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Econ PhD, Associate Professor of Health Policy @StanfordHP , Stanford School of Medicine. Health, public & labor economics. Mom of 2. Immigrant.
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Got my 5th rejection of the month today (4 papers & a grant). With 3 days left in 2021, I think I’m safe for the rest of the year 😉 Posting to normalize rejection bc my Twitter feed is currently a mix of publication announcements & Covid takes. Onward to 2022!
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Today is my first day as Associate Professor (with tenure!). Feeling extremely fortunate and thankful for support from many mentors, colleagues, students, and research assistants. This job is such an incredible privilege. A little story as I reflect on my journey to this day: 1/6
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Many male economists are asking what they can do. While there are many systemic issues that must be addressed, at an individual level, my suggestion is to *notice* and *intervene*. A small story: (1/4)
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A thread on virtual seminars, econ terminology, and inclusivity in the profession.
I recently had the fortune to attend a fantastic virtual seminar. The paper was excellent and the speaker was a wonderful economist and person. But, as it often does in applied micro, 1/7
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For this to work, you have to be (1) paying attention to what’s happening around you, especially w/ your junior female colleagues, & (2) be ok with maybe annoying the offender. Hopefully this
#MeToo
discussion is highlighting the prevalence of (1). But (2) is up to you. (4/4)
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Update: baby is here and we are both healthy! Aside from wearing masks and only having my spouse and no other visitors, it felt like a normal L&D experience. SO grateful for the healthcare workers who put their own health at risk while making the rest of us feel calm and safe ❤️
As someone who researches the effects of in utero shocks, it does indeed feel unsettling to find myself almost 36 weeks pregnant during a global pandemic. I appreciate this thread. A couple thoughts: 1) my bigger concern than catching the virus is having to deliver in a 1/1
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Maybe I’m too naive but I continue to be flabbergasted by the level of vitriol on online platforms. Like how is this possibly a reaction to an academic paper? (I’m fine, but just sad that this could even be a possible response — and I know it can be a lot worse!)
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Just so I don’t take myself too seriously, though, I attempted to explain tenure to my 5-yr-old. I told her we were celebrating “mom getting tenure” and she said “so... you’re celebrating that you get to keep working?” Yes. I’m celebrating that I get to keep working 😊🙏 6/6
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The other guy soon left. It was simple, but this small act has stuck with me since then, and highlights the power of bystanders (especially if they are men) to change the dynamic and make it clear about what is and is not ok. (3/4)
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My first NIH R01 grant has been awarded! Together with Marika Cabral, Molly Schnell & Hannes Schwandt and with guidance from Dr. Victor Carrion (Stanford psychiatry dept), we will be studying how school shootings influence students’ educational, behavioral, and economic outcomes.
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When I was pretty junior (maybe 1st year AP), I was approached at a conference by a senior male economist and the conversation quickly turned uncomfortable/inappropriate. I tried to smile and switch topics, but it didn’t work. Then, a (male) colleague joined and redirected. (2/4)
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But I've gotten used to it as standard econ talk. But when I asked our nanny about her reaction, she said "maybe you should say something about this". So this is me following her advice and urging us in econ to think more about our jargon and how it affects others. 7/7
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So many people have told me to simply ignore EJMR as “it’s a bunch of random trolls”. To be honest, even if it were, it’s hard to ignore your name getting dragged through the mud and the toxic hate. But the paper today makes it crystal clear that these “trolls” are among us.
When I wrote this piece about Alice Wu's research describing toxic in an online forum, a lotta economists responded that yes, it was toxic, but the toxicity wasn't coming from inside the profession. This new research makes clear what we all knew: It was.
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I once asked a question which was dismissed by the (male) presenter-“We don’t need to worry about that.” Minutes later, senior male prof X walked in late to the talk & asked the same question. It was answered thoroughly and then referred to throughout the talk as “X’s point”.
Such an interesting study of how women are treated when presenting economics research. I wonder about the reverse— are men presenters more dismissive of questions from women in the audience? (Note: there are so few Black people in Econ we can’t even study race systematically.)
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My family relied on Food Stamps and Medicaid when we immigrated to the US in 1996. I would not be where I am if this policy were in place.
As an academic researcher, it often feels like there is distance between the policies I study and the lives they impact. But this hits home.
