ABAWD Work Requirements are center stage in SNAP policy debates But SNAP's General Work Reqs affect 4X more people including hholds with kids @econjason & I provide first study of General Reqs and find -No labor supply effect -Big Disenrollment effects nber.org/papers/w32441

Looking for some light beach reading? Check out new version of our book "Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments"! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… With companion videos from my course at World Bank: youtube.com/playlist?list=… And dofiles...

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NBER program report on children and families out today, featuring work by yours truly with Lindsey Bullinger and Kerri Raissian. PLUS summaries of other work by lots of awesome folks! Dr. Chloe N. East she/her @chloeneast.bsky.social and Jason Cook, Elizabeth U. Cascio, @smokeefe_and more! : nber.org/reporter/2024n…

See y’all soon NBER SI and come check out Jason Cook and me presenting our paper on SNAP General Work Reqs tomorrow in Children’s

Wrapping up #NBERSI w/ important work by Dr. Chloe N. East she/her @chloeneast.bsky.social & Jason Cook on labor supply and SNAP disenrollment effects of work requirements. Not much evidence for increased labor supply but rather large drops in enrollment as a consequence

My paper w David Simon on the safety net for job losers is forthcoming Journal of Public Economics! Results can be summed up in a few figures & access is free for 50 days👇 32% of lost earnings replaced by public benefits (mostly UI) & this reduces poverty by 18pp, but regressive at bottom

I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters, on this special first week of me being an associate professor

Happy to share that my paper, "Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes" is now out at Journal of Public Economics! It has been a long journey (my paper would be a third grader this year), but I'm thrilled at the outcome! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes" By Jason Cook (Marriner S. Eccles Institute) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Switching to race-blind admissions lotteries increases racial segregation. Segregation arising from mandated race-blind admissions causes student achievement and college attendance rates to decline.

The Effect of Means-Tested Transfers on Work: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned SNAP Caseworkers | Jason Cook Dr. Chloe N. East she/her @chloeneast.bsky.social #econtwitter cesifo.org/en/publication…

1/5 Looking for a clear and gentle intro to shift-share instruments? I'm excited to release today our "practice guide to shift-share instruments" with Kirill Borusyak and Peter Hull, forthcoming at the Journal of Economic Perspectives AEA Journals 👇👇👇👇👇

A few more words about the "Practical Guide to Shift-Share Instruments" that we just posted (w/ Peter Hull, Xavier Jaravel) We tried to make it useful to wide groups of readers: new users of shift-share IVs, experienced users, and those who didn't even know they were users (1/N)

📢 NEW POLICY BRIEF 📢 "Many WIC beneficiaries went at least one month without redeeming anything. This cyclicality and inconsistency were likely due in part to administrative burden." — Marianne Bitler, Jason Cook, Seojung Oh & Paige Rowberry poverty.ucdavis.edu/post/administr…