Winnie Yee

Education PhD student @UCIrvine, former @sffed RA, 2017 @aeaspmsu

[NBER @nberpubs]

How does subsidized childcare impact the long-run careers of mothers? Evidence from Quebec's universal childcare program shows an enduring and growing impact with higher earnings, from Michael Baker, Jonathan Gruber, and @kevinmilligan https://t.co/0wxfDMClJm

[NBER @nberpubs]

Standardized test scores improve predictions of academic performance but matter relatively less for admissions decisions, since few applicants are near the decision threshold, from @jgaeb1, Calvin Isley, Christopher Avery, and @5harad https://t.co/zwlcFJVvz2

[The Hamilton Project @hamiltonproj]

What you need to know about SNAP work requirements:
- They do not increase employment.
- They cause a large decrease in participation in SNAP.
- They impose burdens on workers, even those outside the policy’s intended target.

Learn more: https://t.co/SdA2zZJG0l

[Winnie Yee @Winnieyee8]

@AnanyaKotia @StanfordGSB @SIEPR Congratulations !

[Susan Athey @Susan_Athey]

Check out our NBER working paper evaluating two programs to facilitate labor market transitions. Incredibly exciting to invent a new program and see that it was effective! We also used a novel approach to measure selection and treatment effects for mentoring.

[Anna Stansbury @annastansbury]

📢now forthcoming in ECMA!

The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia

Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.

Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

[NBER @nberpubs]

Women and under-represented minorities experience lower returns to college majors that has substantial impact on cross-group earnings gaps, from Scott A. Imberman, Michael F. Lovenheim, Patrick Massey, @kevin_stange, and Rodney J. Andrews https://t.co/Zk7gzdTRfU

[Alvin Christian @_AlvinChristian]

I study academic accommodation in my JMP and show at the university I study accommodations usage more than doubled between 2011 and 2024 (4% -> 10%) and is driven by students getting accommodations for mental health conditions. This is an important and growing area of research!

[Miguel Urquiola @m_urquiola]

What is the impact of studying STEM vs. Humanities? We consider this in Romanian high schools, where otherwise identical kids can be assigned to STEM-focused or Humanities-focused curricula. Our key finding is that kids are malleable to what they study. This happens on 4 fronts:

[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

No jobs report today.
This is the first time this has happened since the 2013 shutdown.

It's unsettling.
The economy is about people. And a lot of people are struggling in this "frozen" job market with almost no hiring. Is it stabilizing or getting worse? Today's data would have shed important light on that.

[Ashvin Gandhi @ashdgandhi]

At least as a PhD student, working 80 or even 100 hour weeks is more about just being anxious all the time and not really about actually working.

[Served with Andy Roddick @Served_Podcast]

This is literally all Zendaya wanted in Challengers

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

[Analisa Packham @analisapackham]

“I never see you at the club.”

Yeah well I never see you cursing at Stata after making the ugliest graph you’ve ever seen for the 50th time

[Eni Iljazi @eni_iljazi]

i’m going to the research frontier does anyone want anything?

[Heather Bone @heatherlbone]

🚨 Hi #EconTwitter, I'm on the #EconJobMarket! 🚨

My #JobMarketPaper studies how targeting the leaders of criminal enterprises (CEs) affects the criminal market structure and the resulting implications for rates of violent crime.

Website: https://t.co/Z2TI3PMfqm

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[James S Murphy @James_S_Murphy]

How college enrollment by income at highly rejective colleges has evolved over the past century:
--High income students dip after WWII but regain share starting in the 80s at the cost of middle-income students.
--Low-income students remain a small share across the century.

[NBER @nberpubs]

How geographic access to public colleges affects enrollment across race and socioeconomic status, with Hispanic and rural students facing fewer local options, shaping their enrollment decisions, from @riacton, @KalenaCortes, and @CamilaNtMorales https://t.co/sAammOjnpW

[Sara Estep @sara_estep_]

🧵New from Kyle Ross and me on the BLS funding issue and potential cuts to the CPS sample. A simple primer for a non-technical audience:
https://t.co/Z31ihHhBP1

[Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 @DinaPomeranz]

An common form that discrimination takes, which is often hard to spot: when people from underrepresented groups make a mistake, the response to it is often harsher than for someone from the dominant group

Here an example of a study in women surgeons (by @saskatchewin)