Isabel Pastoor

Applied Economics PhD student @ApEcMN studying labor, gender, health, and demography.

[Xavier Jaravel @XJaravel]

Great to see our practical guide to shift-share instruments wiht @borusyak and @instrumenthull out in the Journal of Economic Perspectives today 👇👇👇
https://t.co/depWiGJxRt

[Isabel Pastoor @PastoorIsabel]

Hubby asked if I got him any Veblen goods for Valentine’s Day

[Isabel Pastoor @PastoorIsabel]

Important: You can still access DHS data from the DHS Program and from IPUMS DHS if you already have an account.

[IPUMS @ipums]

We know there is a lot of amazing work #poweredbyIPUMS! We want to celebrate it. Please consider submitting a nomination for our annual IPUMS research awards. There are multiple categories and the award does include a cash prize. Learn more at: https://t.co/WEXAHVABrl

[Isabel Pastoor @PastoorIsabel]

My public finance and monetary policy students from last semester must think I’m a big fat liar now

[Kevin Griffith @AssumeNormality]

🚨I've posted BRFSS data in SAS, R, and Stata formats for 1987-2023 here on this Mendeley Data Repository

Free to use without restriction!

https://t.co/IUWdEOLGlY

[IPUMS @ipums]

The core work of IPUMS includes preserving, harmonizing and disseminating the world’s population data. You can support our work through a donation at https://t.co/eoqV68ONvY.

[Isabel Pastoor @PastoorIsabel]

Husband’s paternity leave is going well. He’s “writing code to control the kitchen light” and reading Thomas Schelling. 😬

[AMIE @econmentoring]

📢📢 #AMIE is excited to announce its "4th Workshop in Applied Microeconomics" for PhD students, to be held virtually on April 28 & 29, 2025. Submission Deadline: February 27, 2025

Call for papers: https://t.co/qhNacg0riu
please share, R/T #EconTwitter 1/3

[Resolution Foundation @resfoundation]

Sunday evening blues? Find your next opportunity at the Resolution Foundation!

We're looking for a thoughtful and proactive individual to join our research team to support work on a specific research project.

Full job description 👉 https://t.co/SChWMOTTkU

[Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs]

About 9 years ago my son was born. On our first day home and his third day of life he spiked a high fever and we rushed him back to the hospital. After days of waiting for tests (including a spinal tap) we learned that he had bacterial meningitis.

[Jessica Leight @leightjessica]

Here's my request for AI: give me a day where no one around me is blathering about AI

[Isabel Pastoor @PastoorIsabel]

I’ve been awarded an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship to work on my dissertation at the Life Course Center @umnlifecourse next academic year!

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

Waiting for GPT-4b macro and GPT-4b economic policy.

[Isabel Pastoor @PastoorIsabel]

Baby Eleonora is here! I’m so blessed to have two beautiful daughters to delay and interfere with my dissertation.

[Ruben Mathisen @rubenbmathisen]

New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈

Read: https://t.co/Ko31GiOm3L
Findings 🧵👇

[Suri Li @surili.bsky.social @Suri_lmx]

New #PostdocOpportunity📢
Interested in family dynamics, gender inequality, and social disadvantage over the life course?🌟Join our dynamic team @lifecourseAust @UQ_News, led by @JaneenBaxter7
Apply👉https://t.co/pDKygT5lDC
Deadline📅:4 Feb
#FamilyResearch #Gender #SocialScience

[Olga Stoddard @OlgaStoddard]

Surreal to see my paper w/@ProfKarpo, @jrpjrpjrp, & @steveoconnell1 in print @JPolEcon!
TLDR: When women are a minority in teams, they experience a significant influence penalty. Assigning a female team leader, however, reduces that penalty by 50%.

Detailed 🧵below:

[skerdi zanaj @ZanajSkerdi]

Call for Papers: 4th Workshop on Gender and Economics, 22-23 May, 2025, at the University of Luxembourg. It includes, among other cool things, an award for young researchers of 1000euro and the opportunity to publish in a special
issue of the Journal of Demographic Economics

[Isabel Pastoor @PastoorIsabel]

My toddler has requested that I have this baby tomorrow morning. But I don’t know. I still have a lot of stuff to do first (read Adam Smith)