Lisa A. Gennetian

Ingrid enjoying an Ingrid Manhattan at #2025APPAM!

About to start at #2025APPAM: J-PAL North America Senior Policy Manager Kalila Jackson-Spieker is moderating a discussion featuring speakers from LEO, King County, Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing, and Mary’s Place on cross-sector collaboration to prevent homelessness.

Excited to be here at @appam.bsky.social to present our work on inequalities in access to occupations, as part of a panel session on labor market transitions organised by @jscottclayton.bsky.social

I was on a panel with Bostic at my first ever APPAM circa 2013 or so.

Thanks to @appam.bsky.social for a great #APPAM2025. Saw a lot of great work, and I’m leaving feeling really reinvigorated about both my own projects and our collective project to inform policy with high-quality research. Safe travels home, everyone!

graph shown poverty reduction effects of EITC and CTC

You can find the National Academies of Science report here. The bottom line is that we can use the tax system to vastly reduce poverty.
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2916...

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Imagine being New Hampshire. You tried a work requirements program in 2018, but it didn't work. You were about to kick 2/3rds of people off Medicaid.

You cancel the program. Interesting idea. Doesn't work.

Now the federal government is REQUIRING you to start it up again!

Conference showcases next generation of employment researchers 2024 Dissertation Research Grantees present to Upjohn Institute researchers

Next week, the Upjohn Institute welcomes six emerging scholars supported by our Dissertation Research Grant program (joint with @russellsagefdn.bsky.social) to present their work at a conference designed to foster discussion and feedback from Upjohn Institute researchers. #Econsky #BIPOC

Data visualization is more significant than ever for communicating facts in our contemporary world: W.E.B. Du Bois at the frontier. Thx to my amazing visual artist sister for introducing me to Du Bois’ (hand drawn!) data portraits.

Opinion | How Underpaid Are W.N.B.A. Players? It’s Embarrassing.

Some thoughts from Claudia Goldin! How Underpaid Are W.N.B.A. Players? It’s Embarrassing. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...

🎧Great new podcast episode! 🎧 Hear from @lisagennetian.bsky.social of the Sanford School of Public Policy at @duke-university.bsky.social about what the research tells us about cash aid to families with children and current experiments in guaranteed income. www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/lis...

Thx for this opportunity @irpwisc.bsky.social ! 🙏🏻

Highlights From a Decade of the Center’s Research on Supports for Economic Self-sufficiency Among Latino Families With Children - Hispanic Research Center Discover highlights from a decade of the Center’s research on supports for economic self-sufficiency among Latino families with children.

Science Saturday. Join me. Maybe every Saturday (remember when we used to share science on social media?) Share your breaking news.
www.hispanicresearchcenter.org/research-res...

The First 75 Days: An Assessment of Economic and Fiscal Policy Changes Join KPMG Chief Economist Diane Swonk for an in-depth analysis and outlook of the economic and fiscal policy changes enacted during the first 75 days of the new administration.

Join me as I discuss the state of play in the economy

Spoiler: the pace of change in policy is taking a toll. People hate uncertainty. It can be paralyzing, which we are seeing play out in real time.

kpmg.com/us/en/webcas...

The child mental health crisis has existed for decades, but the link between poor mental health and youth suicide is mediated by policy and can be broken, from Janet Currie https://www.nber.org/papers/w33632

The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.

Government Overpayment Mistakes Have Consequential Human Costs — Lisa A. Gennetian Lisa A. Gennetian February 23, 2025 In July 2023, a loved one received an official letter from the Social Security Administration. The two-page document was a bill for $120,000 owed due to…

New posting. This one spotlights govt overpayment errors & the human toll on diligent workers.

Social contexts and black families’ engagement in early childhood programs In the U.S., the federal government and dozens of cities have invested in home visiting programs intended to be universally available at scale to support caregivers of young children. Evaluations find...

Universal home visiting programs do good things: ⬇️ maternal & infant mortality & ⬆️ maternal mental health & support parenting. Why do many who are invited to receive a home visit not enroll?

See more here: pub by @dukesanford alumns! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The world is flooded by uncertainty; it now exceeds the peak hit during the pandemic in 2020. Stunning. 🥶

Sorry. Meant @bencasselman.bsky.social

Still trying to make sure I tag people correctly on this cite. My deepest apologies.

Valentine Special Feature! From former @DukeSanford #economics undergraduates.❤️ #econsky

"You’re like an indifference curve, more really is better. "

"On this day of Valetine's Saint, for you I have no budget constraint."

Valentine Special Feature! From former @DukeSanford #economics undergraduates.❤️ #econsky

"You're so fantastic, my love for you is inelastic"

"Roses are red
Violets are blue
My ex is a sunk cost
So now I choose you"

FANTASTIC

ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)

You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have

www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

Great reporting from @marychilds.bsky.social about @hamiltonproject.org's federal outlay tracker. Give a listen!

Only quibble is that superstars Noadia Steinmetz-Silber + Riki Matsumoto didn't get their deserved shout-out. So I shout here.

www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...

What’s the Goal of the Goal? - by Dan Heath - Behavioral Scientist When we lock into a particular goal too quickly, we blind ourselves to alternate routes forward that might have been better and easier. We can avoid this trap by asking ourselves one simple question.

What’s the goal of the goal? Don’t fall into the trap of relentlessly chasing a goal & triumphantly moving the numbers only to discover (whoops) that it was all misdirected energy [Dan Heath @behscientist.bsky.social ]
behavioralscientist.org/dan-heath-wh...

How Zero-Sum Beliefs Get in the Way of Fairness - by Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi - Behavioral Scientist The more we are stuck in the fixed-pie mentality, the harder it is to spot the opportunities to expand the pie.

"It is only the people not in power today . . . who are asked to make the case for why they deserve to be there."

How Zero-Sum Beliefs Get in the Way of Fairness
By Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi

behavioralscientist.org/how-zero-sum...

Just dropped, more here on zero-sum beliefs @behscientist.bsky.social
behavioralscientist.org/how-zero-sum...

Reflections on a DIY Society and Jessica Calarco’s Holding It Together — Lisa A. Gennetian Lisa Gennetian with 2024 summer book club scholars (alphabetical order) Shannon Egan-Dailey, Matthew Maury, Hema Shah, Prachi Shukla and Laura Stilwell Jessica Calarco’s 2024 book Holding It…

We had a great time with this summer book club read "Holding it Together.." by the terrific Jessica Callarco; See our (@hema-shah-econ.bsky.social, @prachis.bsky.social, M. Maury, L. Stilwell & S. Egan-Dailey) collective hot takes on the #DIY Society & #zero-sum thinking #safety net

Fixing the trust crisis with Rachel Botsman ReThinking · Episode

For anyone who works with or leads teams, great insights on trust. #academia #econsky this is worth the listen (warning that the ads are a bit annoying) open.spotify.com/episode/6uAe...