Olga Stoddard

📢New @nber.org WP with @ayllonsara.bsky.social, Lars Lefgren, @richpatterson.bsky.social & Nicolas Urdaneta!

We would love any feedback if you have a chance to take a look. Full paper here: nber.org/papers/w33911

Thanks to @voxeu.org for featuring my work with @laurakgee.bsky.social and @kbuzard7.bsky.social

Chart showing how mothers are more likely to receive the first contact from schools than fathers. Mothers continue to shoulder the majority of childcare responsibilities even in dual-earner households, contributing to gender gaps in earnings, labour force participation, and career advancement. This column uses an experiment targeting over 80,000 US school principals to show that when a school needs to contact a parent, the mother is 1.4 times more likely than the father to receive the first call. A further survey saw mothers consistently identified as the primary point of contact across a wide range of domains, including doctors, sports coaches, and religious leaders. Suggestive evidence points to gendered interruptions contributing to broader economic inequality.

Data from over 80,000 US school principals shows that when a school needs to contact a parent, the mother is 1.4 times more likely than the father to receive the first call.
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Such a cool paper!

When I think about interruption at work (and mental load on which we know even less), this is my first reference!

Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement* Abstract. Gender imbalance in time spent on child rearing causes gender inequalities in labor market outcomes, human capital accumulation, and economic mob

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement,” by Buzard (@kbuzard7.bsky.social), Gee (@laurakgee.bsky.social), and Stoddard (@olgastoddard.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:

"How to Write a Title and Abstract"

Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.

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This absolutely tracks. We even TELL providers to call me first (as I have the more flexible workday), but "call mom" is still 100% the default.

This resonates. We found it surprisingly hard to get some places to call me (who can almost always answer phone) before my wife (who often cannot).

My heart is full. I've never been so proud of a research project.

Troops deployed to LA will cost $134M, Pentagon official says The acting budget chief said the estimate covers costs such as travel, housing and food.

Or they could feed 250,000 children school lunches for a year ensuring these children don't go hungry, are able to learn, and have better health and economic outcomes in the long-run

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Thrilled to have found such a fantastic home @qjeharvard.bsky.social for this paper with @laurakgee.bsky.social & @kbuzard7.bsky.social

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Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement 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...

New NBER WP by @kbuzard7.bsky.social @laurakgee.bsky.social and @olgastoddard.bsky.social finds mums are 1.4x more likely than dads to get a callback from schools, despite no request for the skew.

Gender-based expectations influence external demands for parental involvement Schools are more likely to call mothers than fathers, regardless of availability

New IZA paper by @kbuzard7.bsky.social @laurakgee.bsky.social & @olgastoddard.bsky.social: Schools call mothers more than fathers, even when moms aren't more available.

Read more about the study and what this finding means for gender inequality in the labor market 👇
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#econsky education econ people…does anyone have a favorite study that looks at positive impacts of parents being in greater contact with their child’s school?

The AEA is recasting its continuing education offerings with 2 hour sessions in the normal time slots over the course of the AEA meetings. Please come by!

I will give an experimental economics lecture: www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

I will do my best to move you to the frontier in 2 hours!