Heading to SOLE!! ✈️ Wake up with a series of flash talks tomorrow at 8am in Queens Quay 1! Hope to see you there 😄

Really excited to be heading to SOLE for the first time in May!! Can’t wait to see some of you all there!

Biden administration pushes for more investment in early childhood care and education. Estimates at the state-level of how many kids' care would be improved. That 1.2 million is from my study below. www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing...

Signed up for the @aeacswep.bsky.social junior mentoring breakfast & I didn’t realize that this is the second to last year that I’m eligible 😳 Somehow I’m already in my fifth year as an AP…! (But only second year of my tenure clock due to extensions 😅)

Congratulations to former ND Econ undergrad Jess Brown on this new pub. @jessicabr

It’s not the Nobel, but, look, neither is the Econ Nobel 😅 - The second chapter of my dissertation is published at the Journal of Health Econ!! I am so excited!!! I study the effect of an info campaign on long-term care insurance coverage - surprise, it works! authors.elsevier.com/a/1huYcc7LG8...

The child care cliff poses challenges for providers. Some may close, many may raise prices, leaving parents & kids in a bind. But oft-cited estimates that 1/3 will close are wildly improbable - thank you Rachel Cohen for taking a critical look at it - t.co/xVPC4q27bC

As per usual, I would like to remind everyone that South Carolina is one of only three states in the U.S. where you can legally own a kangaroo without a permit. Most other universities can't offer that.

The Economics dept at the University of South Carolina is hiring!! This is a broad tt search for an empirical microeconomist. Preference for ability to teach machine learning or AI methods & research in fields of labor/IO/political economy. JOE ad: aeaweb.org/joe/listing....