📢New @nber.org WP with @ayllonsara.bsky.social, Lars Lefgren, @richpatterson.bsky.social & Nicolas Urdaneta! We would love any feedback if you have a chance to take a look. Full paper here: nber.org/papers/w33911

Thanks to @voxeu.org for featuring my work with @laurakgee.bsky.social and @kbuzard7.bsky.social

Data from over 80,000 US school principals shows that when a school needs to contact a parent, the mother is 1.4 times more likely than the father to receive the first call. @kbuzard7.bsky.social‬ @laurakgee.bsky.social @olgastoddard.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Such a cool paper! When I think about interruption at work (and mental load on which we know even less), this is my first reference!

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement,” by Buzard (@kbuzard7.bsky.social), Gee (@laurakgee.bsky.social), and Stoddard (@olgastoddard.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

This absolutely tracks. We even TELL providers to call me first (as I have the more flexible workday), but "call mom" is still 100% the default.

This resonates. We found it surprisingly hard to get some places to call me (who can almost always answer phone) before my wife (who often cannot).

My heart is full. I've never been so proud of a research project.

Or they could feed 250,000 children school lunches for a year ensuring these children don't go hungry, are able to learn, and have better health and economic outcomes in the long-run www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Thrilled to have found such a fantastic home @qjeharvard.bsky.social for this paper with @laurakgee.bsky.social & @kbuzard7.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5xkefck4

New NBER WP by @kbuzard7.bsky.social @laurakgee.bsky.social and @olgastoddard.bsky.social finds mums are 1.4x more likely than dads to get a callback from schools, despite no request for the skew.

New IZA paper by @kbuzard7.bsky.social @laurakgee.bsky.social & @olgastoddard.bsky.social: Schools call mothers more than fathers, even when moms aren't more available. Read more about the study and what this finding means for gender inequality in the labor market 👇 newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/r...

#econsky education econ people…does anyone have a favorite study that looks at positive impacts of parents being in greater contact with their child’s school?

The AEA is recasting its continuing education offerings with 2 hour sessions in the normal time slots over the course of the AEA meetings. Please come by! I will give an experimental economics lecture: www.aeaweb.org/conference/2... I will do my best to move you to the frontier in 2 hours!