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Kelly Jones

@kmpjones.bsky.social
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Applied Microeconomist studying gender inequality in U.S. & Africa @AUcollege.bsky.social. Here for the #econsky. Always pushing to #DiversifyEcon. Find me at www.kmjones.info

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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Empowering women benefits the whole household Check out our new piece on @voxdev.bsky.social based on our recent pub in JDE (shorturl.at/sTmN3) voxdev.org/topic/agricu...
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Including women in commercial agriculture benefits the whole household
Formally including Ugandan women in commercial agriculture – through contract ownership or behaviour-change interventions – can increase women’s empowerment without reducing productivity, and with pos...
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
ATTN: Future Economists in DC Pre-Doc mentoring event hosted by @aeacswep.bsky.social Tues Feb 10 4pm at @brookings.edu Register here: shorturl.at/V1d9k
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Please help distribute this funding opportunity for PhD students interested in gender economics. Thanks! Open call for 2026 Doctoral Fellow in Gender Economics www.kmjones.info/students/doc...
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Loved new piece by @lizananat.bsky.social‬ with critique of two-parent privilege hypothesis pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/... "Asian example suggests...insistence [that childbearing be marital only] may not move us back to a world flush with married parents but to a future of few parents at all"
How is it that in perhaps the richest country in the history of the world such a large
number of people struggle to acquire the basic necessities of life? Clearly, merely
increasing the total quantity of goods and services produced in the market does not
address this core problem. I review new work both inside and outside of economics
that seeks to understand the persistence of poverty in the United States. With a particular focus on Desmond (2023) and Kearney (2023), I draw out the hypotheses in
this work, suggest interesting avenues for future research, and discuss potential policy
implications. (JEL I26, I32, I38, J12, J13, J24)
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PennLDI @pennldi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
How can tax credits, paid leave, and other policies improve population health? Join us on March 28 for our virtual seminar featuring experts Elizabeth Ananat, Bradley Hardy, Aparna Mathur, and LDI Fellow @atheendar.bsky.social. ldi.upenn.edu/events/boost...
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Boosting Health Through Economic Policy: Tax and Labor Policies to Improve Population Health
Join Penn LDI to explore evidence-based economic policies that foster healthier, more equitable communities.
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Sophie Greenwood @sjgreenwood.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Very cool! Also pinning!
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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
NBER Immigrants and the Economy meeting is this Friday and will be live-streamed here! www.youtube.com/channel/UC79... Program here with an excellent lineup of papers: www.nber.org/conferences/...
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NBER
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that facilitates cutting-edge investigation and analysis of major economic issues. It disseminates res...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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More Than 70 Million Americans Are on Medicaid. This Is Where They Live.
As Republicans weigh deep cuts, these congressional districts — some red, some blue — have the most to lose.
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Been chatting with some juniors lately who were surprised to hear me recommend not working more than 40 hours a week or nights/weekends. Even during grad school. I was appalled to hear them recount some of the advice they are getting from others. So here is my PSA:
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Belinda Archibong @belindaarch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
PSA to fellow economists- if African countries are the preferred sites for randomized experiments to place papers in top 5 economics journals, then the history, institutions, and people/scholars of African countries are more than good enough to study as "general interest" and co-authors 1/n #Econsky
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Dani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Census working paper showing that more accurate weather predictions save lives www.census.gov/library/work...
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Fatal Errors: The Mortality Value of Accurate Weather Forecasts
Accurate weather forecasts save thousands of lives. Accounting for benefits and costs, forecasts create billions of dollars of value for Americans every year.
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If you are thinking of flying in or out of Reagan, just don’t. Currently trapped on a plane in ATL due to multiple consecutive groundstops at DCA. SO many recent cases where 90min flights turn in to 8hr ordeals. Trump’s grip on FAA has made DCA unusable
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FAA implements new airspace rules at Reagan Airport during presidential flights
The FAA will now bring air traffic at Reagan Washington National Airport to a complete stop whenever the president flies nearby on Marine One.
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Excited to hear about @kaseybuckles.bsky.social work on intergenerational connections in census data at PPCW at Georgia Tech
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Five alarm fire. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Republicans just dropped their first open attack on women's right to travel. jessica.substack.com/p/montana-bi...
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
If you can no longer stand doing nothing, consider placing these flyers on select windshields near you (because defacing private property, while tempting, is clearly wrong) www.teslatakedown.com
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
What a devastating and incredibly inefficient loss
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Very happy to see the recommendations from the joint AEA-EEA-ES-RES committee on improving publishing in economics. Many good, long-overdue recommendations. I hope they are are all implemented widely by @aeajournals.bsky.social & others www.econometricsociety.org/uploads/docu... Some highlights...
Favorite Recommendations 
A1: Reviewer transfer mechanism
A2: “Essential” vs. “optional” reviewer comments
A5: Statement of author ordering method
A6: Use of ⓡ symbol
A9: “All names, then all initials” citation style
B1 to B4: Creation of Journal Information Center
	for harmonized performance & decision metrics, 
editorial policies, and author surveys
B8: Communication of conflict-of-interest policies
B9: Communication of appeals policy
C5: Diversity of institution, background & geography
 in editorial team
C6: Prohibit simultaneous positions to limit 
concentration of influence
C11: Awards for excellence in reviewing

