Ariel Kalil
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Professor @HarrisPolicy @UChicago & @NHHnor . Co-director @HarrisBIPLab . Applying behavioral insights to understand parental decision-making & child development.
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Professional news: I’m delighted to report that I have been named the Daniel Levin Professor
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
. Proud and grateful to be a member of this University and our faculty.
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Deeply moved to learn that faculty
@ChicagoBooth
and in
@UChi_Economics
developed and defended a dissertation on behalf of their 4th year PhD student who was shot and killed earlier this year. The student will now receive his PhD posthumously.
Yiran was a very special student and he will be missed dearly.. | “Late UChicago student Yiran Fan to be awarded posthumous Ph.D.”
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Today marks the start of my 25th year on the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy faculty! I am deeply grateful to this institution, which has steadfastly supported my work and helped me thrive intellectually, professionally, and personally.
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Helpful new directional signage on campus
@UChicago
. Standing here at the intersection between theory, practice, and The Pub. I know where I’m headed!
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Apply to our POST DOC!
@HarrisPolicy
seeks a post-doc in behavioral economics or behavioral science to work on independent and collaborative research at the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab (). More info & to apply click here:
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Pretty excited to have won the Chicago Magazine fall foliage photo contest! This image of
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
captures so many things I love.
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The newest inductee into the
@UChi_Economics
seminar experience. So proud of Henry for defending his senior honors thesis "Are tennis players irrational? A behavioral economics perspective on high stakes tournament play" plus fielding some great questions from
@Econ_4_Everyone
!
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The Harris School
@HarrisPolicy
at the University of Chicago is searching across disciplines for a senior faculty member in education and public policy. Please spread the word.
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Our work on the front page of the print edition of today’s USA Today.
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
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Great to see that the George Lucas Educational Foundation named
@aadukia
and colleagues’ paper on bias in children’s literature one of their "ten most significant education studies of 2021!”
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
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Many thanks to
@BeckerFriedman
conference friends and colleagues for two great days discussing the economics of early childhood education. Special thanks to
@glichand
for the gift from Switzerland — a sweet ending to a lovely and productive meeting!
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Happy and satisfied after two rich days of discussion at our
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
workshop debating how much parenting matters to equal opportunity. Thanks
@UChicagoParis
for hosting
@May153204
and me and a great group of colleagues.
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Our paper in
@J_HumanResource
in print today! In Norway introducing a structured curriculum to early childhood centers has positive effects on child cognitive development esp for baseline low-performing schools
@MariSRege
@ISolli
@ariel_kalil
…
@J_HumanResource
In Norway: introducing a structured curriculum to early childhood centers has positive effects on child cognitive development esp for baseline low-performing schools
@MariSRege
@ISolli
@ariel_kalil
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We are delighted to welcome our new postdoc
@DerekRury
to the
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
! Derek is finishing his PhD
@UCDavisEcon
where he specialized in experimental and behavioral economics and the economics of education. Can't wait to start our work together!
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TFW your college kid, who's working on his senior honors thesis, calls to say "Mom, I coded the dummy variables like you told me to and I got some significant results!"
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Thrilled to share the results from our latest field experiment
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
, now published in the Economics of Education Review. 1/
Boosting Parent-Child Math Engagement and Preschool Children's Math Sk...
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Wonderful morning honoring
@May153204
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
with the Harris School’s first official student award: the Susan E. Mayer Award for Excellence in Field Research. Susan’s leadership, vision, and impact inspires us all!
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Starting the new year with some great funding news for a new field experiment that will be our biggest yet! Team celebration
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
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Delighted to be joining the editorial team
@JPAM_DC
!
We are happy to share the news that
@ariel_kalil
has just joined the JPAM editorial team as a co-editor. Ariel is a professor
@HarrisPolicy
. At Harris, she also directs the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy and co-directs the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab.
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Deeply saddened to learn of Sara McLanahan’s passing. Growing up in Madison I had no idea what an incredible scholar she was, as most of my time at her and Irv’s house on Chadbourne Ave. was spent in the basement watching MTV with Anna Bell 1/n
Gutted at the loss of my mentor Sara McLanahan. She had a profound impact on my career of course - but perhaps her best legacy is the network of scholars she mentored and inspired, who support each other and now mentor many others.
