Emily Nix

Labor economist and professor @USC @USCMarshall. NOLA born and raised, UNC @MoreheadCain BA and Yale PhD educated. Views are my own.

[CHEN Shuai 陈帅 陳帥 @ShuaiChenEcon]

📢School of #Economics @UniLeicBusiness is hiring!

1️⃣ Assistant Professor🔗 https://t.co/H22GY65Ynq

2️⃣ Teaching Fellow 🔗 https://t.co/irOmxlLYAJ

We look forward to your applications!! Please share these job opportunities🤗

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[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

@economoser @JohnsHopkins @Francesco_Bia Congratulations!!!

[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

Coverage of our paper in the WSJ (and I believe

Full academic article here: https://t.co/R7mlebEdBR

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Many of us know people who have dated their bosses. What we didn’t know—until now—is how much subordinates gain from the relationship, and how much they lose if they break up. https://t.co/nOnMdApVAT

[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

Every month there is a new headline about someone dating a manager and the messiness for the firm. This month's AI version: https://t.co/Ea09VatsrV

We estimate the impacts of these relationships in our working paper. A paper that seems to be continuously relevant!

[NBER @nberpubs]

Studying whether guaranteed basic income reduces crime finds that a two-year nationwide randomized controlled trial in Finland shows no effect on crime perpetration or victimization despite high baseline rates of both, from Mikko Aaltonen, Martti Kaila, and @emilynix100 https://t.co/SpxJaDPWsF

[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

@JohnHolbein1 I did not have Elon Musk engaging with my research on my 2025 bingo card👀

While he's looking, he might find this paper particularly relevant...😅

https://t.co/R7mlebEdBR

[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

Lots of engagement on this one and thanks @JohnHolbein1 for tweeting about it! We do a lot in the paper and I think it sheds some rigorous new light on a controversial debate.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

Do you think giving folks a basic income would reduce crime?

Think again.

"We estimate precise zero effects [of basic income] on criminal perpetration."

[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

Thanks so much for the great feedback! We are quite excited about the cautiously hopeful message from the study. Find more here: https://t.co/bC7ZehFuMS

[CHEN Shuai 陈帅 陳帥 @ShuaiChenEcon]

Wonderful visiting @UofEBusiness @UniofExeter & giving a seminar @ Econ Dept yesterday! I talked abt gender-based violence & judge responses w/ Xiqian Cai, Zhengquan Cheng & @EmilyNix100.

Huge thanks to Dario, Cecilia & @boonhankoh for arrangement! Amazing campus & researchers!

[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

Great coverage of my paper with @MontonenJerry and Dave Macdonald on the Economist!

Note, @MontonenJerry is on the market this year and would be a fantastic hire for any department/position!

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Are you looking yearningly across the office at your boss? New research suggests you may want to think twice https://t.co/CSzWRpsLld

[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

Also, forgot to mention, @MontonenJerry is on the market this year! I'll do a fuller post soon, but he is an amazingly talented economist and any department would be lucky to have him.

His website can be found here: https://t.co/HDaAQAh96o

[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

Very excited to have officially put out this paper the other week! Check out this great interview by my co-author Dave Macdonald: https://t.co/P87Z0wnhVn

[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

Here: https://t.co/emqKsWppUX

And more to come!

[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

Very excited to have officially put out this paper the other week! Check out this great interview by my co-author Dave Macdonald: https://t.co/P87Z0wnhVn

[NBER @nberpubs]

Workplace romances between managers and subordinates boost earnings (+6 percent) but raise turnover and breakups cut pay (–18 percent), from David C. Macdonald, Jerry Montonen, and @emilynix100 https://t.co/RG2pWmE2Fw

[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

Also covered here: https://t.co/alO2QDc8BO

[Jessica Leight @leightjessica]

Cool new paper #econtwitter #econsky showing the wheels of justice can in fact reform, though slowly: @EmilyNix100 @ShuaiChenEcon show *female* (but not male) judges become more likely to grant divorce petitions in case of domestic violence following Me Too movement in China

[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

It suggests that justice systems can do better by victims, and views can change. More work is needed to understand how to convert this into lasting and more broad-based change, but this work provides a glimmer of hope for improvements. [5/5]

[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

Breaking my social media hiatus to share some new work. Please see my fabulous co-author @ShuaiChenEcon's full thread below, but a few of my thoughts.

First, I've spent lots of time focused on costs of gender-based violence. I'm now keen to think of how to help survivors. [1/5]

[CHEN Shuai 陈帅 陳帥 @ShuaiChenEcon]

🚨New Working Paper🚨

(1/12) With amazing coauthors Xiqian Cai, Zhengquan Cheng & @EmilyNix100, we've written a new paper

"Gender-Based Violence and Judge Responses"

to study whether judicial decision-making can shift in response to broader social change.

[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

And that story is in my view a cautiously positive one. Female judges dramatically change their propensity to grant divorces when there is domestic violence after #MeToo. However, this effect is not persistent and not there for male judges. Still, this shows some promise. [4/5]

[Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac]

I’ve decided not to post my annual “women on the Econ job market” thread this year. Social media has splintered too much, and now that I’ve left academia I’m focused on other priorities. I hope someone else picks it up! It was super useful to have a reason to comb through the latest JMPs each fall. And I was happy to elevate work that traditionally is under-elevated.

Something that has become more apparent to me since I left academia 2+ years ago is that the toxic behavior that is rampant in university settings is, truly, especially bad there. I’d always told students that bias exists in every field, and I’m sure it does. But universities face zero competitive pressure to get their sh*t together, and it shows in their employment practices.

My wish for women on this year’s Econ job market is that you keep your options wide open. There are lots of great opportunities to have a big impact out on the world, and you have valuable skills that many employers would pay dearly for. You’ve worked too hard for that PhD to settle — find a job you love. Do yourself the favor of exploring all your options.