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Research lab led by @elizabethlinos.bsky.social at Harvard Kennedy School.

We build evidence on the people in government and the communities they are called to serve.

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🚨WE ARE HIRING🚨 Are you an undergraduate student interested in spending the fall semester getting trained in applied research? Apply for our Fall 2024 Undergraduate Student Research Fellowship by July, 22nd! peoplelab.hks.harvard.edu/careers/

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Excited for #PMRC2024! Don't miss insightful TPL presentations by @elizabethlinos.bsky.social, Jessica Lasky-Fink, and Heidi Wallace.

Great to see our work with California Department of Social Services on improving eligibility-enrollment gaps cited in efforts to simplify the EITC application process in MO. Shout out to the Missouri Independent for covering this issue! missouriindependent.com/2024/06/21/m...

Missouri lawmakers should make it easier to access Earned Income Tax Credit • Missouri Independentmissouriindependent.com Missouri’s 2024 legislative session recently concluded, and the 2025 session is seven months away. With significant turnover in both chambers, next year’s lawmakers can deliver easy and affordable win...

Thrilled that our analysis of 73 RCTs conducted in 30 US cities with @elizabethlinos.bsky.social, Stefano DellaVigna and Woojin Kim is now in JPE! This research on evidence adoption bottlenecks has already spurred new work. Learn more here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

So grateful to have leaders from top government fellowship programs: Foster America, Fuse Corps, Govern For America, and Public Rights Project visit us at TPL to talk about the future of talent in government and how to build trust in institution! 🏛️

🎓Breaking down barriers to college access is crucial. Our research with California Student Aid Commission, @jrothst.bsky.social, @elizabethlinos.bsky.social and Vikash Reddy explores the impact of nudges on financial aid uptake among CA high school seniors.

We participated in J-PAL North America's 10-year convening last fall, alongside our longtime partner Kim Desmond, the Chief of Race and Equity for the City of San Diego. Read about it here: 🔗Three lessons from J-PAL North America's ten year convening www.povertyactionlab.org/blog/12-14-2...

Three lessons from J-PAL North America’s ten year convening | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Actio...www.povertyactionlab.org Across a breadth of topics covered at J-PAL North America's ten year convening, speakers touched on common themes about how to generate evidence and inform policies effectively and equitably.

Check out our January 2024 newsletter, sent out today! It includes a note from @elizabethlinos.bsky.social, a snapshot of research and publication highlights from 2023, and information on new jobs and ways to partner with us. mailchi.mp/a12b497fd897...

🚨WE HAVE TWO MORE OPENINGS! 🚨 We are hiring a Senior Research Associate and Research Associate! If you want to work on collaborative research projects with government partners to address and their key priorities, apply today. www.peoplelab.hks.harvard.edu/careers/

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🚨WE ARE HIRING!🚨 Is your super power getting things done? Is your dream job "chief of staff"? Do you want to ensure research makes an impact in the real world? Apply to be @elizabethlinos.bsky.social's Senior Executive Assistant and Faculty Program Manager! t.co/lIxwA8OAv3 (1/2)

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🚨 NEW PAPER IN NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR 🚨 Across a range of contexts, we find a counterintuitive #FormalityEffect: Formal government communications are more effective than informal ones at shifting residents’ behavior. 1/ 🧵 With @karminker.bsky.social, Chris Larkin, Lindsay M. Moore. rdcu.be/drRnl

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🚨NEW WORKING PAPER🚨: Studying 9,000 new hires in a professional services firm, @elizabethlinos.bsky.social, Sanaz Mobasseri, and Nina Roussille find Black women's retention and promotion rates decline as their initial share of White coworkers increases. #econtwitter 1/

This week, @elizabethlinos.bsky.social joined J.B. Wogan on @mathematicanow.bsky.social 's "On the Evidence" podcast to discus some of our work. Listen here: soundcloud.com/ontheevidenc...

107 | Elizabeth Linos on Bolstering the Public Sector Workforce and Improving Government Servicessoundcloud.com The latest episode of Mathematica’s On the Evidence podcast features Elizabeth Linos, the 23rd recipient of the David N. Kershaw Award and Prize. Linos is a public management scholar and behavioral ...

As part of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative's Talent Management course, we are thrilled to spend this week working with city leaders from across the world on some of the most pressing public sector workforce challenges.

A massive congratulations to our fearless leader @elizabethlinos.bsky.social who has been awarded the David N. Kershaw Prize for her research on how governments can build a more effective workforce and provide better public services.

Elizabeth Linos wins Kershaw Award for her work on ways to improve governancewww.hks.harvard.edu Harvard Kennedy School faculty member Elizabeth Linos has been awarded the prestigious David N. Kershaw Award and Prize for her research on how governments can build a more effective workforce and...

NEW PAPER ALERT: We are thrilled to announce our paper "Improving delivery of the social safety net: The role of stigma" has been published in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Thread below! academic.oup.com/jpart/advanc...

Improving delivery of the social safety net: The role of stigmaacademic.oup.com Abstract. Many low-income households in the US miss out on social safety net benefits because of the information, compliance, and psychological costs associated

We've made the leap! The People Lab is a research lab based at the Harvard Kennedy School and led by @elizabethlinos.bsky.social. We're committed to building evidence on the people in government and the communities they are called to serve.

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