Economist @cudenver studying immigration & safety net policy Fellow @BrookingsInst @hamiltonproj @EPR_LAB @nberpubs @IZAWorldofLabor @ucwcolorado @IRP_UW
Denver, CO
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Want a summary of the papers in the staggered treatment lit? And practitioner's guide to using them + pointers on event study & other DiD models?
Check out the slides @D_Burgherr & I put together! & example STATA code from David & @borusyak
Links here: chloeneast.com/metrics-discu…
I am adding one more bonus presentation to the lineup!
This will be 7/8 noon-1:15 MT and will try to wrap-up everything(ish) we have discussed so far in this series
Sign-up on my website, see thread below for more details
#EconTwitter
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Very proud of this visual guide I created to explain different scenarios & associated problems based on the DiD literature, so thought I’d share here in case it’s helpful!
I'm teaching @agoodmanbacon's seminar DD paper in my grad class today.
At this point this paper feels like an old friend I have a toxic relationship with.
I overall like spending time with them but every once a while they hurt me.
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Been thinking a lot recently about how many Economists have never had to worry about money, or work a low-wage job, and how this limits our ability to be good social scientists
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/…
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Tenure is officially official as of today!
Checked my paycheck for my raise and literally never could have dreamed I'd have the salary I have when I was a kid. Being an upwardly mobile member of a family is strange.
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🎉Im starting a Lab! The Equitable Policy Research Lab!
Mission: Build a more equitable society by supporting policymakers in creating effective and inclusive policies and by diversifying the Economics profession.
Follow @EPR_Lab & 👀 equitablepolicylab.org
#EconTwitter
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Junior folks: I highly recommend you create a folder to save nice emails you get, and make a word doc w nice things people have said about you & things you're proud of.
You never know when you'll need that boost. I needed it today.
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Love it when media covers my research. Hate it when they give credit only to my male coauthor and I'm not even mentioned. (This isn't a one time thing either.)
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What resources to do you use to teach folks how to create nice visualizations in Stata?
(Don't @ me about other programs that are better please)
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In case you missed it Friday! I have tenure!!!!
Grateful to my fabulous colleagues, coauthors, mentors, friends, family and dogs for helping me get to this point. I feel very lucky.
Also my dept increased tenured women by 200% on Friday bc @a_velasquezg also got tenure!!
Best start to the weekend celebrating @ChloeNEast tenure! (And @a_velasquezg, not able to celebrate yet), congratulations to both! @CUDenver
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#econtwitter are you trying to understand when staggered DiD (TWFE) works and when it doesn't?
And whether you need to worry about it in your case?
And what to do as a fix?
Check out this awesome resource by Callaway and @pedrohcgs
cran.r-project.org/web/packa…
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Why is the policy solution to make people feel guilty for not getting married instead of insisting we create jobs & childcare that allow a single person to support their family on their own?
Bc economists love to blame individuals for systemic problems.
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Desk rejected... rather than going into details, I will just say this one stung. Please send encouraging words, positive vibes, and simple cocktail recipes that I can make tonight.
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Been thinking about this a lot recently.
What is & is not economics was "decided" decades ago by scholars who were privileged white men.
Let's stop using this as a way to gate-keep.
What is & is not economics can & should evolve w society and the profession.
#econtwitter
“Deciding to make children the focus of my research, when there was no ‘field’ for it and no one else was doing it, was one of the hardest decisions I made as a researcher. People told me that it was ‘interesting, but not economics.’" bit.ly/33xsko9
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🎉1st announcement of the week! & on #InternationalWomensDay!
@a_velasquezg & I's paper is accepted at @J_HumanResource!
We show immigration enforcement reduces employment of college-educated moms w young kids bc of higher cost of household help
chloeneast.com/uploads/8/9/9…
🧵👇
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I'm very excited to share that I was nominated to become an affiliate at the Institute for Research on Poverty at Wisconsin!
@IRP_UW is an amazing group of scholars and I'm happy to be joining them.
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Final announcement of the week! I'm now a Faculty Research Fellow in @nberpubs Children!
Thank you all for nominating me!
And thanks for cheering me on during this big week! It feels like the culmination of many years of hard work!
This is the hard launch of my shameless NBER nomination campaign.
I would love for you to nominate me if you see fit and many of you will be getting emails from me shortly.
Thank you!
