Economist @GrinnellCollege, Visiting Scholar @UChicago/Chicago Fed. Studying 🌍 women & children, power & social norms, since @Wellesley ‘08 ♦️ she/her 🏳️🌈
Grinnell, IA
Joined April 2009
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So happy my article Now, Later, or Never? Evidence of the Effect of Weather Shocks on Female Genital Cutting in Sub-Saharan Africa w/ @LindseyKNovak is out!
Here's a🧵diving into the data viz I'm proud of for this particularly tricky research question.
www-sciencedirect-com.grinne…
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How does women's reported disapproval of domestic violence vary by interview type (i.e. in-person vs. phone, male vs. female enumerator)?
Read today's article w/ @Kadam__Aditi, @elbow_joe, @tmcgav & Nicholas Magnan: nitter.cf/vox_dev/status/1930542…
ALT Women’s reported disapproval of domestic violence, by interview type
🆕 Are sensitive questions sensitive to survey method?
Today on VoxDev, @Kadam__Aditi (@WBG_Gender), @elbow_joe (@uga_aaec), @tmcgav (@GrinnellCollege) & Nicholas Magnan (@CSUAgSci) study the impact of survey privacy and enumerator gender: voxdev.org/topic/methods-mea…
8 years ago, I started a project: we made >17,000 phone calls to about 650 ultra-poor women in rural Ethiopia. We called it "Her Time," experimenting with new methods to understand these women's experiences, and what we miss in usual methods.
First results in VoxDev today! 🧵
🆕 Are sensitive questions sensitive to survey method?
Today on VoxDev, @Kadam__Aditi (@WBG_Gender), @elbow_joe (@uga_aaec), @tmcgav (@GrinnellCollege) & Nicholas Magnan (@CSUAgSci) study the impact of survey privacy and enumerator gender: voxdev.org/topic/methods-mea…
👀 Read more on VoxDev, and our full paper is here: lnkd.in/gjGpNy84
w/ Ellen McCullough, Aditi Kadam, and Nick Magnan
🙏 HUGE thanks to our funders @CARE @WorldVision and most of all thank you to our intrepid survey staff at EconInsight Center for Develoment Research for your outstanding work, flexibility, and troubleshooting in the most difficult of circumstances during a pandemic and civil war
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Are sensitive questions sensitive to survey method?
Good news - in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 - the answer is mostly not
[w/ a few exceptions! 👇🏾]
@Kadam__Aditi @elbow_joe @tmcgav & @MagnanNick on @vox_dev
voxdev.org/topic/methods-mea…
Come teach at Grinnell! We are hiring for a one-year position, pretty open as to field! aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?J…
Ok yes but also… deep work at home is a luxury not afforded to those who engage in substantial care work (which need not require the immediate presence of other people). Disappointing that this paper speaks little to this except in motivating the introduction.
Yep and not only is distraction in workplaces important, but also in parenting and early childhood development…. @AlisonBaulos
Economists ignore family values, religious beliefs and traditions, and culture at their peril. @ASREC_Religion conference Day 1 highlights - Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, & Culture so far... 🧵
shorturl.at/nz4kT
Other very cool work on gender gaps in South/East Asia driven by whether honor is driven by women's seclusion or education by @_alice_evans; Benefits for everyone of correcting beliefs about peers beliefs on victim-blaming & IPV by @kostasmatakos ...
Multiple talks on how early exposure to repression or communism affects beliefs about freedom of speech, caution in engaging with neighbors, etc. decades later including by @MIwanowsky and Olga Popova @LeibnizIOS
... and other great work!
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Senator @JDVance said that economists disagree about whether tariffs lead to higher prices. So this week, the University of Chicago surveyed economists and asked them exactly this question.
Welker: Do you acknowledge that consumers will ultimately pay more if there are more tariffs. Do you acknowledge that?
Vance: No, I don’t. Economists disagree about the effects of tariffs..
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Economists overwhelmingly agree that tariffs raise prices and harm an economy. For example, 95 percent of American Economics Association members have repeatedly agreed that "tariffs and import quotas usually reduce general economic welfare."
cato.org/publications/s…
This is why I stopped giving in-class exams in intermediate micro!
