@JasonBaron4

Assistant Professor of Economics @DukeEcon. FRF @nberpubs.

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Joined September 2013
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@nberpubsJul 2
Unilateral vetoes are widely used in practice. Characterizing their obvious strategy-proofness and providing empirical evidence of their efficacy in two applications, from Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey, @JasonBaron4, and Richard Lombardo nber.org/papers/w35383
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Today I'm launching a podcast! It’s called The Context Window with David Deming. My first guest is Angela Duckworth. @angeladuckw
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Chalkbeat@ChalkbeatMay 19
In Los Angeles, individual letters about student growth barely changed families’ decisions. But when enough parents got them, choices shifted — and students benefited. chalkbeat.org/2026/05/19/los…

Can better data help families choose schools? Only if it spreads.

In Los Angeles, individual letters about student growth barely changed families’ decisions. But when enough parents got them, choices shifted — and students benefited.

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Let's figure out this phone thing — what it's doing to us, and our kids. But let's do it by focusing on research rather than intuitions. I just reviewed the latest evidence, and it leads to some pretty interesting (and unexpected) places. newsletter.platypuseconomics…

What Really Happens When Schools Lock Away Phones?

And why the biggest benefit isn't test scores

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Jason Baron retweeted
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@nberpubsMay 5
National study finds lockable pouches reduce in-school phone use but have little effect on test scores. Discipline and student well-being worsen on adoption, improving thereafter, from @huntallcott, @JasonBaron4, @ProfTDee, Angela L. Duckworth, Matthew Gentzkow, and Brian Jacob nber.org/papers/w35132
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Barbara Biasi@BarbaraBiasiMar 24
📣📚💵Doing research on school finance? @EdFundNews - a nonprofit supporting policy-relevant, actionable research - is accepting proposals. Topics include career pathways, English learners, and at-risk students. LOIs due April 24. Please apply! 🔗 ed-fund.org/wp-content/uploa…
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1/ I have an outstanding student on the job market! @Barron_Tsai is among the select group of top students I’ve had the pleasure to advise at Duke. yhbarrontsai.github.io/
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Did you know that 1/5 of the prison population in the U.S. is comprised of former foster children? But (!) it appears that relationship is not causal. This new ReStat leverages quasi-random assignment of kids to foster care in Michigan to show that placement actually substantially reduces the chances of adult arrests.
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Leveraging the quasi-random assignment of investigators, the authors show that foster care reduces later-in-life crime. Just Accepted new paper by E. Jason Baron @jasonbaron4 and Max Gross zurl.co/KDMa7

Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators

Abstract. Foster care placement is strongly associated with crime—for example, close to one fifth of the prison population in the U.S. is comprised of former foster children—yet there is little...

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I'm excited to help organize @OppInsights' 2025 Conference on Economic Mobility (Oct 9-10)! Submit your papers by August 1st here: opportunityinsights.org/upda…. Looking forward to reading your submissions! #EconTwitter

2025 Conference on Economic Mobility | Opportunity Insights

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Opportunity Insights@OppInsights19 May 2025
📣We’re hosting our 4th annual conference on economic opportunity on October 9-10 with opening remarks from Raj Chetty and a Keynote from @DavidAutor. This is an excellent opportunity for both junior and senior scholars to share their work. ⬇️
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📢New working paper with @borusyak: "Optimal Formula Instruments"! We derive the most powerful recentered IVs for treatments given by complex formulas, and propose an algorithm for approximating them in practice This approach yields *huge* power gains, relative to a conventional simulated IV approach, when estimating Medicaid crowdout effects from ACA expansions Check it out! dropbox.com/scl/fi/raxutwqx1…
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Sunset at Duke with cherry blossoms today — looks like we are ready for the campus visit of all PhD admits this Friday.
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🚨📢 3rd Workshop on Economics of Education, Valle Nevado, 🇨🇱 (Aug 19-22) Confirmed speakers 🎓 JOHN FRIEDMAN (Brown) 🎓 STEVE PISCHKE (LSE) ✅ Submissions by March 2nd, 2025. uandes.cl/workshop-on-econom… 2024 edition ⛷️ youtu.be/Qb3gw1IFjnk?si=jU-C… #econtwitter @hdl_uandes @uandes

Workshop on Economics of Education - Universidad de los Andes

VALLE NEVADO, CHILE

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I have a new NBER WP out with @JasonBaron4, Joe Doyle, @nataliahemanuel, and Joseph Ryan on racial discrimination in foster care decisions. Check it out! nber.org/books-and-chapters/… (short summary thread👇)
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Introducing our 2024-2025 job market candidates, all seeking employment starting Summer 2025. For more information, visit: econ.duke.edu/graduate/hire-…… or see 🧵 below.
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Our new field experiment (w/ @AnujitCh, @hmmlowe, @GarethNellis) shows how brief interactions with multiple outgroup members (broad contact) and longer interactions with a single one (deep contact) shape intergroup relations. Paper: researchgate.net/publication…

(PDF) Learning About Outgroups: The Impact of Broad Versus Deep Interactions

PDF | We hypothesize that broad contact, involving brief interactions with multiple outgroup members, and deep contact, meaning longer interactions with... | Find, read and cite all the research you...

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Matt Lowe@hmmlowe14 Sep 2024
Prejudice is often rooted in misperceptions: that the outgroup are lazy, unpatriotic, etc. Our new field experiment asks: to reduce misperceptions, is it better to become close with one outgroup member (deep contact), or to have brief encounters with many (broad contact)?
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Please RT/spread the word about this online causal inference course! Starting September 9th -- I'm very excited for it!
Peter Hull@instrumenthull26 Aug 2024
I had a great time teaching a minicourse on design-based econometrics in Bergen last week. See attached for a snapshot of what we talked about! For those outside of Norway, I'll be teaching a version of the course online in two weeks. Sign up here! mixtapesessions.io/session/d…
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Forthcoming in @restatjournal: "Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime" by @JasonBaron4, @jmhyman, & @BrittanyEdPol doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01452
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QJE@QJEHarvard8 Jul 2024
#QJE May 2024, #5, “Discrimination in Multi-Phase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection,” by Baron (@JasonBaron4), Doyle (@josephjdoylejr), Emanuel (@NataliaHEmanuel), Hull (@instrumenthull), and Ryan: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjae007

Discrimination in Multiphase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection*

Abstract. We develop empirical tools for studying discrimination in multiphase systems and apply them to the setting of foster care placement by child prot

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Invest in public education, reduce crime. New research published in the Review of Economics and Statistics finds that increases in school funding levels are outweighed by reduced criminal justice spending down the road. We can build strong kids or house broken adults.
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