“We sought to create an environment where pre-docs could receive feedback on their work, learn from peers in other units, and gain valuable practice presenting research in a low-pressure setting,” said Monica Essig Aberg & Ethan Bergmann of the conference. bit.ly/43C0Pmk

Monica Essig Aberg U-M Economics Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy U.S. National Science Foundation We did it!! 😄

My hot take: giving low income people money so they can work fewer hours at a crappy job is a massive success full stop

Monica Essig Aberg This is really good to know! Thanks for putting it out there. I’m guessing it’s hard to get the information but would be nice to see how things have changed over time. 7/22 is the best gender ratio uchicago has seen so far from what i know.

Always proud to be a Michigan alum. Way back in 2008 my first year cohort was 50% female. Forever go blue!

When I entered Yale in 2017, my cohort was 30% women. During my period there, I saw the effort of female professors and allies to increase the number of female students in the program. Changes in admissions can happen <3.

Actually, they do not. Quantitative social scientists regularly drop subsamples for their research and obscure it. For example, labor economists would regularly drop all Black people from their analysis. They almost never said this in the title or abstract.

On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day we should ask, settler institutions generated prosperity *for who*?

normative economics

Gendered roles have converged in the workplace, but not at home. New evidence suggests that the inelasticity of men's housework time might be standing in the way of marriage, from Kyle Hancock, Jeanne Lafortune, and Corinne Low nber.org/papers/w33393