Assistant Professor of Economics at UGA. Studying discrimination, bargaining power, healthcare reform. UNC—UCSD—BEA—UGA
Athens, GA
Joined August 2013
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Unemployment Insurance benefit cuts result in employment growth, but also in a decline in starting salaries, from Gordon Dahl and Matthew M. Knepper nber.org/papers/w30152
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In a column out today, our @LipstickEcon looks at new research from @mathknepper and Gordon Dahl that investigates the link between external economic conditions and the risk of retaliation for reporting sexual harassment: equitablegrowth.org/underrep…
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🚨 New research on sexual harassment 🚨 by @mathknepper and Gordon Dahl out today on @equitablegrowth: equitablegrowth.org/working-…
And my writeup of the findings on how the threat of retaliation increases during downturns and how income supports can help: equitablegrowth.org/underrep…
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This @publicintegrity article is consistent with my (newly updated!) paper w/ @AmandaGrittner: we find that the onset of immigration enforcement increased minimum wage violations among Hispanic workers. See thread on first draft 👇; Link to updated paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
New @publicintegrity reporting finds "that industries with higher percentages of foreign-born workers had higher rates of wage theft." publicintegrity.org/inequali…
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Do patients discriminate against doctors on the basis of race and gender? #EconTwitter check out this exciting new field experiment from @alex8chan! 1/4
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Limited job options and less generous unemployment insurance benefits exacerbate underreporting of workplace sexual harassment, from Gordon B. Dahl and Matthew M. Knepper nber.org/papers/w29248
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How does learning depend on peoples’ models of information and others' prefs/beliefs? Presents general framework for predicting how people learn when they have different models + biases. Characterizes long-run beliefs & whether they perpetually disagree econometricsociety.org/publi…
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Happy to have our paper on the employment effects of the 2007 FDA black box warning on antidepressants out in JHE now: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
The best part is that I got to work with Chris Cronin @NotreDame and Meghan Skira @universityofga.
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Delighted to see @UCSanDiego lead the way in designing and implementing a large-scale COVID-19 test and trace program across students, staff, and faculty as a key first step towards safely reopening the campus in the Fall: ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelea…
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Excited to have my paper w/ @zmabes & Mike Hurwitz out in Econ of Ed Review now! We got a lot of helpful feedback from reviewers & imo the paper improved a lot from the working paper version. Give a read if you want to learn abt Scorecard earnings data: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Cool paper on inaccurate statistical discrimination by @Devin_G_Pope @aislinnbohren @k_haggag @alexoimas. Statistical mistakes mean you can fail to find taste-based discrimination when it exists and vice versa. 1/5
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"The presence & strength of unions can have ripple effects in the economy, impacting the wages of non-union workers, the productivity of firms, & the distribution of income," writes @aaronsojourner econofact.org/the-role-of-un…