Natalie Millar

My #EconJMP, “The Labor Market Returns to Customized Job Training”, examines how subsidized firm training that aligns skill supply with skill demand affects workers and whether subsidies generate benefits that justify public investment. Website: nataliemillar.net

@jt_kerwin @nberpubs Congratulations! 🎉 Great seeing you!

Thrilled to be joining @nberpubs as a Research Associate in the Economics of Education! I got to present our new work on reading in Ghana at the spring program meeting yesterday—amazing audience & questions as always.

@daniela_vidart @nberpubs Congratulations! 🎉🎉

Very excited to be joining @nberpubs as a Faculty Research Fellow in the Development of the American Economy (DAE) group! Thank you to all who nominated and supported my appointment, and huge congrats to all other new appointees! 🥳💙 nber.org/news/nber-appo…

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📢Call for Papers—3rd Annual Conference on Collaborative State & Local Policy Research: hoover.org/annual-confere… Want to learn about cutting-edge social science research conducted at the state and local levels, share insights into successful research partnerships between academics and the public sector, and connect with others eager to improve the quality of public policy? We are inviting submissions of recent papers that are products of collaboration between academic researchers and state or local government entities. Papers addressing criminal justice and economic development will be given preference. Selected presenters and their government partners will have airfare and lodging covered. Deadline: April 15, 2026. 📅 June 8–9, 2026 | @Stanford University's Hoover Institution

Thank you to the Upjohn Institute for selecting me as a recipient of the 2026 Early Career Research Awards. I am also grateful to my state partners in Tennessee, particularly @jonattridge and @michael_hendrix, whose partnership makes this work possible. upjohn.org/research-highl…

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📢 Call for Papers: 3rd Annual Conference on Collaborative State & Local Policy Research 🗓️Submission Deadline: April 15, 2026 Want to learn about cutting-edge social science, share insights into research partnerships, and connect with others to improve public policy? 👇

🌱Really happy to see this paper published in EEH 👉authors.elsevier.com/a/1miWX3I%7Eda… I study how electrification shaped the 1900-1940 US fertility decline by disentangling two opposing channels: time-saving appliances and rising female wages. Punchline: the overall effects are modest!

🚨 We just released a new version of the professor salary benchmarking tool: 👉 prof-salary.com Thanks to the amazing work of Chelsea Che (@ChelseaChe0203), this update includes major upgrades, outlined below. #econtwitter #AcademicTwitter 🧵👇

Wow. This looks like an amazing project. Scholars at UMichigan have recently collected a massive dataset of over 1.1M podcast transcripts that is largely comprehensive of all English language podcasts. Using this data, they conduct an investigation into the content, structure, and responsiveness of the podcast ecosystem. Check it out!

This new working paper argues that female economics PhD students benefit tremendously from having female economics faculty around. How do they back up this claim? They look at the timing of sabbatical leaves. When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female Ph.D. students’ likelihood of publishing papers and securing academic positions. Male Ph.D. students in the same cohort benefit from this absence, seeing an increase in their publishing and placement prospects. Their estimates imply that "Adding one senior female professor to each top-50 department would close one-third of the assistant professor gender gap at top-25 schools."

@jenniferdoleac I expect this will be our next paper following the prisoner education paper.

Is anyone working on a study of the causal effects of prison work release programs? If so, please DM or email me. 🙏

@WinnieVanDijk @john_eric @ReviseNRetweet Derek Christopher @danielrock Noah Boden-Gologorsky #econtwitter #ASSA

Ended #ASSA2026 with a great session on State & Local Policy Research! Thanks @vbolotnyy for organizing and @jondr44 for a thoughtful discussion of my JMP. I’m excited to continue following the excellent papers, authors, and discussants from this session

I just updated my spreadsheet of crime-related papers published in top economics journals: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

4. Ben Hyman — "How Retrainable Are AI-Exposed Workers?" (Daniel Rock discussing) @ReviseNRetweet

👷‍♀️ Labor papers 3. Natalie Millar — "The Labor Market Returns to Customized Job Training" (Jonathan Roth discussing)

Planning your #ASSA schedule? Join us for “Collaborative State & Local Policy Research” organized by @vbolotnyy 📅 Mon, Jan 5th | 1–3pm (EST) 📍 Philadelphia Convention Center, Room 203-B Hope to see you there! #ASSA2026 For more information: aeaweb.org/conference/202…,