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I'm so happy that my JMP (the lead article!) studying the impact of early-life food stamp access on children's health is officially published!
Check out the new issue of @J_HumanResource, with articles on the effect of food stamps on children’s health, the impact of sick pay mandates on the labor market, consumer choices in the health insurance market, and more:
jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/2… #EconTwitter
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I had no idea what I was getting myself into getting an Economics PhD.
I did it because I was paid to do it, and law school didn't pay you, and I didn't want loans.
It's ok to not know, it can still end up being a great match!
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Cannot recommend enough throwing yourself parties.
I had the best time celebrating my tenure with friends and family this weekend. The perfect send off for DC.
(I especially love, as a woman, celebrating milestones besides getting married and having kids)
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TFW you get an R&R on a Friday afternoon after a terrible week/month/year
Not reading the letters rn, just gonna enjoy it!!
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Second big news of the week!
I'll be on sabbatical next year visiting @BrookingsInst working on policy issues related to nutrition programs and labor market inequality!
Very excited to get a chance to pursue one of my post-tenure goals--getting more involved w policy work
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Take the advice I was given by male faculty to take off my engagement ring and wear high heels for my interviews
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Health inequalities persist across generations. What can public policy do about it?
@smilleralert Marianne Page @LaurawherryR & I show expanding Medicaid to disadvantaged pregnant women improved the health of their kids *AND* their grandkids
link: nber.org/papers/w23810
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You will never be senior enough or successful enough to feel like you can fight for change. You just have to decide to do it.
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What do you do when you find out someone else is writing the same paper you've already written?
Serious question.
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Thrilled to share some exciting professional news!
@EconJason and @mpbitler are amazing and I'm so happy to continue to work with both of them in the future!
Happy to share that my work on US the safety net (with @ChloeNEast and @mpbitler) was selected for funding through an @NSF grant!
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Last day of January - the month my paper w Marianne Page @smilleralert @LaurawherryR came out in AER!
TLDR: Expanding public health insurance to kids improves the health of the *next* generation of kids!
A fabulous team effort that I'm very proud of!
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
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First day at @hamiltonproj @BrookingsInst !
Took some classic first day of school pics
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Thinking this morning about how all women in Economics have gone through so much shit and worked so damn hard to get where they (we) are.
Cheers to a trailblazer @PikaGoldin today, who helped make it a little easier for all of us!
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I'm glad economists are willing to talk openly about salary amounts. It only hurts us to not do it.
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In many of my interviews I've been asked "how does your *family* feel about you moving?"
In my case I feel some satisfaction saying "well my family is me and my two dogs so they will be fine"
But y'all this is how not-so-subtle discrimination happens
It’s also the case that typically to get a raise, one needs an “outside offer,” which often requires being willing and able to move one’s family somewhere else in the country.
Hypothesis: this contributes to women getting paid relatively less than men at the same university.
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The Economics Department at CU Denver is hiring this year!
We are looking for an assistant professor in applied microeconomics. We're a friendly and supportive group and did I mention the views?
Please post widely & feel free to reach out with Qs
econjobmarket.org/positions/…
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Do male economists get emails asking for detailed explanations of all of the choices they made in their papers (choices that are explained in their papers)? Asking for female economists.
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What a f*cking day/week/month/year.
In Feb of 2022 I had 3 R and Rs. As of this morning I have 3 accepted papers.
Mostly all I can think about is how this frees up some energy to be able to do more activism.
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Y’all I’m in the print version too!!! This might be the proudest my parents have ever been of me 😂
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Recently I decided to say in all emails that for me this is exhausting/distracting/stressful & I'm not maintaining the same productivity. Many people said they thought they were the only ones & were falling behind. It's easy to feel that way when we don't share, so keep sharing!
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Tomorrow is my first NBER presentation without a broken leg! Hope this is a good omen and not a bad one....
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My office for the next week @BeckerFriedman @UChicago!
Come by and say hi if you're around!
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#econtwitter women: how do you attend talks about gender discrimination without wanting to scream the whole time?
