Isabel Pastoor

Great to see our practical guide to shift-share instruments wiht @borusyak and @instrumenthull out in the Journal of Economic Perspectives today 👇👇👇 pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10…

Hubby asked if I got him any Veblen goods for Valentine’s Day

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My public finance and monetary policy students from last semester must think I’m a big fat liar now

🚨I've posted BRFSS data in SAS, R, and Stata formats for 1987-2023 here on this Mendeley Data Repository Free to use without restriction! data.mendeley.com/datasets/shs97…

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Husband’s paternity leave is going well. He’s “writing code to control the kitchen light” and reading Thomas Schelling. 😬

📢📢 #AMIE is excited to announce its "4th Workshop in Applied Microeconomics" for PhD students, to be held virtually on April 28 & 29, 2025. Submission Deadline: February 27, 2025 Call for papers: econmentoring.org/wp-content/upl… please share, R/T #EconTwitter 1/3

Sunday evening blues? Find your next opportunity at the Resolution Foundation! We're looking for a thoughtful and proactive individual to join our research team to support work on a specific research project. Full job description 👉 buff.ly/3PSACeM

About 9 years ago my son was born. On our first day home and his third day of life he spiked a high fever and we rushed him back to the hospital. After days of waiting for tests (including a spinal tap) we learned that he had bacterial meningitis.

Here's my request for AI: give me a day where no one around me is blathering about AI

I’ve been awarded an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship to work on my dissertation at the Life Course Center @umnlifecourse next academic year!

Waiting for GPT-4b macro and GPT-4b economic policy.

Baby Eleonora is here! I’m so blessed to have two beautiful daughters to delay and interfere with my dissertation.

New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈 Read: osf.io/preprints/osf/… Findings 🧵👇

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Surreal to see my paper w/@ProfKarpo, @jrpjrpjrp, & @steveoconnell1 in print @JPolEcon! TLDR: When women are a minority in teams, they experience a significant influence penalty. Assigning a female team leader, however, reduces that penalty by 50%. Detailed 🧵below:

Call for Papers: 4th Workshop on Gender and Economics, 22-23 May, 2025, at the University of Luxembourg. It includes, among other cool things, an award for young researchers of 1000euro and the opportunity to publish in a special issue of the Journal of Demographic Economics

My toddler has requested that I have this baby tomorrow morning. But I don’t know. I still have a lot of stuff to do first (read Adam Smith)