Really scary 🧏🏽‍♀️

It’s always seemed odd to me that we literally have a paper *in the AER* showing equal leave policies create gender inequities, yet I have never seen those policies questioned.

Sounds very scary but also very familiar. México (my country of birth) and the US (where I live now) are following a scary path together.

En este evento estaré hablando de un estudio nuevo sobre como la desaparición del Programa Prospera (y su reemplazo por Becas Benito Juarez) redujo la inscripción escolar para los jóvenes, sobre todo para los hombres de 15-17.

Python for Econometrics slides: pyecon.org/down/pyecon.pdf

I am excited to share that we have an open-rank faculty position in early childhood policy in our awesome department Peabody College: apply.interfolio.com/153724. Come join an outstanding group of researchers across the college and affiliated with the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center!

¡Apliquen! Aquí encontré a lxs mejores profes, y lxs mejores companerxs 👇🏼👇🏼

Need a way to remember which statistical error is type 1 and which is type 2? Here’s the trick that finally helped me: In “the boy who cried wolf” the townspeople make type 1 and type 2 errors, in that order. First they think there’s a wolf when there isn’t one (false

Nobody says it better than Michelle. Watch this – and then make sure you’re ready to vote tomorrow: IWillVote.com

Felicidades a la nueva doctora en políticas públicas por el CIDE, Alejandra Penilla. Doc Política Pública (Si alguien quiere seguir sus pasos, aquí está la convocatoria para ingresar al programa en 2025: cide.edu/wp-content/upl…)

I’m on blue sky 🌌 and sharing news of a new conference over there! fyi

Not every study needs to have a power analysis, but every study needs a sample size justification. I discuss 6 approaches, and 6 ways to think about which effect sizes are of interest in the study you are planning. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/artic…

México enfrenta una crisis de cuidados que profundiza desigualdades de género y económicas. Guillermo M. Cejudo, Cynthia Michel y yo explicamos en @revistanexos por qué ningún gobierno que busque la igualdad puede ignorarla: nexos.com.mx/?p=83782 #CrisisDeCuidados

⚡️ipek ilkkaracan, pioneer of 'purple economy'. Her research shows investing in care creates 3x more jobs than construction spending 'There are 16.5B hours of unpaid work performed daily, shifting half would create hundreds of millions of jobs' #IWD2025 bit.ly/4kzFfIQ

1/9 En @NexosMexico publicamos Verónica López Guerra y yo una entrada sobre el desmantelamiento del Programa de Estancias Infantiles (PEI) y las respuestas de algunos gobiernos subnacionales. Aquí un breve hilo sobre lo que encontramos 👇 🧵federalismo.nexos.com.mx/2025/04/desman…

Great intro and explainer of current health policy discussion by Sherry Glied NYU Wagner #healthpolicy youtube.com/watch?v=qM1erF…

The Editorial Boards of leading health econ journals are issuing a Joint Statement of Principles on Editorial Independence. In these troubled times some scholars worry their work might suffer ideological attack. We reaffirm our commitment to unfettered scholarship. Please repost.

Nuevo artículo de Liliana Deyanira Verónica López Guerra sobre cómo los gobiernos locales reaccionaron al desmantelamiento del Programa Estancias Infantiles. La investigación arroja luz sobre el desmantelamiento de políticas, sus efectos en la dinámica política y la gobernanza multinevel.