Yana Gallen
1,318 posts
Yana Gallen
@GallenYana
Assistant Professor at Harris.
- What happens to women’s careers as a result of an unplanned pregnancy? Does the impact depend on career progression? Find out in a few hours when I present at NBER: nber.org/conferences/si… with amazing coauthors @gregveramendi Juanna Joensen and @EvaRye
- Why do female students prefer female mentors? Not always for the reasons we think... My paper with Melanie Wasserman is now available at JPubE authors.elsevier.com/c/1gwykAlw9tAq4
- Do female and male students get the same info about potential careers from professionals? How might this affect career choice? Check out my new paper w Melanie Wasserman yanagallen.com/GallenWasserma… Thanks to @UpjohnInstitute ECRA for funding!
- Hello! I just want everyone to know that the gender pay gap does not go away when you control for occupation.
- I love a paper I’m refereeing so much that I’m almost moved to tears writing the report. Just to put positive vibes out in the world:)
- Re: tip 3—contact potential phd supervisors beforehand. Please don’t! Economics programs don’t run on the lab-based model. Is this a European thing? I wish messaging on this were uniform.Just finished reviewing several hundred applications for a very selective PhD program (3% acceptance rate). I’d like to share a few tips on how to write a strong research statement and avoid common mistakes. First, the sad reality: we receive many statements that seem to be
- Daughter: how long to papers usually take? Me: depends. It can take a short time to do a bad job and a long time to do a good job. Her: well then your papers must be really good because they take yeeeeaaarrrrsss. Me: 😞
- Also was true for childcare subsidies in Austria (Kleven et al) henrikkleven.com/uploads/3/7/3/… Why??? The hours? The quality? families don’t want childcare?Universal nearly-free childcare in Quebec had.... almost zero impact on the motherhood penalty. nber.org/papers/w32204
- Claudia Goldin's pathbreaking work: 1. the importance of control over fertility for women's investment in education 2. the importance of expectations when investing in education 3. how changes in the returns to education have pushed women into the labor market.
- This is a strange take. That paper is published in one of the top journals in the profession, has 100s of cites. He gave talks on the paper in the top conferences. Consistent with my model of economists generally like controversy.“We didn’t find any racial bias in police shootings.” Economist Roland Fryer tells @bariweiss at @uaustinorg about the 2016 paper on policing bias that led to his need for an “armed guard” for over a month and the academics who told him not to publish. thefp.pub/3UDWCxS
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Replying to @BeckerFriedman @Anna_Weber and 9 othersKicking off day 2: Sexual violence has severe economic impacts. Rape victims face lower employment and reduced earnings. Parents and peers of victims are also negatively impacted. Presentation by @EmilyNix100, followed by a discussion from @SoniaBhalotra.- Replying to @ben_golubRecent convo: Me: “this is such a promising project!” PhD: “thanks! I’ve gotten such mixed feedback” Me: “oh rly? Who was negative?” PhD: “well mostly the other grad students” 🙃 In retrospect I was hilariously negative too as PhD
- Say what you want about Econ academia, felt NONE of this when I had first child as a grad student (except in my own head lol). I have seen so much support for mothers in Econ, never seen something like this, thank goodness. Need to counter very bad vibes with good vibes. 👶s 🤘🏻I attended the Shakespeare Association of America conference 8 months pregnant. there, a mentor of mine I hadn’t seen for a while looked me up & down w disgust & said “I’m so disappointed in you” at least three times. academia hates pregnant people & yet we continue to rock it.
