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Delighted to put out this WP motivated by puzzlingly low contraceptive use among female students in Zambia. Pregnancies seem to account for much of female dropout. Yet even though majority are sexually active, few use hormonal contraceptives. Why?

Glad to see this study with Lauren Hoehn-Velasco Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 out in print Findings in a nutshell: #legalization of #abortion significantly lowered #maternalmortality rates by reducing abortion-related deaths esp. among nonwhite women 1/9🧵👇 AEA Journals aeaweb.org/articles/pdf/d…

Access to contraception is fundamental to reproductive autonomy and economic mobility, Martha Bailey writes. She proposes policy reforms to make access to contraception more affordable for low-income Americans without health insurance: hamiltonproject.org/publication/po…

I find mentoring to be one of the most rewarding forms of service (I’d take it any day over a referee report). To me this is something to say YES to!!! Especially when the call comes from a #noclub buddy

Congratulations to Sarah Burgard, who is also incoming President of the Association of Population Centers Association of Population Centers! (And a CCPR at UCLA alum!)

Call for Papers! The 2025 Economic Demography Workshop will be held on April 10that the PAA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Submit your paper by Dec 31st to be considered! Details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1_2z1Hm… #EDW2025 #Demography #PAA2025 Analisa Packham Osea Giuntella

We're excited to launch monthly meetups for networking among women in Econ at UCLA! First-year PhD students will be paired with others for coffee or lunch to exchange experiences. How was your PhD experience? Share your thoughts to help us improve this initiative!

Congratulations to Katharine Abraham, Amy Finkelstein, Jeffrey Wooldridge Elizabeth U. Cascio and Damon Jones!

Submit your papers for the spring 2025 NBER Gender in the Economy meeting! The theme is "Women in the Digital World". Submission Deadline: 12/9/24 Meeting: 2/28/25 in Cambridge nber.org/conferences/ge… Jessica Goldberg Tavneet Suri

Join CCPR for a panel to honor UCLA prof. Judith Seltzer’s career and graduate training! Panelists include Esther Friedman, Charles Lau, Christine Schwartz, and Emily Wiemers. Don’t miss out on this insightful discussion today @ 12pm! #JudithSeltzer #CCPR #UCLA

It's that wonderful time of year, so I will be tweeting about two phenomenal students on the job market. Both are among the best students I have worked with. I have learned a ton from their job market papers. First up, Huihuang Zhu. huihuangzhu.com/research

Huihuang Zhu is a labor economist focusing on topics related to education and inequality. His JMP, "On the Right Track? Evaluating the Achievement and Inequality Effects of Academic Tracking" is the first I know of to causally measure the long-run effects of academic tracking.

Tracking is the practice of sorting students into classrooms by achievement. Understanding its effects is highly important for policy. On the one hand, tracking could benefit students by allowing teachers to tailor instruction to the right level (see Duflo et al., 2011)...

Huihuang Zhu uses the staggered rollout of the AP program in Texas across schools in the 1990s in combination with high quality admin data that lets him observe contemporaneous outcomes, college, and even wages.

This lets him estimate the equilibrium effects of the program for schools, including on low-performing students who don't take AP classes. He first shows that the AP program greatly increases sorting of students by prior achievement -- tracking increases!

Then he looks at the long-run effects of the program on college-going, graduation, and wages, allowing the effects to differ for students in different parts of the prior achievement distribution. On average, kids in schools with AP programs earn 1000 dollars more/year.

Remarkably, all subgroups benefit from the program, including the low-performing students who do not take AP classes. Sorting by achievement seems to allow teachers to better target students' instructional needs.

There is much more in the paper, so read it! dropbox.com/scl/fi/00qudn4…

#econtwitter I am excited to announce two new post-doctoral positions at UCLA. One on the m-carestudy.org and the other on the life-m.org project. Please share with your networks and apply! aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

"The changing geography of U.S. educational mobility over the twentieth century" - next #RNIM Seminar with Martha Bailey Martha Bailey 20 Feb 2025 - 11 AM EST/5 PM CET Registration here: sites.google.com/view/rnim-semi…