📕 NEW from @anacostaramon.bsky.social, Michaela Slotwinski, @ursina.bsky.social and Anne Ardila Brenøe:
'Do Mothers Respond to Information About the Long-Term Consequences of Part-Time Work?'
Tufts is hiring a postdoctoral fellow in Economics of Education. The postdoc would conduct research and teach courses in the economics of education, working under the mentorship of the wonderful Elizabeth Setren. You can read about the position here: main.hercjobs.org/jobs/2203818...
#EconSky
Recently accepted by #QJE: “(Not) Thinking About the Future: Financial Information and Maternal Labor Supply,” by Costa-Ramón (@anacostaramon), Slotwinski, Schaede (@ursina), and Brenøe: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
@martinauccioli.bsky.social came and gave an excellent talk this week @tufts.edu about how increases to work regularity (not necessarily total hours) can lower the child penalty for mothers using data from a law change in Australia. Such a great paper!
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
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Posted a short blog post with updated data (and public repo with data) of current state of Econ job market:
paulgp.com/2025/10/08/j...
If you’re on the academic job market this year, it’s a great time to submit proposals for external funding based on your JMP or other ongoing work. Make this your back-up plan! See thread below.
It's been 2 years (+ 1 month) since I left academia. In case anyone is wondering, I have zero regrets. Indeed, I'm living my best life and am so happy I made the leap.
If you're considering leaving too, here are some thoughts on how to explore your options/find a job you'll love...
Recently accepted to #REStud, "Surviving Childhood: Effects of Removing a Child From Home," from Ronja Helénsdotter
@rhelensdotter.bsky.social @MIT @econGU:
www.restud.com/surviving-ch...
#econsky
🚨 New working paper! 🚨
We ran a field experiment with >1,300 university students randomly assigned to online vs in-person lectures. What happens? Online instruction hurts performance, but only for women♀️📉
with Xiaoyue Shan & Uschi Backes-Gellner
www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...
With rent control in the news, it’s a good moment to recall the research of @rebeccadiamond.bsky.social and co-authors.
They show that strict rent control in San Francisco reduced the availability of rental housing, eventually *raising* rental costs.
doi.org/10.1257/aer....
Tufts University is thrilled to host the North East Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference on November 8-9, 2025!
📝 Call for Papers: Submissions start June 16, and end August 17. Submit your papers here:
editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf...
More details to come!
#NEUDC #NEUDC2025
Excited that Tufts is hosting NEUDC this fall!
Spread the word and send us your finest work by Aug 17.
t.co/fxMQPJRgAR
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @claude_raisaro @GVAGrad who works on topics related to development + behavioral economics
🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social
👩🔬👨🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.
FANTASTIC
ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)
You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
"If Washington is putting up a higher fence around its trade, other nations are lowering theirs."
This could also be an opportunity for progress on climate, if other countries move towards agreements without the US.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/b...
We are pleased to announce the release of Volume 5 of the Handbook of Labor Economics, edited by Christian Dustmann and Thomas Lemieux.
Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Based on feedback from past participants, potential applicants, and mentors, the CeMENT workshop will now be held June 30 - July 2, 2025, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. To apply, go to: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...
Deadline to apply is March 15.
Looking forward to co-organizing one of BFI's most popular conferences again! And this year, we were super duper lucky to nab @seema.bsky.social as the keynote speaker :)
More info: bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event...
Submission deadline: Feb 28
Please please RT and share with your networks!
📢 Call for papers:
🚀 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🥳
12-13 May 2025, Munich
Keynote: Alexander Willen
PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
Deadline: 16 Feb 2025
Co-organizer: Caterina Pavese @cesifo.org #EconSky
Register now for the "From Bystander to Upstander" workshop to be held on January 22 at 4:00 ET by the Ombuds Team. This live workshop will help participants identify and discuss strategies to use when witnessing destructive behavior. #econsky mwi-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
It's time for an end-of-year update on @malengo.org! Our goal is to alleviate extreme poverty by facilitating international educational migration. Our flagship program supports Ugandan high school graduates in applying for and obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Germany. Here is what we're been up to!
could not have written this post better myself: really appreciate it, @rajivsethi.bsky.social! As correctly pointed out, the hard question is whether diversification provides a way to moderate without censoring: the model-based counterfactuals show that partial diversification could be the answer.
Please consider applying to a pre-doc position at UCSD. Projects at the intersection of development and culture in Africa with Eduardo Montero Nathan Nunn James Robinson & others. Possible fieldwork in DRC. French skills preferred. Thank you! employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...
The Race and Stratification Working Group at NBER will have its annual meeting on Friday, April 4, 2025! Dania Francis, Vicki Bogan, Ellora Derenoncourt and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper before the December 19, 2024 deadline! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...
New VoxEU explainer on our work on birth timing & spacing, and what this means for the estimation of child penalties
Tl;dr: educated mums spend 25% of the 5yrs following first birth on parental leave for subsequent kids. So how you measure outcomes on PL matters, a lot!
#EconSky
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How do people learn about their ability to learn? In my JMP, I show they struggle. Past learning experiences could help predict future learning and guide better skill investments. But do people use this information effectively?