Thanks, Asia Research News, for this piece on our China REACH program w/ CityUHK. We’ve learned so much about how enhancing interactions between caregivers and young children in rural areas can boost skills & long-term outcomes. @heckmanequation.bsky.social www.asiaresearchnews.com/content/city...

New! Updated working paper from HCEO members Mariana Laverde and @aaronsojourner.org. hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/wor...

New working paper from HCEO member Daniela Del Boca on boosting parenting skills: hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/wor...

HCEO member Giovanni Gallipoli explores the dimensions of demand for liquidity at the end of life in a new HCEO working paper with Neha Bairoliya and Kathleen McKiernan. hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/wor...

New research by Soeren J. Henn and James Robinson challenges common views of pre-colonial Africa. Decentralized political systems prioritized local communities and shaped economic institutions around shared goals rather than centralized control or personal accumulation. 🔗 https://ow.ly/7aXE50Y5shY

When measuring growth of knowledge and comparing people's skills, there’s a problem when new skills emerge that don’t fit existing scales. @heckmanequation.bsky.social, Haihan Tian, Jin Zhou & Zijian Zhang have addressed this by developing a novel measurement scheme. www.nber.org/papers/w34737

New from HCEO member Michael Lovenheim et al: women and underrepresented minorities are less likely to major in high-earning fields like business, economics, engineering, and computer science in college -- but when they do, they experience lower returns to these majors. www.nber.org/papers/w34726

“The #Menopause ‘#Penalty’” now out as #CSEF Working Paper No. 770 (Jan 2026)! 📄 www.csef.it/WP/wp770.pdf First circulated in March 2024 - the topic quickly sparked discussion beyond academia. ✨ With @rginja.bsky.social, Petra Persson & @bartonwillage.com

Posted a very early stage draft with rock star collaborators. Key question: when we actually roll out AI tools, how do people use them? Do they just defer completely? Does it improve productivity and ability? We look in the medical setting of pulmonary embolisms paulgp.com/papers/Radio...

Community college bachelor’s degrees pay off in some fields but not all, offering higher earnings than associate degrees and mixed returns relative to traditional BAs, from Riley K. Acton, Camila Morales, Kalena Cortes, Julia A. Turner, and @loismiller.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34684

A new paper from @heckmanequation.bsky.social and coauthors shows multigenerational effects of early-life advantage. Monkeys raised by their mothers benefit compared to those raised apart -- but only if the mothers were ALSO mother-reared. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

New from HCEO member Orazio Attanasio: www.nber.org/papers/w34651

In a new working paper, HCEO member Svetlana Pashchenko and colleagues explore the best ways to reform Social Security by quantifying its distortions, redistribution, and welfare effects. hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/wor...

A brief entrepreneurship course improved Ugandan secondary school students' skills and led them to launch more enterprises that outperformed those launched by peers who were not in the program. Findings are detailed in a new paper from HCEO member Paul Gertler et al. www.nber.org/papers/w34637

A new @nber.org working paper from HCEO member Costas Meghir, Philippe Aghion & Ingvild Almås examines the role of human capital in driving economic development, innovation, and growth -- and the barriers to skill acquisition. www.nber.org/papers/w34602

Of interest: www.nber.org/papers/w34599

I don't vouch for this quality of the analysis here (haven't read the details) but it asks an important question: What would the labor market impacts be of ending ACA premium tax credits? publichealth.gwu.edu/new-report-a...

New from HCEO member Paul Gertler et al: Creating more preschool capacity raised the probability of completing secondary school by 11.9 percentage points and of enrolling in college by 7.1 percentage points. www.nber.org/papers/w34552

New from HCEO member Paul Gertler and coauthors: www.nber.org/papers/w34560

New @nber.org paper: an RTC studying a cash transfer program in Burkina Faso finds that “adding home visits is essential for improving childhood development, while cash, with or without information, produces no lasting impacts. www.nber.org/papers/w34578

New @NBER.org working paper from HCEO member Kerwin Kofi Charles and colleagues: www.nber.org/papers/w34526

Absolutely delighted our research has won the ONS' Research Excellence prize for impact! I always say to people that the ideal @theifs.bsky.social work is rigorous enough to publish in top journals, and relevant enough to be on the front page. I think we've ticked that box here!

New case study: In partnership with the Bezos Family Foundation, we explored how a simple, science-based early-learning resource embedded in TANF services can modestly but meaningfully increase program engagement and support childhood development. mathematica.org/casestudy/st...

