Making bad habits hard to do, using our tendency towards inertia to our benefit. bit.ly/332mhCK

Parents are busy. Almost all parents own cell phones. Sending messages can change behavior. Texting parents improves parenting habits #behavioraleconomics #earlyed #ece bit.ly/2mf0vLm

Grateful for the NSECE Workforce dataset: the first nationally representative sample of paid #ECE workers, understanding their motivations, beliefs, experiences. @NORCNews @ICPSR #TuesdayThoughts

New paper illustrating role of choice framing- specifically active choice- on people's subsequent behavior in @AnnenbergInst #EdWorkingPapers by @BenCastleman @Richwpatt, F. Murphy, W. Skimmyhorn buff.ly/33xW0wS #BehavioralEconomics #education #Framing #choices

Housing study buzz: Giving families information + housing vouchers improves uptake of program from 14-54%. Is it replicable? What will effects on families and children be? Looking forward to seeing how it turns out.. buff.ly/2OzJdGr @OppInsights #housing #poverty

How has well-intended education research throughout the 21st century shaped the system (and its flaws) today? Interesting reflecting by @DLabaree on the "Do No Harm" principle. What #biases affect researchers when doing their own work? buff.ly/2MYqIcE #BehavioralEconomics

Great new paper by @RDizonRoss in @AEAjournals on #BehavioralEconomics and #parenting: Parents’ Beliefs about Their Children’s Academic Ability: Implications for Educational Investments buff.ly/31Cy7T1

"“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”—Shakespeare" ..Dunning-Kruger effect on entertaining display: buff.ly/2Z2DPM2 @ThisAmerLife; original study here: buff.ly/2H0bqQQ #behavioraleconomics

Question for #ECE #Twitter community: How do you refer to the classroom-based #ECE staff? #Teachers? #Workers? Others? Interchangeable? What are the implications of each? Pros and cons of each? @CSCCEUCB @ZEROTOTHREE @theOunce @WolfsSharon @KimBoller1 @NatlHeadStart @HighScopeUS

The dark truth about #early child care and #education: "Funded" thru #poverty wages for #workers. New values-based #budget for #ECE. How does economic condition shape #classroom behavior? @EconomicPolicy @CSCCEUCB @eliselgould @zanemokhiber buff.ly/2Oc7mCU #teacherspay

Op-Ed @nytimes on #prek; Q posed in article: "And, finally, how can new pre-K programs in cities like NYC, San Antonio and Seattle deliver it?". Translating #policy to #practice: Is there use for a #behavioralscience lens? buff.ly/2LifqQn #earlyyears

Playtime might conflict with general beliefs in broader culture about what a "real school" is, so it comes to seem like reform or innovation. #Play is not frivolous; are cultural conceptions of "real #schools" frivolous? buff.ly/2XWEiTx @aishaschnell @blog_bold @Miyogman

We are participating and bringing a behavioral lens to thinking about #summer reading!

ECE Workers have disproportionate rates of depression: “They describe the jobs as extremely stressful, extremely demanding, but with very low status and a lot of what’s experienced as disrespect from both parents and society more generally,” @HeatherDHill2 buff.ly/2XyiEpr

Bandwidth dedicated to one area of thinking depletes that which can be applied to another area. Does heightened periods of food insecurity correspond with sub-optimal financial or parenting decisions? Thanks @agpines @anika__sf for contribution. buff.ly/2XDoBRZ

To strengthen #ECE workforce, recognize limited mental bandwidth & foster strong professional identities and sense of professional value #earlyedchat @preschoolToday @momsirsing @mamasconpoder @First_Focus

"The birth of my son was a joyous occasion. Still, like Kutuzov, I’m at a loss to explain it: it’s a momentous choice, but I can’t pinpoint the making of it in space or time." @joshuarothman

"Can it be that I allowed Napoleon to get as far as Moscow?” Tolstoy’s General Kutuzov wonders. “When was it decided? Was it yesterday, when I sent Platov the order to retreat, or was it the evening before, when I dozed off & told Bennigsen to give the orders? Or still earlier?”

"I gradually & unintentionally transitioned from not particularly wanting children to wanting them...If I made a decision, it wasn’t a very decisive one." Great discussion about the very nature of decisions, when they happen (if they do)... buff.ly/2XIk2oR @joshuarothman

New meta-analysis on #presentbias finds that "people are on average present biased, but the estimates exhibit substantial heterogeneity across studies". Notably absent from existing literature: parenting! #BehavioralEconomics @UCBITSS @CFCamerer buff.ly/2IxQLDx