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There is social value in investing in families with children. I'm honored to have my work with Riley Wilson on Head Start and maternal employment cited in this year's report.

As a kid, I didn't appreciate Mr. Roger's need to change into comfy clothes the second he got home from anywhere.

New publication alert! My paper w/Lara Shore-Sheppard & Tara E W now available online @JPAM. Punchline: A more generous safety net reduces psychological distress among single mothers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa… 1/

In new research, Ashley Forbush and Jocelyn Wikle use SEM analysis of CDS 2002 and 2007 to examine how mother's parenting practices during childhood relate to later adolescent sexual outcomes. bit.ly/3LutP8N

🚨 New working paper! 🚨 With kristy buzard & Laura K Gee, we study gender inequality in demand for parental involvement. Short thread below. 👇 Paper link: tinyurl.com/5ykee424

Really enjoyed talk by Jocelyn Wikle on non-financial benefits of Advanced Child Tax Credit. Prelim work but they find an 5% increase in away from home parent-child engagement for every $100 dollar increase tax credit. #TimeUse Maryland Population Research Center Powered by IPUMS (1/2)

Took me a long time but finally finished Melissa S. Kearney’s “The Two-parent Privilege”. Wow. Such a valuable contribution to help us think about unequal resources for kids. She has started a needed conversation of how society can foster more resources (time and money) for kids!

Brookings has launched the State Safety Net Interactive tool, based on the calculator I developed with Lara Shore-Sheppard and Tara E W : brookings.edu/articles/state…

My daughter just took a career aptitude test. Much to her dismay, the test said she would be an excellent . . . economist. And to add insult to injury, the second suggestion was an economics professor. I guess the invisible hand doesn't fall far from the tree.

COVID-19 vaccine mandates at U.S. universities saved *a lot* of lives. jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/…

Probably bringing a copy of this to my first PTA meeting as the mom of a rising part-day kindergartener

"full-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergarten-aged children in this time frame" #edpolicy #scipol #workingmoms

Got one of my favorite recent research facts that can make you interesting* at dinner parties when I saw Chloe present this paper: For as much as we (rightly) talk abt pre-k, growth in full-day K has been a much, much bigger source of childcare expansion *definitions may vary

This is one of the most exciting and important papers I’ve seen in a good long while. Looking forward to digging in! Variation in policy exposure, long term outcomes, and intuitive data visualizations to really motivate the intuition

Say it with me: education policy is women’s policy. 👏👏👏

Check out this thread from my coauthor chloe gibbs! We study how one of the most wide spread public education investments -the transition to full-day K- affects maternal labor supply and family decisions in the US. It has been great to work with chloe gibbs and Jocelyn Wikle!

Our new work on full-day kindergarten expansions has been getting a lot of attention in Utah, and not just because my fantastic coauthors Jocelyn Wikle and Riley Wilson are at BYU…

I was delighted to see the BYU News article about our full-day K study (with Riley Wilson & Jocelyn Wikle, both at BYU) was one of 2024's most read! We couldn't beat the story about the new creamery on campus though. 1/3 news.byu.edu/top-10-byu-sto…

🚨🚨 Early Learning Nation & The 74 say our full-day K study - w/ Jocelyn Wikle & Riley Wilson - is a MUST READ from the 2024 research on child care and early learning! Also: insights from Christ Herbst & Jessica H. Brown, research from Aaron Sojourner & coauthors the74million.org/article/2024-r…