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"19 million women who are eligible for publicly funded contraception live in “contraceptive deserts,” counties where access to health centers offering the full range of contraceptives is limited." -Prof. Caitlin Knowles Myers

New analysis📊 by Sara Estep builds upon abortion travel time data from Dr. Caitlin Knowles Myers to show the average one-way driving time to abortion clinics by congressional district level. Check out the map here! americanprogress.org/article/aborti…

Florida's 6-week ban abortion ban is big deal. Appreciated the chance to talk about it--and all the things we don't yet know about how many folks with get in under the threshold, drive 11+ hours, or mail-order pills--with Ailsa Chang NPR npr.org/2024/05/01/124…

Always love The Upshot data viz! No matter how hard I might try, their maps are always going to look cooler. Josh Katz Margot Sanger-Katz Claire Cain Miller. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Congratulations to Middlebury's Erik Bleich & Christopher Star on this fascinating new article on the idea of "apocalypse" The Conversation U.S.. theconversation.com/how-apocalypse…

💫Today we launch the Segregation Explorer!💫 Visualize and download school segregation data for every state, county, metro area, commuting zone, geo school district, and local educational agency in the US since 1991. edopportunity.org/segregation

We spend so much time teaching students how to estimate things in R/Stata/whatever, but we completely ignore the most time-consuming component of all empirical work: data cleaning. Should seriously have a course devoted to nothing else.

Massive thanks to Caitlin Knowles Myers and the fab team of students who have been calling all of these clinics to gather this incredible appt availability data!

Job alert! My team is hiring a research assistant jobs.jhu.edu/job-invite/113… We are looking for people excited about research, policy impact, and mental health and substance use services. BA a must, masters degree a big plus. cc Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy

Recently published short paper in the Journal of Public Economics : "The Effects of Post-Dobbs Abortion Bans on Fertility" Vol 234 (June 2024) by Daniel Dench (Daniel Dench ), Mayra Pineda-Torres (Mayra Pineda-Torres ), & Caitlin Knowles Myers (Caitlin Knowles Myers ) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I am excited to be at @LEO in the fall building out a research agenda on strengthening families! Apply to be a part of the team -

Thanks to CSWEP and ChicagoFed for hosting a fantastic CeMENT workshop!

#econtwitter #econra Econ RA Listings I am hiring a full time Research Associate (predoc) for 12 months to work on projects primarily on disparities in education choices and outputs, starting in mid-August (🤞). Apply ASAP! The ad is now out: tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/TAMU_External/… RT widely!(1/3)

Looking for a non-technical review of the economics literature on abortion policy? I've got a new review piece forthcoming at Annual Reviews covering 50 years of abortion policy, from the Roe era until just prior to Dobbs. Here's the preprint: drive.google.com/file/d/13lnSi4…

My only advice about emailing your professors is to make the subject line be “Decision on your manuscript”

Meet CSWEP new Board Member: Caitlin Knowles Myers (CeMENT Co-Director) is Professor of Economics at Middlebury College and a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. To read her full bio, visit our website: aeaweb.org/about-aea/comm…

Based on feedback from past participants, potential applicants, and mentors, the CeMENT workshop will now be held June 30 - July 2, 2025, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. To apply, go to: aeaweb.org/about-aea/comm… Deadline to apply is March 15.