Increased women’s college attendance delivers wage and job-quality gains that grow over the life cycle, alongside improvements in children’s early-life health.

Hey #econsky: are you a researcher who secretly prefers your side teaching gig? Or is tenure looking like a reach because you “teach too much”? Or a liberal arts prof who’d prefer a big city with a larger pool of impressive, thoughtful students? Come be a Boston College PoP! 1/x

We should probably be placing incarcerated people in prisons closest to their homes. Why? Assigning individuals to prisons closer to their home reduces recidivism. Really? Yep. Being placed close to one's home increases social contacts that appear to reduce reoffending.

I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! I work on questions about women’s health, family, & labor. In my #JMP I study how changes in abortion access affect infant and maternal health, finding that reductions in access harm health at birth. Read the full manuscript here: lillyspringer.com

I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids. In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.

👋 I'm a health and labour economist on the #EconJobMarket! My JMP explores a factor that often comes up when talking to people about having children - childcare costs 🗣️ “It’s frustrating to read articles asking why people aren’t having kids - have they looked at the cost of childcare?” 🧵…

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

👋 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 🧵 -->

Folks in Boston, please share! Boston area folks in need, there is a free farmer’s market in JP with produce from Allandale Farm and Iggy’s Bread 💛

Haven't been on Bluesky in awhile, but popping in to say I wrote a policy piece based on my transfer paper for @brookings.edu Chalkboard! Many thanks to @econsarahreber.bsky.social, @katharinemeyer.bsky.social, & Michael Hansen for the opportunity and the editing. www.brookings.edu/articles/com...

I am here for all your marching band content

If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

New, from me: A Trump official is concocting mortgage fraud claims to target opposition. It's a classic authoritarian trick. Now they are doing it to Lisa Cook, the first Black female member of the Federal Reserve to push her to resign. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)? Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

Can public workforce training programs grow employment and reduce skill barriers for hiring in large, well-paying firms? Yes! See my new working paper with Nora Dillon, Lisa Kahn, and Mike Dalton:

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority strikes down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban.

“You would never know, as The New York Times churns out its usual policy-option thumb-suckers, that the United States is well down the road to dictatorship at home. That is the context in which a war with Iran will occur.”

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla. This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.

not a data take but this is fucked up. cutting food benefits to poor moms, infants, and toddlers is pointlessly cruel. not a partisan issue, just straightforwardly fucked. the cruelty is the point. call your congressperson

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

Let me say this again: If a president can illegally deport someone, conspire with that country’s leader to abandon them to human rights abuses, and face no consequences, we are in a hellish authoritarian moment. What a fucking evil, illiberal government this is.

This is evil.

This Tufts student was grabbed off the street, cuffed and taken out of state solely because she co-wrote a completely respectful oped in the student paper. And Rubio’s State Dept now admits they have nothing more damning than that. Gift link wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

On, Wisconsin!

Yikes. Very disappointing.

Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out. In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%. Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages. Links below.

My university has been pretty silent on all the government grant freezes until today with the NIH cap. I've now received four identical emails in the last three hours telling us about the court injunction and that all grant applications should use our original overhead rate.

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

How much student learning do you think a school district could gain just by better assigning its teachers to schools? Consider a quite politically-feasible change. Do not let district make any assigned teacher worse off, nor change teacher hiring, nor compensation, nor the students. New evidence!

The NIH cuts are being spun as a way to eliminate bloated university bureaucracy. And looking at the sheer numbers, I get it. But in fact the story is the exact opposite. The federal research grants system is highly efficient. And it super charges American innovation. 🧵 1/

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

From an US gov. anti-fascist film from 1947, a line right after this scene: "They used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation... Remember that when you hear this kind of talk. Somebody is going to get something out of it and it isn't going to be you." www.youtube.com/watch?v=42X_...

This thread contains info on how to access Census data sets.

Thinking about historical parallels. People talk about coups and autogolpes, the fascist seizure of power in the 1930s, and there are resemblances. But there are other models we could think about.

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

I’ve now posted the national data, 2015-2023, in Stata format here. I will add state and district data when I’m able. www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.

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/...

It's such a weird thing to hear the news and think "that's bad, but also I have a paper about (an aspect) of that" Funding delays are really not great for people who work in science. Funding delays of > 30 days lead to: - 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force - 20% decrease in wages

Happy to have this paper (coauthored with an amazing team: Kalena Cortes, @loismiller.bsky.social, & @camilantmorales.bsky.social!) out on NBER this morning! Take a look 👇

Every year, I have to submit a report to BC listing out all my professional activities, including all journal reviews. Every year, I search my calendar for all last year's review due dates to enter them. Should I have entered them when I originally did the review? Yes. Will I next year? No.

Question for #econsky: What could cause coefficients to change when clustering on a group variable in Stata? Context: In ACS data, I have an outcome that varies by location, occupation, and gender (Prop. of Occ-Gender group in CZ). I want to measure differences in mean by gender. [1/N]

My co-author Nora Dillon will be presenting our paper "Do Workforce Development Programs abridge the Skills Gap?" (w/ Lisa Kahn and Michael Dalton) today at 11:10 at NBER Org. Watch along on youtube here: www.youtube.com/nbervideos

Meet the Boston College Economics Department Job Market Candidates 2024-2025 (ported over from BC's postings on the other place...) #EconSky #EconJMP Learn more about all of their research here: www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...

I'll be in DC for #APPAM2024 and #SEA2024 this weekend. Looking forward to presenting my research on contraceptive choice and seeing many cool papers!

Well, I clearly have been added to one of the many starter packs... hello new followers! I post rarely, but when I do it's usually about the economics of fertility, migration, or college major choice.