The Criminal Justice team at Arnold Ventures is looking for a pending/recent PhD with strong causal inference skills, for a remote, part-time consulting position.
This is a great opportunity for someone considering a transition from academia to the policy space.
Deadline: March 15
Please share!
It’s Pub Day!
My first book, The Science of Second Chances, hits shelves today. I can’t wait to hear what y’all think.
I hope it fills you with hope and optimism about what is possible in the public safety space. ✨
Peer effects through meme-ing, lock it in 😂
@imbernomics.bsky.social
Lighting the Imberman Signal
Question for my Ed colleagues… what do we know about the mechanisms by which teacher peer effects show up?
I.e. if I have a highly effective colleague, *how* do they make me better?
More Hours, More Work: Head Start Expansions Boost Maternal Employment by Chloe Gibbs, Esra Kose, and Maria Rosales-Rueda Abstract: Women’s employment remains highly sensitive to childcare constraints, making childcare availability a critical lever for supporting mothers’ labor force attachment. We study the effects of expanded full-day programming in Head Start, using the 2016 federal funding initiative that targeted grantees with low full-day enrollment. Linking administrative program data, geo-coded center locations, and household data on employment, we estimate a difference-in-differences design by comparing mothers of young children in treated and untreated areas. The policy increased full-day enrollment by 19 percent and raised single mothers’ employment (1.9%), hours (2.5%), and earnings (6.5%). Results show that extending program duration meaningfully improves maternal labor market outcomes.
🚨🚨 It's new research week for me on the socials! 🚨🚨
First up, just released today as an NBER working paper:
"More Hours, More Work: Head Start Expansions Boost Maternal Employment" with fantastic coauthors Esra Kose and Maria Rosales-Rueda
www.nber.org/papers/w34831
On Fridays we wear gameday green!
Robynn Cox and I have a new paper! It's about the history of predictive algorithms in criminal justice, back in the 1920s-1950s. This paper is the result of five years of research and we're so happy to see it out. 🧵 1/
New @nber.org paper with @caitlinpatler.bsky.social &
@elizabethacox.bsky.social out!
We examine how ICE arrests differ in Trump 2.0 vs. 1.0
Key Findings 🧵
1) MANY more arrests in Trump 2.0 than 1.0
2) When arrests spike, % arrested w criminal conviction falls
www.nber.org/papers/w3479...
I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.....
Thrilled to be presenting at UConn— an institution that excels at two of my favorite things: economics and basketball!
🆕 Free online course on private enterprise, productivity & economic growth by STEG & PEDL (@cepr.org)
Through 14 lectures, you can learn from leading researchers on one of the central questions of economic development, how to increase productivity.
Register here: cepr-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Farewell to Michigan
On (to) Wisconsin!
Would love to grab coffee with other poverty, crime, policing, or policy/econ folks while here in the coming months!
I just posted the ViCE seminar schedule for early spring 2026:
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Our colleague Bill Evans was quoted in this recent New York Times @nytimes.com article on housing and homelessness: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
New paper alert! (Is that still a thing?)
"Using RCTs in Economic Education Research" (w/ @lizschroeder.bsky.social)
It's your ultimate how-to guide for running an RCT in economic education. We cover RCT design, power, IRB, implementation, & more. 1/3 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Already pre-ordered but looking forward to teaching with it!
While this is not intended as an “academic” book, I think it would be a great addition to courses on research methods, crime, public policy, and applied micro — at both undergrad & grad levels. If you’re interested in using the book in your course, I’d be happy to send you a review copy! Email me.
I just updated my spreadsheet of crime-related papers published in top economics journals:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
A new years wish:
May 2026 bring you as much joy as Indiana’s win and the chaos of the Sugar Bowl brought me
Looking forward to reading this when Molly finishes it— but for now, she wants everyone to know she gives it two paws up!
@itsafronomics.bsky.social
Great pre-doc opportunities at @econ.uzh.ch in Zurich for aspiring PhD candidates from low- & middle income countries or with a refugee/asylum seeker background.
Predoctoral Program Global Talent Common Application: www.facultyhiring.oec.uzh.ch/auth/Apply/0... Please share widely in your networks!
Gift wrapping is my passion…
Happy Christmas to all!
Updates on my website today!
-Frosty Climate, Icy Relationships: Cold and Intimate Partner Violence in Peru moves up to the “Accepted Papers” section (JDE!)
-New Counterfactual simulator app for Gun Policy and the Steel Paradox
Check them out at katiebollman.com
🎉🎉🎉
Cool job alert:
"Postdoctoral Scholar: Criminal Justice Research Center & PA Department of Corrections"
This is an opportunity to contribute to the fantastic research program at the PA DOC under Bret Bucklen.
The AEA Summer Economics Fellows Program application portal is now open at aeaweb.org/about-aea/co.... #econsky
New working paper with my coauthors: Who Teaches Matters.
Using near-random assignment at a broad-access public university, we provide causal evidence that female instructors significantly increase women’s persistence in economics.
🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#Econ #EconResearch
