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Lucie Schmidt

@luciegschmidt.bsky.social

Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College and NBER; Labor economist working on US social safety net/health/economics of family. she/her #firstgen

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Lauren Bauer@laurenhlb.bsky.social · last yr.

New @hamiltonproject.org research by @lizananat.bsky.social @agpines.bsky.social & Olivia Howard finds that work requirements penalize low-income workers for something they can’t control: employer-driven volatility in employment and hours. www.brookings.edu/articles/wor...

Work requirements penalize workers in volatile occupations

Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Olivia Howard warn that work requirements, such as those Congress is currently considering adding or expanding in means-tested programs, penalize low-income w...

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo@karenguzzo.bsky.social · last yr.

Look, I'm all for giving new parents money. But they shouldn't have to use that money to individually address problems that are structural in nature.

Karen Benjamin Guzzo@karenguzzo.bsky.social · last yr.

Instead of promoting a baby bonus as a way to help new parents afford to take time off from work or settle a hospital bill (see excerpt from a recent blog post), we could actually, you know, have a paid parental leave program and universal health care. 1/

By contrast, baby bonuses—which we both support—would begin reaching parents soon after the president’s signature graced the final bill. Members of Congress could cut gauzy ads featuring parents who received upfront assistance upon the birth of a new child. They could point to parents newly able to afford diapers, take time off work, even commit to welcoming an unplanned pregnancy. Couples weighing whether or not to try for a baby would hear from friends, sisters, coworkers, from all walks of life, about the baby bonus that helped them settle their hospital bill.
Lauren Bauer@laurenhlb.bsky.social · last yr.

Rumor has it that SNAP work requirement waivers are on the chopping block. Waivers are a critical safety valve for turning off work reqs when local economic conditions warrant. An oldy but goody analysis on how waivers help SNAP respond to a recession. www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/...

How do work requirement waivers help SNAP respond to a recession? - The Hamilton Project

Work requirements impede SNAP’s dual role as a safety net and automatic stabilizer. This economic analysis provides new evidence about how waivers to these rules functioned during the Great Recession ...

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Matthias Doepke@mdoepke.bsky.social · last yr.

30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house. We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.

Economic Policy Institute@epi.org · 2y ago

Here's some of what's covered in the dashboard: 🔹 Annual wages for the top 1% and bottom 90% of wage earners 🔹 Racial and gender wage gaps 🔹 Unemployment rates, including by state 🔹 Poverty rates 🔹 Inflation rates 🔹 Union membership rates and the union wage premium

Ben Zipperer@benzipperer.org · 2y ago

We just released an enormous trove of US labor market data, all compiled from government surveys, now under threat The @epi.org State of Working America Data Library provides comprehensive data on the US jobs and wages, with detailed cuts by demographics, over time and across states data.epi.org

Time series graph of the US real median hourly wage in 2024 dollars, by race
CSAE@oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 2y ago

Applications are open for the Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN) programme 2025! Information sharing, mentoring & financial support for African students interested in graduate school in economics & related fields. ➡️ Apply: gain-network.net/participants 🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2025

Apply to GAIN — GAIN

We are looking for extremely motivated individuals who aim to apply to graduate programs at top institutions worldwide and eventually pursue a PhD in economics and other social sciences. We strongly e...

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Health Economics@hec-wiley.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello World! The Editorial Board of Health Economics is pleased to announce that we are now live on the happier, friendlier, and all-together Blue-er place. Please follow us (and repost) for updates on articles and journal issues as they come out.

Laura Wherry@laurawherryr.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to see this WP by @mpbitler.bsky.social and Ted Figinski - new evidence on the long-term effects of Food Stamps using admin data, plus cool analyses of how the program built onto existing infrastructure in the Commodity Distribution Program #EconSky www.nber.org/papers/w3318...

Long-Run Effects of Food Assistance: Evidence from the Food Stamp Program and Administrative Data

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Jessica Leight@leightjessica.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just re-upping this #econsky: I currently have more mentors than mentees/students (can probably match another 10-11 students from LMICs who would like feedback on a research paper from a senior scholar.) Fill out the form here if interested! forms.gle/ekvvoEKBLYQM...

Mentors and mentees sign up

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Jessica Leight@leightjessica.bsky.social · 2y ago

#EconTwitter #econsky: announcement of call for mentors + opportunity for paper feedback for scholars from LMICs (repeating a success from last year)! tl;dr sign up either to submit a paper (if you're a junior scholar from a LMIC) or review a paper (any post-PhD scholar).

Krista Ruffini@kristaruffini.bsky.social · 2y ago

📈📉 Just published in @jpube.bsky.social with @laurenhlb.bsky.social & Diane Schanzenbach: We examine how 1-time, in-kind food vouchers thru Pandemic EBT affected family well-being 1/N www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The effects of lump-sum food benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic on spending, hardship, and health

This paper examines how providing families with lump-sum in-kind assistance during the pandemic affected food hardship, economic well-being, and mater…

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Olanrewaju Yusuff@olayusuff.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hey #EconSky! #ASHEcon! @tejendrapsingh.bsky.social and I are looking for papers that fits broadly into the category of “Health and Development/Health Equity/Mental Health” and specifically into the category of access to health services to create a session at the 2025 @ashecon.bsky.social…

ASHEcon@ashecon.bsky.social · 2y ago

The call for abstracts for the 14th ASHEcon Conference is now open! The conference will be held June 22-25, 2025 at the Grand Hyatt Nashville in Nashville, TN. Submit here 👉 www.ashecon.org/announcement... The deadline for submissions is Dec. 11, 2024 at 11:59 PM PST.