Emily Nix

Coverage of our paper in the WSJ (and I believe Full academic article here: nber.org/papers/w34346

Every month there is a new headline about someone dating a manager and the messiness for the firm. This month's AI version: wsj.com/tech/ai/the-me… We estimate the impacts of these relationships in our working paper. A paper that seems to be continuously relevant!

Studying whether guaranteed basic income reduces crime finds that a two-year nationwide randomized controlled trial in Finland shows no effect on crime perpetration or victimization despite high baseline rates of both, from Mikko Aaltonen, Martti Kaila, and @emilynix100 nber.org/papers/w34547

@JohnHolbein1 I did not have Elon Musk engaging with my research on my 2025 bingo card👀 While he's looking, he might find this paper particularly relevant...😅 nber.org/papers/w34346

@EmilyNix100 It's a very cool paper! Thanks for writing it. FWIW, Elon Musk's quote tweet drove a lot of the engagement.

Lots of engagement on this one and thanks @JohnHolbein1 for tweeting about it! We do a lot in the paper and I think it sheds some rigorous new light on a controversial debate.

Thanks so much for the great feedback! We are quite excited about the cautiously hopeful message from the study. Find more here: nber.org/papers/w34345

Great coverage of my paper with @MontonenJerry and Dave Macdonald on the Economist! Note, @MontonenJerry is on the market this year and would be a fantastic hire for any department/position!

Also, forgot to mention, @MontonenJerry is on the market this year! I'll do a fuller post soon, but he is an amazingly talented economist and any department would be lucky to have him. His website can be found here: sites.google.com/view/jerrymont…

Here: nationalpost.com/news/office-ro… And more to come!

Also covered here: ft.com/content/6c5aba…

Very excited to have officially put out this paper the other week! Check out this great interview by my co-author Dave Macdonald: cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

Cool new paper #econtwitter #econsky showing the wheels of justice can in fact reform, though slowly: @EmilyNix100 @ShuaiChenEcon show *female* (but not male) judges become more likely to grant divorce petitions in case of domestic violence following Me Too movement in China

It suggests that justice systems can do better by victims, and views can change. More work is needed to understand how to convert this into lasting and more broad-based change, but this work provides a glimmer of hope for improvements. [5/5]

And that story is in my view a cautiously positive one. Female judges dramatically change their propensity to grant divorces when there is domestic violence after #MeToo. However, this effect is not persistent and not there for male judges. Still, this shows some promise. [4/5]

Breaking my social media hiatus to share some new work. Please see my fabulous co-author @ShuaiChenEcon's full thread below, but a few of my thoughts. First, I've spent lots of time focused on costs of gender-based violence. I'm now keen to think of how to help survivors. [1/5]

I’ve decided not to post my annual “women on the Econ job market” thread this year. Social media has splintered too much, and now that I’ve left academia I’m focused on other priorities. I hope someone else picks it up! It was super useful to have a reason to comb through the latest JMPs each fall. And I was happy to elevate work that traditionally is under-elevated. Something that has become more apparent to me since I left academia 2+ years ago is that the toxic behavior that is rampant in university settings is, truly, especially bad there. I’d always told students that bias exists in every field, and I’m sure it does. But universities face zero competitive pressure to get their sh*t together, and it shows in their employment practices. My wish for women on this year’s Econ job market is that you keep your options wide open. There are lots of great opportunities to have a big impact out on the world, and you have valuable skills that many employers would pay dearly for. You’ve worked too hard for that PhD to settle — find a job you love. Do yourself the favor of exploring all your options.

Y’all, I wrote a book! The Science of Second Chances is based on my decades of work studying crime and criminal behavior, first as an economics professor and now as a policy expert at Arnold Ventures. It shares what we know from cutting-edge research about how to intervene at each stage of the criminal justice process to break the incarceration cycle and give people a real second chance. Most books in the criminal justice space have a “burn it all down” vibe — pointing out lots of problems and leaving readers feeling hopeless. But I work in this field and feel hopeful and optimistic every day. There are so many effective ways to put people on a better path, and we’re learning more about what works all the time. This book is a product of that optimism, focusing on solutions. I share many feasible interventions that make a big difference — alongside cautionary tales of good ideas that did not pan out, or even backfired. And I also share how economists like myself learn what works, through careful trial and error, in order to make big, scalable change a reality. I hope these ideas spur fresh conversations about how to help people and communities thrive. The Science of Second Chances is available for pre-order now, and will land on your doorsteps or e-readers on February 24. Please share with your networks. 🙏🏻

Sunday reading: “The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships” by @abicadams, @KristiinaHuttu2, @EmilyNix100, & @ningzhang0927 academic.oup.com/qje/article/13…