Breaking tonight: DHS announces rule blocking visas and green cards to immigrants on Medicaid, public housing, food stamps
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@clairecm
@sarahkliff
@larrybuch
of
@nytimes
were amazing and committed to getting every single detail of the data right, which resulted in this careful and thoughtful article about our paper. Thank you!
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Super honored and excited for this new role. Looking forward to reading many new papers and working with an amazing Editor (Anna Aizer), other co-editors, and referees.
The JHR welcomes one of our new coeditors joining this month, Maya Rossin-Slater!
@maya_rossin
is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University, focusing on issues in maternal and child well-being, family structure & behavior, and health disparities.
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I’ve been thinking about school shootings a lot through my research in the last few years. One of the points we make is that even “non-mass” shootings (0 or 1 deaths) have lasting, large negative impacts on children’s outcomes. Schools are especially bad places for gun violence.
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New paper 🧵:The US is the only OECD country w/out national paid family leave, and concern about employer costs is a central roadblock. In our new
@nberpubs
wp, we surveyed employers in NY & PA in the 2 yrs before & after NY’s PFL policy went into effect. We find NY employers 1/3
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My new NBER wp with Molly Schnell, Hannes Schwandt, Sam Trejo, and Lindsey Uniat on the effects of school shootings on youth antidepressant use is now out. We find that fatal school shootings generate large and persistent increases in antidepressants 1/3
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@paulgp
@jenniferdoleac
Some of us repeatedly asked the reporters and the editor to not have our name in the piece at all, but they refused to respect that preference. Ironic that a piece written in the name of supporting women in economics ignores the clear wishes of a woman about whom they wrote.
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As someone who researches the effects of in utero shocks, it does indeed feel unsettling to find myself almost 36 weeks pregnant during a global pandemic. I appreciate this thread. A couple thoughts: 1) my bigger concern than catching the virus is having to deliver in a 1/1
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I have a 4-year-old and a baby due in 2 months. I’m on the tenure track (pre-tenure). And I’m so thankful for the women in this thread (and many others) who have paved the way to make that feel doable and normal. Yet another reason why representation matters in the profession!
Raise your hand if you’re a tenured woman in Econ who had babies while on the tenure track. 🙋🏻♀️
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I was asked to come in to my 3-yo daughter’s preschool class to give a 15min presentation on what my job is. 15 min in front of 3-year-olds is about as nerve wracking as 90 min in front of economists. Anyone have ideas for activities to explain what “research” is to preschoolers?
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I continue to be stunned and very grateful. And glad to be an economist, who is used to seminar interruptions. Although I never thought that my own 3-year-old would be the toughest critic, whispering “This is boring” in my ear during a talk 🤣 And now there is video evidence!
Maya Rossin-Slater, 2023 Elaine Bennett Research Prize winner’s presentation with an introduction by nominators and supporters is now posted at
@maya_rossin
,
@StanfordHP
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Excited about
@PerssonPetra
’s and my new working paper. We show that workplace flexibility for fathers has important spillover benefits for maternal postpartum health. Policy discussions often highlight that mothers bear the burden of the lack of workplace flexibility (1/2)
New research by SHP's
@maya_rossin
and
@SIEPR
's
@PerssonPetra
shows that giving fathers the flexibility to take time off from work in the months after their children are born improves the postpartum health and mental well-being of mothers.
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Just horrific. And the problem with the “just ignore it” advice is that it doesn’t make it go away. If anything, it emboldens people to write more vile & hurtful things under the veil of anonymity. Economics will never achieve inclusivity & diversity if EJMR continues to exist.🙁
It is 2021 yet google alerts like this one are common for many female economists. Mine rarely involve my dad though. He passed away long ago, but if he had seen this, I think he would have simply doubted the sanity of the commentators hidden behind the veil of anonymity…
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New paper 🧵: Our new paper on the impacts of school shootings on students’ educational and long-term economic outcomes is out in the NBER (with Marika Cabral, Bokyung Kim, Molly Schnell & Hannes Schwandt):
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One of the luckiest things that happened in my life was being Janet’s student and advisee. Her mentorship and role modeling shaped my career (and life!) in ways that I don’t have words to describe. This article is a small window into who she is as a researcher & teacher.
