Call for Papers: AI & the Social Sciences

Check out this opportunity from our colleagues at @beckerfriedman.bsky.social. Submissions due May 1st.

Call for papers for the 2026 AI in social science conference: submit by May 1. Conference will be held October 8-9, 2026 at the University of Chicago

Submit your work using AI in the social sciences to the annual AI in Social Science conference at the University of Chicago! Submissions due May 1!

The conference will be held October 8-9 in Chicago, IL, USA.

bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event...

@beckerfriedman.bsky.social
@caai-booth.bsky.social

Urban Muslims are more likely to live in highly segregated neighborhoods than any other major group in India; Muslim and Scheduled Caste neighborhoods receive far fewer services than other groups, from Asher, Jha, Novosad, @aadukia.bsky.social, and Tan www.nber.org/papers/w34818

Textbooks can meaningfully shape children's worldviews. Using computational methods, @aadukia.bsky.social & Emileigh Harrison find that while Texas and California public school texts are similar, religious versions depict fewer women, lighter skin, and more faith content. Read more → bit.ly/43pvNRC

This study uses computational methods, including #AI, to analyze textbooks from public, religious private, & home schools, focusing on how they portray people, topics, & values over time.

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#AICommunity

Sign saying 2025 AI in social science conference

Presenter presenting in front of people at conference

Presenter presenting in front of podium at conference. Rockefeller Chapel in background.

A fantastic day 1 of the @UChicago AI in Social Science conference! Thanks to the amazing participants, @CAAI_Booth, @MiiELab, and especially @BeckerFriedman for such an engaging day! A delightfully thought-provoking keynote by Jon Kleinberg capped off the evening!

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We each find our way through these times

As an academic, I am doing this:

Uplift those whose research you admire. Diversify the academy.

Many ways to do this:

-Nominate for awards (did 2 yesterday)
-If you are in an academy, nominate to it (did 3 this month)
-cite them in a paper and/or talk

Delighted and honored to be invited to be a network member of @cesifo.org!

Y’all, I wrote a book!

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📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Despite polarized debates over school curricula, textbooks in Texas and California schools are more alike than expected.

🔍 @aadukia.bsky.social‬ & @emileigharrison.bsky.social‬
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1195

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀, oganized by 𝗚𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝗵𝗹 is ending. 👏to @jopieboy.bsky.social on winning the Affiliate Award. Great presentations by @ursina.bsky.social @aadukia.bsky.social, @martinauccioli.bsky.social. 🙏 A special thanks to 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗔𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗿 for her keynote and to all presenters!

So excited to share new work with
@emileigharrison.bsky.social about the presence and portrayal of topics, values, and identities in U.S. textbooks!

What we teach in our curricula is more similar across our country than political narratives might have us believe.

tinyurl.com/miiebooks miielab.com

Using rare skin tone data from the Freedman’s Bank (1865–74) linked to the 1870 Census, researchers find wealthier or literate people with the same complexion were more often classified as White or Mulatto—fueling future segregation. By @aadukia.bsky.social and co-authors.

Read more: bit.ly/42NSnU6

Call for papers, 2025 AI in social science conference, September 25-26

Submit your work using AI in the social sciences to the annual AI in Social Science conference at The University of Chicago! Submissions due May 1!

The conference will be held September 25-26 in Chicago, IL, USA.

@beckerfriedman.bsky.social @HarrisPolicy @MiiELab

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Think suspensions are key to classroom order? Think again. Evidence from Chicago public high schools shows that reducing suspensions through restorative justice doesn’t harm learning—and improves school climate, especially for Black students. By @aadukia.bsky.social .

