Neat JMP on teachers becoming principals from a candidate in my field who is on the job market this year. Check it out twitter.com/econ_jmp/statu…

Very excited to vote for my wife Hilary LeveyFriedman today this Rhode Island Senate District 3!

I'm so proud of Hilary and all that she has accomplished.

And the boys are so happy to be a part of it! #voteforthefuture

My parents found my old baseball cards!

Now for the moment when I learn that, after 30 years, they are still not worth anything ...

This is a great new resource for policymakers! Congrats to Nathaniel Hendren and Ben Sprung-Keyser.

Now we just need to get more analysts using MVPF!

This post from Lucy McBride, MD, Monica Gandhi MD, MPH and Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD is direct, well documented and clear. It's also very brave.

It's time.

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I know her!

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Join us (virtually) for a special @Whatworkscities Sprint Course where you'll learn directly from our Policy team about how the Opportunity Atlas and its data can inform your work on economic mobility.

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COVID-19 has worsened inequality in education - this will be one of the really bad long-lasting effects of the pandemic if we don't focus on fixing this as soon as possible.

Relying on great data from Zearn and Shalinee Sharma here

What’s the single biggest thing NYC should focus on to promote an inclusive economy? Education. COVID has worsened existing inequalities & this is also true in education. John N.Friedman #RethinkingNYC

Here is a terrible graph (based on great data from Shalinee Sharma at Zearn ) showing how remote learning has been disproportionately bad for low-income students.

Excited to hear from Jose Ortiz Jr., John N.Friedman, Fred Olayele of NYCEDC, Kathryn Wylde of Partnership for New York City, and Jaclyn Marie Kelly on the road to an inclusive recovery. Register for this event on 3/10: bit.ly/EconomyMar10

Super excited to present today with Shalinee Sharma on COVIDs effects on student learning at the #c19schoolsummit @SEIIatMIT

To preview: Large learning losses (esp. for poor children), will be with us for a long time unless we do something big to address it.

“If we make policy in February 2021 based on economic conditions in April 2020, we risk reaching the wrong conclusions,” write Raj Chetty, John N.Friedman and Michael Stepner. This is “where the strength of the real-time data approach lies.” nyti.ms/3jFG4kr

Raj Chetty, John N.Friedman and Michael Stepner have been tracking the effects of the last stimulus checks. Their early estimates show that households making more than about $75,000 per year have spent less than $45 out of the $600.
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Great to see 93% of the Nobel Prize winners, veterans of D and R adminstrations, and other economics heavyweights (including progressives such as Emmanuel Saez) agree with Opportunity Insights evidence that better targeting the stimulus makes sense.

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“If we make policy in February 2021 based on economic conditions in April 2020, we risk reaching the wrong conclusions,” write Raj Chetty, John N.Friedman and Michael Stepner. This is “where the strength of the real-time data approach lies.” nyti.ms/3qdcPaY

Companies and financial analysts use timely data to make better business decisions. It’s time for Washington to do it, too, say Raj Chetty, John N.Friedman and Michael Stepner. nyti.ms/36PQqc7