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The NBER Methods lectures are happening this week! Find details on how you can tune into Prof. Chetty and Prof. Kosuke Imai's presentations here⬇️

Missed it live?

Yesterday, OI Co-Director Nathan Hendren presented new research on credit access in the U.S. at the NBER Summer Institute. You can now watch the full presentation and explore the findings.

📺Watch: shorturl.at/CIwZr

📚Explore: shorturl.at/gigae

1/ New working paper with Trevor Bakker, @stefanie-deluca.bsky.social, Eric English, Jamie Fogel, and Nathan Hendren: We use newly linked Census, IRS, and credit bureau data to explore differences in credit access by race, class, and hometown.

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Nathan Hendren will be presenting this new research at the NBER Summer Institute today, July 17, at 10:45 am EST.

Tune in on YouTube:
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t2F...

🔍Review key findings: shorturl.at/UzHX6

📍See what credit access looks like in your community: www.opportunityatlas.org

📰Read media coverage: www.wsj.com/economy/cred...

➡️Main Finding: Differences in credit access emerge early in adulthood and persist, driven not just by income or wealth, but by childhood environments.

Today, @oppinsights.bsky.social released new research illuminating differences in credit access across the U.S. by race, class, and where you grow up.
🔗 shorturl.at/PxYvH

Link to submit:
🔗 opportunityinsights.org/updates/2025...

#Econ #EconomicMobility #CallForPapers

📢 Just a few weeks left! Submit your paper by Aug 1st to be part of our 4th Annual Conference on Economic Opportunity (Oct 9–10), featuring opening remarks from Raj Chetty and a keynote by Dave Autor. A great platform for both junior and senior scholars to share their work. ⬇️

These lectures will cover both the frontier of statistical methods on mediation and surrogate indices and provide practical guidance for applied researchers.

Find more info and livestream link here:
🔗 www.nber.org/conferences/...

Interested in using intermediate outcomes to better understand causal mechanisms and predict long-term impacts of interventions? Join Prof. Chetty and Prof. Kosuke Imai at the NBER Methods lectures:

📅 Thursday, 7/24, 3 pm
📍 Cambridge, MA for NBER SI attendees, or virtually ⬇️

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🌸 OI’s Spring ’25 newsletter is here!

🔎 Explore our new research in standardized testing and new measurement methods, see how local leaders and communities are integrating OI data into mobility strategies, and more!

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Be part of a mission-driven team working at the intersection of data, policy, and opportunity.

🔗Apply now: opportunityinsights.org/joinourteam/

💼Assistant Director for Research Administration and Finance

Oversee complex grants and financial operations, supporting the sustainability of a high-impact research center.

💼Special Projects Manager

Lead the launch of a new initiative using big data to evaluate and scale social programs. Ideal for candidates with experience in project management and social impact investing.

🚨We're hiring at Opportunity Insights!

Join the OI team at Harvard and help advance research that drives economic mobility. Read more about these two exciting openings below ⬇️

Submit your paper by August 1st.

🔗https://opportunityinsights.org/updates/2025-conference-on-economic-mobility/

📣We’re hosting our 4th annual conference on economic opportunity on October 9-10 with opening remarks from Raj Chetty and a Keynote from @davidautor.bsky.social.

This is an excellent opportunity for both junior and senior scholars to share their work. ⬇️

Sign up for our mailing list to stay tuned for more information:
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📣To support this research agenda, this fall, we will be launching new opportunities for students and faculty who are interested in developing new methods, and/or applying recently developed methods to our data.⬇️

OI seeks to contribute to methodological research in econometrics and statistics that will advance our understanding of economic opportunity and have other applications to important policy questions.

Applying this method, we find that assignment to a small classroom in third grade significantly increases high school graduation rates in the U.S.↗️

If you're using surrogate (intermediate) outcomes to estimate long-term treatment effects, there's a better way.

The ESC estimator makes strictly weaker assumptions than surrogate estimates and addresses biases that cannot be addressed with standard controls.

New @oppinsights.bsky.social paper by Athey, Chetty, and Imbens develops a new method of estimating treatment effects on long-term outcomes -- the Experimental Selection Correction (ESC) Estimator.
🔗https://opportunityinsights.org/paper/esc-estimator/

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: EMO Special Assistants Program - Host Community Q&A. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. ICMA's EMO Special Assistants Program will support 15 local governments to hire senior-level changemakers in economic mobility and opportunity through grant funding. This program offers a rare, signif...

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🗓️ 4/30/25, 2 pm EST

📢If you work in local government, check out ICMA's exciting new opportunity to drive real change on economic mobility.

Join the Q&A on April 30 to learn more about hosting a Special Assistant through ICMA’s EMO Program! ⬇️

Tune into Prof. Chetty's virtual seminar with the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (UPenn) on the science of economic opportunity.

🔗 to register: tinyurl.com/chetty430
🗓️ 12 pm EST, 4/30/25

Check out Prof. Chetty's latest discussion on using big data to understand and address upward mobility.

Thank you @ineteconomics.bsky.social for having us!

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