Here is a list of questions I received most often during (first round) interviews, per request. Hope the list helps this year’s JMCs prep
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Natalia Emanuel
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Natalia Emanuel
@NataliaHEmanuel
Day job: Labor economist studying personnel, public policy. @NYFedResearch. PhD Harvard, Postdoc @PrincetonEcon
Night job: serial quilt-maker, black belt
- Crucial paper: Additional money in the first year of a baby’s life reduces their likelihood of being involved with the child welfare system. $1,000 to low-income families decreases days spent in foster care by 8%!! krittenh.github.io/katherine-ritt…
- Here’s a data download for first round interviews. Wisdom I received and things I learned along the way when I was on the JM last year. Please feel free to add your 2c! (I’ll post my notes on flyouts soon) long 🧵 1/x #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket
- Despite huge advents in IT, it took the pandemic to unlink office work and the office. Why were workers so tied to the office? How does the office impact on-the-job training & output? 🧵 on work w/ @emma_k_h and Mandy Pallais Presented at NBER SI Mon @ 9AM
- Science paper shows pregnancy requires 10x more energy than we previously thought. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… How should this impact parental leave policy? 🧵1/n
- So proud to be reading @PikaGoldin's incredible newest creation with my newest creation. A truly insightful book about women in the workforce. I'm honored to have contributed as an RA to Claudia's research, featured in this tremendous book.
- With Omicron and school/daycare cancellations, this is a BRUTAL time for Job Market Candidates, especially those who have kids. Six concrete ways to support JMCs with kids. 🧵 #PhDLife #EconTwitter #EduTwitter #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter
- Having a kid reduces female employment and wages, unfortunately. What can prevent this? Research from @martinauccioli and L. Ciasullo answers: The (legally protected) ability to ask for a regular work schedule decreases the child penalty by 15% martinaucc.github.io/martinauccioli…
- #1 ingredient for a successful job hunt: Job Market Objective Function. Without your own objective function, it’s scarily easy to accidentally adopt someone else’s goals. Clearly, maximizing someone else’s goals means you’re unlikely to reach your true optimal outcome.
- The 2022 Economic Report of the President of the USA from @WhiteHouseCEA cites my JMP with @emma_k_h... It's seriously eerie! This week, I've been writing up complementary results on what happens to productivity when a firm-wide minimum wage goes into place. Stay tuned!
- Been thinking a lot about hiring and @soumitrashukla9’s paper finding that discrimination is alive and well in elite hiring. Soum finds the bulk of discrimination against lower-caste job candidates emerges after amorphous, subjective “personality fit” interviews.
- Firms have struggled to find enough employees to staff all their shifts. @vbolotnyy and I show that schedules lacking predictability shrinks the pool of employees who will take a shift, hurting employees & employers:
- Replying to @NataliaHEmanuelMany academic institutions give equal tenure extensions to birthing and nonbirthing parents. This seems odd, not least because research by @JennaEStearns and co suggests that fathers use leave to do more research rather than bond pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10…
