Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

Lessons From An Immigrant-Focused Community COVID-19 Vaccination Organization | Health Affairs Forefront The Seward Vaccine Equity Project, a small, all-volunteer organization in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has found success organizing vaccination events using community organizing and word-of-mouth technique...

Also, the social value of having people NOT being isolated in this way is one of the most important things I learned in the pandemic. My community vaccination collaborators and I wrote about this here (lesson 5, which I wish we'd given a less wishy-washy title)

I'm not saying that's the only thing (the opioid crisis is real and deeply tragic, and I've also found it very distressing to find needles on the play structure in my kid's nearest playground, so I'm not being dismissive of all such reactions) but I really do think this is a dynamic

By the way, I've long had a pet theory that a lot of the cultural/political hysteria about crime these days is driven by just this kind of isolation

Rich people are used now to being segregated amongst themselves that, when they do come into contact w normal urban disorder, they're very disturbed

This seems pretty reasonable in light of the need to reach decisions and get the money out

This *strongly* accords with my impressions of the Minneapolis - St Paul metro area (both cities and also the suburbs with which I'm familiar), fwiw

“I’ll work during her nap,” right before I collapse in exhaustion

I’ve had a kid for over three and a half years and I still, to this day, overestimate how much work I can get done on weekends because I haven’t totally updated my priors from my pre-kid life

Malleable Minds: The Effects of STEM- vs. Humanities-Focused Curricula Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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We examine the impacts of assignment to STEM vs. humanities-focused curricula in Romania’s high school system. We apply a regression discontinuity design to administrative and survey data to estimate effects on educational pathways, desired careers, and non-cognitive outcomes. An overarching theme of our findings is the malleability of students to what they study. Assignment to STEM increases STEM college enrollment and technology or engineering career intentions by 25 pp. Exploring mechanisms, we find that STEM assignment changes students’ self-perceived academic abilities and their preferences over academic subjects and job tasks. STEM assignment is risky for low-achieving students, reducing their chances of passing a high school exit exam and enrolling in college. A final finding is that STEM makes boys more conservative, while shifting some of girls' views to the left. Our results identify a strategy for promoting STEM higher education and careers, but also highlight potential tradeoffs.

The “malleability of students to what they study” seems exactly right to me but it’s so good to have empirical confirmation.

The riskiness of STEM focus feels like it doesn’t *need* to be true yet probably *is* true in most settings, whereas the political consequences probably vary across settings?

As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.

Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.

She is a lot of fun (and trouble)

Today she made a very demanding request for more berries and when we pointed out that a key word had been omitted, she said, “The ‘please’ is silent.”

We all agreed that was quite funny, and as a result, her request was considered and granted.

CORRECTION: A *third* potato has been named after Prince.

Opinion | The American Elevator Explains Why Housing Costs Have Skyrocketed (Published 2024)

The story I’ve heard is that it’s about stretchers; here’s one version

(That’s a genuine question and I agree with the claim in general)

The elevator size rules for residential buildings are a genuine exception, right?

I spent most of the day talking with folks about how to talk about trans rights, and then we went and had conversations on doors in very light blue district. And it went...great!

Change is possible. And all of us have the power to nudge it along. Get in the work, wherever it is for you.

One of the cutest things my 3-year-old does is tell stories (true or otherwise) from the distant past, “when I was a kid”

We took the most labor-intensive parts of traditional parenting (breastfeeding, baby wearing, cosleeping) and the most labor-intensive parts of modern western parenting (lots of intellectual stimulation, gentle discipline, the child as the center of family life) and we did BOTH.

This really feels true to my experience and observations

I handed out neighbor-printed whistles in Flatbush tonight and it was lovely. New Yorkers in motion do not EVER stop to chat but for this, they did.

One church lady in a fancy hat gleefully took a whistle and told me she’d “blow they icy asses outta her town,” then apologized skyward for swearing.

I feel like this chart does suggest that that's partly true, if their views are left-wing? Look at how the lefty policy preferences have two humps (ideological and non-ideological), vs. the more uniformly highly ideological right-wing preferences

(I didn't specifically list the cleaning staff in my list of jobs but they are employees here, not contractors, and they and their partners were indeed at the outing)

Said and done

One year, when the custodians were preparing a strike at my university, I got to chatting w one of them on a picket line. He told me how proud he is to work at a great university & how lucky I am to work there, too

I have never forgotten how clearly meaningful this was to him. That's what we want!

The foundation I'm visiting has 2 outings each year, like Broadway plays plus fancy dinner

These events are for EVERYONE working here--us visitors, program staff, finance & HR, maintenance, kitchen staff, everyone--& their +1s

What would universities be like if we valued everyone working there?

Man, I’d missed this piece on MnDOT’s summer of failure, but I like it!

(gift link)

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

We don’t need to keep arguing about it! But my take is that I made a comment about the Jimny’s design being not that safe and *you* went in a weird direction about blame

Your original point is interesting so sorry for the digression I guess. Have a good day

Ok, let me grant that. Should they die for it?