Mark Chin

🚨Ed policy researchers, look at the newest special call!

📲 We’re eager to fund RCTs and quasi-experimental studies that produce actionable evidence on how K–12 cell phone policies affect student learning, behavior, and well-being.

🗓️ 3-page LOIs due May 1. Learn more: bit.ly/47n9e1L

And no VFX; they were really in the fire. When I say you felt this scene, here’s another reason why. Thank you Autumn Durald Arkapaw!

Attention procrastinators! @arnoldventures.bsky.social LOIs are due in 3 days (March 6) for studies evaluating the causal impacts of U.S. social programs and policies.

🔗 Details + FAQs: bit.ly/4aXA43k

Join the Doctoral Student Community Group’s pre-conference webinar series 🧑‍💻

TOMORROW at 12 PM & 3 PM ET, they’ll host a session on navigating #AEFP2026 as a doctoral student. Register today! aefpweb.org/ev_calen...

amazing - yes, we'll add you to the reviewer list! thank you Andrew!

Is there an alumni group for IES-funded PhD’s?

IES supposedly funded over 1000 PhDs, of which I am apparently one of the last. With the training grants dying, it’d be great to have a formal alumni network where we could share jobs, grant opportunities, etc.

so is there an APIE then

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Incredible findings on the importance of aspirations in future success. #EconSky @ifpri.org

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Exciting news! We just posted an opening for a Survey Associate on @pewresearch.org's Methods team! This is an amazing opportunity for someone relatively early in their career to join what is, IMO, the most fun methods team in the business. Full description at the link below.

Join the Doctoral Student Community Group’s pre-conference webinar series 🧑‍💻

Next Wednesday, March 4 at 12 PM & 3 PM ET, they’ll host a session on navigating #AEFP2026 as a doctoral student. Register today! aefpweb.org/ev_calen...

Join the Doctoral Student Community Group TOMORROW at 1 PM ET for tips on creating strong poster & paper presentations for #AEFP2026 aefpweb.org/ev_calen...

Interesting piece in ASR.

"This article argues that folklore [...] shapes far-right voting by inculcating feeling rules that resonate with nativist and autocratic ideas... we find a robust and considerable effect of the presence of fearful folktales on radical right voting."

Congrats!!! Swarthmore is an awesome community to be a part of.

Feel free to connect if we aren't already - I'm mostly just reposting job opps over there:
www.linkedin.com/in/markjchin

Quick musing from what I've seen recently- If you're looking for job opportunities in the ed policy/research space, I think you should probably be on LinkedIn if you aren't already. I've mostly used Bluesky for research engagement, but feel like more job posts are over on LinkedIn (used to be on X).

The Department of Government at Colby College invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Policy to begin August 1, 2026.
www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
#PAJobMarket

For years, I've wanted to build interfaces for an ongoing data collection effort (web scraped job postings) but never had the time. In about 30 minutes with a gen AI tool I was able to make something passably decent: job-postings.andrewmcamp.com

(@cedr.bsky.social)

oh and review time is from april 27-may 28!

Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics of Education in Medford, for Tufts University Exciting opportunity in Medford, for Tufts University as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics of...

Postdoc posting: Economics of education at Tufts with my colleague Elizabeth Setren.

main.hercjobs.org/jobs/2203818...

If you are reviewing for ASHE, AERA, and AEFP (!!!) definitely don't feel like you need to for APPAM too!! Trying to catch those folks in particular who didn't know they could be a part of the APPAM review process 🫡🫡🫡

There may also be a panel in the review set, too - same set of scale questions/feedback for not each individual paper but the whole set together, but that'd be more like 2500 words. This may be a little off from my memory of reviewing a year ago, but I'm pretty sure it's not far off!!

For each of the ~10 reviews (hopefully fewer), you'd be reading a 500 word abstract and IIRC scoring the submission on a few likert scale questions and then providing a few sentences of feedback for the ones who you are not recommending to be included in the program

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Edu policy peeps!

I'm co-chairing the edu section for APPAM 2026 conference with @doughesm.bsky.social @taylorodle.bsky.social and @brittanyvasquez.bsky.social - if you would be interested in reviewing submissions, please let us know! We're aiming for about ~10 per reviewer.

@appam.bsky.social

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New Postdoctoral Research Associate positions at @Princeton's Office of Population Research!

Happy lunar new year!

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VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here!

New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more!

edopportunity.org/segregation/

Celebrate presidents' day by voting for @jscottclayton.bsky.social!