In the 30 yrs since earning her PhD, Janet Currie has published well over 100 papers, studies, & book chapters on the economics of children and families and how the US healthcare system can better address their needs. Check out our new Office Hours series:
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I know it's just terminology and we do not assign normative judgments with these terms. But, as we think about how to make this profession more inclusive, we must acknowledge that the "bread & butter" terms in our jargon are not equally neutral to all 4/7
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We did it! Feeling so inspired by all the smart, caring, funny, honest, and just overall badass mentors who volunteered their time today. And hopeful and excited for the future of the economics profession. Thank you. It’s an honor to get to share this career journey with you all!
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For those who study mental health:
@J_HumanResource
is planning a special issue on causes and consequences of mental health. Call for papers here:
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Our next mentoring workshop for women/non-binary Econ PhD students is on 9/30/22 on Zoom! 3rd+ year PhD students (as of fall) are eligible. Open to all fields in Econ. Organized this year with an awesome team of former mentors. Please RT! Apply here:
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But then I thought about how this discussion--which was loudly transpiring on zoom on my computer--must have sounded to our immigrant nanny who cares for our 6-month-old a few feet away from me while I work from home. This language is awkward at best and offensive at worst. 3/7
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.
@jenniferdoleac
and I got 250+ applications and were able to include 120 participants (slots were allocated randomly). And this is thanks to the *amazing* 48 mentor volunteers. Excited to meet everyone (virtually of course) in November!
Reminder: The deadline for the grad student mentoring workshop is July 31st. This virtual event will be hosted by
@jenniferdoleac
and
@maya_rossin
on November 20th for 3rd and 4th women/non-binary Econ PhD students. Apply now!
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It was an honor to be included in this incredibly powerful show on
@CNN
with
@abbydphillip
&
@andersoncooper
. Representing joint research with
@smilleralert
@PerssonPetra
@LaurawherryR
K. Kennedy-Moulton & G. Aldana.
Tonight’s show is personal for me. As this country faces a maternal health crisis, especially for Black women, I share why I ended up giving birth to my daughter at home – and why many Black women are finding that safety in childbirth is not always as simple as going to a
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We finished the first round of revisions on this paper a week before I gave birth, the 2nd round days before
@PerssonPetra
had hers. Our daughters are now 2. And our paper is out in print. Proud of all our fruits of labor!
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All California State University (CSU) undergrads are invited to a virtual info session on pre-doc research fellowships, organized by
@SIEPR
and
@StanfordGSB
! Learn more about research careers in economics and related fields. Featuring faculty, current pre-docs and staff. Flyer 👇
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Exciting to be a part of a new department at the time of its inception! Want to join us? Apply for our new open-rank faculty position (health economists very welcome!):
The Stanford School of Medicine has created a Department of Health Policy, which will serve as a hub for health policy research at Stanford and will emphasize finding solutions to disparities in our health care systems.
#HealthPolicy
#HealthCare
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Excited to share my new NBER wp with June Kim and
@AjinLee1
: “What to Expect When It Gets Hotter: The Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Heat on Maternal and Infant Health”. We show that prenatal extreme heat — measured as deviations from historic county-month temp averages—
Global warming and more days of extreme heat are exacerbating health risks in pregnancy, particularly among African-American women, according to new
@Stanford
-led research by
@maya_rossin
,
@AjinLee1
& Jiyoon Kim.
#ClimateChange
#globalhealth
#womenshealth
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Phew! We did it! As usual, this day lifts me up and inspires me like nothing else. Thank you to the mentors for being so helpful, open, and encouraging. And thank you to the students for trusting us with your great questions. And to Rebekah from
@AEACSWEP
for all the support!
Super excited to connect with 130+ PhD students and 50+ mentors from around the world during our mentoring workshop tomorrow! Grateful to all participants for taking 6 hours out of their busy schedules for this cause 🙏
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Very grateful to
@SIEPR
for co-funding my mentoring workshop and helping to make it happen! We had 28 students and 10 mentors total. Happy to share more details with anyone interested in doing something similar!
.
@SIEPR
faculty fellow
@maya_rossin
led a mentoring workshop aimed at developing women economists, in partnership with
@SIEPR
and the
@NSF
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I experienced being the target of an EJMR thread as a mom of a 4-month-old and it was truly awful.
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My new NBER wp with Janet Currie and Mike Mueller-Smith. We find that assault during pregnancy increases likelihood of very low birth weight and preterm births. Estimated social cost is over $40K per assault.
