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Anjali Adukia @aadukia.bsky.social · 15d

A fantastic day 1 of the @UChicago AI in Social Science conference! Thanks to the amazing participants, @CAAI_Booth, @MiiELab, and especially @BeckerFriedman for such an engaging day! A delightfully thought-provoking keynote by Jon Kleinberg capped off the evening!

bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event...

Sign saying 2025 AI in social science conference

Presenter presenting in front of people at conference

Presenter presenting in front of podium at conference. Rockefeller Chapel in background.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Jul 19

We each find our way through these times

As an academic, I am doing this:

Uplift those whose research you admire. Diversify the academy.

Many ways to do this:

-Nominate for awards (did 2 yesterday)
-If you are in an academy, nominate to it (did 3 this month)
-cite them in a paper and/or talk

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Anjali Adukia @aadukia.bsky.social · Jul 7

Delighted and honored to be invited to be a network member of @cesifo.org!

CESifo @cesifo.org · Jul 7

🎓 Say hello to our newest network member @aadukia.bsky.social from University of Chicago ! She is also the founder and director of the MiiE Lab (Messages, Identity, and Inclusion in Education).‬

Learn more about her work: voices.uchicago.edu/anjali/
More Details: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ne...

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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · Jun 25

Y’all, I wrote a book!

www.amazon.com/Science-Seco...

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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · Jun 10

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Despite polarized debates over school curricula, textbooks in Texas and California schools are more alike than expected.

🔍 @aadukia.bsky.social‬ & @emileigharrison.bsky.social‬
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1195

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 6

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

www.spencer.org

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CESifo @cesifo.org · May 24

𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀, oganized by 𝗚𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝗵𝗹 is ending. 👏to @jopieboy.bsky.social on winning the Affiliate Award. Great presentations by @ursina.bsky.social @aadukia.bsky.social, @martinauccioli.bsky.social. 🙏 A special thanks to 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗔𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗿 for her keynote and to all presenters!

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Anjali Adukia @aadukia.bsky.social · May 19

So excited to share new work with
@emileigharrison.bsky.social about the presence and portrayal of topics, values, and identities in U.S. textbooks!

What we teach in our curricula is more similar across our country than political narratives might have us believe.

tinyurl.com/miiebooks miielab.com

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UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · May 9

Using rare skin tone data from the Freedman’s Bank (1865–74) linked to the 1870 Census, researchers find wealthier or literate people with the same complexion were more often classified as White or Mulatto—fueling future segregation. By @aadukia.bsky.social and co-authors.

Read more: bit.ly/42NSnU6

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Anjali Adukia @aadukia.bsky.social · Feb 27

Submit your work using AI in the social sciences to the annual AI in Social Science conference at The University of Chicago! Submissions due May 1!

The conference will be held September 25-26 in Chicago, IL, USA.

@beckerfriedman.bsky.social @HarrisPolicy @MiiELab

bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event...

Call for papers, 2025 AI in social science conference, September 25-26

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UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · Apr 25

Think suspensions are key to classroom order? Think again. Evidence from Chicago public high schools shows that reducing suspensions through restorative justice doesn’t harm learning—and improves school climate, especially for Black students. By @aadukia.bsky.social .

Read more: bit.ly/4jstK5j

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Anjali Adukia @aadukia.bsky.social · Dec 5

Econ RA/Predoc Opportunity!

Ben Feigenberg & I are looking for an RA to work with us on projects studying the impacts of restorative justice in schools. Apply here!
uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

@econ_ra @UChicago @thisisUIC @HarrisPolicy @BeckerFriedman
#EconSky

Professor Anjali Adukia (University of Chicago) and Professor Ben Feigenberg (University of Illinois at Chicago) seek a full-time research assistant with strong technical skills to work on large-scale social policy research projects designed to improve educational outcomes. The analyst will work on a portfolio of projects related to education and restorative justice in schools. The position is based in Chicago, IL.

The successful candidate will have experience in applying a variety of statistical modeling and data analysis techniques to datasets in real-world settings. From project inception to delivery, the RA will contribute to all facets of data collection and cleaning, model development, and implementation.

