“Have parental involvement laws grown teeth?” @DanBLadd and I document the map closing in on teens seeking confidential abortions. Thread 1/11

Check out our new working paper on age-biased language in job advertisements posted at NBER ! (coauthored with Dan Ladd, @NeumarkDN, and Ian Burn) nber.org/papers/w28328

Exploring whether ageist stereotypes in job ads are detectable using machine learning methods measuring the linguistic similarity of job-ad language to ageist stereotypes identified by industrial psychologists, from Burn, Firoozi, Ladd, and @NeumarkDN nber.org/papers/w28328

👏 Congrats to Hina Usman, UC Irvine economics grad student and recipient of a grant from J-PAL that will allow her to study recidivism programs in Pakistan 👏 socs.ci/usman21

And another 📣💙💛soc sci shout-out💛💙📣 for Daniel Firoozi, 4th year econ grad student at UC Irvine and recipient of one of this year's Romney Paper Prizes! His winning paper looks at electoral consequences of economic distress. 👏Congrats 👏 Daniel! socs.ci/firoozi21

In my new paper I show that Democratic candidates gained votes when Appalachia’s poorest counties were declared “economically distressed” based on local poverty, unemployment, and income. #EconTwitter

Employers can discourage older workers from applying to jobs by using age stereotypes in job ads, from Ian Burn, @danielfiroozi, Daniel Ladd, and @NeumarkDN nber.org/papers/w30287