PLUS 20 MORE!
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
😭 So well written.
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Defending Transgender Women
On January 30th at 5pm Census.gov went down, so that the Census Bureau could review the website for materials that did not comply with one of the anti-trans executive orders. It is being called the “d...
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
www.kshb.com/news/local-n...
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Jan Marcus @janmarcus.de · 18/02/2025
📢 I am looking for a new PhD student (Research Associate)📢 🔹 4 year position at FU Berlin (66% TV-L E13) 🔹 Research on causal effects in education, health, labour & family economics 🔹 2 hours teaching/week & statistical consulting #EconSky www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
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WW-10020500-24-WM15
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Ioana Marinescu @imarinescu.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🚀 Exciting Opportunity! 🚀 #AI keeps me up at night. What will happen to work & workers? 🤔 I'm partnering with Schmidt Sciences to offer up to $200,000 in funding for early-career researchers! 💡 🗓️ Apply by March 31 2025 🙏 spread the word! 🔗 Learn more & apply schmidtsciences.org/ai-at-work #EconSky
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Does anyone know whether AEA is backing off diversity initiatives? I just realized that their "videos of diverse economists" by CSWEP, CSMGEP, etc is no longer accessible from its location of just a few weeks ago. Et tu Brute? (www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...) #econsky @aeainformation.bsky.social
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Yana van der Meulen Rodgers @yanarodgers.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The Federal Reserve is not as independent from the executive branch as we’d like to think. The NY Fed just cancelled this Thursday’s @aeacswep.bsky.social reception at #EEA2025 and withdrew from our summer fellowship program. Both support women and underrepresented groups in economics. #EconSky
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mattpecenco.bsky.social @mattpecenco.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I'm hiring for a predoctoral research associate to work with me at Brown Econ starting Summer 2025. If you're interested in economics research on labor, crime, and housing, please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/162629 #econra #econ_ra #EconSky @jessebruhn.bsky.social
apply.interfolio.com
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Alessio Romarri @alessioromarri.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
#Econsky 🎉 Excited that my first post is about #JEM25! The call for applications is now open - deadline: March 16. Join us in Milan on May 29-30, 2025, for a great workshop in applied micro, experimental & behavioral econ. Keynote: Prof. Mathieu Couttenier (ENS Lyon). 👉 demm.unimi.it/en/call-appl...
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Call for Applications for the 4th Junior Economists Meeting (UniMI-JEM25)
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I have dropped Amazon, Target, and Whole Foods. It has been very hard. Glad I have a Costco nearby and a big basement.
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Looking for quantitative papers on the impacts of eugenics (esp in the US). Found this one by Price and Darity (2010). Know of others? In case you're wondering: this is for a new class I've developed. Econ 210 Government Regulation of Reproduction. www.kmjones.info/teach/econ-210
Price and Darity. 2010. The economics of race and eugenic sterilization in North Carolina: 1958-1968. Economics and Human Biology. 8:2.  Abstract. Theoretical justifications for state-sanctioned sterilization of individuals provided by Irving Fisher rationalized its racialization on grounds that certain non-white racial groups, particularly blacks due to their dysgenic biological and behavioral traits, retarded economic growth and should be bred out of existence. Fisher’s rationale suggests that national or state level eugenic policies that sterilized the so-called biological and genetically unfit could have been racist in both design and effect by disproportionately targeting black Americans. We empirically explore this with data on eugenic sterilizations in the State of North Carolina between 1958 and 1968. Count data parameter estimates from a cross-county population allocation model of sterilization reveal that the probability of non-institutional and total sterilizations increased with a county’s black population share—an effect not found for any other racial group in the population. Our results suggest that in North Carolina, eugenic sterilization policies were racially biased and genocidal.
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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 13/02/2025
A direct hit on American innovation, competitiveness, and leadership.
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
So glad to see there are at least some opportunities opening up for the vast expertise being turned out of USAID. (Or the students suffering through this years job market 💔)
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A very real plan to disenfranchise women is soon to be law Renew your passport now or #changeback your name www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens
The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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Agnes Quisumbing on LinkedIn: Save Foreign Aid
Elon Musk reportedly spent $40 million dollars on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here are just a few ways we would’ve spent $40M:…
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Kelly Jones @kmpjones.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Very happy to be rejoining the #econtwitter community at #econsky! I have missed the high-quality feed full of links to papers, cross-disciplinary insights, and professional news. (ok, and the parenting memes). Hello again everyone!
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