Happy Mother’s Day!

What are your favorite social science papers about mothers? (Self-promotion encouraged!)

Here’s one I’m proud of: “The impact of early childhood interventions on mothers.”

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

😍😍😍 My work about the effects of showing the number of job applicants on male/female application rates is summarized in this Forbes piece this week forbes.com/sites/corinnep…

Our VoxDev article on our recently published The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) paper is now live!
'Trade-offs? The Impact of WTO Accession on Intimate Partner Violence in Cambodia'
with Pinar Keskin
#EconTwitter

Excited for next week--but even more so for the years and work ahead!

Been thinking about different definitions of a “successful career”. What target do you have that if you achieve, you can retire feeling like your career was a success?

Seems like lots of options:
- work 40 hr/wk
- have Y impact
- enjoy going to work
- publish X papers
Etc

So excited to see this!

Pls share for reach: Come be the dean of Arts & Science at Tufts! For real, I'm on the search committee and I'd love for people in my network to throw their hat in the ring imsearch.com/open-searches/…

This super thorough paper uses multiple natural experiments + incredible administrative data to measure how sealing criminal records affects employment (FCRA rules and Clean Slate policies). Punchline: if you care about this issue, it's probably time to look for other options.

Sealing criminal records from employer background checks has a limited impact on employment rates and earnings, from @amandayagan, Andy Garin, Dmitri Koustas, Alex Mas, and Crystal Yang nber.org/papers/w32394

Super happy that this paper found a home at Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics! 😊

Publishing in economics journals takes nearly twice as long as journals from comparable fields in other social sciences. We spoke with Dan Hamermesh of UT Austin about why the pace of publishing in economics is slow and how to fix it. #ResearchHighlight aeaweb.org/research/publi…

Hope you enjoy this podcast covering our new NBER WP on criminal record remediation policies and employment: nber.org/papers/w32394

I am trying for the Probable Causation 5-timers club jacket, which Jennifer Doleac promises will be a thing!

I’d watch a Janet Yellen food travel show

Must admit: I did not think of scattering copies of my book around encampments as a viral marketing opportunity

You can check me out today on CNN talking about how food insecurity has been going up for working-aged families recently, and it's now AS HIGH as it was in the first few months of the pandemic

cnn.com/2024/05/04/bus…

I’m very honored to receive this. Thank you to all my students for being such joys to work with!

#EconTwitter : Society of Labor Economics #SOLE2024 meetings at Portland. Inspiring keynote speeches from David Card (Rees Lecture) & Martha Bailey (Fellows Lecture). Robert Moffitt & Jaime Arellano-Bover in the photos. Thank you President-Elect and Program Organizer, Chinhui Juhn!

Feeling deeply honored and very happy about receiving the H. Gregg Lewis Prize by Society of Labor Economists together with nadineketel for our work on the labour market effects of crime victimization.

If you’re interested, you can find the paper here:

journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71…

Female economics Nobel prize winners are rare sightings 🔍and when you have two of them at once it's magic! 🪄
LSE & STICERD were delighted to host Professors Esther Duflo and Claudia Goldin for each of their public lectures this evening 👑💪 #LSEEconomics #econtwitter