📣 We're hiring two postdocs to join the What Works Hub for Global Education team Blavatnik School of Government University of Oxford. Spread the word and apply by Aug 7! Join our new & growing team. bsg.ox.ac.uk/workforus

Exciting to meet so many aspiring masters at Zhejiang University in steamy-but-scenic Hangzhou, China and NTU Singapore

Interested in joining our team or know someone who would? We're hiring for a variety of research and managerial roles. Check out the 🧵 for a brief description of each position. Apply here: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/careers/ cc: PREDOC.org Econ RA Listings #EconTwitter

Program Manager – Workforce Initiatives and Policy Impacts Work with the MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative and Policy Impacts teams to support research operations and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.

Policy and Communications Associate – Education Support our education policy outreach and communicate technical research findings to diverse audiences. The Associate will work with Parag Pathak (Parag Pathak), Clemence Idoux, and policymakers across the country.

📢 Applications are open for the MIT School Access and Quality fellowship, a one-year program for enrollment leaders working on equitable enrollment reforms. Apply to learn enrollment best practices, problem-solve with fellows, and drive positive change: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/impact/mit-sch…

Our new handbook chapter w/ Josh Angrist & Christopher Walters is now available online! Check out the latest in estimating institutional quality with quasi-experimental data: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hbvF5bvkCuu…

In case you were having 2nd thoughts about that colonoscopy your doc ordered: Instrumental variables methods reconcile intention-to-screen effects across pragmatic cancer screening trials | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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Colon cancer screenings may have greater impact than previously thought. New work by Blueprint’s Josh Angrist and Peter Hull finds that colon cancer screenings reduce rates of colorectal cancer by twice the previously estimated impact. Read more: news.mit.edu/2023/study-col…

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Honored to host Nobel Laureate Professor Josh Angrist as the 2024 BIDMC Smith Center Visiting Professor this morning. Phenomenal talk on instrumental variable methods and their application in cardiovascular research and clinical trials!

Economics is about trade-offs... @freakonomics freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to…

An honor and a pleasure to give the Arthur Lewis Lecture at AFES 2024 and meet so many bright enthusiastic young economists in Abidjan !

More great work from the Avela Education team!

In the midst of a rewarding couple weeks guest-teaching 'metrics to bright motivated undergrads at Hebrew University, sociologist Gad Yair asks me interesting questions (in Hebrew) about academic life in Israel and beyond (my answers in English)

Students recognized 6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) faculty & instructors with 2024 Teaching with Digital Technology Awards for effectively using technologies to improve teaching and learning at MIT. Congrats to Josh Angrist, Cong Cong, Ben Fry, Michael Maune, Rama Ramakrishnan & Nancy Rose! bit.ly/3YmlP1D

I'm thrilled to be one of six MIT teachers recognized for exemplary teaching with digital technology link.medium.com/2XIpLhq7GLb