Tell us everything! Survey responses are welcome through 30 April. surveymonkey.com/r/2024-prac…

Susan Silbey is a @MITanthropology @MITSloan professor whose award-winning research examines how people interact with law in their work and personal lives. Silbey teaches two MITx courses. This women's history month we're celebrating her contributions bit.ly/4ck8sDQ

Congratulations to @TomKochan @MIT_IWER @MITSloan, who has just been named one of the Charter 30—a list of “30 cutting-edge researchers, visionary leaders, and outside-the-box innovators who are helping us understand and reimagine the modern workplace.” tinyurl.com/3j5b54t8

Throwing it back to a delightful and positive lunch & learn session where we heard from Dr. Bina Patel about the power of micro affirmations.💡Let’s revisit those moments of insight and inspiration! #TBT youtu.be/1ybSVSrnAZ4?si=0h7o…

Research on legacy admissions by Emilio J Castilla @MIT_IWER @MITSloan & @ethanposkanzer was highlighted in this @BostonGlobe article today: bostonglobe.com/2024/02/06/m…

How bad is the lack of socio-economic diversity in economics? Read our Q&A with Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @annastansbury about how economics compares with 14 major disciplines on 1st-generation college grads & how this intersects with race. @MITSloan bit.ly/48yZPTt

Could private equity improve workers' job quality? Not without “a massive shift in what private equity firms have traditionally done,” @TomKochan @MIT_IWER @MITSloan told The Job newsletter; he noted private equity's “track record of negative effects.” tinyurl.com/3vrf5syk

18/ Will economists expand the scope of their diversity-boosting efforts to include inequality along the dimension of class? This paper by @annastansbury and @Rschultzzy showing the gaps in attainment by SES is important. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…

"You’ve got to put employees’ personal needs out front and deal with them at the same time that you’re dealing with the organizational strategies and structures.” – Lotte Bailyn, professor emerita @MITSloan tinyurl.com/mr29kyfh

Today is the birthday of @MIT_alumni Ellen Swallow Richards, who 150 years ago became the first woman to graduate from @MIT. She was a pioneer in water quality testing and human ecology; read about her in this month's @MIT_IWER newsletter: tinyurl.com/597w6vja

Join us and @binapatelphd today at 12pm on Zoom for a 30-min skill-builder session to learn about micro-affirmations. For those who can't make it, the program will be recorded. Register here!⬇️ cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/re…

New research by Lisa Berkman @HarvardPopCtr, @_elkelly @MIT_IWER @MITSloan, et al. finds that improving work-life balance & increasing workplace flexibility reduces cardiovascular disease risk for higher-risk employees: tinyurl.com/2ndwbexu

Trending in #Economics: ooir.org/index.php?field=Eco… 1) The Economics Profession’s Socioeconomic Diversity Problem 2) Homeowner politics & housing supply (@JUrbanEcon) 3) My Professor Cares: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Faculty Engagement 4) Effects of Maturing Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students 5) Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment

"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ @Rschultzzy is now out in the JEP Here's the paper: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/… And here's our Twitter thread on the WP version - published version has new data up to 2021 x.com/annastansbury/status/1…

The MOST amazing news!!! Many many congratulations @PikaGoldin!

Job Posting: Kaiser Permanente @KPNorCal is hiring a full-time HealthCare Ombuds/Mediator in San Rafael ombuds-blog.blogspot.com/202…

MIT's IWER & DUSP hosted a #LaborSpring Teach-In comparing the Starbuck's stonewalling bargaining with a successful first contract at Forge Baking Company, a locally owned coffee house. Let's all support good labor relations (and great food)when we see it!

I don't know what's going on, but I posted 10 Ombuds jobs since last Friday. 🤔

*EEA tomorrow!* @ 11am Kyra Rodriguez & I will be presenting our work on socioeconomic background in academic careers. "Leaky Pipeline and Slippery Ladder" - expanding past work on PhDs, we now look at socioeconomic background across the whole tenure-track academic career path

Signs of Growth: This year, 51 orgs created/increased their Ombuds programs, a slight decrease from the record number of 58 programs in 2021. Job postings indicate that the growth in the field will continue: there were 143 postings in 2022 compared to 118 postings in 2021.