Assoc Prof of Econ @UofSC, @iza_bonn @SIEPR @LEOatND. Alumna of @PrincetonEcon & @NotreDame. Studying child care, personally and professionally 👦🏻👧🏼👧🏼👶🏼
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No better topic to present on than minimum wage to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Industrial Relations section at Princeton, the birthplace of Card & Krueger! #princetonirs100 🐯
Excited to launch the Stanford Childcare Model this week! We hope it will be useful in thinking about the relative benefits of different child care policies.
We started with 8 policies, but this is intended to be a living model that can incorporate new ideas as they come!
🚼 For too many American families, finding #affordablechildcare is a serious problem. With policymakers across the country looking for solutions, @SIEPR's new Stanford Childcare Model helps them evaluate the effects of key reforms. Check it out: siepr.stanford.edu/policymod…
Grateful to @SIEPR for their interest in this topic & to the awesome team I've been lucky to work with to bring it to life - @chloergibbs, @nealemahoney, T.V. Ninan, Caleb Brobst, Abi Sanchez, and Anna Hoffman!
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🚨 We launched the Stanford Childcare Model, estimating supply and demand in the early care and education market, with a dashboard comparing effects of several different childcare policies. We hope it's useful to those working on childcare affordability, access, and quality! 🚨
🚼 For too many American families, finding #affordablechildcare is a serious problem. With policymakers across the country looking for solutions, @SIEPR's new Stanford Childcare Model helps them evaluate the effects of key reforms. Check it out: siepr.stanford.edu/policymod…
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One of the greatest perks of this job is getting to know the next generation of economists. Please come work with me on understanding the drivers of racial gaps and wage inequality over time and around the globe.
irs.princeton.edu/senior-res…
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Why is private-equity interested in child care?
@SenJeffMerkley is asking that question. State lawmakers, @ehaspel, @nwlc, @communitychange have been asking. England is asking.
.@JHB_econ and Chris Herbst are too, and I wrote today about what they found & what might come next
Day care naps are the child care crisis that no one is talking about!! IYKYK 🥴
parentdata.org/kids/day-care…
Part of the reason we hodgepodge care around a part-time preschool is to avoid being somewhere that requires naps
A nap means a preschooler who’s up until 9:30 or 10pm & also has a sleep schedule that’s all messed up on non-school days 🥴
Thanks to @ProfEmilyOster for bringing some data to this key pain point for parents with kids in child care!
Excited to talk with @NewAmerica about my new paper on child care deserts and measuring child care access.
Having useful measures of access is important for policymakers who want to target investments to areas most in need!
newamerica.org/insights/qa-w…
For more, see my thread on this paper -
nitter.cf/JHB_econ/status/206180…
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Insightful Q&A with @JHB_econ on the shortcomings of popular “childcare desert” measures and advantages of alternate measures. newamerica.org/insights/qa-w…
Child care deserts are often framed as areas where there isn’t enough child care.
But are they actually the places where it is hardest to find child care?
I investigate in a new paper!
Conclusion: It is possible to identify areas with particularly tight child care markets…
…but doing so requires adjusting for proxies of demand!
Full paper (“Undersupply or Lack of Demand? Evaluating Measures of Child Care Access”) here: docs.iza.org/dp18597.pdf