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If you will be in your 3rd or 4th year of the PhD in fall 2021, identify as woman/non-binary, and are interested in health econ or health policy: APPLY to our mentoring workshop! Thank you to
@AEACSWEP
and
@ashecon
for support. Please RT! Details ⬇️
@maya_rossin
and Marika Cabral are co-organizing a virtual mentoring workshop for 3rd & 4th year women & non-binary PhD students in health economics & health policy. The deadline for applications is May 15, 2021. For more info and how to apply, visit:
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Sure. But it’s hard to do when you are a new assistant professor in a world in which our careers heavily depend on how we are perceived by more senior faculty in the profession (who are our editors, reviewers, and eventual tenure letter writers). Power dynamics matter!
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I’m not surprised, but doing this has clarified just how high the demand is for mentoring among female Econ PhD students. I got over 55 applications for 20 slots. So bummed to have to turn people away (I randomized admission), but it means there’s room for more similar efforts!
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Amidst heavy news in econ, it was a breath of fresh air to do this today. Kids were awesome. We did a “research activity” that involved hypothesizing and counting colorful balls & read “E is for Economics” by
@vwgoodman
. Sometimes seeing your job thru the eyes of a 3yo is needed.
I was asked to come in to my 3-yo daughter’s preschool class to give a 15min presentation on what my job is. 15 min in front of 3-year-olds is about as nerve wracking as 90 min in front of economists. Anyone have ideas for activities to explain what “research” is to preschoolers?
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#EconTwitter
: I want to include a session about Covid research in my spring health econ and policy class for undergrads. Which Covid papers should I cover? Self-nominations of papers you have written are welcome. Papers by URM researchers especially welcome.
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from diverse backgrounds into our classes and make them feel like they are valued and included. On a personal note, as an immigrant myself, I have always found the "negative"/"positive" selection of immigrants discussion a bit uncomfortable. 6/7
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Our mentoring workshop for women and non-binary econ PhD students is happening this Friday! Looking forward to connecting with all the students and amazing mentors. Thanks to
@jenniferdoleac
for co-organizing with me and to Rebekah Crowe from
@AEACSWEP
for the help and support.
@AEACSWEP
And of course, I can't wait to see lots of PhD students & mentors at the mentoring workshop on Friday!
@maya_rossin
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NYT’s Claire Cain Miller
@clairecm
covers
@PerssonPetra
and my new working paper. With quotes from
@ProfEmilyOster
and others. Thank you for the great and informative piece!
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I’ve been thinking lately about my two grandmothers, both WWII survivors. My mom’s mom was one of the lucky few who survived the Leningrad blockade as a 9-yr-old girl. My dad’s mom was in her early 20s, a Jew in Ukraine, who fled to Kyrgyzstan for safety. (1/3)
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and can be off-putting and unwelcoming to precisely the groups that are historically under-represented in this profession. I know that changing terminology will not solve all of the many problems in econ, but it's a small step we can take if we want to welcome students 5/7
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Thank you
@StanfordHP
for this wonderful coverage of our mentoring workshop! With quotes from
@SarahCohodes
,
@LuedtkeAllison
, &
@DrBethAkers
. Thanks to
@NSF
and
@AEACSWEP
for support, and of course to my co-organizer this year
@jenniferdoleac
.
Why do we need more women in
#economics
? Because the field impacts so much public policy. So SHP &
@SIEPR
medical economist Maya Rossin-Slater gathers mentors & rising women economists from around the world to support them in what can be a lonely field.
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I’m so excited to be partnering with
@jenniferdoleac
to bring this mentoring workshop for 3rd year female/non-binary econ PhD students to the SEAs! Save the date on Nov 20, 2020! More details to come. In the mean time, submit your work to the SEAs so you can join us!
I'm too excited about this to keep it under wraps:
@maya_rossin
& I are organizing a
@AEACSWEP
mentoring workshop for female/non-binary 3rd-year econ PhD students. (Based on Maya's mentoring workshop in CA last yr.) It'll be the Friday before
#SEA2020
. Stay tuned for more info!
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that I could have imagined at that time. The fact that I am now here is a testament to a ridiculous amount of luck, as well as support from many kind people who believed in me. 5/6
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We are recruiting 2 faculty positions at the assistant and/or associate professor level! All fields within health policy are welcome, and we are particularly interested in those working on topics related to health disparities and health equity.
