Are teachers *generally* better at teaching students of their own sex?

NO in primary education,
YES in secondary education.

A 🧵generalizability and same-sex teacher effects

zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/2340…

Truth

The largest social media deactivation RCT was just published in PNAS: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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'Students exposed to additional funding during elementary school were substantially less likely to be arrested in adulthood.'

lol who did this

A caution on sibling comparisons in studying effects of the rearing environment.

osf.io/preprints/soca…

Happy Mother’s Day!

What are your favorite social science papers about mothers? (Self-promotion encouraged!)

Here’s one I’m proud of: “The impact of early childhood interventions on mothers.”

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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PSA

did_multiplegt_dyn has three new options!

-by_path: estimates event-study effects by treatment path. E.g. you have groups whose treatment path is 0 1 1 and others whose path is 0 1 0 & you want to estimate separately the effects of both paths
-only_never_switchers: only uses...

is 'the effects you find are modest' a valid reason for rejecting a manuscript?

This Knicks team has h(e)art

This is a very striking 'hockey stick' graph.

TV coverage starts rising when gas price hits around $3.50. briefingbook.info/p/bad-news-bia…