#askingforme
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One figure showing that work requirements don't increase work but do cause many people to stop receiving benefits:
Very excited about my first @hamiltonproj @BrookingsInst piece! 🎉
Several policies recently made changes to work requirements for SNAP. In a new primer, @laurenlbauer and I explain how SNAP work requirements work, or (spoiler alert) don’t work. 👇
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Hot Take:
Labor vs. Leisure is a false dichotomy created by wealthy white heterosexual men with partners that take care of all household production
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It's me on @MorningEdition debunking JD Vance's claim about immigration causing the housing crisis we are in!
npr.org/2024/10/18/nx-s1-513…
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🚨@CUDenver Econ Department hiring an Assistant Professor in applied micro!🚨
Join our great group of researchers in a beautiful city! We esp encourage women, BIPOC, & other URM folks to apply. Pls share & email/DM w questions!
aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?J……
(Now back to my R&Rs!)
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@lhnicholas & I are hiring a 2-year FT research assistant to work on health & labor econ projects!
Particularly interested in candidates from historically under-represented groups in Economics.
Ad cu.taleo.net/careersection/2…
@econ_ra @predoc_org @CUDenver @CUAnschutz @AEACSWEP
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I go to therapy every week!
It's amazingly helpful for both my work life and non-work life, and has never been more important for me than this year.
I am not ashamed of this.
Let’s make going to therapy feel just as normal as going to the gym. Your mental and emotional states of being need workouts, too.
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#econtwitter: Some non-COVID news! My paper w @FriedsonAndrew on SNAP's impact on adult health care utilization was just accepted at American Journal of Health Economics! Andrew is also new to Twitter, so go follow him. Paper summary & link below:
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Getting ready for my move to DC next week!
Very excited for this new chapter visiting @BrookingsInst and getting to do more policy work.
Also sad to (temporarily) be leaving Denver.
Reach out if you're in the area!
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It's another one of those weeks I have to re-read my CV to remind myself I actually have gotten some stuff done during the past couple years.
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The most powerful session I've ever been too.
Listening to stories of how Rodney welcomed economists into the profession and how this was valued by so many impacted me more than I can say.
We celebrated the life of Rodney Andrews @Rodprime at #APPAM2023. He was a terrific economist, scholar and mentor. The love in the room was palpable. We miss you Rod, but your memory lives on. Please share stories of how Rodney's life and work impacted you.
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#econtwitter: Any favorite resources for teaching an undergrad the basics of Stata?
(Don't @ me about R please...)
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Just a reminder -- Economists can support things because they help people.
FULL STOP.
We don't also need to show/argue that these same things help firms or spur economic growth.
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🚨New WP with @Jason__Cook showing that SNAP does NOT reduce labor supply for most recipients.
More evidence suggesting work requirement expansions won’t increase work and will just remove eligible people from the program.
Check out his thread 👇
Work requirements come from the idea that people work less if they receive government support.
But do these programs actually reduce work? In a new WP, @ChloeNEast and I show that for most SNAP (food stamp) recipients this is in fact NOT what happens.
tinyurl.com/worksnap
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If you aren't burnt out from the past few years you are the exception, at least among my circles.
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Very excited to see my @NBER WP out w @David_E_Simon on the Efficacy of the Public Safety Net in Insurance Job Losers
nber.org/papers/w28218?utm_c…
We answer in the paper & THREAD 👇
1) How much insurance is there?
2) From which programs?
3) Who benefits most?
4) What are imp gaps?
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If you need me I'll be crying not happy tears at my desk today and trying to figure out what I want to do next.
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Tonight I am starting my first in-person Spanish class. This has been a post-tenure goal of mine, so I can better connect with and serve migrants in my area & in my work
Feeling discouraged right now but connection to other people is always the antidote
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I worry that predocs and postdocs will accelerate this change because you now have to be able to wait 8+ years before you make good $$, which people without generational wealth are less able to do
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Just got a very kind and grateful email from a fantastic 1st gen student--they are going to a top grad school in their field. I love this job sometimes. 😭
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Very excited to be presenting my work on multigenerational effects of Medicaid joint w Marianne Page, @smilleralert & @LaurawherryR today at @nd_econ @LEOatND!
Below is little teaser of the new version of our paper! V proud of this work & full updated draft will be out v soon!
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Also, if you want some great instructions on how to use the Callaway and Sant'Anna code, especially if you are new to R, check out these amazing slides @olivia_j_healy put together for the metrics discussions I'm leading:
resources.oliviajhealy.com/T…
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This morning I did a CNN interview (tbh not my best performance bc my mental state is not at its peak) & since then have 3 more media requests
I will keep fighting & telling people the facts no matter what & welcome ideas on how to handle this on top of all my other work...
