Jocelyn Wikle

Economist researching Child and Family Policy, Parent Investments in Children, Family Interactions. Brigham Young University.

[Jocelyn Wikle @JocelynWikle]

Full-day kindergarten is now normative in the US, and that has big implications for moms and families.

[chloe gibbs @chloergibbs]

🚨 New working paper alert!! 🚨

In work w/ @JocelynWikle and @1rileywilson, we study the policy that’s been the most prominent form of public education investment in young children—full-day kindergarten expansions—over last 3 decades in the U.S.

https://t.co/f8AeiElYEp

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[chloe gibbs @chloergibbs]

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@EarlyLearnNatn & @The74 say our full-day K study - w/ @JocelynWikle & @1rileywilson - is a MUST READ from the 2024 research on child care and early learning!

Also: insights from Christ Herbst & @JHB_econ, research from Aaron Sojourner & coauthors

https://t.co/Wm3uIeOTfF

[chloe gibbs @chloergibbs]

I was delighted to see the BYU News article about our full-day K study (with @1rileywilson & @JocelynWikle, both at BYU) was one of 2024's most read!

We couldn't beat the story about the new creamery on campus though. 1/3

https://t.co/nZtoFO9d7B

[Jocelyn Wikle @JocelynWikle]

@toddrjones Ever since my teenager told me that it’s aggressive to use punctuation when texting, I’ve been using it less.

[chloe gibbs @chloergibbs]

Our new work on full-day kindergarten expansions has been getting a lot of attention in Utah, and not just because my fantastic coauthors @JocelynWikle and @1rileywilson are at BYU…

[Jocelyn Wikle @JocelynWikle]

@riacton Congratulations!! What a beautiful couple. So happy for you!

[Riley Wilson @1rileywilson]

Check out this thread from my coauthor @chloergibbs! We study how one of the most wide spread public education investments -the transition to full-day K- affects maternal labor supply and family decisions in the US. It has been great to work with @chloergibbs and @JocelynWikle!

[Ashley Jochim @aejochim]

Say it with me: education policy is women’s policy.

👏👏👏

[Emily Penner @EmilyKPenner]

Probably bringing a copy of this to my first PTA meeting as the mom of a rising part-day kindergartener

[Dr. Shaun M. Dougherty @doughesm]

This is one of the most exciting and important papers I’ve seen in a good long while. Looking forward to digging in! Variation in policy exposure, long term outcomes, and intuitive data visualizations to really motivate the intuition

[CJ Libassi @clibassi]

Got one of my favorite recent research facts that can make you interesting* at dinner parties when I saw Chloe present this paper:

For as much as we (rightly) talk abt pre-k, growth in full-day K has been a much, much bigger source of childcare expansion

*definitions may vary

[Sheeva Azma @SheevaAzma]

"full-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergarten-aged children in this time frame" #edpolicy #scipol #workingmoms

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

COVID-19 vaccine mandates at U.S. universities saved *a lot* of lives.

https://t.co/cvY1twstno

[Jocelyn Wikle @JocelynWikle]

@chloergibbs Exactly!

[Jocelyn Wikle @JocelynWikle]

My daughter just took a career aptitude test. Much to her dismay, the test said she would be an excellent . . . economist. And to add insult to injury, the second suggestion was an economics professor. I guess the invisible hand doesn't fall far from the tree.

[chloe gibbs @chloergibbs]

It's funny to me that so many economists are children of economists. My children are like, 1) everyone's parent is an economist, and 2) economics sounds *so* boring.

[Jocelyn Wikle @JocelynWikle]

@JaneLankes @jessesmithsoc Congratulations! Such a beautiful family!

[Jocelyn Wikle @JocelynWikle]

@abbyeyre @SlackHQ Congrats Abby!!

[Lucie Schmidt @LucieGSchmidt]

Brookings has launched the State Safety Net Interactive tool, based on the calculator I developed with @LShoreSheppard and @taraelizwatson :
https://t.co/7st4eQn38X

[Riley Wilson @1rileywilson]

Took me a long time but finally finished @kearney_melissa’s “The Two-parent Privilege”. Wow. Such a valuable contribution to help us think about unequal resources for kids. She has started a needed conversation of how society can foster more resources (time and money) for kids!

[Jocelyn Wikle @JocelynWikle]

@Stata I use Stata to do research on parents and children.