Matt Knepper
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Matt Knepper
@MathKnepper
Assistant Professor of Economics at UGA. Studying discrimination, bargaining power, healthcare reform. UNC—UCSD—BEA—UGA
Athens, GA Sumali Ağustos 2013
245 Sinusundan200 Mga Tagasunod
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Unemployment Insurance benefit cuts result in employment growth, but also in a decline in starting salaries, from Gordon Dahl and Matthew M. Knepper nber.org/papers/w30152

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@alexoimas @KirbyKNielsen @aislinnbohren I’m still learning to keep my balance on land, let alone the sea!
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In a column out today, our @LipstickEcon looks at new research from @mathknepper and Gordon Dahl that investigates the link between external economic conditions and the risk of retaliation for reporting sexual harassment: equitablegrowth.org/underreporting…
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🚨 New research on sexual harassment 🚨 by @mathknepper and Gordon Dahl out today on @equitablegrowth: equitablegrowth.org/working-papers…
And my writeup of the findings on how the threat of retaliation increases during downturns and how income supports can help: equitablegrowth.org/underreporting…
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This @publicintegrity article is consistent with my (newly updated!) paper w/ @AmandaGrittner: we find that the onset of immigration enforcement increased minimum wage violations among Hispanic workers. See thread on first draft 👇; Link to updated paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
J. Robert Shull@bobhasathought
New @publicintegrity reporting finds "that industries with higher percentages of foreign-born workers had higher rates of wage theft." publicintegrity.org/inequality-pov…
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Do patients discriminate against doctors on the basis of race and gender? #EconTwitter check out this exciting new field experiment from @alex8chan! 1/4
drive.google.com/file/d/11H3ahV…
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Limited job options and less generous unemployment insurance benefits exacerbate underreporting of workplace sexual harassment, from Gordon B. Dahl and Matthew M. Knepper nber.org/papers/w29248

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How does learning depend on peoples’ models of information and others' prefs/beliefs? Presents general framework for predicting how people learn when they have different models + biases. Characterizes long-run beliefs & whether they perpetually disagree econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

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@MathKnepper didn’t know you were on Twitter! Thanks again for your insights!
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🚨New Working Paper🚨
"Non-Disclosure Agreements and Externalities from Silence" with @aaronsojourner & Jason Sockin.
We examine how NDAs influence information flows about employers, and the costs they impose on job seekers and competing firms. 🧵 1/
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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@LipstickEcon Thanks Kate! Glad you enjoyed the talk. We’re planning to release a draft later this month. Would also love to include it in the @equitablegrowth working paper series!
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Back to tweeting about econ.
I saw a great paper at LERA on "Why is Sexual Harassment Underreported? The Value of Unemployment Amid Threat of Retaliation" by @MathKnepper & Gordon Dahl. Not online yet, but spoiler: the threat of retaliation is influenced by economic conditions.
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Happy to have our paper on the employment effects of the 2007 FDA black box warning on antidepressants out in JHE now: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
The best part is that I got to work with Chris Cronin @NotreDame and Meghan Skira @universityofga.

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Delighted to see @UCSanDiego lead the way in designing and implementing a large-scale COVID-19 test and trace program across students, staff, and faculty as a key first step towards safely reopening the campus in the Fall: ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/i…
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I am absolutely ecstatic to announce that I will be joining the Department of Economics @TerryCollege at the University of Georgia as an Assistant Professor this Fall! I can’t wait to join such a wonderful group of scholars and human beings.
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@jeffreypclemens @TerryCollege Thanks Jeff!! The UCSD Applied Micro conference you had organized last October was incredibly helpful for me (and timely!)
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@rtoutkou @TerryCollege Thank you Rob! Looking forward to meeting you and the rest of my new Bulldogs family as well!
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