Read more: bit.ly/4jstK5j

Professor Anjali Adukia (University of Chicago) and Professor Ben Feigenberg (University of Illinois at Chicago) seek a full-time research assistant with strong technical skills to work on large-scale social policy research projects designed to improve educational outcomes. The analyst will work on a portfolio of projects related to education and restorative justice in schools. The position is based in Chicago, IL. The successful candidate will have experience in applying a variety of statistical modeling and data analysis techniques to datasets in real-world settings. From project inception to delivery, the RA will contribute to all facets of data collection and cleaning, model development, and implementation. To apply, please submit a resume/CV, a letter of interest, the name of at least one reference, and an unofficial transcript through the UChicago Workday jobs portal. Example Responsibilities • Works with partners and members of the research team to propose and implement analytical approaches to solving specific research questions. • Cleans, transforms, merges, and matches between large and complex research and administrative datasets. • Builds statistical models for a variety of research projects. • Performs sampling, power analysis, and randomization. • Prepares results for memos, presentations, and academic papers for both policymakers and researchers. • Assists with literature reviews and drafting papers. • Writes statistical computer programs and reviews computer output for consistency and quality. Maintains technical and administrative support for a research project. • Analyzes and maintains data and/or specimens. • Conducts literature reviews. • Assists with preparation of reports, manuscripts, and other documents. • Performs other related work as needed.

Econ RA/Predoc Opportunity!

Ben Feigenberg & I are looking for an RA to work with us on projects studying the impacts of restorative justice in schools. Apply here!
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@econ_ra @UChicago @thisisUIC @HarrisPolicy @BeckerFriedman
#EconSky

THE DOUBLE TAX: How Women of Color are Overcharged and Underpaid Coming September 2025 Available for Preorder Portfolio/Penguin

IT'S OFFICIAL. I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK! 🤯

#TheDoubleTax unpacks the cost of being a woman, why the bill runs higher for women of color, and how closing the gaps moves us ALL forward. #blacksky #booksky #econsky

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Call for papers, 2025 AI in social science conference, September 25-26

Submit your work using AI in the social sciences to the annual AI in Social Science conference at The University of Chicago! Submissions due May 1!

The conference will be held September 25-26 in Chicago, IL, USA.

@beckerfriedman.bsky.social @HarrisPolicy @MiiELab

bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event...

Excited to share this new paper on how race was constructed along socioeconomic lines in US history, during a period of unfulfilled potential for social change between emancipation and Jim Crow segregation

So excited to share new work on the social construction of race during the US Reconstruction Era, joint with @rickhornbeck.bsky.social, Daniel Keniston, and Benjamin Lualdi!
nber.org/papers/w33502

The Social Construction of Race during Reconstruction 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...

Super cool to see a paper like this as an NBER working paper. I haven't tracked it systematically, but I think there's a lot more of this style of work on race and racism in econ now than when I started paying attention to the field in the 2000s. www.nber.org/papers/w33502

"In contrast to this literature that explores differences in socioeconomic status by skin tone categories, controlling for race, our analysis shows that race is an outcome – influenced by socioeconomic status among people with the same detailed physical skin tone."

And they cite a ton of sociology (and other fields) as well! You love to see it.

Thanks so much for the shoutout! Very excited to have this work out with Rick Hornbeck, Dan Keniston, and Ben Lualdi!

I'm sure very few people know about this. Inmates in 43 states are charged a per diem cost for "room and board" ranging between $40 to hundreds of dollars. In some states you owe for every day of your original sentence EVEN IF YOU GET OUT EARLY.

www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

Sunday is the deadline for submissions to our

🚀 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🥳

12-13 May 2025, Munich

Keynotes: Alexander Willén and @alexeble.bsky.social 🎇

Submit now!
👇

Knowing what works, for whom, and under what conditions is one of the most powerful tools I can imagine in public policy. Adding cost effectiveness analysis can improve efficiency while understanding context supports generalizability.

Institute of Education Sciences was a George W Bush innovation

Republicans made it happen, as part of NCLB

Education Sciences Act of 2002

Idea was to provide a research base for its accountability: here are scientifically-tested methods than can improve education