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Honored to host Nobel Laureate Professor Josh Angrist as the 2024 BIDMC Smith Center Visiting Professor this morning. Phenomenal talk on instrumental variable methods and their application in cardiovascular research and clinical trials!

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Colon cancer screenings may have greater impact than previously thought. New work by Blueprint’s Josh Angrist and Peter Hull finds that colon cancer screenings reduce rates of colorectal cancer by twice the previously estimated impact. Read more: news.mit.edu/2023/study-col…

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In case you were having 2nd thoughts about that colonoscopy your doc ordered: Instrumental variables methods reconcile intention-to-screen effects across pragmatic cancer screening trials | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Our new handbook chapter w/ Josh Angrist & Christopher Walters is now available online! Check out the latest in estimating institutional quality with quasi-experimental data: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hbvF5bvkCuu…

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📢 Applications are open for the MIT School Access and Quality fellowship, a one-year program for enrollment leaders working on equitable enrollment reforms.

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Exciting to meet so many aspiring masters at Zhejiang University in steamy-but-scenic Hangzhou, China and NTU Singapore

📣 We're hiring two postdocs to join the What Works Hub for Global Education team Blavatnik School of Government University of Oxford. Spread the word and apply by Aug 7! Join our new & growing team.
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Join us at #NCSC 23 by publiccharters.org .
Tues, June 20, 2023 @ 11:30 AM - Room 18CD
We'll share lessons from ApplyLA New Jersey Children's Foundation & other communities who have built common applications for #charterschools . Feat Kate Fletcher Josh Kinoshita Greg Bybee #ChartersWork #NCSC

📣SO excited about this paper 'Implementation Matters: Generalizing Treatment Effects in Education' w/ early modern boy-actress (they/them)
➡️Effective education interventions (e.g TaRL) generalize well across contexts *when accounting for implementation*👇striking figures aggregating ITT vs TOT effects

To make the point on what I was saying earlier on the Top 5 journals in economics: getting into one is very very difficult and should not be a prereq for tenure cases. If we continue along this path we will be in an econ mental health crisis. Great work is published everywhere.

Props to Avela Education for helping make the NOLA preschool match a success!
NOLA Public Schools Releases Early Childhood (Birth-4 Year) Main Round of NCAP Results for 2023-2024 School Year nolapublicschools.com/news-blog/nola…

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