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Upcoming schedule for my metrics seminars!
April 8 @AustnNchols discuss Goodman-Bacon (2020)
April 29 @olivia_j_healy (PhD Candidate at Northwestern) on her work & Callaway/Sant’Anna R code
May 6 @Andrew___Baker on his new WP
All 12-1:15pm MT
+ new resource 👇
#econtwitter
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I'm very excited that my job market paper has found a great home! And also excited to try joining econ twitter.
New preprints! Newly accepted JHR papers look at food stamps and child health, minimum wage increases' effects on employment, immigration and natives’ school performance, and conferences on the path to academic impact. jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl… @UWiscPress
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This paper by Anna Aizer, @HilaryHoynes & @LlerasMuney should be required reading for anyone who studies & teaches about the safety net.
Gives a fantastic overview of how this literature (in econ) has evolved and how research informs policy-making.
nber.org/papers/w29754
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ECONOMISTS (especially white ones) please take this day to read William Spriggs letter on race in economics. Meet his call to action.
minneapolisfed.org/~/media/a…
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My paper w @David_E_Simon on the safety net for job losers is forthcoming @JPubEcon!
Results can be summed up in a few figures & access is free for 50 days👇
32% of lost earnings replaced by public benefits (mostly UI) & this reduces poverty by 18pp, but regressive at bottom
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A thing I've learned in DC is people actually ARE using & citing academic research even if we (academics) don't know it!
I'm particularly thrilled to see my JMP used to argue SNAP benefits should be expanded to immigrant families in this new report on Intergenerational Poverty!
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Oh heeeeey I'm in the @washingtonpost today talking about why immigration is actually good for U.S.-born workers
Great article @rachsieg!
.@ChloeNEast, an economist at the University of Colorado Denver who focuses on immigration policy: “The economy is not a zero-sum game. When one person has a job, that does not mean one less job for somebody else.”
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This is a great paper: 1) provides policy-relevant evidence that restrictions on Food Stamp eligibility among drug felons increased later crime, and 2) uses a simple, transparent identification strategy. I assigned it as reading in my public grad class last semester!
The 1996 Welfare Reform Act took a strong stance against criminals receiving welfare. But banning drug felons from getting food stamps only made them more likely to return to crime, according to @cody_tuttle of @UofMaryland. #ChartOfTheWeek aeaweb.org/research/charts/w…
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Just spent 4 hours trying to help a family member get on Medicaid. And am spending the rest of the weekend working on a grant proposal to reduce administrative burden in safety net programs
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It's my 34th birthday today.
You all know I've been going through IT recently.
I'm very grateful to all the communities that support me including this one!
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Today I saw every one of these brave students get arrested for sitting peacefully on the grass on their own campus
This was an hour after the encampment had been taken down and therefore they were not doing anything illegal or against campus policy
@CUDenver @CUDenverNews
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Have had the flu, Covid and shingles all in the last 2 months. (Flu right now.)
Please tell me it’s ok I haven’t gotten as much work done as I hoped cause I’m stressing.
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Belated announcement that I am back in Colorado for the spring, spending the rest of my sabbatical @ucboulder Economics department!
I absolutely LOVED my time @hamiltonproj @BrookingsInst and am excited to continue as a Nonresident Fellow there.
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Paper acceptance day excitement is really tampered by the state of the world right now, but I'm still going to try to make myself celebrate!
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When #DobbsvJackson draft leaked I learned as much as I could on how to get involved
I want to share with you now
If you’re afraid of #abortion activism this thread is not for you, but I hope it’s clear that being told we can’t be activists is a way to limit our power
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I interrupt my twitter break to brag about my amazing dad; a lawyer on this case arguing mask mandates are ok in schools to protect kids w disabilities! #soproud
A judge says Texas’ ban on mask mandates violates the rights of students with disabilities. nytimes.com/2021/11/10/us/ju…
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This is the hard launch of my shameless NBER nomination campaign.
I would love for you to nominate me if you see fit and many of you will be getting emails from me shortly.
Thank you!
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It's a good day when your friend (@bartonwillage) joins your department and you're in the office for the first time together!
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Nothing like a mountain getaway with my dogs to cap off a great sabbatical year! I learned so much spending time in new places w new people that will continue to influence my work.
Also thanks @callyrgf for my favorite hat! The scam is indeed structural.
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