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Good morning, National Tax Assoc.! I will be presenting my JMP on Optimal Unemployment Insurance Financing at the 8.30am session on The Effects of Social Insurance Programs.🏔️: Gray's Peak A. Hope to see you there 😊

Next is Sara Spaziani (saraspaziani.com/home; Sara Spaziani): an applied microeconomist studying social insurance programs & labor market inequity Her JMP derives and applies a "Baily-style" formula to evaluate the optimality of firm experience ratings in UI tax systems. Nice!

Our article is out🎉 We explore the impact of COVID-19 on skilled workers in Uganda. The labor market trajectories of economically empowered women in low-income countries are highly vulnerable to temporary shocks. With Livia Alfonsi and Mary Namubiru link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Sara Spaziani is working in public economics and labor economics. Her Job market paper is titled "Optimal Unemployment Insurance Financing: Theory and Evidence from Two US States". saraspaziani.com/home

Unemployment insurance’s efficacy+sustainability over economic cycles rely on governments securing and promptly allocating resources to workers in need. How should we fund the program? Explore different labor market and welfare effects of US vs EU+CA financing policies in my JMP!

Your support has been invaluable to us grad students 🌟 Thank you for everything you do!

TOMORROW, Tuesday 30 January at 10 am (CET) we are looking forward to hear Sara Spaziani Sara Spaziani from Brown Economics present her Job Market Paper "Optimal Unemployment Insurance Financing: Theory and Evidence from Two US States". More info: su.se/institute-for-…

AMSE Seminar | Optimal Unemployment Insurance Financing: Theory and Evidence from Two US States 🗣️Sara Spaziani (Sara Spaziani), Brown University 📅February 2, 11:30am to 12:45pm 📍AMSE, #Marseille ➡️amse.site/2AKhB 📷Siberian Art/Adobe Stock

Next seminar at UAB Dep Applied Economics, Sara Spaziani (Sara Spaziani, Brown): "Optimal Unemployment Insurance Financing: Theory and Evidence from Two US States" Wednesday 7 Feb 15:00 at Sala de Graus @EconomiaUAB saraspaziani.com/home

Recent paper by Livia Alfonsi Sara Spaziani and Mary Namubiru shows that 18 months after the covid-19 lockdowns were lifted in Uganda, 10% of previously employed women remained unemployed, 35% partially employed. Gender pay gap increased.

After 6 intense but amazing years, last week I completed my PhD at Brown Economics! 🎉Next fall I will join Warwick Economics for a postdoc, and the following year I'll join Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona as an Assistant Professor!

“The research question is extremely interesting and the results have key political implications as they suggests that publicly displayed divisive symbols can become important drivers of segregation.” 👏 Francesco Ferlenga!

Very happy to share that my dissertation received an Honorable Mention from the National Tax Association😊 Congrats also to my fellow awardees. More details here: ntanet.org/awards/phd-dis…

Thrilled and grateful that my dissertation received an Honorable Mention from the Upjohn Institute, whose work inspired my own😊 Big congrats to Angela Wyse and Agostina Brinatti too! upjohn.org/dissertation-a…

In multi-party systems, incumbents benefit from coordination failures among candidates and voters on the losing side, compounding more traditional sources of incumbency advantage. New paper with K. Dano, vincenzo galasso, Caroline Le Pennec-Çaldichoury and Vincent Pons is forthcoming at JEEA!!!👇

"Gender Inequality: Navigating New Frontiers And Paradigm Shifts." Came home inspired with fresh perspectives after the workshop—huge thanks to the organizers for the opportunity to engage!

John N. Friedman, an economics and international and public affairs scholar and leading researcher on social mobility, education and policymaking, has been appointed the inaugural dean @WatsonInstitute. brown.edu/news/2025-04-2…

Large-scale labor contracting in India has diminished the bite of long standing labor laws in India that imposed costs on large firms. Adoption of contract labor led to an expansion of large firms and a 7.3% increase in aggregate TFP. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

The Bristol Applied Economics Meeting was great! Perfect combo of very interesting talks + long list of useful comments for my project. Thanks for having me 😊