Elizabeth Linos

Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*

The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.

Looking forward to reading it!

DOGE was both an operational and moral failure. But please remember this, next time someone implies that a team of "innovators" with no respect for public sector employees will quickly solve social challenges by working around or bypassing "the bureaucracy." It's more common than you think.

This is a new open position but we have other open positions too! Please apply!

Just two quotes from my kid tonight as a gift to you: 1. "The first human in the whole world was called Lucy. And there was a man too, right? Adam and Lucy?" 2. "Today we had to write down what we were thankful for. I said my family, my friends, and Felipe's taqueria."

Cool paper!

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...

this has got to be one of the best things the onion has done in years

Who said people don't want to work in government anymore.... This will be exciting to follow/study!

#APPAM2025 day two! Here is where you can find The People Lab today...

Don't think of your goal as finding a gap in the literature but rather joining an ongoing conversation with your insights.

Standing room only at 8:30am! What a committed group :)

TPL is @ APPAM! Come say hi!

Picture of multiple people at a "fair" with booths each showing different research teams.

Thrilled to be in Seattle for the Evidence Matters fair! See if you can spot a @thepeoplelab.bsky.social star, representing our work and speaking to the dedicated public servants of King county.

Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues

How - and I truly mean *how* is it possible to have lived through the DOGE failures and the "run government like a business" debacles, acknowledge the gross disinvestment in public sector workers, and then still go back to the old and tired "maybe if we privatize?" routine.

Zohran Mamdani will become New York City's next mayor, CNN projects, after a meteoric rise in Democratic politics. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/43gCYeJ

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Ughhh so many people worked so hard on this.

There is no way to understand what is happening around SNAP without talking about the deep and pervasive stigma against being poor in America.

Pleased to share that the Kennedy School has been authorized to conduct a faculty search in American politics

This is as an extraordinary opportunity for us - please share widely with your networks and consider applying

academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15418

The left knows how to have huge protests. The right knows how to win elections. - The Boston Globe Democrats seem to have forgotten a crucial aspect of what sustains political movements.

Very thought-provoking piece by an excellent scholar and colleague. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/22/o...

Hiring for a research associate to join the team! Please only apply if you have over two years of work experience post-undergrad (this is not entry level!) and a genuine interest in the work that we do. We're so excited with how our team is growing!

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A beautiful day in Boston!

Apparently it needs to be said one more time: the way to keep our cities safe is to invest in the people who keep us safe. The people who make sure our water is safe, our roads are safe, our food is safe, our kids are safe...

Go check out the HUD website.

Many thanks to @elizabethlinos.bsky.social for speaking today
@taubmancenter.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social. So many insights into using cutting-edge research to improve government performance!