Economist. Midwesterner.
Chicago, IL
Joined February 2012
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Diane Schanzenbach retweeted
"[P]erhaps the primary reason the EITC enjoys such widespread support is because it functions as a generous handout to corporations. Among the loudest champions of the EITC have been multinational businesses..."
An extraordinary claim in @just_shelter's Poverty, by America.
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Derek, labor economics and Barcelona, sounds like a winning combo!
I am teaching a labor economics course 7/3 to 7/7 at the Barcelona School of Economics. The course should be beneficial for graduate students at all levels and many post-docs. Learn more here
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Diane Schanzenbach retweeted
TODAY: Join us at 3:30 p.m. for an in-person talk in Global Hub’s White Auditorium by @Harvard prof. and @OppInsights co-director Raj Chetty on "Creating Equality of Opportunity in America: New Insights from Big Data."
See the link to register:
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Huge loss to the profession. Becky was a force of nature and did much good both professionally and personally.
IPR mourns the loss of former faculty fellow Rebecca Blank, who died on Feb. 17, 2023.
ipr.northwestern.edu/news/20…
In 1997 we were at a conference together where my first-ever paper, on welfare reform with @phil_wellesley, was being discussed. Male speakers kept referring to it as "Levine and coauthor."
Diane Schanzenbach retweeted
Nearly 3 years ago, executive & then Congressional action paused payments on most federal student loans at start of the pandemic. What started as emergency response is now tethered to WH proposed loan forgiveness. What is cost? Who benefits?
Diane Schanzenbach retweeted
Happy 4th! Who could benefit from PSLF waiver? As many as 3.5 million government and nonprofit workers are potentially eligible for immediate relief of student loans if they file the PSLF waiver (before 10/31/22). Distributional impact depends critically on take-up!
Could not agree more.
The Republican party — and the conservative movement more broadly — is lucky to have thinkers of the caliber of @MichaelRStrain, who can read the social and political moment and link it back to the underlying economics.
Happy 5th birthday to @EconoFactOrg! Congrats to @MKleinEF and the great Miriam Wasserman on building such a useful resource for non-partisan, incisive analysis on timely, important economic issues.
Diane Schanzenbach retweeted
The impact of the pandemic on community college enrollment was large!
This 🧵/paper by @dwschanz & @turnersarahe takes a deep dive into describing who was impacted the most & why.
There will be lasting repercussions from this….
1.Young workers typically turn to community colleges to invest in skills when unemployment increases. But the onset of COVID was different. Enrollment at community colleges declined by 9.5 percent between 2019 and 2020, with the drop larger among men.
Beyond covid story, this analysis provides insight into how CC’s work on the supply/capacity side. Policies aimed at increasing student enrollment also need to pay attention to supply side. High-return fields are often more expensive to produce and may be under-supplied.
CC’s matter a lot, they can be engines for economic mobility. Understanding the recent enrollment decline and what it reveals about supply & demand of training is important for making good policy in this area.
nber.org/papers/w29639?utm_c…
