It’s always great when you go to a conference and find one of your “no club” members and @aeacswep.bsky.social peer mentors in the program! @tderyugina.bsky.social

Looking forward to participating in the BIG Forum event at @biglabnd.bsky.social next month!

Seeing co-authors (@amandayagan.bsky.social‬ Bo Cowgill Jonathan Meer) IN PERSON, seeing my @aeacswep.bsky.social Mid-Career mentoring buddy (@danilaserra-eco.bsky.social) and CeMent mentee (Amanda Chuan), and all sorts of other shenanigans that won't be posted here

Another great @nber.org summer institute has come and gone. Highlights were a great dinner with the crowd from Children/Families

Thank you to all who replied. I got the data I needed!

#EconSky Does anybody have DHS data for Bangladesh? Or is there a webpage where somebody managed to save previously available DHS data? Thank you for your help!

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

Great overview by @um-psc.bsky.social of our new review in @science.org about brain gain! #EconSky #Migration

I gave a keynote address today at the AEA CTREE conference and I used my hands A LOT! (My husband was in the audience for the first time ever, and took photographic evidence of my insane use of Italian hands!🤷‍♀️)

In Palo Alto for a talk and so glad I was able to see Kalena last night (despite flight cancellations and rescheduling)

Thrilled to share the cover of my upcoming book, Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours. @flatironbooks.bsky.social, Sept 23! Containing 15 years of research & my personal story. Preorder links, book talks, & newsletter here! corinnelow.com/book

This is a great paper on a timely topic! Congrats @danielfiroozi.bsky.social!

The one good news of the week is that @econcath.bsky.social & I were together in Lancaster as our paper “Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models” (AEJ: Applied, 2020) reached 600 citations while we work on the follow-up study🎊 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Very happy to be in London for the @GLMLIC research conference at @LSEnews, learning about ongoing projects on gender and labor markets in low income countries. @g2lmlic.bsky.social @iza.org

Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start! Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall). Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768 Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!

This is terrible, terrible news. My heart goes out to the staff at @wilsoncenter.org and my head is spinning at how this destroys a load-bearing element of the US foreign policy ecosystem.

A new blog with Justin Sadefur on the USAID cuts. Based on a leaked list of cancelled contracts and data from foreignassistancedotgov we try to calculate how deep the cuts by country and sector. www.cgdev.org/blog/usaid-c...

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

I will be in Lancaster visiting my friend and coauthor @econcath.bsky.social on April 1-11, with a short stay in London for the @iza.org @g2lmlic.bsky.social research conference on April 7-8. I really need a break from this country.

“The world must now affirm that human lives matter, no matter where they are.” In a new op-ed, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo call for governments, multilaterals, and philanthropists to double down on investing in evidence-backed programs that improve people’s lives. www.ft.com/content/43e9...

Looking forward!

I really enjoyed listening to @elizabethlinos.bsky.social on Fresh Air. Highly recommended! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs. DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Today is a special day. My student Daniel Gomez-Vasquez defended his dissertation, and what a beautiful job he did today & in the past 4 years. He will join Holy Cross as an AP in a few months! @asheassa.bsky.social @aeacsmgep.bsky.social We will miss him @TAMUECON I’m so very proud.

How are the European and UK Econ job markets for a semi-senior economist (plus excellent semi-senior historian of Eastern Europe) these days? Just curious… Reading the news and witnessing what’s happening here in the US is becoming unbearable….😓

“ ‘Rule of law’ can only mean that everyone, government included, obeys it”

@harvardkennedy.bsky.social asked a few of us to comment on the first weeks of DOGE. Read the perspectives of a wide range of faculty: www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

👋 Hi! J-PAL is now on Bluesky! 📊 We’re looking forward to bringing conversations on evidence-informed policy to this new space. Follow us for updates on the latest research, policy insights, and how rigorous evidence is helping shape a better world.

Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them 1/N Inequality in college graduation rates Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...

Today!

Let’s learn from history! By repeating the worst of it. (Idi Amin’s expulsion of Indians also prominently featured here.) Just incredible work.

New org established to defend Department of Education coalition of public education advocates, educators, beneficiaries of federal education funding, and former employees of the U.S. Department of Education www.protectpubliced.org

The @aefpweb.bsky.social #EdDev community group meets this Fri (02/14) at 11am ET! @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social & @eeemda.bsky.social will present their work. @wsandholtz.bsky.social & Ari Anisfeld will discuss. Join the community group @aefpweb.bsky.social, or contact me for the Zoom link.

Happy #InternationalWomeninScienceDay! I’ll take over the @JPAL_Africa account on X at 10am CT to answer questions populating the AMA. Leave a question if interested in role model impacts, instagram interventions, women in leadership, role of high school counselors & More… x.com/jpal_africa/...

📣 I have been asked to host an AMA for JPAL on Feb 11 📣 On International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Spread the word, if of interest. Details: sites.google.com/povertyactio...

We just released an enormous trove of US labor market data, all compiled from government surveys, now under threat The @epi.org State of Working America Data Library provides comprehensive data on the US jobs and wages, with detailed cuts by demographics, over time and across states data.epi.org

DATA RELEASE WHEN DATA FEELS SCARCE! Check out data.epi.org -a data repository with 78,000+ series on topics like employment, wages, poverty, and inequality. You can get many measures by gender, race and state! I've been working with our @epi.org team to build this and am so proud of the result

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

I’m amazed: On the foreign assistance freeze, I’m astonished not to see major State Dept and USAID recipients challenge the disruption in court. An injunction? Where is World Vision, SAVE, Red Cross, etc on this? Or the Beltway bandits (Chemonics etc) Is there activity happening?

🚨HRSA's Area Health Resources Files webpage is now down. Fortunately, I built an archive of data 2000-2023 for a previous project, which can be accessed without restriction here: data.mendeley.com/datasets/dwf...

Trump and @marcorubio 's actions to destroy the US foreign aid system is catastrophic, cruel and hurts Americans and those abroad. Foreign aid is a minuscule part of the federal budget. Each American pays about $120/year. The returns are enormous. Here's why: 1/

Incredibly important and timely work. Denial of a wanted abortion increases the likelihood of death by 2.5pp in the next nine months. Long run harms to health, educational attainment, labor force participation, and poverty, among others.

📣Some exciting news📣 Next Fall (Sep-Dec '25) I will spend my sabbatical in Boston, visiting Boston University. I hope to connect w/ many of you in Boston of the Northeast more broadly. Happy to give a talk on topics in 1) education (mainly in US), 2) gender & devo, or 3) governance/corruption.

Geographic access to colleges shapes degree outcomes. Students in community college deserts face disparities while White students pivot to 4-year colleges and Black/Hispanic students often forgo college, from Acton, Cortes, Miller, and Morales https://www.nber.org/papers/w33337

We've been working on this question as a behavioral research question itself: how can we make academic evidence more useful, usable, and used by policymakers? It's time to give this agenda the same rigorous attention we give to producing the evidence in the first place.

Continuing a series of Economics Nobel Laureates on @econofact.bsky.social podcast, EconoFact Chats. Claudia Goldin on women's journey to economic equality, citing I Love Lucy, Perry Mason, Father Knows Best, Mary Tyler Moore, and 50 Rock (and some statistics, too). econofact.org/podcast/care...

Wow. What a fascinating new paper on women’s representation and why it matters.