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Maya Mikdash

@mayamikdash

Econ. Assistant Professor @LSU studying labor and crime economics.

mayamikdash.com
Joined December 2019
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@nberpubsMay 28
Defense attorney quality matters, and more for Black than White defendants. If 50 percent of indigent counsel were top-10 percent quality, the racial gap in jail sentencing would decline by 11 percent, from Maya Mikdash, Mark Hoekstra, and Suhyeon Oh nber.org/papers/w35234
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AEA Journals@AEAjournals2 Oct 2025
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Role of Race in the Legal Representation of Low-Income Defendants" by Maya Mikdash and Suhyeon Oh. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
The Role of Race in the Legal Representation of Low-Income Defendants

The Role of Race in the Legal Representation of Low-Income Defendants

Little is known about the role of race in the defense of low-income defendants by court-appointed attorneys. Exploiting the quasirandom assignment of court-appointed attorneys to cases, we test...

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I'm on the job market this year! My #EconJMP examines the long run and intergenerational impacts of institutional discrimination against immigrants. Here's a thread of what I find (1/8)🧵 #EconJobMarket #econtwitter
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So happy to see @ReemZaiour and I's paper out in @JPubEcon !
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Paper just published in @JPubEcon: "The impact of police shootings on gun violence and civilian cooperation" By @mayamikdash (@LSU) & @ReemZaiour (@VanderbiltEcon) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Drs. Brittany Street & Liisa Laine were named research affiliates of Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). IZA, affiliated with the University of Bonn, is a nonprofit research institute and network. It is considered the leading international network in labor economics in the world.
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Nanyin Yang JMP: "The Unintended Consequences of Patients’ Active Participation: Theory and Experiment" Website: yangnanyin.com/
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One more #SEA2023 crime and policing pic from a great weekend of research and community building! ⁦@michaellafores⁩ ⁦@jonathan_tebes⁩ ⁦@Jammasterjew⁩ ⁦@jillianbcarr⁩ ⁦@mayamikdash⁩ ⁦@anne_m_burton⁩ ⁦@JMorenoMedina⁩ (+more!)
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Abi Peralta@aamperalta19 Nov 2023
Economists for hire #SEA2023 @mayamikdash @YangNanyin
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A small sample of the great #SEA2023 crime researchers! ⁦@jonathan_tebes⁩ ⁦@anne_m_burton⁩ ⁦@jenniferdoleac⁩ ⁦@JMorenoMedina⁩ ⁦@williamarbour⁩ ⁦@jillianbcarr⁩ (missing some tags)
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Looking forward to presenting my JMP in one of many great crime sessions at #SEA2023 in New Orleans this Saturday!
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Are you looking to hire a crime economist this year? Send me a job ad and I’ll publicize it at the Crime and Policing sessions of SEAs this weekend!
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Wes is truly one of the smartest and best people I know. Check out his super cool JMP!
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@jenniferdoleac15 Nov 2023
My student @Wesley_A_Miller is on the market! His JMP combines a beautiful natural experiment (comparing homes just above & below the water line when Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston) w an array of super cool data to measure short & long term outcomes. Check out the thread below!
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Are you looking to hire a crime economist this year? Send me a job ad and I’ll publicize it at the Crime and Policing sessions of SEAs this weekend!
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I’m excited to announce that I’m on the 2023-24 econ job market working on public, labor, and environmental topics! Here is an overview of my JMP “Natural Disasters and Neighborhood Choice: Evidence from Hurricane Harvey.” 1/8
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Grateful to @jenniferdoleac for promoting women in economics! Check out my JMP to learn about how attorneys secure better(!!) outcomes for their different-race defendants.
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Maya Mikdash JMP: "The Role of Race in the Legal Representation of Low-Income Defendants" Website: mayamikdash.com
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Jiee Zhong JMP: "Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings" Website: jieezhong.com/
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Looking forward to #ASSA2023, and hoping to get things started with an #EconTwitter happy hour at 9pm Thursday at The Will & The Way. It's a cool spot and walking distance from the conference hotels. Feel free to DM me if you have questions!
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The time has come: hello #EconTwitter! I am a microeconomist & on the 2022-2023 job market. My research agenda focuses on ways to encourage inmates’ social reintegration. See a thread below! My website: williamarbour.com/ My job market paper: github.com/williamarbour/JMP…
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Super amazing session on Crime & Justice chaired by @jenniferdoleac at #SEA2022 👏🏼 Thanks for the opportunity to present with other fantastic women @mayamikdash @ElizLuh @mzapryanova and many thanks to @BilgeErten for her great discussion to our paper! Enjoying Fort Lauderdale 🌴
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@jenniferdoleac20 Nov 2022
Standing room only at the 5:15 @AEACSWEP crime session tonight!! They should give us bigger rooms.
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Start of a great @jenniferdoleac #SEA2022 session on crime, first paper is @mayamikdash on effects of internal investigations on police.
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