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🚨 New NBER working paper: "The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Parenting and Children" This paper estimates the effects of receiving a $1,000/month guaranteed income for 3 years, compared to a control group receiving $50/month, on children and parents in the US. 1/

1000 low income adults were randomly selected to receive $1000/month for 3 years, with a control group receiving $50/month over that same period. Many of them had children in the household. How did it affect how they parented and their kids’ outcomes? www.nber.org/papers/w34040

1/4 🗓️Save the date! On March 18, from 3:30-5pm ET we are hosting a webinar featuring 3 #RCTs that evaluated the impact of cash transfers on health. Read this 🧵 to learn more about the research and register for the event (www.povertyactionlab.org/event/unders...

What can you say, really? Just an endless series of disgraceful lows.

We recently added several analyses to our paper on the employment effects of a $1000/month guaranteed income. 🚨 These new analyses include, for the first time, administrative data on income and employment and results for marriage/ divorce and benefits, among other outcomes. Read on for results! 1/

Inference with a single treated cluster www.restud.com/inference-wi...

Is there a more millennial Christmas album? Merry Christmas!

Does Medicaid reduce involvement with the criminal justice system? In this new paper we find no effect of Medicaid on criminal charges and convictions using experimental variation in Medicaid coverage from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment.

I’ve been looking forward to seeing these results! The evidence base on this topic is rapidly growing.

3. Does getting a big cash transfer make ppl more supportive of... cash transfers? Liberal policy in general? Surprising answer: no! Political dispositions are hard to change! E.g., in interviews, some who received the transfer said they thought *others* would misuse it.

🚨 NEW PAPER: When low-income Americans get $1,000/month for 3 years, what happens to their political views & behavior? The OpenResearch Unconditional income Study reveals surprising findings about the effects of income on politics... 🧵

⏳Closing Nov 30! Predict the effects of unconditional cash transfers in Chicago and Cook County. From a large large-scale pilot by Abdul-Razzak, Bartik, @smiller.bsky.social, Rhodes, and @evavivalt.bsky.social. ⏱️ 20 min 💰 Prizes available for accuracy! socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/bf...

My first twitter post was from like 2009, several years before completing graduate school, which is crazy to me. I’ll try to post here occasionally. Once Too Online, always Too Online.

“Your office has the style of a hastily-packed suitcase” 😭

Garden still giving but not for much longer

Let me add that my co-author Chris is on the job market this year! If it are looking for a GREAT hire in public finance/health econ, you should check him out! www.chrishollrah.com

SSI provides cash payments to over a million families who have children w disabilities. Do these substantial payments—which make up ~half of total income for recipients—improve kids’ outcomes? We use a cutoff in SSI eligibility for infants based on birthweight to investigate.

Telling the magic 8 ball my research ideas 😫

Another great family photo (he insisted on wearing a chip clip in his hair)

Not sure whether it would be worse for the economists to see all my trite normie mom posts or my normie friends to see my jokes about like the law of iterated expectations

Amazing choice this year!! His work is incredible

Hi everyone