@PUSociology
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Visiting the Melbourne Institute! Following in the footsteps of giants.
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Inspired by
@AgnesCallard
I write now, on the sad occasion of my father's death, to share my pride of place to being parented. Many of you also know my brother Tom; here is our written remembrance.
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Very happy to see our new paper published in
@ReadDemography
, in which we show that welfare reform had plausibly causal and substantively important negative effects on the quality of emotional support in the home environments of young children.
Just posted: “Welfare Reform & the Quality of Young Children’s Home Environments.”
@ariel_kalil
, Hope Corman, Dhaval Dave, Ofira Schwarz-Soicher & Nancy Reichman show that welfare reform negatively affected mothers' provision of emotional support.
@RWJMS
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It was an honor and a privilege to share in the presentation of the University of Chicago Benton Award for Public Service to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ed Yong for his writing on the Covid pandemic.
@edyong209
@HarrisPolicy
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Our next big project is underway! Grateful to
@JPAL_NA
for supporting this work and our community partners for their participation.
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
Field training in progress for our next RCT on building children’s vocabulary + curiosity in the home environment!
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Happy to have had the chance to talk to The Economist about our research on economic hardship and family dynamics during the pandemic.
@HarrisBIPLab
@BeckerFriedman
@UChicago
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Keller Center in summer. Love our wild, naturalistic landscaping! Great day in the Sky Suite for our
@HarrisBIPLab
research orientation and symposium to take stock of our past seven years and welcome new scholars to the lab!
@UChicago
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So pleased to publish this paper in Child Development. Many thanks to
@Gen_Pov
for outstanding editorial guidance over many rounds of revision!
In "The Effect of Mother–Child Reading Time on Children's Reading Skills: Evidence From Natural Within‐Family Variation," Joseph Price and
@ariel_kalil
studied the causal impact of mother-child
#reading
time on achievement scores.
#NLSY79
@NLSat50plus
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Super excited to join the editorial advisory board of the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Since 1889, The ANNALS has served as a forum for the free exchange of ideas on significant topics across disciplines and perspectives.
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"Eighty-two percent of Americans think that “time with parents” is “extremely” important to children’s future success."
Our new Op-Ed in
@thehill
on how public policy can best support parents.
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
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Apply to our POST DOC!
@HarrisPolicy
seeks a post-doc in behavioral economics or behavioral science to work on independent and collaborative research at the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab (). More info & to apply click here:
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Proud day
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
as
@GovPritzker
officially announces our partnership with the State of Illinois to support parents in promoting their young children’s learning at home.
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It’s a big week
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
as we launch our new project aimed at supporting parent-child engagement in early math learning. Yesterday we celebrated our team of ~ 50 research assistants - they make it all happen and we are so grateful for their efforts!
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Super excited for my
#CIDER
-LERN keynote in Berlin tomorrow! I’ll report brand new results from our latest RCT on parent reading and child literacy skills. Wishing I could be there in person
@MathiasHuebener
@CK_Spiess
@henninghermes
Deadline for submissions to great education research conference
#CIDER
-LERN in BERLIN (and/or ONLINE): Now June 1, 2021. With
@ariel_kalil
from
@UChicago
& Richard Arum from
@UCIEducation
| Oct 7–8, 2021. Looking forward to your proposals!
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Thank you
@Econ_4_Everyone
- I won the giveaway from
@BeckerFriedman
and got my signed copy today! Excited to read and learn.
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This has been out for some time but that doesn’t diminish the old-fashioned thrill of seeing the print version!
Excited to see results from
@HarrisBIPLab
’s first RCT "Using Behavioral Insights to Increase Parental Engagement" released in print in
@J_HumanResource
! By Susan Mayer
@May153204
,
@ariel_kalil
,
@seba_gallegos
, and Phil Oreopoulos.
#HarrisPolicy
#BIPLab
Photo credit: JHR
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Super excited to see our new
@HarrisBIPLab
work with
@seba_gallegos
on reducing chronic absenteeism in preschools published in OBHDP's special issue on Nudges and Choice Architecture in Organizations
@katy_milkman
@Todd_Rogers_
@R_Thaler
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Super excited to be headed to Bolivia this week!
