Lucie Schmidt

Work requirements penalize workers in volatile occupations Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Olivia Howard warn that work requirements, such as those Congress is currently considering adding or expanding in means-tested programs, penalize low-income w...

New @hamiltonproject.org research by @lizananat.bsky.social @agpines.bsky.social & Olivia Howard finds that work requirements penalize low-income workers for something they can’t control: employer-driven volatility in employment and hours.

www.brookings.edu/articles/wor...

YouTube video by Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics Elizabeth Ananat: Schedule Volatility in Hourly Service Work

ICYMI: Check out @lizananat.bsky.social Elizabeth Ananat’s, Mallya Professor of Women and Economics, Barnard College, presentation, “Schedule Volatility in Hourly Service Work: Evidence and Implications for Federal Income-Support Policies.” #academicsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqwG...

The Earned Income Tax Credit at 50: Past, present & future. June 3. 10 AM EDT.Jacob Bastian of Rutgers, Jim Sullivan of Notre Dame, Henrik Kleven of Princeton, Hilary Hoynes of UC-Berkeley. Hutchins Center. @brookings.edu In-person & livestreamed. @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/events/the-e...

Look, I'm all for giving new parents money. But they shouldn't have to use that money to individually address problems that are structural in nature.

Congratulations, Flora!

How do work requirement waivers help SNAP respond to a recession? - The Hamilton Project Work requirements impede SNAP’s dual role as a safety net and automatic stabilizer. This economic analysis provides new evidence about how waivers to these rules functioned during the Great Recession ...

Rumor has it that SNAP work requirement waivers are on the chopping block. Waivers are a critical safety valve for turning off work reqs when local economic conditions warrant. An oldy but goody analysis on how waivers help SNAP respond to a recession.

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30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house.

We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.

In my latest paper @jama.com w/ colleagues Sara Bleich & Ben Sommers @harvardchanschool.bsky.social, we discuss concerns re: safety net policies under new administration, e.g. ⬆️ enrollment barriers and ⬇️benefits.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @donmoyn.bsky.social @povertyscholar.bsky.social

Here's some of what's covered in the dashboard:
🔹 Annual wages for the top 1% and bottom 90% of wage earners
🔹 Racial and gender wage gaps
🔹 Unemployment rates, including by state
🔹 Poverty rates
🔹 Inflation rates
🔹 Union membership rates and the union wage premium

Time series graph of the US real median hourly wage in 2024 dollars, by race

We just released an enormous trove of US labor market data, all compiled from government surveys, now under threat

The @epi.org State of Working America Data Library provides comprehensive data on the US jobs and wages, with detailed cuts by demographics, over time and across states

data.epi.org

Submit now for CSWEP's sessions at the 2026 AEA meetings. Sessions will be on:
• Economics of Gender in the Economics Profession
• Gender and Climate Justice
• Gender, Working from Home and Female Labor Supply
• Economic Theory
• Global Economy
@aeacswep.bsky.social

Couples’ Remote Work Arrangements and Labor Supply

🌟New working paper alert🌟

Victoria Vernon and I have a new working paper out on “Couples’ Remote Work Arrangements and Labor Supply.” (A🧵). www.bls.gov/osmr/researc...

#EconSky

Do contraceptive use and abortion behavior respond to income shocks?

Yes.

In new research we document that Danish women use oral contraceptives and abortions as a way to resude fertility after a reform reduced their child benefits.

@ucph.bsky.social
@malmlund.bsky.social

Welcome to the Bluesky account of the Essen Health Conference - where Health meets Labour and Education Economics!
Watch this space for all information about your favourite annual conference.

#Econbluesky #healthecon #econsky #labourecon #EconConf #ehc2025

Apply to GAIN — GAIN We are looking for extremely motivated individuals who aim to apply to graduate programs at top institutions worldwide and eventually pursue a PhD in economics and other social sciences. We strongly e...

Applications are open for the Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN) programme 2025!

Information sharing, mentoring & financial support for African students interested in graduate school in economics & related fields.

➡️ Apply: gain-network.net/participants
🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2025

📢 #EconSky
Full info: eea2025.org
@ecqe.bsky.social @eayeconomists.bsky.social

First post on Bsky! Hello world!
👇Since December 2024 the LIS & LWS databases contain more than 1000 datasets. This enables research on more than 30 Mio. households and 90 Mio individuals.
Explore our databases here: www.lisdatacenter.org/our-data/ #LISdata #inequality #poverty #research

Hello World! The Editorial Board of Health Economics is pleased to announce that we are now live on the happier, friendlier, and all-together Blue-er place. Please follow us (and repost) for updates on articles and journal issues as they come out.

The ANNALS of the AAPSS issue in honor of Becky Blank is live! journals.sagepub.com/toc/anna/711/1

My contribution (joint w/ Paul Courant & Julia Yates) was a labor of love: Understanding the Social Safety Net: Lessons from the Work of Rebecca Blank

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Jimmy Carter, 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100, his son says The tenacious Southerner was turned out of office after one term. But he had a brilliant post-presidential career as a champion of health, peace and democracy.

RIP Jimmy Carter: underrated President, our best ex-President, and a person of extraordinary integrity. wapo.st/3VYcU4C

Ray Caraher’s JMP looks at the Texas 6-week ban that predated Dobbs, and finds that it significantly increased infant mortality:

www.raymondcaraher.com/research-pos...

🚨 Exciting news! The 3rd #Diversity & #HumanCapital Workshop @uofebusiness.bsky.social returns June 16–17, 2025 🎉 Keynote speakers: Josh Angrist, Patricia Cortes & Imran Rasul. Call for Papers will be out soon. Stay tuned! tinyurl.com/yc8h2nkr

#econsky #economics @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

Virtual Econ of Public Policy Seminar (VEPPS) continues on Mon 12/16 at 2pm ET with @sakshibhardwaj.bsky.social

"Income During Infancy Reduces Criminal Activity for Fathers and Children: Evidence from a Discontinuity in Tax Benefits"

More info: www.lucieschmidt.com/vepps-seminar

#EconSky

Submission: Race and Stratification Working Group, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research

The Race and Stratification Working Group at NBER will have its annual meeting on Friday, April 4, 2025! Dania Francis, Vicki Bogan, Ellora Derenoncourt and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper before the December 19, 2024 deadline! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

Long-Run Effects of Food Assistance: Evidence from the Food Stamp Program and Administrative Data 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...

Excited to see this WP by @mpbitler.bsky.social and Ted Figinski - new evidence on the long-term effects of Food Stamps using admin data, plus cool analyses of how the program built onto existing infrastructure in the Commodity Distribution Program #EconSky www.nber.org/papers/w3318...

Hey #EconSky #TeachEcon, what's a good podcast on growth that my Principles of Macro students would like?

Just re-upping this #econsky: I currently have more mentors than mentees/students (can probably match another 10-11 students from LMICs who would like feedback on a research paper from a senior scholar.) Fill out the form here if interested! forms.gle/ekvvoEKBLYQM...

Late to the party, but at the airport getting ready to head to National Harbor for @appam.bsky.social. Hopefully will see many of you tomorrow!

The Sadie Collective is on Bluesky!

The effects of lump-sum food benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic on spending, hardship, and health This paper examines how providing families with lump-sum in-kind assistance during the pandemic affected food hardship, economic well-being, and mater…

📈📉 Just published in @jpube.bsky.social with @laurenhlb.bsky.social & Diane Schanzenbach: We examine how 1-time, in-kind food vouchers thru Pandemic EBT affected family well-being 1/N

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