(I feel like I should post about my work more)

Presented some “what happened during the COVID years” work today at #APPAM The study looked at literacy growth for kids in Save the Children’s rural literacy programming from fall 2019 through spring 2021. It was a fun project because the Save the Children team are fantastic and curious and motivated. Also fun because their participants made upward progress—far better than what we’ve seen elsewhere during that timeframe.

Recent work highlight: Linking #landlords to uncover #ownership obscurity. Using #property records and corporation records in Boston, I show how to use text linking methods to uncover obscurity caused by both messy data and intentional ownership obscurity - when landlords use multiple LLCs - and show how this uncovers new scales of consolidation and responsibility for #evictions and property conditions.

Preprint coming soon!

Presenting today at #APPAM at 1:45. https://slides.com/forresthangen/linking-landlords-hangen

I'm sorry to be missing #APPAM2022 #2022APPAM. It is my first and favorite conference because it (and #JPAM) are distinctive places that feature high-quality social-science research that can also center public-policy relevance as a motivation—without apology.

I hope #APPAM and #JPAM join Mastodon soon (and maybe run an instance?).
#twittermigration #academia #policy #EconTwitter #EduTwitter @educationecon #EdPolicy #educationpolicy