Data-Driven Pregnancy and Parenting Economist @BrownUniversity Author #ExpectingBetter, #Cribsheet, #FamilyFirm, #TheUnexpected CEO of https://nitter.cf/t.co/Q4hHIERBD5 👇
Providence, RI
Joined December 2012
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For EconTwitter: my better half has a delightful JEP paper on the Bayesian Bootstrap and why you should use it more. It has a surprising number of exclamation points for him, which I guess I should attribute to his more fun coauthors.
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Please share your wellness routines with me! Even if they are nothing! Informing future content...
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From my non-social-media spouse, a new paper, using LLMs to replicate ... everything.
nber.org/papers/w35782
Headlne: "Across 4,452 published replication packages for five economics journals, the workflow flags discrepancies in 3,460 articles or their appendices."
State school testing isn't perfect, but I'd argue it's our best current approach to accountability. Which means parents and policymakers and everyone need to be able to explore it. That's what we are trying to do with the Education Data Center.
For example:
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This is a great book!!
Today is launch day for The Everywhere Millionaire! I talked with @PrincetonEcon to answer a few questions about the book.
1. You can order your copy today us.macmillan.com/books/97812…
2. Please share this with friends who might be interested in the American Dream and/or American inequality
3. Amazon reviews are open now too, and a short one helps more than you'd think.
JD Vance's plan to take money from child care subsidies to support stay-at-home parents is problematic.
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It seems like the NY State Department of Ed may just be planning to ignore the (very likely) errors in the 2025 testing. This is bad! There are struggling schools which did not get funding they should have last year because the scores were inflated.
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Emily Oster retweeted
We are taking a closer look at New York's ELA assessment data in grades 3-5- soaring scores in 2025 and then seemingly large losses in 2026. What may have happened? --> statetestscoreresults.substa…
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My mentors Isaiah Andrews and Jesse Shapiro have created LLM-advisor versions of themselves (link below)
What's scary is that if the LLMs are half as good as the human versions, they're still probably better advisors than me.
Check them out!
In which I explain what is happening in NY Test scores.
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We're hiring! Come work at either Brown economics or jointly in Econ + the new Watson public policy school at the (experienced) assistant, associate, or full professor level
Target date for applications is Sep 7. EJM links below
If you're interested in the NY school test scores (who isn't?): in ELA they were way up in 2025 (celebrated!) but then down the same amount in 2026.
Data shows it must have been a 2025 coding error... More here and curious if others have more insight.
bit.ly/3RYsWfJ
Check out our new Education Data Center website: eddatacenter.org/
Huge improvements in ability to see your state/district/school over time, data downloads & API, etc. Enjoy!
I got upset about having to do all the dinner planning in my household so I built something to help -- something simple but flexible. Now it's out in the world -- ParentData dinner planner. Two week free trial available now...
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Stop freaking out so much about the diarrhea parasite
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Hey Education People!!
State 3-8 assessment data are starting to trickle out. We've got Tennessee, Florida (up this year a lot!), and Louisiana so far. Follow along here for detials as the data is released...
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ParentData's got something new: a Toolkit. Check it out. Make your parenting easier.
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Early look at the new ParentData dinner planner.... Take some of the mental load off of you and put it on the computer. It's simple but flexible, and we've got recipes to get you started. Available with a ParentData subscription, and with our two-week free trial.
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State school test scores from spring 2026 are starting to trickle in. Tennessee today with some small gains from 2025.
Read and subscribe for updates!
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There have been two outbreak of botulism in infant formula. Now, it seems like they are connected.
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