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@JustinWolfers
@jcbeam
@catarinasaraiva
@JustinWolfers
FYI: I did not want my name in this piece, and repeatedly asked for this from both the reporters and their editor. They refused to respect that preference. Ironic that a piece about supporting women ignores the preferences of the woman they wrote about.
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Thank you for highlighting our work, Dr. Blackstock. Paper joint with
@smilleralert
,
@PerssonPetra
,
@LaurawherryR
, K. Kennedy-Moulton & G. Aldana.
Study: Wealthiest Black Moms More Likely To Die In Childbirth Than Poorest White Moms
In data from California, household income played absolutely no role in determining maternal and infant health outcomes.
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This is a fantastic paper on the costs of parental leave to firms. Main point: costs are very small. Note that the setting is Denmark, where mothers take more than 9 months of leave on average. So this is likely an upper bound cost estimate for US, where leaves are much shorter.
Very excited that our paper on the costs of parental leave on firms and workplaces is now out as an
@nberpubs
working paper!
This is the first really polished version so here's a quick summary thread to celebrate.
TL;DR: Parental leave is not very costly for firms.
(1/N)
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I immigrated to America from post-Soviet Russia at age 10, and soon after our arrival, my mom and I were going through the “donation closet” at the local Jewish Community Center. My greatest find was an old faded Stanford sweatshirt. I was thrilled — sweatshirts did not 2/6
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💥💥💥Reminder: if you are a rising 3rd or 4th year woman/non-binary Econ PhD student, consider applying to our virtual mentoring workshop! No geographic restrictions since we are virtual. Econ-adjacent PhD students (e.g. public policy) also welcome. Deadline: 7/31.💥💥💥
Attn all 3/4 year women/non-binary econ PhD students: please apply to our mentoring workshop! Deadline: July 31. More details:
URM students strongly encouraged to apply!
Please spread the word!!!
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Apply to be a SIEPR pre-doctoral research fellow at Stanford! Great opportunity for those interested in an Econ PhD to work as a full-time RA, take classes, and be in a community with other fellows. Bonus: you could work with
@PerssonPetra
and me!
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Excellent review of the literature on how pollution affects short- and long-term health and economic outcomes in the NYT Upshot. Honored to be a part of this research!
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Excited to share our new
@nberpubs
wp on the long term impacts of common (endemic) respiratory infections in first yr of life. Also relevant to literature on birth order! And our co-author Hui Ding is on the market and is absolutely fantastic!!! W/
@MeltemDaysal
& H.Schwandt.
Early exposure to endemic respiratory viruses has lasting adverse impacts on adult educational and economic impacts. Younger siblings are disproportionately impacted, from
@MeltemDaysal
, Hui Ding,
@maya_rossin
, and Hannes Schwandt
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the discussion turned to the issue of selection--in this particular context, whether immigrants from various countries are "low-skill" and "negatively selected". This is standard econ talk and many of us are so used to it that we don't think twice about it. 2/7
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You are completely right,
@itsafronomics
. We need to do so much better—donate, check in, speak up—and it’s not at all okay to pretend like it’s not our problem or doesn’t affect us. Thank you for calling us out, and I wish the world was such that you didn’t have to. 💔
The silence of economists at a time like this is deafening.
Some of you have really gone about your business like the world is not burning when your training and platform literally gives you an opportunity to directly affect change.
Unbelievable.
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Attn all 3/4 year women/non-binary econ PhD students: please apply to our mentoring workshop! Deadline: July 31. More details:
URM students strongly encouraged to apply!
Please spread the word!!!
This workshop is going virtual! While we are bummed to not see folks in person in November, we hope it will also potentially be more accessible and doable for both mentees and mentors this way. More details to come, stay tuned!
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I cringe at seeing myself on video (over Skype no less!), but I’m hoping this has reach beyond usual academic circles. But they get one thing not quite right: in the US, both parents (not one) can use 12 weeks of unpaid leave through FMLA if eligible (but dads rarely do).
Here's how to improve the health of new parents: shared parental leave. Stanford professor
@maya_rossin
explains how.
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It feels odd to tweet about this while the Bay Area looks like Mars and we are in a pandemic, but our paper (w/ M. Schnell, H. Schwandt, S. Trejo and L. Uniat) on the effects of school shootings on youth antidepressant use is out in
@PNASNews
this week:
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‼️Job Alert! We are hiring in our new Department of Health Policy at Stanford. Open rank and open to all areas in health policy, including health economics. Please RT and feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about the search. Apply at:
Stanford Health Policy has an open rank faculty search!