Ariel Kalil (
@UChicago
/
@HarrisBIPLab
) will inaugurate
#BCDE9
with her keynote lecture "Behavioral Insights and Parental Decision-Making". Learn more about Prof. Kalil's research and other papers on
#BehavioralEconomics
to be presented at
#BCDE9
, on
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Delightful discussion
@UChicago
@BeckerFriedman
on behavioral economics and public policy with
@R_Thaler
and
@CassSunstein
. One among many charming moments was Sunstein’s story of his explaining to his 9-year old the difference between System 1 and System 2 thinking.
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Getting ready for my keynote address
@RC28_Turku
. This year's theme is "Accumulation and compensation of inequalities." Delighted to be in the company of these fabulous scholars. Tune in tomorrow morning!
#RC28Turku
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Super proud of my dear friend Kate Cagney. Leading ISR is a perfect match for her many talents. She will be much missed
@UChicago
.
Kathleen A. Cagney, a professor of sociology and former deputy dean at
@UChicago
, has been named director of the Institute for Social Research
@umisr
.
#UMichRegents
#URecord
:
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Holiday lunch! So happy to celebrate another fabulous year with our
@HarrisBIPLab
@UChicago
team.
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My grandmother, Rebecca Yablonsky, was a patent lawyer on the Manhattan Project. When she brought her briefcase home she said it was top secret and if my mother opened it my grandmother would get arrested. Looking forward to seeing Oppenheimer with my mom.
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Terrific day of talks! What a treat to get to hear so many great papers today. Grateful to colleagues and friends for traveling and attending in person — my first real life conference in over two years!
The 2022 Rohit and Harvanit Kumar Conference on the Economics of Early Childhood Education is officially underway!
@HarrisPolicy
's
@Ariel_Kalil
has organized an exciting two days of presentations on improving skill development for disadvantaged children.
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End of the quarter! Celebrating at the Pub
@UChicago
with my fantastic
@HarrisPolicy
TAs.
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Super excited about this new work with
@RohenShah
@POreopoulos
and
@May153204
. With funding from
@JPAL_NA
we evaluate The Big Word Club, a multimodal learning program to boost children's vocabulary. Treated students show improvements of .30 SD after 4 months of use.
New working paper, "Making a Song and Dance About It: The Effectiveness of Teaching Children Vocabulary with Animated Music Videos," from
@HarrisPolicy
's
@ariel_kalil
, Susan Mayer,
@RohenShah
, and
@POreopoulos
.
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Thank you
@mdoepke
for being our guest for our annual
@HarrisBIPLab
“One Lab One Read.” We learned a lot reading “Love, Money, and Parenting” and appreciated the chance for an interesting and inspiring conversation with you today!
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Thrilled that
@HarrisPolicy
@HarrisBIPLab
Ph.D. student William Delgado awarded dissertation grant from the Behavioral Interventions Scholars program at
@OPRE_ACF
. Eager to learn about all the grantees’ work this morning!
#povertynudge
#behavioraleconomics
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Please circulate widely: We are hiring a Lab Manager
@HarrisBIPLab
at
@HarrisPolicy
! We are launching an exciting new set of survey, field experiment, and lab-in-the field studies and are eager to welcome a new member to our team in this key role.
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Thrilled to join the 2018 Class of
@AspenInstitute
Ascend Fellows!
@AspenAscend
We are proud to share the news that Harris Prof. and
@HarrisBIPLab
Co-Director
@ariel_kalil
has been named a part of the 2018 class of
@AspenInstitute
#AscendFellows
!
More: …
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Very excited to see this joint work with
@MariSRege
and many other Norwegian colleagues in print
@J_HumanResource
.
In Norway, an unstructured
#curriculum
is the norm. Authors
@MariSRege
et al. find lasting effects from a switch to structured curriculum, especially among lower-quality schools: (co-authors below.)
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Sheltering in place for the rest of today. The public spaces in our neighborhood have been evacuated. Feeling sick and distraught for our friends and neighbors in Highland Park.
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Super pleased to have published this Op-Ed in today's
@chicagotribune
. I've been doing research on family structure my entire career and think we're long past due for more public support for multigenerational households.
