Had fun talking with my friend Scott Cunningham the other day about life as an economist and life in general.

research on tutoring picking up. issue is not whether personalized learning is an effective strategy for how best to help kis, but go to get students to actually receive it at scale.

RT @caroartc: Disclosing nonbinary pronouns reduces positive employer response by 5.5pp, and this decline is larger in Republican communiti….

Honored to have participated in the Conversations on Economic Inclusion series from the @ClevelandFed. We talked about how tutoring and mentoring programs can be effective tools for bridging educational gaps and boosting achievement. Listen or read now:

RT @SFUEcon: In November @SFUEcon hosted @POreopoulos from @UofT to talk about the power of personal assistance with Krishna Pendakur. Than….

RT @SFUPublicSquare: Distinguished Economics Professor @POreopoulos shows us how educational policies can improve students’ economic future….

RT @nberpubs: Intensive employment support services in Canada increased long-term welfare recipients’ annual earnings by 20–27 percent over….

Covid learning loss is real and large. We need a way to scale up personalized learning to help every student get back on track from where they're currently at, and catch up at their own pace. The Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and Reading

Excited about my new Canadian textbook with Kevin Milligan, Betsey Stevenson, and Justin Wolfers. Economics has added so much to its repertoire. It's exciting to be involved in bringing new applied and theoretical ideas to the next generation.

RT @BetseyStevenson: Drop everything and read this paper: The bottom line: Managers with MBAs are the best at taki….

StatsCan has a podcast, how cool is that? Even a cool name (Eh Sayers). First episode is on inflation.

RT @mikalskuterud: Really wish someone else was tracking this. Seems important when we're keeping 2 million Ontarians in the 5-19 age group….

RT @CDHoweInstitute: The evidence is clear that virtual schooling cannot support student learning in the same way as in-person learning. Ca….

I don’t see how the decision to close schools will make the marginal difference around what happens with hospitalizations. Is Ont expecting to slow the rate of infection so that anyone who becomes hospitalized will do so over a longer spread? I don't think this will work.

I don’t get the decision by Ontario last week to keep open schools and then close them a few days later – the case-count trajectory situation was predictable – nothing has changed to affect this prediction.

RT @florianederer: The in-game performance of professional soccer players who had a recent COVID-19 infection, drops by 6%. Performance is….

Congratulations to David Card, my advisor, mentor, and friend, for receiving the Nobel Prize today.

A podcast about my ongoing research about tutoring and computer assisted learning:

RT @CDHoweInstitute: Over a year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, student learning loss remains a pressing policy concern, writes….

A well-thought-out proposal for scaling tutoring at a national level. Momentum is growing. .