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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · 9d

We use their identification strategy (instrument) for immigration in our paper looking at a very different outcome: quality of care in nursing homes: jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl.... Thank you for providing the seminal work on this--and for making the data available!

Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?

This paper explores how immigration can help mitigate nursing home staffing shortages, which are likely to worsen as baby boomers age. We show that local increases in immigration lead to fewer falls, ...

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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · Aug 28

Policies don’t just change costs—they can change norms. Our new paper suggests that when friends and family members back home take maternal longer leaves because of a policy change, immigrant moms in the U.S. take longer leaves--despite the cost.

ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · Aug 28

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: @deliafurtado.bsky.social, Samantha Trajkovski and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos examine whether changes in maternity leave policies in immigrants' home countries influence their leave-taking behavior in the US. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · May 21

Productivity remains above average a bit when you return to the US and wake up super early because of jet lag....enjoy!!

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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · Apr 2

And if you look at things beyond jobs that are also important to Americans: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Immigration enforcement and the institutionalization of elderly Americans

This paper examines the relationship between immigration enforcement and institutionalization rates of the elderly. Exploiting the staggered implement…

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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · Mar 7

Wonderful news! Congratulations!

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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · Jan 24

Trump's mass deportation plan could drain more than $20 billion a year from Social Security

President Donald Trump's mass deportation plans could have a significant economic side effect: draining Social Security funding.

www.yahoo.com

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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · Jan 15

More information here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb_C...

Introduction to the Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN)

YouTube video by Centre for the Study of African Economies

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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · Jan 15

To all students from African countries interested in pursuing a PhD in Economics at UConn (or any other econ PhD program) in the future, consider applying to this now. #EconSky.

CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · Jan 14

Applications are open for the Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN) programme 2025!

Information sharing, mentoring & financial support for African students interested in graduate school in economics & related fields.

➡️ Apply: gain-network.net/participants
🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2025

Apply to GAIN — GAIN

We are looking for extremely motivated individuals who aim to apply to graduate programs at top institutions worldwide and eventually pursue a PhD in economics and other social sciences. We strongly e...

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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · Jan 12

Dear Econ PhD applicants: For full consideration, please have your application materials in by this Wednesday, January 15, 2025. #econsky

Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · Nov 26

Interested in pursuing a PhD in Economics? UConn may be a great fit for you with its small class sizes and 3-4 external seminars per week.

For more information, visit www.econ.uconn.edu or contact me directly.

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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · Dec 4

See my work on how how a deportation policy resulted in more elderly Americans moving into nursing homes--because harder to find home care workers, etc. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh.... And also how greater availability of immigrant labor improves quality of care of nursing homes doi.org/10.3368/jhr.....

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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · Nov 28

YES! YES! YES!

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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · Nov 28

This is what I mean---great mentors plus excellent students makes for really excellent work! (The gender/labor supply person on her committee wouldn't have thought so deeply about this ;)).

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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · Nov 28

Yes, I thought this was so clever! And when she's presenting it (because she is such a great teacher), the audience may feel like--yes, of course, this is the way to test this hypothesis. But really, quite creative.

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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · Nov 28

Dear #EconSky, check out UConn JMC Anastassiya Karaban! And thank you to my colleague @remylevin.bsky.social‬ who is not only a top researcher but he's also a spectacular mentor. Thankful this Thanksgiving for great students and great colleagues.

Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · Nov 28

#EconSky EXCLUSIVE: I’d like to tell you all about our top JMC from UConn this year, Anastassiya Karaban. I’ve been working w/ Ana for several years, & she's really impressed me. I think she should be on the radar of any department hiring in Labor, Experimental, Management, or the Econ of Gender.

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Anastassiya Karaban @akaraban.bsky.social · Nov 25

Hello #Econsky, I’m Anastassiya Karaban, a PhD candidate at UConn and I'm on the 2024-2025 job market. I study how social interactions and gender dynamics shape labor market behavior. My #EconJMP examines gender-specific wage comparisons and labor supply.

Research: sites.google.com/view/anastas...

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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · Nov 26

Interested in pursuing a PhD in Economics? UConn may be a great fit for you with its small class sizes and 3-4 external seminars per week.

For more information, visit www.econ.uconn.edu or contact me directly.

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Delia Furtado @deliafurtado.bsky.social · Nov 16

Me?

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