New @nber.org paper of interest: “Strengthening labor markets explain about 60% of the post-Great Recession decline in first-time community college enrollment.” Students whose enrollment is most sensitive to labor market conditions are unlikely to complete a degree. www.nber.org/papers/w3449...

🚨 New working paper! How well do people predict the results of studies? @sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇

Open call for papers, Health and Healthcare Variations across the Population Conference. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on May 15, 2026. Submit applications by 11:59pm EDT on February 13, 2026. More information: www.nber.org/calls-papers...

Bridging Research and Policy for Gender Equality: From Insight to Impact @uniofreading.bsky.social ‬ 🔗 research.reading.ac.uk/global-devel... cc: @uofebusiness.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @resmedia.bsky.social @iza.org @hceconomics.bsky.social

Interesting data on the impact of specializing curriculum in a new @nber.org working paper. www.nber.org/papers/w34502

HCEO member Leo Bursztyn and colleagues study how social forces drive parental demand for artificial intelligence-based learning in teens' education. They find that social pressure drives individual technology adoption despite widespread support for restricting its use. www.nber.org/papers/w3448...

New @Nber.org working paper from HCEO member Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham (@paulgp.com) with Peter Hull and Michel Kolesar: www.nber.org/papers/w34473

New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk

Today "After the ACA’s major provisions were implemented in 2014... displaced workers were more likely to have public coverage before job loss and less likely to lose coverage afterward."

New from HCEO member Janet Currie et al: use of an affordable housing tax credit program improves long-term health outcomes for women and their children. www.nber.org/papers/w34464

🚨 It’s here! Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin’s Public Lecture at RFBerlin is now online. 🎥 Watch “Why Women Won”: www.youtube.com/live/aNd8ZtT...

Fascinating work from HCEO member @fagostin.bsky.social and Zach Weingarten that aims to sort out the intricate and dynamic interplay between genetic contributions to development (via polygenetic scores) and parental responses to genetic inheritances. www.nber.org/papers/w34427

Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.

For struggling Americans, SNAP (food stamp program) reduces debt and delinquencies and increases credit scores. www.nber.org/papers/w34434 #EconSky

New from HCEO member @aaronsojourner.org and colleagues.

New work from HCEO member Eric Chyn on the effect of place and pollution on birthweight. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Join BCFG, @pennchibe.bsky.social, and @katymilkman.bsky.social TOMORROW 10/29 at 12 PM ET for MIT Professor Amy Finkelstein’s virtual keynote talk. Register here: https://upenn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kE9HPGsPRz2J2jcfJcjIEA#/registration

Applications are OPEN for the 2026-2027 SRCD U.S. Policy Fellowship Program. Receive a highly competitive stipend while immersing yourself in a state agency or Congress. Share and help spread the word! Applications due January 6, 2026 at 11:50 pm ET. Learn more and apply here https://bit.ly/4pUANY5

New from HCEO member Bhashkar Mazumder and colleagues: A review of efforts to expand measurements of intergenerational mobility beyond income, education, and occupation to broader measures of well-being. www.nber.org/papers/w34407?

📢 New working paper alert! 📢 Super happy to share our new working paper, „The Demand for Economic Narratives“, with my great co-authors Sebastian Blesse, Klaus Gründler, and @philippheil.bsky.social. Check out the summary thread by Philipp below👇🏻🧵 @ifoeducation.bsky.social @cesifo.org

BU Questrom is launching a new PhD Program in Business Economics focused on how markets and firms interact with public policy. Graduates will be ready for research and teaching roles in both business schools and econ departments.

Felice di vedere il nostro lavoro su La Voce: lavoce.info/archives/109...! 👶🏻👧🏼 Dai dati dell’#AssegnoUnico emergono forti disuguaglianze territoriali e sociali nella disabilità infantile in 🇮🇹. 🔗 Studio con Paola Biasi e Maria De Paola qui 👉🏻 ifs.org.uk/publications... #Disabilità #Infanzia #Italia

HCEO member Emily Nix et al. on the economics of dating the boss: breakups are costly! www.nber.org/papers/w34346

New from HCEO member Janet Currie & Kate Musen: www.nber.org/papers/w34369

Introducing SPEAK: A scalable computer-adaptive tool to measure knowledge of early human development, from Caroline Gaudreau, Dani Levine, John A. List, and Dana Suskind www.nber.org/papers/w34349