@EconJason

Assistant Professor - @MarrinerIns. Public economist studying the US safety net. ⛷️ 🚴 🧗‍♀️ he/him

 Salt Lake City, UT
jasoncookresearch.com
Joined April 2018
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Work requirements come from the idea that people work less if they receive government support. But do these programs actually reduce work? In a new WP, @ChloeNEast and I show that for most SNAP (food stamp) recipients this is in fact NOT what happens. tinyurl.com/worksnap
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📢 NEW POLICY BRIEF 📢 "Many WIC beneficiaries went at least one month without redeeming anything. This cyclicality and inconsistency were likely due in part to administrative burden." — Marianne Bitler, @EconJason, @Seojung_Oh & Paige Rowberry poverty.ucdavis.edu/post/adm…

Administrative Burden Causes Cyclicality and Inconsistency in WIC Benefit Redemptions - Center for...

By Marianne Bitler, UC Davis; Jason Cook, University of Utah; Seojung Oh, UC Davis; and Paige Rowberry, University of Utah

poverty.ucdavis.edu
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A few more words about the "Practical Guide to Shift-Share Instruments" that we just posted (w/ @instrumenthull, @XJaravel) We tried to make it useful to wide groups of readers: new users of shift-share IVs, experienced users, and those who didn't even know they were users (1/N)
Xavier Jaravel@XJaravel9 Dec 2024
1/5 Looking for a clear and gentle intro to shift-share instruments? I'm excited to release today our "practice guide to shift-share instruments" with @borusyak and @instrumenthull, forthcoming at the Journal of Economic Perspectives @AEAjournals 👇👇👇👇👇
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1/5 Looking for a clear and gentle intro to shift-share instruments? I'm excited to release today our "practice guide to shift-share instruments" with @borusyak and @instrumenthull, forthcoming at the Journal of Economic Perspectives @AEAjournals 👇👇👇👇👇
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Jason Cook retweeted
CESifo@CESifoNetwork28 Oct 2024
The Effect of Means-Tested Transfers on Work: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned SNAP Caseworkers | @EconJason @ChloeNEast #econtwitter cesifo.org/en/publications/2…
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Switching to race-blind admissions lotteries increases racial segregation. Segregation arising from mandated race-blind admissions causes student achievement and college attendance rates to decline.
Journal of Public Economics@JPubEcon1 Oct 2024
Just published in @JPubEcon: "Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes" By @EconJason (@MarrinerIns) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Just published in @JPubEcon: "Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes" By @EconJason (@MarrinerIns) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Happy to share that my paper, "Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes" is now out at @JPubEcon! It has been a long journey (my paper would be a third grader this year), but I'm thrilled at the outcome! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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It's that time of year again! WBEC (@MarrinerIns) is accepting papers for our annual ski conference at @Snowbird February 27 - March 1, 2025! Please send us your papers on topics in business economics, public, labor, and theory. Hope to see you there!
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Submit papers to [email protected] The deadline for submissions is Friday, October 4, 2024. -Bringing family is encouraged (professional child care is provided during evenings) Conference Info: marriner.eccles.utah.edu/uta…

Utah Winter Economics Conference | Marriner S. Eccles Institute

Utah Winter Business Economics Conference February 25-27, 2027 | Snowbird, UT The Winter Business Economics Conference brings together top scholars in business-related fields of economics and is held...

marriner.eccles.utah.edu
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Cc: @florianederer @SHamiltonian
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I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters, on this special first week of me being an associate professor
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My paper w @David_E_Simon on the safety net for job losers is forthcoming @JPubEcon! Results can be summed up in a few figures & access is free for 50 days👇 32% of lost earnings replaced by public benefits (mostly UI) & this reduces poverty by 18pp, but regressive at bottom
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Wrapping up #NBERSI w/ important work by @ChloeNEast & @EconJason on labor supply and SNAP disenrollment effects of work requirements. Not much evidence for increased labor supply but rather large drops in enrollment as a consequence
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See y’all soon @nberpubs SI and come check out @EconJason and me presenting our paper on SNAP General Work Reqs tomorrow in Children’s
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NBER program report on children and families out today, featuring work by yours truly with @lindsbullinger and @kerri_raissian. PLUS summaries of other work by lots of awesome folks! @ChloeNEast and @EconJason, @eucascio, @smokeefe_and more! : nber.org/reporter/2024number…
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Not even a contest
Jennifer Doleac
@jenniferdoleac20 Jul 2024
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Happy to share that my work on US the safety net (with @ChloeNEast and @mpbitler) was selected for funding through an @NSF grant!
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This research will shed light on two key economic questions about modern transfer programs: 1) what factors impact program take-up and targeting, and how do these effects interact across programs; and 2) how do transfer programs impact participants' economic and other outcomes.
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Looking for some light beach reading? Check out new version of our book "Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments"! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… With companion videos from my course at World Bank: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… And dofiles...
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ABAWD Work Requirements are center stage in SNAP policy debates But SNAP's General Work Reqs affect 4X more people including hholds with kids @econjason & I provide first study of General Reqs and find -No labor supply effect -Big Disenrollment effects nber.org/papers/w32441

The Disenrollment and Labor Supply Effects of SNAP Work Requirements

nber.org
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