Exciting opportunity to contribute JSCAN Journal special issue “From Transactions to Partnerships: Opportunities and Challenges of Formal Relational Contracting in the Public Sector”. Guest edited by me & Government Outcomes Lab colleagues. Abstract deadline 31 May golab.bsg.ox.ac.uk/documents/Rela…

Tennessee has the resources to invest more in students' mental health, and they are greatly needed now! Gov. Bill Lee tennessean.com/story/opinion/… via @tennessean

One promising solution to eroding public trust in democracy is to take engagement between citizens and public servants offline, write @Blavatnikschool’s Elle Carter and Vanderbilt University’s Carolyn Heinrich. bit.ly/4a8s2Rb

After the violence on #UTAustin 's campus yesterday, I asked my students if they still wanted to have class.

So we ate doughnuts, took last day of school pictures, and talked about protest politics.

I just got chased out of my classroom with this notice. It was terrifying. I had to dismiss class. The irony: Students were presenting on mental health resources in higher ed!!! How would anyone know we were just in class v. “violators” when we exited? SWEET BABY JESUS HELP TX

This photo is one that captures what took place on campus, and where we are at this moment— best. The question after today’s events, for all of us affiliated with UT-Austin, is whose Texas is this? Photo cred:Michael Minasi

I tell everyone that my favorite part of working Univ of Utah ELP is the people. So happy to see these excellent colleagues be recognized for their excellent work.

We’ve polled Tennessee parents the last 2 years about measures they would favor to make schools safer from gun violence. At the bottom of the list … arming teachers. The majority of parents do not support it. tennessean.com/story/news/pol…

Tennessee Republicans just cut off debate and passed a bill to arm teachers in our schools.

The public chanted “Blood on your hands!” as the Speaker ordered troopers to clear the gallery.

This is what fascism looks like.

Congratulations, Laura Rogers! This is wonderful news and such an important award!

You will be SO greatly missed here, Stephen Patrick, MD, MPH!

Today Speaker Sexton had a mother arrested in the gallery while holding a sign opposing more guns in schools.

Each day he grows more drunk with power, and is enabled by an extremist supermajority complicit in his authoritarianism.

We are witnessing the death of our democracy.

How can we effectively communicate evidence to policymakers? In an experiment among US policymakers, Mattie Toma and I show that complexity is an important barrier and identify 2 decision aids that enhance policymakers’ responsiveness to evidence sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Yesterday my Republican colleagues passed a bill to report professors for teaching “divisive concepts.”

Instead of answering my questions, the sponsor questioned my literacy and talked about “people of my race.”

Clearly his views were influenced by his segregated schooling.

Excited to start at School of Public Affairs, continuing my research and policy work on improving college access and outcomes, and addressing poverty and economic mobility. Look forward to working w students interested in tackling those problems too!

And we are very grateful, Felipe Barrera-Osorio, that you are in our department Peabody College, where your work so inspires us and our students!

Missing you very much here, Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna!

A revised version of the NBER w.p. has now been published (with a different title) Journal of Health Economics.
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This is it, Senator London Lamar! No better image to convey whose lives are at stake with this TNGOP bill that is against the best interests of our children.

Sen. LAMAR: “This bill is dangerous… Teachers don’t want it. The school districts don’t want it. It’s not going to work. It’s going to cause more school shootings.”

A fiery Senator London Lamar speaking against a TNGOP bill allowing some teachers to carry handguns in school.