Misty Heggeness (@m_heggeness) 's Twitter Profile
Misty Heggeness

@m_heggeness

Author of SWIFTYNOMICS: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy📚 (@ucpress 2025). Currently: @UnivOfKansas. Formerly: @USDOL @NIH @uscensusbureau.

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🎆Come one, come all! 🎆Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy is now available for pre-order! a.co/d/hZLsS95 #Amazon via @Amazon University of California Press (is on Bluesky) #swiftynomics

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This piece is now out in the wild! The impact of World War II Army service on income and mobility in the ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Jessica Pellien (@jessicapellien) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Good news here - Dads Are Spending More Time With Their Kids Post-Pandemic - Jessica Grose writes about new data from the Care Board by Misty Heggeness nytimes.com/2025/04/30/opi…

Florian Ederer (@florianederer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨High-speed internet is hurting teen mental health, especially girls. More screen time Less sleep Less studying Less real-life socializing And when they're distressed they go online, not offline.

🚨High-speed internet is hurting teen mental health, especially girls. 

More screen time
Less sleep
Less studying
Less real-life socializing

And when they're distressed they go online, not offline.
Vicki Shabo (@vshabo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The cost of child care runs up against other desires and needs people have when it comes to work, family, care, housing, savings, and more. The answer isn't "mom stays home" for most families though - even if they wanted to, they can't. axios.com/2025/05/24/chi… Child Care Aware of America

John A. List (@econ_4_everyone) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I was chatting with a few people who plan on entering the PhD job market this coming Fall. Word on the street is that the academic job market could be difficult for job seekers. As I was chatting I started to outline a few tips for them. Those tips revolved around how they

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The #MeToo movement led to a 10% jump in sex crime reports and the effect lasted over 2 years. ✅ More reporting ✅ More arrests ❌ Not just more crimes ✅ Impact across race & income Social movements can change high-stakes behavior.

The #MeToo movement led to a 10% jump in sex crime reports and the effect lasted over 2 years.

âś… More reporting
âś… More arrests
❌ Not just more crimes
âś… Impact across race & income

Social movements can change high-stakes behavior.
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Giving kids access to Medicaid... â–  decreases mortality, â–  increases employment, â–  decreases receipt of disability transfers... ...up to 50 years later. "Medicaid has saved the government **more than its original cost** and saved more than 10M quality adjusted life-years."

Giving kids access to Medicaid...

â–  decreases mortality,
â–  increases employment,
â–  decreases receipt of disability transfers...

...up to 50 years later.

"Medicaid has saved the government **more than its original cost** and saved more than 10M quality adjusted life-years."
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I wrote about TS’s recent news! Read it here: By buying back her early music, Taylor Swift once again inspired women #swiftynomics fastcompany.com/91344569/by-bu…

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New evidence on the intergenerational effects of intergroup contact: male civil servants exposed to female colleagues have daughters that are more likely to work. Link here: guoxu.org/docs/AFX_Beyon…, from Aneja, Silvia Farina, Guo Xu

New evidence on the intergenerational effects of intergroup contact: male civil servants exposed to female colleagues have daughters that are more likely to work. Link here: guoxu.org/docs/AFX_Beyon…, from Aneja, <a href="/SilviaFarins/">Silvia Farina</a>, <a href="/guoxu_econ/">Guo Xu</a>
Ai-jen Poo (@aijenpoo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Millions of low income families, families of people with disabilities, families that have older adults in them, are facing this struggle every day right now.  And that is why it is so unfathomable that federal and state legislatures are making massive cuts to Medicaid as we

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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement,” by Buzard (kristy buzard), Gee (@laurakgee), and Stoddard (@olgastoddard): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

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Grateful to Open Philanthropy and NBER for continuing to support this program, which aims to encourage young scholars to pursue research on the economics of innovation and innovation policy. I'll co-teach tomorrow with Jeff Kling on the budget analysis of productivity policies.