Assoc Prof @TuftsEconomics @TuftsUniversity. Also @iza_bonn. I study things like charitable giving and job finding. Proud alum of @UCSDEcon @BarnardEcon

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#econtwitter HELP ‼️we are seeking info on how best to quantify the tone/content of a bunch of email responses pls send recs!
🚨 Seeking guidance on quantifying the tone of emails. Currently using a continuous score from RoBERTa 3-sentiment model (a transformer-based pre-trained language model) and human-RA labels. Details below. TIA for your leads!
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My kids made @BostonGlobe reporting on the #BostonMarathon today. So proud my eldest discussed percentages
NATICK — While runners tossed half-eaten bananas to the side of the road, life gave five kids lemons. Those lemons were a perfectly located house, right on the marathon course, so they decided to make lemonade. #BostonMarathon #BostonGlobe
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Not asking for a friend so much as for myself...on an exciting new project about gender differences in carrying the mental load
🚨 Seeking guidance on quantifying the tone of emails. Currently using a continuous score from RoBERTa 3-sentiment model (a transformer-based pre-trained language model) and human-RA labels. Details below. TIA for your leads!
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Very happy that our paper “Gender Norms and Labor-Supply Expectations” (w/ E. Grewenig & K. Werner) is published in @EJ_RES (tinyurl.com/56c2dmfb). In a survey of 2,000 adolescents, making traditional gender norms salient lowers girls’ expected work hours and related outcomes.
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careful with your AI-generated emails folks!
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What’s spooky about Oct 31? 👻🎃 It is the deadline for SOLE! I’m on the scientific committee so pls send lots of great submissions for me to look through!!!! sole-jole.org/index.php?opti…
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10 Oct 2025
Want to reduce sexual harassment in MA higher ed? Sign up NOW to testify either remotely or in person Thur Oct 16 2025 for this bill I’ve been advocating for! ACTION: Choose H.4113 The deadline to register is Tuesday, October 14, by 5 PM. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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The webinar overview of the coming #EconJobMarket is now posted to the AEA website. It contains info about trends in the # of jobs, recent # of applications/interviews/flyouts/offers, and placement outcomes, as well as advice. #EconTwitter aeaweb.org/joe/communication…

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US economics job market not looking great this year #econtwitter 💀
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19 Sep 2025
Having a great time at the AFE conference so far. They projected Zoe Cullen’s keynote above the bar last night: wise words that apply to field experiments and choices at the bar “less is more sometimes” Other highlights were @bocowgill won the best paper award.
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Join us at Copenhagen Business School on Sep 29 for a full-day workshop on Gender Norms, Family Dynamics, and Labor Market Outcomes 🔗 Registration: cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/1289/ Featuring: @LibertadGonLu @Sevilla_Almu @landais_camille @philrosenb @SettSonja and more 👇
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Little late, but worth sharing — @WSJ covered our study on the impact of access to full-day childcare services in CT w @john_eric Seth Zimmerman The finding that earnings rise and stay higher well beyond the period when kids are in childcare is striking to me, particularly because it points to significant frictions to human capital accumulation and labor force attachment. wsj.com/personal-finance/pre…
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11 Aug 2025
Come hang with me at the Advances with Field Experiments (AFE) in Chicago Sept 18/19! ALSO pls submit a paper for the prizes (I’m helping judge and I’d like to see variety in the submissions!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Economics is dead
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A sneak peek into some brand new work with @kbuzard7 and @LauraKGee on the gender gap in the invisible mental load and why it exists 🚀
"We know there’s a gender gap in visible tasks, things like who is cooking dinner, doing the housework, coordinating child care. What we don't currently know is whether that gender gap extends to the invisible mental load.” Read our Q&A with @olgastoddard: bit.ly/4eQenlv
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Some states ban employers from asking job candidates their salary history, but candidates may voluntarily disclose them. In a randomized audit stud @AmandaYAgan & @LauraKGee, and @bocowgill explored how salary disclosures affect salary offers. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
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Y’all, I wrote a book! The Science of Second Chances is based on my decades of work studying crime and criminal behavior, first as an economics professor and now as a policy expert at Arnold Ventures. It shares what we know from cutting-edge research about how to intervene at each stage of the criminal justice process to break the incarceration cycle and give people a real second chance. Most books in the criminal justice space have a “burn it all down” vibe — pointing out lots of problems and leaving readers feeling hopeless. But I work in this field and feel hopeful and optimistic every day. There are so many effective ways to put people on a better path, and we’re learning more about what works all the time. This book is a product of that optimism, focusing on solutions. I share many feasible interventions that make a big difference — alongside cautionary tales of good ideas that did not pan out, or even backfired. And I also share how economists like myself learn what works, through careful trial and error, in order to make big, scalable change a reality. I hope these ideas spur fresh conversations about how to help people and communities thrive. The Science of Second Chances is available for pre-order now, and will land on your doorsteps or e-readers on February 24. Please share with your networks. 🙏🏻
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25 Jun 2025
Delighted to have received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant for the next phase of the Social Science Prediction Platform! Some exciting new developments coming soon... watch this space! @socscipredict @SloanFoundation @econuoft
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