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Caroline Krafft
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Economist, Associate Prof. @ Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota 
Education/Labor/Development/Gender/ECD/Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Details on Conference on Demography and Labor in MENA !

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"The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap" Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Nikolai Boboshko, and Matthew Comey #EconSkywww.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 3/3

Using Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data, we study selection bias and the gender wage gap. Employing several methods, we find large declines in the total and unexplained gender gaps in wage offers between 1981 and 2015. Under our preferred selection correction method, the median total and unexplained gaps fell by 0.378 and 0.204 log points, respectively. These are larger declines than if we had not corrected for selection and simply measured convergence in observed wage gaps. However, substantial selectivity-corrected median gender wage gaps remain in 2015: 0.242 log points (total gap) and 0.206 log points (unexplained gap).
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"Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?" Anne Ardila Brenøe, Serena Canaan, Nikolaj A. Harmon, and Heather N. Royer #EconSkywww.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

We estimate the effect of a female employee giving birth and taking parental leave on small firms and coworkers in Denmark using a dynamic difference-in-differences design. We find little evidence that parental leave take-up has negative effects on firms and coworkers overall. This is because most firms are very effective in compensating for the worker on leave by hiring temporary workers and by increasing other employees’ hours. In contrast, we do find evidence that parental leave has negative effects on a small subsample of firms that are less able to use their existing employees to compensate for absent workers.
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"When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health" by Petra Persson and Maya Rossin-Slater www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...#EconSky 3/3

We study how fathers' access to workplace flexibility affects maternal postpartum health. We use variation from a Swedish reform that granted new fathers more flexibility to take intermittent parental leave during the postpartum period and show that increasing the father's temporal flexibility—and thereby his ability to be present at home together with the mother—reduces the incidence of maternal postpartum health complications. Our results suggest that mothers bear part of the burden from a lack of workplace flexibility for men because a father's inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health cost of childbearing.
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"Schoolgirls, Not Brides: Education as a Shield against Child Marriage" by Hélène Giacobino, Elise Huillery, Bastien Michel, Mathilde Sage www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...#EconSky 2/3

We study the impact of a scholarship-based intervention aimed to reduce child marriage by fostering secondary education among adolescent girls in Niger. Using a large-scale randomized controlled trial, we find that after three years of implementation, the intervention led to large and positive effects. It halved both dropout and marriage rates and increased girls' and their parents' aspirations. Importantly, there is no displacement effect detrimental to the education and marriage status of nontreatment girls. Our results show that financial aid for education has the potential to transform adolescent girls' lives.
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Find more information on CSMGEP website. Please reach out to info@csmgep.org with any questions. www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

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Professional Development Grant for URM Faculty $2,000 grant for junior faculty from underrepresented groups in economics, sponsored by Pearson Education. Apply by 5 pm ET, second Friday in October Email materials to info@csmgep.org (Subject: Professional Development Grant for URM) 7/n

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Small Group Breakfast Meeting for URM Scholars An annual networking breakfast for underrepresented minority scholars in economics. Apply by 5 pm ET, first Friday in November Complete the form to apply 6/n

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URM Travel Grants Travel grants for junior faculty from underrepresented minority groups in economics. Apply by 5 pm ET, second Friday in November Email materials to info@csmgep.org (Subject: URM Travel Grants) 5/n

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Andrew Brimmer Undergraduate Essay Prize Essay competition for undergraduate students on economics-related topics. Apply by 5 pm ET, second Friday of October Email materials to info@csmgep.org (Subject: Andrew Brimmer Undergraduate Essay Prize) 4/n

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Caroline Krafft
@ckrafftc.bsky.social
Economist, Associate Prof. @ Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota 
Education/Labor/Development/Gender/ECD/Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa.
1.7k followers3k following97 posts
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