To apply, please submit a resume/CV, a letter of interest, the name of at least one reference, and an unofficial transcript through the UChicago Workday jobs portal.
Example Responsibilities
• Works with partners and members of the research team to propose and implement analytical approaches to solving specific research questions.
• Cleans, transforms, merges, and matches between large and complex research and administrative datasets.
• Builds statistical models for a variety of research projects.
• Performs sampling, power analysis, and randomization.
• Prepares results for memos, presentations, and academic papers for both policymakers and researchers.
• Assists with literature reviews and drafting papers.
• Writes statistical computer programs and reviews computer output for consistency and quality.
Maintains technical and administrative support for a research project.
• Analyzes and maintains data and/or specimens.
• Conducts literature reviews.
• Assists with preparation of reports, manuscripts, and other documents.
• Performs other related work as needed.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · Mar 11

IT'S OFFICIAL. I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK! 🤯

#TheDoubleTax unpacks the cost of being a woman, why the bill runs higher for women of color, and how closing the gaps moves us ALL forward. #blacksky #booksky #econsky

PRE-ORDER NOW: tinyurl.com/doubletax-or...
Get Involved: tinyurl.com/doubletax-join

THE DOUBLE TAX: How Women of Color are Overcharged and Underpaid

Coming September 2025
Available for Preorder

Portfolio/Penguin

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Anjali Adukia @aadukia.bsky.social · Feb 27

Submit your work using AI in the social sciences to the annual AI in Social Science conference at The University of Chicago! Submissions due May 1!

The conference will be held September 25-26 in Chicago, IL, USA.

@beckerfriedman.bsky.social @HarrisPolicy @MiiELab

bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event...

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Rick Hornbeck @rickhornbeck.bsky.social · Feb 27

Excited to share this new paper on how race was constructed along socioeconomic lines in US history, during a period of unfulfilled potential for social change between emancipation and Jim Crow segregation

NBER @nber.org · Feb 27

Examining the social construction of race during the US Reconstruction Era finds that people with the same skin tone were racialized based on their wealth, setting a path for racial stratification, from @aadukia.bsky.social, Hornbeck, Keniston, and Lualdi https://www.nber.org/papers/w33502

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Anjali Adukia @aadukia.bsky.social · Feb 27

So excited to share new work on the social construction of race during the US Reconstruction Era, joint with @rickhornbeck.bsky.social, Daniel Keniston, and Benjamin Lualdi!
nber.org/papers/w33502

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · Feb 24

Super cool to see a paper like this as an NBER working paper. I haven't tracked it systematically, but I think there's a lot more of this style of work on race and racism in econ now than when I started paying attention to the field in the 2000s. www.nber.org/papers/w33502

The Social Construction of Race during Reconstruction

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · Feb 24

"In contrast to this literature that explores differences in socioeconomic status by skin tone categories, controlling for race, our analysis shows that race is an outcome – influenced by socioeconomic status among people with the same detailed physical skin tone."

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · Feb 24

And they cite a ton of sociology (and other fields) as well! You love to see it.

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Anjali Adukia @aadukia.bsky.social · Feb 24

Thanks so much for the shoutout! Very excited to have this work out with Rick Hornbeck, Dan Keniston, and Ben Lualdi!

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · Feb 23

I'm sure very few people know about this. Inmates in 43 states are charged a per diem cost for "room and board" ranging between $40 to hundreds of dollars. In some states you owe for every day of your original sentence EVEN IF YOU GET OUT EARLY.

www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

In some cases this can add up to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees, as it did for a woman named Shelby Hoffman. Originally sentenced to seven years, she served only ten months before being released. A couple years later while applying for a job and jumping through the typical hoops that a formerly incarcerated person has to do as a matter of course, she found out she still owed $127,750.

"I felt so tricked and so fooled," Hoffman said.

"There is no ladder with them. There is nothing that you can do. Apparently. That will ever truly allow you to be a second chance anything. There isn’t. And they make sure of it.”

Obviously this is not really about reimbursing the state for your stay in Hotel Hell, it's also, as so many things in this country are, about creating and entrapping people in a permanent underclass from which there is little hope of escape. Saddling people, and yes usually a certain kind of people, who have served their time, with crippling debt so that they'll be forced into accepting worse working conditions forever. Or end up back in prison again where the state can further profit off of their bodies.

As an added bonus, those that cannot pay the fees have also not technically completed the terms of their sentence and therefore cannot have their voting rights restored.

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Feb 13

Sunday is the deadline for submissions to our

🚀 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🥳

12-13 May 2025, Munich

Keynotes: Alexander Willén and @alexeble.bsky.social 🎇

Submit now!
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Jan 9

📢 Call for papers:

🚀 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🥳

12-13 May 2025, Munich

Keynote: Alexander Willen

PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!

www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...

Deadline: 16 Feb 2025

Co-organizer: Caterina Pavese @cesifo.org #EconSky

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Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm.bsky.social · Feb 13

Knowing what works, for whom, and under what conditions is one of the most powerful tools I can imagine in public policy. Adding cost effectiveness analysis can improve efficiency while understanding context supports generalizability.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Feb 11

Institute of Education Sciences was a George W Bush innovation

Republicans made it happen, as part of NCLB

Education Sciences Act of 2002

Idea was to provide a research base for its accountability: here are scientifically-tested methods than can improve education

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Feb 11

Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.

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