1/2 Excited to share our new EdWorkingPaper, “Better Together? Female Instructors, Female Advisors, and Women’s Persistence in Economics,” with Lisa Giddings, Laurie Miller, John Nunley & Garrett Soper! We ask: do female instructors and advisors work better together?

Better Together? Female Instructors, Female Advisors, and Women’s Persistence in Economics

Female instructors and female advisors each matter for women’s persistence in economics. We ask whether the two work better together than apart and whether this is specific to women. Using administrat...

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Excited to share that our paper, First Impressions Matter: Instructor Gender and Women’s Persistence in Economics, is now an Annenberg EdWorkingPaper. We use near-random assignment to intro econ instructors to study whether instructor gender shapes women’s persistence in economics.

If only we had evidence on the effects of abortion bans of migration for policymakers to consider… Oh wait, we do! www.nber.org/papers/w33328

Are People Fleeing States with Abortion Bans?

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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Justin Zimmerman@jztidecat.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Did it ever occur to them that maybe banning abortion makes women less likely to want to live there?

I'm beyond honored that this work was recognized with the best poster award at the SOLE awards tonight. There were so many amazing posters being presented that having our research even in the conversation let alone winning is a dream.

Marissa Eckrote-Nordland@marissaeckrote.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It was great to be able to present our work on gender match and persistence in economics at #SOLE2026! In a job where you frequently get told that your research isn't good enough it is always nice to have people you admire praise the work you are doing.

It was great to be able to present our work on gender match and persistence in economics at #SOLE2026! In a job where you frequently get told that your research isn't good enough it is always nice to have people you admire praise the work you are doing.

@marissaeckrote.bsky.social and UWL Econ were kind enough to host me yesterday, and even got a presentation action shot!

Thanks for coming to visit UWL @kathrynbollman.bsky.social! It was great to have so many faculty and students in attendance to hear about your working paper on police overtime.

I'm ecstatic to see this work finally published! This was very different from the usual causal inference type work that I do, but the insights I think we can provide for our local communities are extremely valuable. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Never retire? Financial planning and farm families

This paper informs practitioners, farmers, and policymakers about challenges U.S. farm families face when preparing for retirement, with a focus on financial planning and Social Security benefits.D...

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My New Years resolution for 2026 is to say "yes" to more opportunities and be more confident in my skills. I kicked this off yesterday by agreeing to be interviewed on WPR this morning to discuss the November jobs report and what it means for Wisconsinites!

Updates on my website today! -Frosty Climate, Icy Relationships: Cold and Intimate Partner Violence in Peru moves up to the “Accepted Papers” section (JDE!) -New Counterfactual simulator app for Gun Policy and the Steel Paradox Check them out at katiebollman.com 🎉🎉🎉

Katie Bollman

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Economics in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University and an affiliate of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) and the Collabor...

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I have done this a few times... In our profession we got so much rejection and even R&Rs may focus on the negatives. Telling someone you like their paper is refreshing for the person and you too!

Terry McGlynn@hormiga.bsky.social · 8mo ago

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

New working paper with my coauthors: Who Teaches Matters. Using near-random assignment at a broad-access public university, we provide causal evidence that female instructors significantly increase women’s persistence in economics. 🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #Econ #EconResearch

I'm so excited to have my first econ publication with such a great group of coauthors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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