Elizabeth Linos

If human rights are limited to certain groups, they are not really human rights, are they?

Thank a public servant today.

Dream job!

Example number 174638396 of why academic institutions need to step up (and be funded) to carry the mantle of producing and publishing robust panel data sets on important policy and social issues.

another year of us not running a super bowl ad

Oh heyyyy

jesus christ

Did I just text my buddies that a new Chotiner dropped? Yes. Yes I did.

At-Will Employment: What the Federal Government Can Learn from States A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working towards effective government for the American people.

There is a push for making public sector employees at will, i.e. they can be fired for any reason by politicians. Trump shows how such powers will be abused. This report does a great job of debunking claims that at will employement is working at the state level.
ourpublicservice.org/publications...

ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

Angry? We should be. Show up this afternoon with @handsoffnyc.bsky.social to reject ICE terror.

We spent months (years?) talking about how covid would affect our children - their schooling, their mental health etc. I don't even know where to begin to support kids who are living in fear right now. Is someone working on this?

New WP on stigma and the social safety net! Even though most people agree stigma is pervasive, there's real disagreement about whether it affects take-up. Four nationally representative studies say it matters a lot - above and beyond political ideology. See here: dash.harvard.edu/server/api/c...

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry.

"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

This is true in every city, not just NYC, btw.

*Right now* your municipal government’s staffers are doing somewhere between a dozen and several hundred different things to keep you comfortable and safe.

I am so grateful to the thousands of incredibly brave people who are each doing their part to document, protest, support victims, sue, and speak up. It's time.

My heart is breaking for all the parents who are desperately trying to figure out how to protect their children from their own government. My heart is breaking even more for those who came to the US to avoid this exact situation.

Congratulations!!!

Kid has transitioned from demanding only Taylor Swift to playing Weird Al's "Albuquerque" - they grow up so fast.

🚨 Deadline this Sunday (11 Jan 2026)!

📢 Call for Papers – 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education

PhD students & early postdocs: don’t miss this opportunity, apply now! 🚀

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If this week isn't a turning point, I'm afraid there may never be one.

New year, new you? Do you thrive in challenging, fast-paced environments? Do you love impact-oriented research and see investing in government as part of the solution to social challenges? Can you do data work very very well? We can't wait to hear from you!!

Probably yes!

My favorite level of faffing.

I have a paper on this coming out soon but tldr version: yes, people wildly overestimate fraud (Dems too); they don't internalize the cost of burdens (when forced to, they actually weigh access more heavily which is good); but also a ton of variation by program + perceptions of beneficiaries

100pct correct. Empirically, we are as close to a consensus on this as we are likely to see on any topic. It's wild how pervasive the stigma and rhetoric remain.

No social challenge can be solved without investing in and supporting a functional public sector. Happy New Year!

When @melrobbins.bsky.social asked me the biggest lie we've all been told about change, here's what I said...