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Kristy Buzard
@kbuzard7.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Economics at Syracuse University. Applied theorist working on trade policy, political economy, gender, conflict, and urban economics.
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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Jun 17
Data from over 80,000 US school principals shows that when a school needs to contact a parent, the mother is 1.4 times more likely than the father to receive the first call.
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Chart showing how mothers are more likely to receive the first contact from schools than fathers. Mothers continue to shoulder the majority of childcare responsibilities even in dual-earner households, contributing to gender gaps in earnings, labour force participation, and career advancement. This column uses an experiment targeting over 80,000 US school principals to show that when a school needs to contact a parent, the mother is 1.4 times more likely than the father to receive the first call. A further survey saw mothers consistently identified as the primary point of contact across a wide range of domains, including doctors, sports coaches, and religious leaders. Suggestive evidence points to gendered interruptions contributing to broader economic inequality.
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · Jun 12
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement,” by Buzard (@kbuzard7.bsky.social), Gee (@laurakgee.bsky.social), and Stoddard (@olgastoddard.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement*
Abstract. Gender imbalance in time spent on child rearing causes gender inequalities in labor market outcomes, human capital accumulation, and economic mob
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Kristy Buzard @kbuzard7.bsky.social · Jun 10
My heart is full. I've never been so proud of a research project.
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Olga Stoddard @olgastoddard.bsky.social · Jun 10
Thrilled to have found such a fantastic home @qjeharvard.bsky.social for this paper with @laurakgee.bsky.social & @kbuzard7.bsky.social

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Kristy Buzard @kbuzard7.bsky.social · May 29
What kind of conference do you want to go to? One with great papers, a fantastic keynote (@emilyjblanchard.bsky.social‬), and lunch at the top of a mountain! Many thanks to the organizers (@besedes.bsky.social‬) and participants for a fantastic time www.freit.org/RMET/2025/Pr...
Conference participants at summit of Tunnel Mountain, Banff AB
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IZA @iza.org · May 28
New IZA paper by @kbuzard7.bsky.social @laurakgee.bsky.social & @olgastoddard.bsky.social: Schools call mothers more than fathers, even when moms aren't more available.

Read more about the study and what this finding means for gender inequality in the labor market 👇
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Gender-based expectations influence external demands for parental involvement
Schools are more likely to call mothers than fathers, regardless of availability
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Patrick Schneider @patricksecon.bsky.social · May 12
New NBER WP by @kbuzard7.bsky.social @laurakgee.bsky.social and @olgastoddard.bsky.social finds mums are 1.4x more likely than dads to get a callback from schools, despite no request for the skew.
Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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