Heidi L. Williams
@heidilwilliams_
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professor @dartmouth + science policy @ifp // leveraging research to promote science and progress
Hanover, NH
Joined June 2022
This is a great opportunity for current or recent graduate (masters or PhD) students in economics, innovation, entrepreneurship, or related fields -- thank you to @marxmatt for leading this effort.
The NBER Innovation Information Initiative (i3), a data collaborative for open innovation data and related analytics, tools, and metrics, will run the third cohort of Open Data Fellows for 2026. The i3 will award five or more fellowships of $1500 each to graduate students in
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What a great day: legends of innovation economics Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt win the Nobel. Joel was a PhD advisor of mine, so I need more than just social media for all the stories and historiography. Essay link below.
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š“ WARNING for New Jersey: VOTE NO on Radical Mikie Sherrill. Sheāll TRAP our kids in failing schools⦠Sheāll OPPOSE school choice scholarships⦠Sheāll send BILLIONS of education $ to other states⦠VOTE NO on Mikie Sherrill. Make a plan to vote:
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Can we improve how we identify and develop mathematical talent among youth? If you are a PhD student, please consider applying for this @nberpubs fellowship. Deadline to apply is 5pm EST on January 4, 2026. Details available here: https://t.co/zl21mJsoDx
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This meticulously careful and thoughtfully constructed paper by Azoulay-@mattsclancy-Li-Sampat is well worth reading. Thanks to the authors for so quickly pulling together such thoughtful evidence on such an important and policy-relevant question.
Earlier this year, the Presidentās budget proposed a 40% cut to the NIH budget. This sparked an obvious research question: What if the NIH had been 40% smaller in previous years? Hereās what Pierre Azoulay, Danielle Li, Bhaven Sampat, and I found when we looked at grants that
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For micro and macro researchers interested in innovation, productivity, and growth -- please see below and consider submitting.
š¢ Conference announcement! Paolo Surico and I are excited to be organizing this @cepr_org conference on Public Policies for Innovation. If you work in the #Economics of #Innovation and #InnovationPolicy, please submit + spread the word. Non-presenting attendees also invited.
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Today, we're launching Templates. A new way to personalize emails. Anyone on your team, from designers to marketers to developers, can create templates with our modern email builder.
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As always, I'm grateful to our authors and to JEP's editing team. I'm especially excited to have this issue include the first of a planned series of interviews by the consistently-exceptional @dylanmatt -- his first with Anne Krueger. Open-access here: https://t.co/evzgRCEmxh
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@bfjo @nberpubs @DonFSchneider @S_Stantcheva Grateful to @open_phil for financial support. This is one of the largest NBER Summer Institute meetings. Our ability to extend invitations each year to new PhDs, additional government economists, additional journalists, and others wouldn't be possible without this support.
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@bfjo @nberpubs Let me highlight in particular our Tuesday 3:30-5pm panel discussion on tax policy and innovation with Glenn Hubbard @DonFSchneider Tim Simcoe @S_Stantcheva, moderated by @bfjo
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This coming Tuesday and Wednesday (July 15-16) Adam Jaffe @bfjo and I are co-organizing the @nberpubs Summer Institute Productivity/Innovation meeting: https://t.co/S1iv7pPl9v All of the talks will be live-streamed here:
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Grateful to @open_phil and @nberpubs for continuing to support this program, which aims to encourage young scholars to pursue research on the economics of innovation and innovation policy. I'll co-teach tomorrow with Jeff Kling on the budget analysis of productivity policies.
NBER Innovation PhD boot camp today! Lectures by Ben Jones, Heidi Williams, Ina Ganguli, Pierre Azoulay, Chad Jones, Kyle Myers & me, dinner w/ Glenn Hubbard & Ed Glaeser, panels w/ Jeff Kling from CBO, Dylan Matthews from Vox, Matt Clancy from OpenPhil and Caleb Watney from IFP.
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I could not recommend more highly the opportunity to work with @mattsclancy.
The Abundance and Growth Fund at Open Philanthropy is hiring! Weāre looking for 2-4 people to help expand this new $120+ million program to accelerate economic growth and reduce the cost of living through strategic grantmaking and research. (1/4)
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Grateful for the opportunity to play a small role in supporting this creative and important initiative led by @mattsclancy / @open_phil and @DGoroff / @SloanFoundation Also serving on the advisory board: Doug Elmendorf, Ted Gayer, @haskelecon, Margaret Levi, @PaulFNiehaus
Whatās the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, @open_phil and @SloanFoundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal. Today, weāre inviting organizations to bid on a five-year contract to
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This reminds me of @ProfEmilyOster recording her own audiobooks: an opportunity to listen to your brilliant, thoughtful, insightful friends teach you things. I am a huge fan of @JacobTref and @salonium and am so thrilled they are pursuing this fantastic collaboration.
LAUNCH DAY š Today Iām launching a new podcast, Hard Drugs, with Jacob Trefethen (@JacobTref) Our first episode is about lenacapavir āĀ a new HIV drug that blocks infections with an efficacy rate of nearly 100%, and which could completely change the fight against HIV worldwide.
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I'm very grateful to @DonFSchneider @S_Stantcheva, Glenn Hubbard, and Tim Simcoe for making time to participate in this very timely and topical panel discussion -- moderated by @bfjo -- at this year's NBER summer institute productivity/innovation meeting.
Excited to participate in this excellent upcoming NBER Summer Institute discussion of Tax Policy and Innovation alongside @S_Stantcheva, Glenn Hubbard, Tim Simcoe, and Ben Jones. Thanks to @heidilwilliams_ for organizing. Link in next tweet
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I'm very grateful to our authors and editing team -- particularly @TimothyTTaylor -- for this issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. All articles available open-access here: https://t.co/3JCQHWpRLl
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I have been incredibly grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with @TimothyTTaylor during my time as JEP editor, and could not be happier about this extremely well-deserved recognition of Tim's enormous contributions to the field of economics and the economics profession.
Congratulations to ā¦ā¦@TimothyTTaylorā© for this well deserved honor. He has made cutting edge research in economics accessible to broad audiences! ā¦@AEAjournalsā©
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I have learned a huge amount from @nicholas_bagley's research on health law and -- more recently -- from his research and writing on permitting and judicial review. His balanced, detail-oriented, evidence-based approach to policy analysis is a perfect fit with @IFP.
As we move toward reforms that fit under the umbrella of the Law of Abundance, Iām thrilled to announce that Iāve joined @IFP as a Senior Fellow. The team there is so, so good, from @AlecStapp to @heidilwilliams_ to @rSanti97 to @ArnabDatta321 and @AidanRMackenzie.
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Every time I re-read this exceptionally creative and insightful paper I feel incredibly proud of my former PhD students @RyanReedHill and @carolyn_sms; very happy to see it getting published.
Recently accepted by #QJE, āRace to the Bottom: Competition and Quality in Scienceā by Hill (@RyanReedHill) and Stein (@carolyn_sms):
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As a non-lawyer constantly in search of approachable explainers on complex legal topics, and I found this conversation between @nicholas_bagley and @rSanti97 on injunctions incredibly helpful.
Me! With the inimitable @rSanti97 on Statecraft, talking about the APA, injunctions, and getting stuff done.
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