Heading to Tampa this weekend for the Southern Economic Association annual meeting! You can find me presenting my JMP on Saturday and new work with @mariehull.bsky.social and @mariabzhu.bsky.social on Monday!
Hema Shah
@hema-shah-econ.bsky.social
Economist at the Federal Trade Commission. Opinions are my own. https://www.hema-shah-econ.com/
Looking forward to seeing you all at #2025APPAM! You can find me presenting in panels on Thursday and Saturday! Message me if you'd like to meet up😀
I'm on the job market! My JMP studies the role of high school teachers in preparing students for college success I find significant positive effects of high school teachers on 🔹College admissions test scores 🔹College enrollment 🔹College performance 🧵(1/10)
New NBER WP alert! In this paper, we: 🔸Estimate heterogeneous effects of a monthly unconditional cash transfer on parental investments in Latino & Black families 🔸 Leverage data from the Baby's First Years (BFY) study, a US-based RCT www.nber.org/papers/w3373...
Money or Time? Heterogeneous Effects of Unconditional Cash on Parental Investments
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Looking to form/join a panel at #2025APPAM with my JMP! I estimate teacher value added on ACT scores, then look at impacts on college enrollment & college performance. Message me if you have a related paper on teacher/school VA or predictors of college enrollment/ performance! #EconSky #EconConf
Headed to my first #AEFP this week! Looking forward to meeting many scholars whose work I admire🙂 Find me in Thursday’s poster session presenting my job market paper, “High School Teachers and College-Relevant Skill Production: Evidence from ACT Score Value Added.” Sneak peek below!