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Professor of Economics and Public Policy Co-Director . #Econtwitter #inequality #poverty Wisconsin roots
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SOLE is proud to launch its inaugural mentoring program for post-doctoral students, assistant professors, and early-career researchers. Pairing junior scholars with established scholars for a one-year program. Details: sole-jole.org/mentoring
Application deadline Feb. 28.
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Early this month, #CA ⬆️ its minimum wage to $15.50/hour, impacting >3mil workers! What do we know about the impacts of a higher minimum wage?
Check out the 1st installment of our #ResearchInReview series, highlighting #minwage research from O-Lab faculty:
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Queer junior econ. mentoring workshop 6/22-6/23 in Berkeley, CA. (Some costs covered for students, other junior scholars welcome.) Interested-please fill in this form:
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The loss of food programmes for children can induce mothers to protect their offspring by consuming less themselves.
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I am super thrilled to announce that our economics department here at was a winner of the American Economic Association's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diversity and Inclusion - here's a thread 🧵#EconTwitter
aeaweb.org/about-aea/hono
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Must read, in-depth piece in the NYT today, featuring realtimeinequality.org
Great to see that the conversation about the macroeconomy increasingly takes inequality seriously
nytimes.com/2023/01/06/bus
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Must read, in-depth piece in the NYT today, featuring realtimeinequality.org
Great to see that the conversation about the macroeconomy increasingly takes inequality seriously
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🚨 Hey, #econtwitter! 🚨 The call for papers for the NBER Public Economics Program Spring Meeting is out:
When: April 13 and 14, 2023.
Where: Cambridge, MA, and it's in-person only.
Submission Link: tinyurl.com/uvfxxs7m
Deadline: 11:59 pm on February 9, 2023.
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Delighted to be the new director of the Center on Children and Families ! We're starting the process of re-envisioning the Center - send me your ideas of how we can contribute to the U.S. social policy conversation most effectively.
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Our latest paper out today shows mental health benefits of 2021 #ChildTaxCredit for the lowest-income families. The CTC provided monthly payments for virtually all US families to address pandemic financial hardships. healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13 1/
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Formerly incarcerated students and policy fellows at ’s Underground Scholars Initiative helped pass SB990 last fall, which streamlines transfer and travel requests for California parolees to go to school, work and build new lives.
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Hey - amazing job adding permeable paving and rain gardens in the makeover of the Berkeley Marina. A day after the epic rainfall yesterday - there was almost no standing water.
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She busted glass ceilings to set economic policy. WSJ’s Jon Hilsenrath has four takeaways from Janet Yellen’s career. #WSJWhatsNow on.wsj.com/3WxWuhW
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‘I Can’t Imagine Who Would Think It’s OK to Take Food Away From Kids’
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2022 was such an amazing year for the Goldman School. Starting with the 1st in-person commencement ceremony since 2019, here are some 2022 highlights caught on camera (with photo assist from students, faculty, & staff).
View the full video: youtu.be/htFE0GwJic8
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you need to do better fact checking.
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The opinion piece nods to long term negative effects through increases in intergenerational poverty - with NO evidence to back this up.
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And we have A LOT of evidence that more income in childhood DOES lead to long term benefits. See my testimony before
hilaryhoynes.com/s/housebudget_
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These COSTS are not meaningful without also considering the BENEFITS.
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Once again the policy *and academic* analysis of child benefits focuses on the effects on parental labor supply. With *no* discussion of how increasing income in childhood leads to better outcomes in the long run.
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“As the current session of Congress winds down, with the stage set for a divided government over the next two years, prospects are fading for Democrats seeking to pass an income guarantee for families with children,” writes @swinshi. “This is good news.” nyti.ms/3HPp7C3
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Want to highlight on redemption costs. Her work clearly shows how difficult programs like SNAP/WIC can be to *use* once you become eligible. Medicaid too. Fantastic to see the attention to this in OMB guidance.
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New @OMBPress guidance on how federal agencies can identify and reduce administrative burdens.
Good general advice which agencies will have to adapt to their particular programs. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl
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I am so honored to be included 's 10 for 2022. This is a testament to the #patientled movement: together, building off the work of many who came before us, patients (#LongCovid, ME, dysautonomia, & more) are shaping science for the better nature.com/immersive/d415 1/
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What Comes Next for the Most Empty Downtown in America - The New York Times
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#BREAKING: Three Nobel Prize-winners join more than 200 leading economists in support of extending the monthly refundable #ChildTaxCredit to help families keep up with rising costs and promote long-term economic health.
Congress must pass the #CTCNow!
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A New England liberal arts campus being a peak New England liberal arts campus
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The expanded #ChildTaxCredit cut child poverty to a historic low and helped families cover the basics, like food and clothing. Join me in signing an open letter from economists calling for the expanded CTC to be extended by the end of the year:
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So worth teaching this in public economics. For fun- give students a poll first, asking perceptions of how progressive US tax system is, then show these graphs.
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So happy to see our article forthcoming at AEJ: Applied 
This was the very first paper I ever worked on, quite a journey since we started collecting data in 2017 with @thomas_blncht and @lucas_chancel!
Here are five facts that we uncover about income inequality in 
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Attention faculty and students studying questions around equitable economic growth and stability: the 2023 Request for Proposals from is currently open. Here’s how to apply— equitablegrowth.org/research-paper
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NOW OPEN Today we're excited to announce our 2023 Request for Proposals. We support research investigating the various channels through which economic inequality, in all its forms, impacts economic growth and stability.
Become an #EGgrantee: equitablegrowth.org/research-paperShow this thread
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"Each day in the classroom, we encounter remarkable students who exhibit a compass for thinking about how their education will enable them to have a social impact." Read the year-end message from Development Chair , Prof. . econ.berkeley.edu/content/letter
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What will happen next with the Child Tax Credit? Here, argues any expansion should focus on families with lower income, and that keeping as a tax credit run via the IRS offers the best hope for future expansion.
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The WiEM conference is back for a second year, with an expanded set of organizers: & Molly Schnell.
Please submit your papers on empirical micro topics (including labor, public, dev & IO) to bfi-events@uchicago.edu by Feb 28, 2023!
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An expanded and fully refundable Child Tax Credit means getting help directly to the families that need it.
To meet the rising costs of childcare, housing, and food, we must extend the CTC again before the end of the year.
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NEW: report shows how states can make significant strides in reducing child poverty. Governors and statehouses can make a real difference by expanding direct benefits like the #ChildTaxCredit.
There are solutions – lawmakers just need to act!
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🧵: The #WIC program has a strong track record of improving the nutrition & health of low-income families with young children. Today announced a proposed rule to update the foods WIC provides.
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Berkeley Economics is hiring multiple Assistant Professors this year, with two "open field" slots and one slot on the economics of inequality. Please apply!
(Job advert here:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03682)
ls.berkeley.edu/UC-Berkeley-St
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