We are considering a broad set of specialties in health services research & health policy.
Our department is committed to advancing diversity, equity & inclusion
Join us!
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Being the target of EJMR criticism is awful. It affects your entire well-being, your mood, your self-esteem.
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Marika Cabral & I are organizing another virtual mentoring workshop for 3rd+ yr women/non-binary PhD students in health economics/health policy on Sep 29, 2023. To apply please fill out this form: AND send 1-page proposal & CV to info
@cswep
.org.
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Interested in research on paid family leave and health outcomes? Check out my policy brief out today in Health Affairs (coauthored with Lindsey Uniat) for a summary of the research:
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Janet Currie,
@ikuziemko
,
@ShellyJLundberg
, Kelly Bedard,
@royer_heather
,
@HilaryHoynes
, and
@KateBundorf
are some of the amazing economists who have mentored & supported me. They are role models, both due to their research impact, but also in how they treat & care about others.
Today, let's also highlight the GOOD actors in economics. To get it started, I am grateful to Guido Imbens, who kept me from dropping out of graduate school,
@lkatz42
who serves as an advisor LONG after graduate school ended, and
@HilaryHoynes
, who I aspire to be.😊
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Check out our new
@nberpubs
WP, documenting maternal and infant health inequality by income and the intersection between race and income, w/
@smilleralert
,
@PerssonPetra
,
@LaurawherryR
, Kate Kennedy-Moulton (a former
@SIEPR
predoc, now Columbia PhD student!) & Gloria Aldana. 1/5
New WP links CA birth certificates to tax data to see how infant and maternal health changes across the income distribution, and how these patterns differ by race/ethnicity and across countries. w/ Kate Kennedy-Moulton
@PerssonPetra
@maya_rossin
@LaurawherryR
& Gloria Aldana!
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The SIEPR Predoctoral Research Fellowship program is now accepting applications for predocs to start in Summer 2020! Many exciting opportunities, including one to work with
@PerssonPetra
and me on projects related to the health and wellbeing of families!
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Can’t believe that the mentoring workshop is finally happening THIS Friday! Super excited to meet all the fantastic students and mentors. And I’ll be sharing about the experience of organizing this at a
@AEACSWEP
/
@AEACSMGEP
panel on mentoring at the AEAs in San Diego!
I’m not surprised, but doing this has clarified just how high the demand is for mentoring among female Econ PhD students. I got over 55 applications for 20 slots. So bummed to have to turn people away (I randomized admission), but it means there’s room for more similar efforts!
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Understanding the causes of maternal pregnancy and postpartum health is so important yet under-studied, especially compared to research on child health. Don’t get me wrong, we need to keep studying children, but the problems in maternal health are vast too.
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Important (and sadly unsurprising) new evidence from a stellar team of economists. Also suggests that blanket gender-neutral COVID tenure clock extensions are likely to, if anything, exacerbate the gap...
My preliminary new work with
@OlgaShurchkov
and
@TDeryugina
shows a big drop in economics working paper submissions by female economists during the COVID-19 disruptions
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An important and incredibly well-done paper. I’ve thought about this question myself as it’s so central to thinking about the consequences of restrictions on abortions, but never quite had the right data or identification to execute. Awesome work!
@smilleralert
@LaurawherryR
What happens to a woman after she is denied an abortion? Even years later, women denied wanted abortions on the basis of gestational age are struggling financially relative to women who sought and received them slightly earlier in the pregnancy.
@LaurawherryR
@Dianagfoster
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We are looking for mentors! If you are a woman/non-binary PhD economist in early stages of your career (within ~10 years of PhD), we would love for you to join us! Mentors both in and outside academia very welcome. No geographic restrictions (though workshop will be on US time).
.
@maya_rossin
and I are officially looking for mentors for this workshop. If you're a woman/non-binary economist (PhD in econ) and you'd like to be a mentor, please email me or Maya to let us know!
#EconTwitter
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We are very thankful to reporters at
@washingtonpost
for collecting and making available data on school shootings that enabled us to do our study. And thankful also for their thorough coverage of our work here!
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@paulgp
@jenniferdoleac
This is something that happened 8 years ago and I still physically shake and get nauseous when thinking about it. I didn’t want to relive it again. I would have thought they would understand that.
