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Public Sector Data Science Internship Program Applications Open!

The Ohio Education Research Center (OERC) is currently accepting Ohio State student applicants for our paid summer Public Sector Data Science Internship Program. The program is designed for Ohio State students interested in exploring careers in policy research and evaluation using data-based methods to investigate policy problems.
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OERC Director, Josh Hawley, was recently featured on "Marketplace".

OERC Director, Josh Hawley, was recently featured on "Marketplace" talking about the supply of skilled workers in the U.S.
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Dr. Tian Lou, OERC Research Scientist, recently presented her work at the Labor Market Information Institute’s Annual Conference.

In the panel, From Unemployment to Reemployment: Tracking UI Claimants, Dr. Lou presented her research results examining Ohio’s Unemployment Insurance data to inform on real-time employment trends and shared her methodology so others can recreate in their state.
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COVID-19: Cross-Agency Data and Research

The COVID-19 pandemic brought many changes to the education and workforce sectors, as well as the way in which state agencies collect data on these sectors. These changes have uncovered new questions about readiness and challenges for collection and research, as well as ways to improve inequities and provide assistance to individuals in need. The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences highlighted how the Ohio Education Research Center and its state agency partners responded to the Covid-19 pandemic by conducting cross-agency research using the Ohio Longitudinal Data Archive.
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Dr. Josh Hawley, Director of the Ohio Education Research Center, was awarded a Fulbright ASEAN Research Program Award

The Ohio State University’s Office of International Affairs recently announced that Dr. Josh Hawley, Director of the Ohio Education Research Center, was awarded a Fulbright ASEAN Research Program Award to Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam during January – May 2021 to research approaches to labor market planning for technical and vocational education. His proposed study will examine labor market data systems and their use by the education systems in Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam and will lay the groundwork for a new model of how data can be used in educational planning.
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The Role of Education, Occupational Match on Job Satisfaction in the Behavioral and Social Science Workforce

The OERC's Julie Maurer and Josh Hawley, and John Glenn College of Public Affairs alumnus, Hyungjo Hur, have a new paper — "The role of education, occupational match on job satisfaction in the behavioral and social science workforce" — published in Human Resource Development Quarterly.
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Ohio's Evidence-Based Clearinghouse

The OERC collaborated with the Ohio Department of Education to develop Ohio's Evidence-Based Clearinghouse, an online tool intended to empower Ohio’s districts with the knowledge, tools and resources that will help them identify, select and implement evidence-based strategies for improving student success.
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Making the Case for Workforce Development

The OERC’s Director, Josh Hawley, was recently featured in a video, “Making the Case for Workforce Development” produced by Kansas City PBS station, KCPT as a part of its participation in the national American Graduate: Getting to Work project.
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Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral Stem Programs

The National Bureau of Economic Research recently released a new working paper by OERC collaborators, Valerie Bostwick, a post-doctoral researcher in economics at The Ohio State University, and Bruce Weinberg, a professor of economics and public administration at The Ohio State University. The paper, "Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs studies the environment in STEM doctoral programs and the effect on gender differences in Ph.D. persistence and completion. The paper suggests that women's success in STEM Ph.D. programs has much to do with having female peers, especially in their first year in graduate school.
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Symptoms versus Root Causes: A Needed Structural Shift in Academia to Help Early Careers

The OERC’s Director, Josh Hawley, was a co-author on a recent study with, Navid Ghaffarzadefan, Ran Xu, and Richard Larson, “Symptoms versus Root Causes: A Needed Structural Shift in Academia to Help Early Careers,” that was published in BioScience, the Journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.