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Andrea Robbett

@andrearobbett.bsky.social

Experimental economist at Middlebury studying polarization, norms, social dilemmas. Co-author of Game Theory and Behavior and currently writing a behavioral economics textbook.

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Andrea Robbett@andrearobbett.bsky.social · last yr.

💥Some news!💥 After four years of pondering, writing, and revising, I’ve sent a complete draft of my behavioral economics textbook off to MIT Press. More info about the book, including the full table of contents, is in the link below.

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Middlebury College Economics@middecon.bsky.social · 2y ago

Big congratulations to @middecon.bsky.social's own Tanya Byker, whose paper with Martha Bailey, Elana Patel and Shanthi Ramnath on California's paid family leave policy was published in the current AEJ: Policy @aeajournals.bsky.social. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The Long-Run Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Act on Women's Careers and Childbearing: New Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design and US Tax Data

(February 2025) - We use administrative tax data to analyze the cumulative, long-run effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act (CPFL) on women's employment, earnings, and childbearing. A regression-discontinuity design exploits the sharp increase in the weeks of paid leave available under the law. We find no evidence that CPFL increased employment, boosted earnings, or encouraged childbearing, suggesting that CPFL had little effect on the gender pay gap or child penalty. For first-time mothers, we find that CPFL reduced employment and earnings a decade after they gave birth.

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