Elizabeth Linos
@elizabethlinos.bsky.social
Professor of Public Policy & Management, Harvard Kennedy School
Faculty Director, The People Lab
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Faculty Director, The People Lab
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Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
DOGE was both an operational and moral failure. But please remember this, next time someone implies that a team of "innovators" with no respect for public sector employees will quickly solve social challenges by working around or bypassing "the bureaucracy." It's more common than you think.
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
DOGE was both an operational and moral failure. But please remember this, next time someone implies that a team of "innovators" with no respect for public sector employees will quickly solve social challenges by working around or bypassing "the bureaucracy." It's more common than you think.
This is a new open position but we have other open positions too! Please apply!
📣 Job alert! 📣 Harvard Kennedy School is running 2 open-rank faculty searches in technology & public policy. One position is specifically for scholars using data science to address public problems. Please help us spread the word! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15561
Technology and Public Policy Search (open rank)
Harvard Kennedy School invites applications for two open rank appointments in technology and public policy. We seek applications from scholars whose research and/or practice focuses on the intersectio...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This is a new open position but we have other open positions too! Please apply!
Just two quotes from my kid tonight as a gift to you: 1. "The first human in the whole world was called Lucy. And there was a man too, right? Adam and Lucy?" 2. "Today we had to write down what we were thankful for. I said my family, my friends, and Felipe's taqueria."
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Just two quotes from my kid tonight as a gift to you: 1. "The first human in the whole world was called Lucy. And there was a man too, right? Adam and Lucy?" 2. "Today we had to write down what we were thankful for. I said my family, my friends, and Felipe's taqueria."
Cool paper!
I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Cool paper!
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this has got to be one of the best things the onion has done in years
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
theonion.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
this has got to be one of the best things the onion has done in years
Who said people don't want to work in government anymore.... This will be exciting to follow/study!
11695 I’m talking to you! We’ve received over 50K resumes, from every single zip code in NYC… except for one.
Apply today and help us build a City Hall for everyone.
Apply today and help us build a City Hall for everyone.
November 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Who said people don't want to work in government anymore.... This will be exciting to follow/study!
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#APPAM2025 day two! Here is where you can find The People Lab today...
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
#APPAM2025 day two! Here is where you can find The People Lab today...
Standing room only at 8:30am! What a committed group :)
Catch Jessica Lasky-Fink at 8:30–10:00am PST presenting new work on how outreach intensity, framing, and targeting shape benefits take-up. Field experiments with CA DSS test what works—and what doesn’t—in boosting access to the safety net.
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Standing room only at 8:30am! What a committed group :)
TPL is @ APPAM! Come say hi!
Headed to #APPAM2025 this week? Catch The People Lab team presenting new work on public management, behavioral science, and evidence use in government. If you’re attending, come find us and say hello! Coming up today...
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
TPL is @ APPAM! Come say hi!
Thrilled to be in Seattle for the Evidence Matters fair! See if you can spot a @thepeoplelab.bsky.social star, representing our work and speaking to the dedicated public servants of King county.
November 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Thrilled to be in Seattle for the Evidence Matters fair! See if you can spot a @thepeoplelab.bsky.social star, representing our work and speaking to the dedicated public servants of King county.
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
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*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps
in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a
large retail ...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
How - and I truly mean *how* is it possible to have lived through the DOGE failures and the "run government like a business" debacles, acknowledge the gross disinvestment in public sector workers, and then still go back to the old and tired "maybe if we privatize?" routine.
Almost everyone agrees that the US air traffic control system is broken.
Longstanding staffing shortages. Antiquated technology. And now, air traffic controllers are caught in the middle of a political tug of war that has nothing to do with their operations. https://cnn.it/47VlxSG
Longstanding staffing shortages. Antiquated technology. And now, air traffic controllers are caught in the middle of a political tug of war that has nothing to do with their operations. https://cnn.it/47VlxSG
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
How - and I truly mean *how* is it possible to have lived through the DOGE failures and the "run government like a business" debacles, acknowledge the gross disinvestment in public sector workers, and then still go back to the old and tired "maybe if we privatize?" routine.
Reposted by Elizabeth Linos
Reposted by Elizabeth Linos
Zohran Mamdani will become New York City's next mayor, CNN projects, after a meteoric rise in Democratic politics. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/43gCYeJ
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Zohran Mamdani will become New York City's next mayor, CNN projects, after a meteoric rise in Democratic politics. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/43gCYeJ
Ughhh so many people worked so hard on this.
👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead.
IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained.
IRS Direct File: 2023-2025.
(Story from when the pilot launched.)
IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained.
IRS Direct File: 2023-2025.
(Story from when the pilot launched.)
IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax-prep giants
The tax agency has quietly built its own prototype system for filing tax returns digitally and free of charge, according to current and former officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Ughhh so many people worked so hard on this.
There is no way to understand what is happening around SNAP without talking about the deep and pervasive stigma against being poor in America.
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
There is no way to understand what is happening around SNAP without talking about the deep and pervasive stigma against being poor in America.
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Pleased to share that the Kennedy School has been authorized to conduct a faculty search in American politics
This is as an extraordinary opportunity for us - please share widely with your networks and consider applying
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15418
This is as an extraordinary opportunity for us - please share widely with your networks and consider applying
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15418
Professor of Public Policy (American Politics)
Harvard Kennedy School seeks a scholar of the highest distinction to appoint as a professor of public policy, focusing on American politics, elections, and policy. We particularly welcome applications...
academicpositions.harvard.edu
October 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Pleased to share that the Kennedy School has been authorized to conduct a faculty search in American politics
This is as an extraordinary opportunity for us - please share widely with your networks and consider applying
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15418
This is as an extraordinary opportunity for us - please share widely with your networks and consider applying
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15418
Very thought-provoking piece by an excellent scholar and colleague. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/22/o...
The left knows how to have huge protests. The right knows how to win elections. - The Boston Globe
Democrats seem to have forgotten a crucial aspect of what sustains political movements.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Very thought-provoking piece by an excellent scholar and colleague. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/22/o...
Hiring for a research associate to join the team! Please only apply if you have over two years of work experience post-undergrad (this is not entry level!) and a genuine interest in the work that we do. We're so excited with how our team is growing!
Join The People Lab! We’re hiring a Research Associate Fellow to run RCTs, design survey experiments, & study evidence use in gov’t.
2+ yrs of post-grad experience in applied behavioral science or public management research required.
👉 Apply: peoplelab.hks.harvard.edu/careers/
2+ yrs of post-grad experience in applied behavioral science or public management research required.
👉 Apply: peoplelab.hks.harvard.edu/careers/
Careers
peoplelab.hks.harvard.edu
October 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Hiring for a research associate to join the team! Please only apply if you have over two years of work experience post-undergrad (this is not entry level!) and a genuine interest in the work that we do. We're so excited with how our team is growing!
A beautiful day in Boston!
October 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A beautiful day in Boston!
Apparently it needs to be said one more time: the way to keep our cities safe is to invest in the people who keep us safe. The people who make sure our water is safe, our roads are safe, our food is safe, our kids are safe...
October 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Apparently it needs to be said one more time: the way to keep our cities safe is to invest in the people who keep us safe. The people who make sure our water is safe, our roads are safe, our food is safe, our kids are safe...