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At Blueprint Labs we use data and economics to uncover the consequences of policy decisions and improve society.
Cambridge, MA
Joined May 2013
In yesterday’s challenge session, School Access and Quality Fellow Emily Finkelstein led an insightful discussion about designing school surveys that are accessible and actionable for school leaders and families. Thanks to Emily and all the rest of the Fellows who participated.
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How does college major choice affect earnings and fertility outcomes? In a new working paper, Blueprint Affiliate Chris Campos and co-authors examine the causal effects of different fields of study. Read the research:
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This paper studies how college major choices shape earnings and fertility outcomes. Using administrative data that link students’ preferences, random assignment to majors, and post-college…
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Earlier this month, Blueprint welcomed our sixth cohort of SAQ Fellows to MIT for a kickoff event, where they learned about equitable enrollment and school performance. Read more about the newest cohort and the kickoff in our latest blog post. https://t.co/3K27zaRWGL
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At NACSA’s annual conference this week, Blueprint’s Talia Gerstle and @FatimaDjalalova presented the lab’s school quality research to charter school authorizers from around the country. Read the research: https://t.co/gUqCYvJakN
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One year ago, Blueprint Affiliates Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on political institutions and economic growth. Read about their research:
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How does automation affect the value of labor? In this working paper, Blueprint Co-Director David Autor and Neil Thompson examine how automating some job tasks affects the value of the tasks that remain:
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When job tasks are automated, does this augment or diminish the value of labor in the tasks that remain? Blueprint Co-Director, David Autor, and Neil…
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📅 Join us on 11/3 as we officially launch the Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work! The event will feature a series of discussions at the intersection of technology, the future of work, and inequality. See the agenda and register: https://t.co/I1tFs4GyRl
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Many thanks to all of the speakers and SAQ Fellows who made this year’s Fellowship Kickoff such a success! We can’t wait to continue working with and learning from this passionate group of education leaders in the challenge sessions, webinars, and in-person sessions to come.
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How can education leaders work together with various stakeholders to achieve a common goal? Near the end of the SAQ Fellowship Kickoff, enrollment consultant Shannon Fitzgerald led an in-depth discussion on influence and collaboration.
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In the latest SAQ Kickoff session, Blueprint’s Russell Legate-Yang and New York City Public Schools’s Deja Thomas discussed how to help families make informed enrollment decisions.
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As districts face declining enrollment, what can we learn from past school closures? This morning at the SAQ kickoff, Blueprint Director @prof_parag and Chicago Public Schools’s Sarah Briggs provided researcher and practitioner perspectives on closures.
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On Day 2 of the SAQ kickoff, Boston University’s Abby Francis presented her research on post-pandemic enrollment trends, and SAQ Fellow Jacob Lambdin shared a practitioner perspective on how to address shifting enrollment. Read the research: https://t.co/CK82QRMiKd
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How can researchers and practitioners collaborate to implement accurate school quality measures? In this SAQ kickoff session, Blueprint Director @metrics52 and SAQ Fellow Aurora Moraes discussed their research and implementation of new measures in New York City.
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Blueprint’s newest School Access and Quality Fellows have arrived at MIT for the Fellowship Kickoff, a two-day event where Fellows will learn from policymakers and researchers and build the foundation for a strong community. Read about the Fellowship: https://t.co/NFWklspR7S
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How do common applications impact K-12 student outcomes? In a new working paper, Blueprint Director @prof_parag, RA @Econ_Geoff, and co-author Christopher Avery examine the enrollment and access effects of Boston’s charter sector common application:
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School choice systems increasingly use common applications, where students can apply to multiple schools on a single form, though schools make admission decisions independently. Christopher…
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⏳ Apply now: Predoctoral Researcher roles @BlueprintMIT Priority deadline: Sunday, Sept 21 at 11:59 PM ET ✅ Apply before Sunday night: https://t.co/1zo68nA9K0
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🎉We are excited to announce our 2025-26 School Access and Quality Fellows. This dedicated group includes education leaders from across the nation committed to advancing equitable enrollment and school performance policies. Read about our new Fellows:
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How can we best design human-AI collaboration? In a new working paper, Blueprint Co-Director @agarwaln_econ, Affiliate Alex Moehring, and co-author Alexander Wolitzky develop a method to determine optimal human-AI collaboration designs: https://t.co/tw1Bk8yp4G
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Blueprint Co-director, Nikhil Agarwal, along with Alex Moehring and Alexander Wolitzky develop a sufficient-statistic approach to designing collaborative human-AI decision-making policies in classi...
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⏳ Time’s running out! Apply to the predoctoral researcher openings at @BlueprintMIT and work on big questions in health care, education, AI, & labor. 📅 Priority deadline: Sept 21 https://t.co/1zo68nAHzy
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How do selective high schools affect students’ outcomes? In a new working paper, Blueprint Director @prof_parag and Affiliate Glenn Ellison develop a framework for understanding how selective schools optimize curricula. Read the research:
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Curriculum design is modeled as a time-allocation problem. A school teaches students many skills and allocates time to different skills based on student characteristics. Professor…
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