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…
I am absolutely ecstatic to announce that I will be joining the Department of Economics @TerryCollege at the University of Georgia as an Assistant Professor this Fall! I can’t wait to join such a wonderful group of scholars and human beings.
Their insightful and critical feedback of my work, and many encouragements, were all indispensable ingredients for my success.
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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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Hi #EconTwitter, I am pleased to announce that I am on the job market this year.
My latest working paper, joint with Gordon Dahl @UCSDEcon, is titled, "Age Discrimination across the Business Cycle."
The full paper is available here: sites.google.com/site/mattmk…
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This mirrors the literature showing that worker injury risk increases during recessions (Boone and Van Ours, 2006; Boone et al., 2011; Leombruni et al. 2015) and work showing that product market competition reduces the gender wage gap @Econ_Sandy (Black and Brainerd, 2004).
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We are still refining our work by bringing in industry variation in exposure to the GR from QCEW data, and by more carefully controlling for dynamic effects. But we are excited to show our work and elicit feedback! @USEEOC
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