Jason Baron

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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

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.

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

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

📢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/raxutwq…

Sunset at Duke with cherry blossoms today — looks like we are ready for the campus visit of all PhD admits this Friday.

🚨📢 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-ec… 2024 edition ⛷️ youtu.be/Qb3gw1IFjnk?si… #econtwitter @hdl_uandes @uandes

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-chap… (short summary thread👇)

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.

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/38…

Please RT/spread the word about this online causal inference course! Starting September 9th -- I'm very excited for it!

Forthcoming in @restatjournal: "Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime" by @JasonBaron4, @jmhyman, & @BrittanyEdPol doi.org/10.1162/rest_a…

#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/qj…

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.

Students exposed to more school funding during elementary school are less likely to be arrested as adults. Just Accepted new paper by Jason Baron (@JasonBaron4), Joshua Hyman (@jmhyman), Brittany Vasquez (@BrittanyEdPol) zurl.co/tpBm

I am delighted to share that I am joining the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy @sppgatech as an Assistant Professor next January! This was a serendipitous opportunity and I am so thankful it did not pass me by. Looking forward to starting a new chapter in Atlanta!

Happy to see this coming out in print soon! TL/DR, good schools are particularly helpful for less-advantaged kids. Who Benefits from Attending Effective High Schools? | Journal of Labor Economics journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10…

In this new paper, ⁦@EdFundNews⁩ board member ⁦@JasonBaron4⁩ finds that increased funding for elementary schools leads to a significant reduction in arrests later in life | The Review of Economics and Statiatics direct.mit.edu/rest/article/d…

@KiraboJackson Thank you, Bo! Wouldn’t have been possible without your initial work on this topic!

Happy to see this important paper in print! direct.mit.edu/rest/article-a…