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Jason Baron retweeted
May 27
Today I'm launching a podcast! It’s called The Context Window with David Deming.
My first guest is Angela Duckworth. @angeladuckw
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Jason Baron retweeted
May 19
In Los Angeles, individual letters about student growth barely changed families’ decisions. But when enough parents got them, choices shifted — and students benefited. chalkbeat.org/2026/05/19/los…
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Jason Baron retweeted
May 21
Let's figure out this phone thing — what it's doing to us, and our kids.
But let's do it by focusing on research rather than intuitions. I just reviewed the latest evidence, and it leads to some pretty interesting (and unexpected) places.
newsletter.platypuseconomics…
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National study finds lockable pouches reduce in-school phone use but have little effect on test scores. Discipline and student well-being worsen on adoption, improving thereafter, from @huntallcott, @JasonBaron4, @ProfTDee, Angela L. Duckworth, Matthew Gentzkow, and Brian Jacob nber.org/papers/w35132
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Jason Baron retweeted
Mar 24
📣📚💵Doing research on school finance?
@EdFundNews - a nonprofit supporting policy-relevant, actionable research - is accepting proposals. Topics include career pathways, English learners, and at-risk students. LOIs due April 24. Please apply!
🔗 ed-fund.org/wp-content/uploa…
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Jason Baron retweeted
12 Nov 2025
1/ I have an outstanding student on the job market!
@Barron_Tsai is among the select group of top students I’ve had the pleasure to advise at Duke.
yhbarrontsai.github.io/
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Jason Baron retweeted
5 Aug 2025
Did you know that 1/5 of the prison population in the U.S. is comprised of former foster children?
But (!) it appears that relationship is not causal.
This new ReStat leverages quasi-random assignment of kids to foster care in Michigan to show that placement actually substantially reduces the chances of adult arrests.
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Jason Baron retweeted
Leveraging the quasi-random assignment of investigators, the authors show that foster care reduces later-in-life crime. Just Accepted new paper by E. Jason Baron @jasonbaron4 and Max Gross zurl.co/KDMa7
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Jason Baron retweeted
19 May 2025
I'm excited to help organize @OppInsights' 2025 Conference on Economic Mobility (Oct 9-10)! Submit your papers by August 1st here: opportunityinsights.org/upda…. Looking forward to reading your submissions! #EconTwitter
19 May 2025
📣We’re hosting our 4th annual conference on economic opportunity on October 9-10 with opening remarks from Raj Chetty and a Keynote from @DavidAutor.
This is an excellent opportunity for both junior and senior scholars to share their work. ⬇️
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Jason Baron retweeted
28 Mar 2025
📢New working paper with @borusyak: "Optimal Formula Instruments"!
We derive the most powerful recentered IVs for treatments given by complex formulas, and propose an algorithm for approximating them in practice
This approach yields *huge* power gains, relative to a conventional simulated IV approach, when estimating Medicaid crowdout effects from ACA expansions
Check it out!
dropbox.com/scl/fi/raxutwqx1…
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Jason Baron retweeted
27 Mar 2025
Sunset at Duke with cherry blossoms today — looks like we are ready for the campus visit of all PhD admits this Friday.
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Jason Baron retweeted
28 Jan 2025
🚨📢 3rd Workshop on Economics of Education, Valle Nevado, 🇨🇱 (Aug 19-22)
Confirmed speakers
🎓 JOHN FRIEDMAN (Brown)
🎓 STEVE PISCHKE (LSE)
✅ Submissions by March 2nd, 2025. uandes.cl/workshop-on-econom…
2024 edition ⛷️
youtu.be/Qb3gw1IFjnk?si=jU-C…
#econtwitter @hdl_uandes @uandes
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Jason Baron retweeted
3 Nov 2024
I have a new NBER WP out with @JasonBaron4, Joe Doyle, @nataliahemanuel, and Joseph Ryan on racial discrimination in foster care decisions. Check it out!
nber.org/books-and-chapters/…
(short summary thread👇)
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Jason Baron retweeted
25 Oct 2024
Introducing our 2024-2025 job market candidates, all seeking employment starting Summer 2025. For more information, visit: econ.duke.edu/graduate/hire-…… or see 🧵 below.
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Jason Baron retweeted
15 Sep 2024
Our new field experiment (w/ @AnujitCh, @hmmlowe, @GarethNellis) shows how brief interactions with multiple outgroup members (broad contact) and longer interactions with a single one (deep contact) shape intergroup relations.
Paper: researchgate.net/publication…
Prejudice is often rooted in misperceptions: that the outgroup are lazy, unpatriotic, etc. Our new field experiment asks: to reduce misperceptions, is it better to become close with one outgroup member (deep contact), or to have brief encounters with many (broad contact)?
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Jason Baron retweeted
26 Aug 2024
Please RT/spread the word about this online causal inference course! Starting September 9th -- I'm very excited for it!
26 Aug 2024
I had a great time teaching a minicourse on design-based econometrics in Bergen last week. See attached for a snapshot of what we talked about!
For those outside of Norway, I'll be teaching a version of the course online in two weeks. Sign up here! mixtapesessions.io/session/d…
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Jason Baron retweeted
23 Aug 2024
Forthcoming in @restatjournal:
"Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime" by @JasonBaron4, @jmhyman, & @BrittanyEdPol
doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01452
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Jason Baron retweeted
8 Jul 2024
#QJE May 2024, #5, “Discrimination in Multi-Phase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection,” by Baron (@JasonBaron4), Doyle (@josephjdoylejr), Emanuel (@NataliaHEmanuel), Hull (@instrumenthull), and Ryan: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjae007
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Jason Baron retweeted
25 Jun 2024
Invest in public education, reduce crime.
New research published in the Review of Economics and Statistics finds that increases in school funding levels are outweighed by reduced criminal justice spending down the road.
We can build strong kids or house broken adults.
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Jason Baron retweeted
Students exposed to more school funding during elementary school are less likely to be arrested as adults. Just Accepted new paper by Jason Baron (@JasonBaron4), Joshua Hyman (@jmhyman), Brittany Vasquez (@BrittanyEdPol) zurl.co/tpBm
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