Now published at the Journal of Public Economics: 'Secure Communities as immigration enforcement: How secure is the child care market?' joint with Umair Ali & Chris M. Herbst 🎉🎉

Link here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

And thread below 👇

Alison Baulos I’m sure that it’s correlated (adjusted for cost of living)! Higher wages allow you to hire better workers and also reduce turnover.

Chris M. Herbst and I have a paper on the effect of min wage increases & one finding is that ⬆️MW leads to ⬆️Arnett scores!

Ruffo: We must forcefully strike down DEI initiatives because they discriminate against white people.

Also Ruffo: it's totally cool to discriminate against non-binary individuals.

Chris Rufo is a whore for fame. He hates ideas.

Early view from JPAM: 'Minimum quality regulations and the demand for childcare labor' by Umair Ali, Chris M. Herbst, & Christos Makridis.

doi.org/10.1002/pam.22…
Abstract:
Minimum quality regulations are often justified in the childcare market because of the presence of

for the Education Writers Association blog, I laid out some tips for journalists covering the child care sector

many thanks to Chris M. Herbst, Ana Auger Whitaker, and Linda K. Smith for helping out!

ewa.org/how-to-cover-t…

🚨 New immigration enforcement data resource 🚨

dhs.gov/ohss/topics/im…

Brookings has launched the State Safety Net Interactive tool, based on the calculator I developed with Lara Shore-Sheppard and Tara E W :
brookings.edu/articles/state…

For Early Learning Nation, I asked economists what recent studies can help us build a better child care sector. This research stood out.
earlylearningnation.com/2023/12/end-of…

It was fun to speak with Kendra about child care research in econ AND an honor to have my research (w Chris M. Herbst) included!

'[Economists] have a useful lens to look at the market, and we have the lexicon to talk about market failures and identify possible ways to fix them.”

If you're an IZA Fellow and you didn't get an email about the letter to the Post Stiftung and the Rektorat at Uni-Bonn, please check your spam folder for a message with the subject 'IZA latest developments'.

An open letter from 436 Fellows of IZA to the Deutsche Post Foundation + the Rectorate of the University of Bonn objecting to the appointment of Armin Falk as IZA's head. If the appointment stands, all 436 Fellows will resign from IZA on 1 Jan 2024

bit.ly/47dfWFv

I am very proud to have signed this letter. My hope is that it serves as a wake up call to the Foundation that it needs to change course immediately on IZA’s leadership decision.

🧵Early this yr, I kept wondering what it'd be like if we asked *every single* member of Congress their stance on federal child care policy. A simple question: What legislation would you support?

After 4 months of asking (& asking), here's what we found:
19thnews.org/2023/11/congre…

A virtual issue of collection of JPAM articles published since 2020 on questions related to crime and criminal justice policy. All 19 articles are available ungated! #econtwitter #criminology

Congratulations, Shannon! We are lucky to have you as our director!