks to the amazing participants, @CAAI_Booth, @MiiELab, and especially @BeckerFriedman for such an engaging day! A delightfully thought-provoking keynote by Jon Kleinberg capped off the evening! bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event...

We each find our way through these times As an academic, I am doing this: Uplift those whose research you admire. Diversify the academy. Many ways to do this: -Nominate for awards (did 2 yesterday) -If you are in an academy, nominate to it (did 3 this month) -cite them in a paper and/or talk

Delighted and honored to be invited to be a network member of @cesifo.org!

Y’all, I wrote a book! www.amazon.com/Science-Seco...

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Despite polarized debates over school curricula, textbooks in Texas and California schools are more alike than expected. 🔍 @aadukia.bsky.social‬ & @emileigharrison.bsky.social‬ 📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1195

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀, oganized by 𝗚𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝗵𝗹 is ending. 👏to @jopieboy.bsky.social on winning the Affiliate Award. Great presentations by @ursina.bsky.social @aadukia.bsky.social, @martinauccioli.bsky.social. 🙏 A special thanks to 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗔𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗿 for her keynote and to all presenters!

So excited to share new work with @emileigharrison.bsky.social about the presence and portrayal of topics, values, and identities in U.S. textbooks! What we teach in our curricula is more similar across our country than political narratives might have us believe. tinyurl.com/miiebooks miielab.com

Using rare skin tone data from the Freedman’s Bank (1865–74) linked to the 1870 Census, researchers find wealthier or literate people with the same complexion were more often classified as White or Mulatto—fueling future segregation. By @aadukia.bsky.social and co-authors. Read more: bit.ly/42NSnU6

Submit your work using AI in the social sciences to the annual AI in Social Science conference at The University of Chicago! Submissions due May 1! The conference will be held September 25-26 in Chicago, IL, USA. @beckerfriedman.bsky.social @HarrisPolicy @MiiELab bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event...

Think suspensions are key to classroom order? Think again. Evidence from Chicago public high schools shows that reducing suspensions through restorative justice doesn’t harm learning—and improves school climate, especially for Black students. By @aadukia.bsky.social . Read more: bit.ly/4jstK5j

Econ RA/Predoc Opportunity! Ben Feigenberg & I are looking for an RA to work with us on projects studying the impacts of restorative justice in schools. Apply here! uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern... @econ_ra @UChicago @thisisUIC @HarrisPolicy @BeckerFriedman #EconSky

IT'S OFFICIAL. I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK! 🤯 #TheDoubleTax unpacks the cost of being a woman, why the bill runs higher for women of color, and how closing the gaps moves us ALL forward. #blacksky #booksky #econsky PRE-ORDER NOW: tinyurl.com/doubletax-or... Get Involved: tinyurl.com/doubletax-join

Submit your work using AI in the social sciences to the annual AI in Social Science conference at The University of Chicago! Submissions due May 1! The conference will be held September 25-26 in Chicago, IL, USA. @beckerfriedman.bsky.social @HarrisPolicy @MiiELab bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event...

Excited to share this new paper on how race was constructed along socioeconomic lines in US history, during a period of unfulfilled potential for social change between emancipation and Jim Crow segregation

So excited to share new work on the social construction of race during the US Reconstruction Era, joint with @rickhornbeck.bsky.social, Daniel Keniston, and Benjamin Lualdi! nber.org/papers/w33502

Super cool to see a paper like this as an NBER working paper. I haven't tracked it systematically, but I think there's a lot more of this style of work on race and racism in econ now than when I started paying attention to the field in the 2000s. www.nber.org/papers/w33502

"In contrast to this literature that explores differences in socioeconomic status by skin tone categories, controlling for race, our analysis shows that race is an outcome – influenced by socioeconomic status among people with the same detailed physical skin tone."

And they cite a ton of sociology (and other fields) as well! You love to see it.

I'm sure very few people know about this. Inmates in 43 states are charged a per diem cost for "room and board" ranging between $40 to hundreds of dollars. In some states you owe for every day of your original sentence EVEN IF YOU GET OUT EARLY. www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

Sunday is the deadline for submissions to our 🚀 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🥳 12-13 May 2025, Munich Keynotes: Alexander Willén and @alexeble.bsky.social 🎇 Submit now! 👇

Knowing what works, for whom, and under what conditions is one of the most powerful tools I can imagine in public policy. Adding cost effectiveness analysis can improve efficiency while understanding context supports generalizability.

Institute of Education Sciences was a George W Bush innovation Republicans made it happen, as part of NCLB Education Sciences Act of 2002 Idea was to provide a research base for its accountability: here are scientifically-tested methods than can improve education

Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.

🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟 #EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Thank you, @aadukia.bsky.social! It was truly our honor to have you speak at the #REPLAC conference! Learning from your research work and insights on policy implications was a great way to kick-off this conference!

Do children's book awards matter? www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/22tn5... Some do! Evidence from @aadukia.bsky.social et al.

I'm hearing @aadukia.bsky.social speak at the IDB about her study "From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice in Schools" (www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9rk24...). For an overview, I enjoyed her interview with @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social www.probablecausation.com/podcasts/epi...

It was an honor and pleasure to speak at the IDB today! Thank you for having me and for organizing such a thought-provoking convening! @lagospancho.bsky.social

Kindness matters.

PSA to job market candidates: if you didn't get a particular flyout, it may have had nothing to do with the quality of your interview. Departments have a myriad of internal constraints and goals that are unobservable to you, and the process is a lot more complex than you think.

So this is not awesome. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ok, following on that last thread, here are my suggestions about how to be a good mentor (though this is still a work in progress!) (And others should feel free to add to my list!) A🧵

I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring. The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)

ICYMI: the #EconConf feed distributes posts for all major econ conferences. It includes the most recent week's posts with tags like #ASSA #AEA #ASSA2025 #SOLE2025 #APPAM2025... I will update the year numbers over time so it will always have fresh content. Pin it. #EconSky bsky.app/profile/did:...

#ASSA2025 livestream sessions available to everyone at

Did everything feel a bit more mathematical this morning? That's because 2025 is a perfect square ✅! Yes, 2025 is 45² = (1+2+...+9)². It's the first square year since 1936, and the next one is 2116. But that's not all… read on ⬇️👀

Here’s to a beautiful new year filled with joy and wonder ✨

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...

If you're a PhD student interested in causal questions related to crime/CJ policy, please email me if you haven't already. (And if you did email me & I didn't respond, please reply to bump your email to the top of my inbox!) I want to make sure y'all are on our radar for future BRIDGE invites.

"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry

Thanks, @daveevansphd.bsky.social! (And thanks to @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social for the opportunity to discuss this work examining restorative justice in Chicago schools (with Ben Feigenberg, Fatemeh Momeni, and me!) :) For anyone interested, here’s the full paper: bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/u...

Rating the 10 finalists for Illinois’ new flag will.illinois.edu/21stshow/sto...

In my undergrad, my cell biology lecturer showed us a picture of Krebs' cycle.

The NBER Development Economics fall conference is being livestreamed now. Here's the program, which runs until 4:45 pm ET today: www.nber.org/conferences/...

I've created a starter pack I'm calling "Education economics and policy", based on folks I follow in this area. Please let me know if I've missed you! go.bsky.app/GHJzy4L