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I’m late to the
#ASSA2020
party this year (arriving tonight!), but am looking forward to learning from my amazing co-panelists about mentoring initiatives in economics and sharing my experience of running a mentoring workshop for female 3rd year PhD students. Please come!
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We are actively planning this workshop (133 students attending!) & need a few more mentors in the following fields: Behavioral, Development, IO, Trade & Macro/Finance. If you or someone you know is interested in being a mentor (women/non-binary folks preferred), please email me!
Our next mentoring workshop for women/non-binary Econ PhD students is on 9/30/22 on Zoom! 3rd+ year PhD students (as of fall) are eligible. Open to all fields in Econ. Organized this year with an awesome team of former mentors. Please RT! Apply here:
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Read this excellent paper by my former UCSB student
@corey_d_white
for more evidence of the health impacts of temperature— this time on mental health!
My paper with J. Mullins is officially coming out in
@JHealthEcon
in December. Cold temperatures improve a range of mental health outcomes, and hot temperatures worsen them. We find changes in sleep behavior is an important mechanism. Also on Reddit!
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I'm looking forward to presenting our paper on the LR effects of childhood access to Food Stamps with
@martha_j_bailey
,
@HilaryHoynes
and Reed Walker in the children's program at
#NBERSI2020
shortly:
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Super excited to connect with 130+ PhD students and 50+ mentors from around the world during our mentoring workshop tomorrow! Grateful to all participants for taking 6 hours out of their busy schedules for this cause 🙏
Our next mentoring workshop for women/non-binary Econ PhD students is on 9/30/22 on Zoom! 3rd+ year PhD students (as of fall) are eligible. Open to all fields in Econ. Organized this year with an awesome team of former mentors. Please RT! Apply here:
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that we definitely did not go to. I later figured out what Stanford was, but was told repeatedly that it was very hard to get into (correctly — I did not get in when I applied for college!). The idea that I could work at Stanford was just not in the realm of possibilities 4/6
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I have 2 more thoughts re: the EJMR study. First, many assert that the study is not representative of the profession. (1)
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Happy to report that it was a success! So grateful to all the mentors who were generous with their time, constructive, funny, and all around amazing. And the students who came eager to learn and network and grow. Today left me excited and hopeful about the future of economics!
Can’t believe that the mentoring workshop is finally happening THIS Friday! Super excited to meet all the fantastic students and mentors. And I’ll be sharing about the experience of organizing this at a
@AEACSWEP
/
@AEACSMGEP
panel on mentoring at the AEAs in San Diego!
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Petra’s and my interview with the AEA about our paper out in this month’s AER.
Kids whose moms were stressed during pregnancy are more likely to use mental health prescription drugs, say
@maya_rossin
&
@PerssonPetra
of
@SIEPR
in today's
#ResearchHighlight
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This is so awesome to see! A little idea that I had for a grant proposal several years ago has actually taken off and spread. It has been a blast to host these workshops virtually—I can only imagine how exciting it’ll be to do it in person, after all this time. Have fun everyone!
Up early and super excited about today's
@AEACSWEP
PhD mentoring workshop! Excited to spend the day with 35 students + 14 mentors, talking about research & academic life *in person* in Houston.
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Happy that our paper (with
@SarahHBana
and Kelly Bedard) is forthcoming in
@JPAM_DC
! Thank you to many folks for lots of helpful feedback on this work.
Early view from JPAM: “The Impacts of Paid Family Leave Benefits: Regression Kink Evidence from California Administrative Data” by
@SarahHBana
, Kelly Bedard, &
@maya_rossin
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exist in Russia at the time, and I desperately wanted to fit in with my sweatshirt-wearing classmates who already commented on my odd clothes (not to mention my mostly non-existent English). I had no idea what Stanford was other than the super fancy shopping center 3/6
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Looking forward to this exciting session. I’ll be presenting new results on the effects of NY paid family leave on employers. We designed and fielded an employer survey for 4 years (2 pre, 2 post-law) in NY and PA. Joint with A. Bartel,
@christopherruhm
,
@MSlopen
, & J. Waldfogel.
Excited to present at
#ASSA2021
paper session “Parental Leave Effects on Firms and Workers”. Come join us on Jan 4 (Monday) at 12:15 pm for some fascinating papers 👇1/2
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