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Such a fun
@HarrisBIPLab
@UChicago
visit to
@CDR_Booth
#mindworkschicago
discovery center. Thanks
@tweetsbymidge
and colleagues for hosting us (and for the very cool swag)!
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Results from our recent
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
AP-NORC nationwide poll show that most Americans say that the amount of time children spend with their parents is the key to their future success and that there is broad public support for paid parental leave.
A new UChicago
@HarrisPolicy
/AP-NORC Poll finds universal preschool and paid parental leave are popular with both parties.
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Happy to have had a chance to talk to Jason DeParle about new work with
@RohenShah
and
@May153204
for this article in today’s New York Times.
@HarrisBIPLab
@UChicago
@HarrisPolicy
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Two new post-doc positions at
@UChicago
! Under the auspices of the Committee on Education we seek quantitative researchers in childhood skill development. Post-docs can work with us
@HarrisPolicy
@HarrisBIPLab
among other units.
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We
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
are absolutely delighted to announce that
@wdelgadophd
will be joining
@BUWheelock
to work with
@JoshuaSGoodman
this fall! We will miss you, William!
Thrilled to announce that
@slungaardmumma
and
@wdelgadophd
will join us this fall as inaugural WEPC post-docs
@BUWheelock
. Full profiles to come, for a quick glimpse into their awesomeness now, check out . Welcome to the team!
#humanpotentialtransformed
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The
@HarrisBIPLab
could not be more proud to report that our former Executive Director (and
@HarrisPolicy
alumna) Keri Lintz has chosen UCLA to pursue her PhD in Social Welfare at
@UCLALuskinSW
. Go, Keri, go!
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Looking forward to teaching in Bergen this summer in the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group and FAIR Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality. Applications now open! SSSI 2019 Bergen | HCEO
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The mental health of low income parents of pre-school age children worsened significantly between fall 2019 and summer 2020.
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
We administered a survey on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on low-income Chicago families in May through July. Results suggest that there were declines in parental mental health and increases in parent stress.
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Wonderful summer luncheon for our
@HarrisBIPLab
staff and graduate research team! With a bespoke menu from Bar Avec.
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Super excited to have Lillian Rusk presenting her work next week at our
@BeckerFriedman
@HarrisBIPLab
@UChicago
conference on parental decision-making.
LILLIAN RUSK is a labor economist with broad interests in applied microeconomics, and her JMP studies the effects of families and neighborhoods on parenting decisions. She is also working on the long-run impacts of juvenile incarceration
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New working paper! Pleased to release our survey research on the COVID-19 crisis and family dynamics in economically vulnerable households in Chicago. With thanks to
@BeckerFriedman
for supporting this work.
@HarrisPolicy
@HarrisBIPLab
The BIP Lab is pleased to release this working paper about our research on economic hardship and family dynamics during the pandemic. Many thanks to the
@BeckerFriedman
for their financial support.
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
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Absolutely wonderful day at Penn GSE. Loved meeting the enormously talented IES Fellows. Finished the day with one of my favorite activities - a walking campus tour. My photo-savvy host made sure we stopped for all the iconic photo ops.
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Hello Hong Kong! Getting ready for a late-night presentation for
@UChicagoHK
. Pleased to present some new
@HarrisBIPLab
work with
@RohenShah
and
@May153204
on family life during COVID-19.
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Harris after hours!
@HarrisBIPLab
represents at the
@UCStoneCenter
inaugural book talk and panel discussion for
@kearney_melissa
The Two-Parent Privilege.
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Evocative welcome to the Lego Castle Hotel in Billund, Denmark. Excited to be speaking tomorrow at the
@LEGOfoundation
Idea Conference about our
@HarrisBIPLab
work!
#legofoundation
#legoideaconference
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How fun to see our
@HarrisBIPLab
10-year anniversary video playing in the Keller Center lobby
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
!
