School desegregation is in the news. I have worked on these questions with Elizabeth U. Cascio Nora Gordon Ethan G. Lewis! A thread on some of the things we learned about the Federal role in deseg in the 50s, 60s, 70s. (Many have written on this; I summarize some of my own work here.)

PSA to anyone going up for tenure: make sure you have created a google scholar profile. It makes it easier for your letter writers (like me ... gulp ... I'm apparently grown up now?!) to see your citations all together.

Lots of great points in here. I especially like Frank's upfrontness at how he couldn't do many aspects of his original idea for his alcohol paper... but still ended up with a great paper!

🚨New article alert! 🚨A new experiment by Kerry Chávez & Kristina Mitchell that varies perceived gender & race/ethnicity of instructor finds that women & POC get lower teaching eval. Here is why this article is important. <thread> womenalsoknowstuff POCAlsoKnowStuff cambridge.org/core/journals/…

My department chair was very proud of me. #AEA5k. Thanks for organizing, scott cunningham and Daniel Bergstresser!

That being said, there is one intervention targeting women that--while in early stages--has been able to reduce sexual violence rates. The focus isn't on rape prevention tips, but on feminist empowerment. charlenesenn.ca/research/

Graduate students sometimes ask me how to get dissertation ideas. One idea is to read white papers/lit reviews by funders, like these fantastic ones from Immortals Gaming Club, that tend to highlight knowledge gaps: theigc.org/funding/resear…

I had to re-write the introduction to a paper, so I diagrammed the introductions of a bunch of development papers in top economics journals. This is what I learned: "How to Write the Introduction of Your Development Economics Paper." cgdev.org/blog/how-write… #EconTwitter

A must-read by Stanford University undergrads Armelle Grondin & Ana Carolina Queiroz. They find the share of Black women is declining in their econ classes over time. And they ask why: stanforddaily.com/2020/02/10/me-…. Kudos to them for raising the question & seeking answers like good economists!

Lelys is doing very interesting and important work on violence in Central America -- I'm excited to listen!

I'm doubly biased because he's both my spouse and co-author, but applied micro-economists -- reach out to tyler mccormick if you have an interesting project that could benefit from collaboration with a statistician!

COVID-19 management is a failure at the national level, but please do know that state, local, & institutional officials are working their tails off right now. At my shop, it's a 24/7 operation, with a command central, updates multiple times/ day & tremendously adaptive protocols.

Attention students: Jishnu Das and colleagues are doing a brief online survey we have developed for students to share their stories and experiences – both positive and negative – with the COVID-19 pandemic. link: gui2de.surveycto.com/collect/studen…. Please retweet

Women face additional challenges to working during #COVID19 with job loss and care responsibilities. How can employers support working women during the pandemic? Join us on Jan 21 for webinar on workplace protections. Register 👉 j-p.al/GEAworkingwomen #JPALGender

Realizing I need short videos to perk up my economics of gender undergrad class. 5 to 10 minutes ideal, though longer could work too. Any suggestions? Self promotion encouraged :)

We have a new International Growth Centre grant program to support policy-relevant research in Bangladesh: theigc.org/bangladesh-tep…

I am looking for a full-time RA to help me to manage 2 large scale field experiments that I currently have ongoing or will have ongoing in #Bangladesh in the next several months. There will also be data cleaning and analysis in Stata. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/116880. #EconTwitter

A wonderful team of Co-editors and I worked on this VoxDevLit on the determinants of Women's Labor Force Participation. Information on the launch event is below.