Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs
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Images of ICE targeting US cities have been commonplace in since January 2025. What's the economic effect of this new immigration enforcement regime on businesses, both workplaces and retailers, in targeted areas?
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Today I'm publicly releasing a paper that answers that question (download link in the comments) using data on 5.4 million local businesses across the US:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
During the first year of the current administration, ICE raids caused serious economic damage in seven ways:
White Americans who were eligible for the GI Bill, or had fathers who were, benefitted massively, while the equivalent Black Am benefitted much less on average bc they were funneled into using it on vocational schools (or scam “schools”)
Paper estimates that accounts for *5 pp* in sons’ college gap
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What a pill to swallow after presenting in the “Public Policy & Population Health” session yesterday at #paa2026.
One of the biggest challenges of doing work in this area has always been that institutions rarely provide researchers with evidence of their harms.
Now they won’t fund it, either.
This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.
…For those who weren’t there, something I didn’t post about (because we pivoted from policy to pop centers and I wanted to listen closely) was Bhattacharya’s absolutely astonishing claim that research evaluating the health effects of public policy is out of scope for NIH-funded research.
He said repeatedly that NIH-funded grants should seek to influence clinical decisions by providers or patients, and nothing else.
An incredible stance from a health economist who spent time in the population health world, and an absolute repudiation of the hopes that he is reachable on that basis.
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Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...
…For those who weren’t there, something I didn’t post about (because we pivoted from policy to pop centers and I wanted to listen closely) was Bhattacharya’s absolutely astonishing claim that research evaluating the health effects of public policy is out of scope for NIH-funded research.