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Thanks for the invite to the pod,
@andyfeldman
! It was a lot of fun talking about the new work on cognitive biases I’m doing with
@RohenShah
and
@May153204
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
New: Dr. Ariel Kalil
@ariel_kalil
of
@HarrisPolicy
discusses 3 cognitive biases -- confirmation bias, status quo bias & bandwagon bias -- that can affect how decision makers use evidence. Full pod:
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Farewell Australia! This has been the trip of a lifetime. Super excited that we've set the wheels in motion for implementing a research-practice-policy intervention at scale in Australia. Going to miss the flat whites, the sunsets, and my wonderful friends and colleagues here.
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Wow wow wow! Former Chicago Bears star kicker Robbie Gould dropped by with some tickets to the Bears-Vikings game in October. Deeply grateful to the generosity of Cal's Angels for making this wish come true and raising awareness during this Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
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Thrilled to welcome our new
@BeckerFriedman
pre-doc Daniela Bresciani Andaluz, newly minted
@HarrisPolicy
PhD student
@Noahliuhx
, and visiting PhD students
@MarMaSchneider
from
@NHHnor
and
@ElenaZiege
from
@bib_bund
to
@HarrisBIPLab
@UChicago
. It's going to be a great year!
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Working late! Delighted to be presenting a webinar tonight for the Ministry of Social and Family Development in Singapore. 789 attendees and lots of great questions!
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
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It was so much fun recording this episode of "The Course" podcast
@UChicago
@UChicagoHK
talking about how I became a professor, the ideas that inspire me, and why I love my work!
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Exciting morning speaking with
@ChicagoMayor
’s Poverty Summit about our
@HarrisBIPLab
research.
#ChiSTEPSummit
@HarrisBIPLab
's Co-Director,
@ariel_kalil
is featured on
@ChicagoMayor
’s Solutions Toward Ending Poverty panel.
#ChiStepSummit
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Our experimental evaluation of the effects of a structured curriculum in Norwegian preschools is out
@J_HumanResource
! Representing many years of dedicated teamwork led by my great friend and collaborator
@MariSRege
.
The Agder-project is published! Very happy to see the preprint of our paper "The Effects of a Structured Curriculum on Preschool Effectiveness: A Field Experiment" forthcoming in JHR.
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Excellent news for
@HarrisPolicy
and
@UChicago
!
Prof. Ethan Bueno de Mesquita has been appointed dean of
@HarrisPolicy
. Bueno de Mesquita said he is grateful to lead “an institution that has defined my professional life and is dedicated to work I believe in so deeply."
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Thanks
@emrichards
and
@USATODAY
for featuring our
@UChicago
@HarrisBIPLab
work and underscoring the importance of helping low income parents to support their children’s learning during this crisis.
Most kids will bounce back after quarantine, psychologists say. But low-income youth will need more support. Read this article at
@USATODAY
featuring
@ariel_kalil
and
@agpines
.
@UChicagoNews
@HarrisPolicy
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Will ed tech help to increase student skills and close income-based test score gaps? In my new Op-Ed with
@May153204
and Michelle Michelini we argue for more evidence, followed by thoughtful policy interventions, to answer this question.
@HarrisBIPLab
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New findings! w/
@wdelgadophd
@Gen_Pov
and
@May153204
. TL; DR ATUS data show that despite greater time investment college-educated mothers experience no more positive feelings and no fewer negative feelings during intensive childcare than other mothers.
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Delighted to have
@RohenShah
@Noahliuhx
and
@DerekRury
presenting our work and representing the
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
at the
@nberpubs
Program on Children this week.
We are excited to present at the
@nberpubs
Program on Children this Friday, March 13.
Program details:
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I love seeing the great things our former
@HarrisBIPLab
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
research assistants have gone on to do. Here’s the latest in our alumni spotlight series.
Enjoy this interview with Shanika Gunaratna, MPP'19, a former RA & the Senior Program Coordinator for Policy at ParentCorps, an early childhood organization in NYC that helps schools in historically disinvested neighborhoods partner with families.
Read ›
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Thanks to the World Economic Forum for featuring our work
@HarrisBIPLab
!
This simple technique doubled the time parents spent reading to their children via
@wef
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A 7-hour Zoom class on a Saturday is no small feat, but our amazing Evening Master's Program students
@HarrisPolicy
@UChicago
made it an absolute pleasure once again. I am consistently impressed with these students' focus, preparedness, and engagement.
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