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Kathryn Anne Edwards
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Last month's job report showed that women gained 87,000 jobs, but that their loss the month before was larger (-227,000) than initially thought. It's hard to look at one month
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Great article in the Monthly Labor Review about employment this recession. I'm going to walk through some highlights, starting with this excellent figure that shows the depth of each post-war
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What's it like to work as an economist at a non-academic research institute, like RAND? This is a question I get a lot, especially during job market season. #EconTwitter I
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In September, 865,000 women over 20 left the labor force in a single month. I've struggled to explain just how large and shocking that number is. So I thought I'd
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Just read through the AEA letter to the new administration about federal statistical integrity. Here's a thread that itemizes the eight points they make (with some comments from me):Their letterhttps://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=135
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In March, Congress acted to preserve jobs by providing loans to employers to keep workers on payroll. The PPP has been a "fraudster free for all." There was also a
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I find that economics is a profession that often goes out of its way to make you feel stupid for not understanding something. So I wanted to write this thank
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DC denizens! I went for training this morning to be a ballot clerk. (If you've never been a poll worker, I highly recommend it!)In the process, I got a lot
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On the eve of the $600 expiration, I think there are five key arguments for its continuation, based on available data. 1/n(thread) 1. There was no evidence that it slowed
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