Sara Spaziani

All my thoughts are with the Brown community 🤎

I’ll be at UAB in Barcelona for the next few weeks ☀️ Looking forward to connecting with colleagues — let me know if you’d like to meet for a coffee! ☕

The Bristol Applied Economics Meeting was great! Perfect combo of very interesting talks + long list of useful comments for my project. Thanks for having me 😊

Just back from my first visit to Warwick! Thanks @ludogazze.bsky.social @saraspaziani.bsky.social, @essobecker.bsky.social, and everyone else!

It was a real pleasure to meet you and get to know about your new research! Thank you again for visiting us :)

Synchronizing US federal elections on the same date reduced a form of electoral fraud: individuals voting multiple times across states. Turnout declined as neighboring states synchronized, consistent with repeating becoming more difficult. My paper w/ @briangknight.bsky.social on @jpube.bsky.social

We kicked off the afternoon session with
@kenza-elass.bsky.social's paper on Generative AI and labor market discriminations, discussed by @saraspaziani.bsky.social Ever wondered if ChatGPT knew your gender? Sara tried!! 💻

In multi-party systems, incumbents benefit from coordination failures among candidates and voters on the losing side

New paper with K. Dano, @vingalasso.bsky.social, @clpennec.bsky.social, @vinpons.bsky.social forthcoming at @jeeanews.bsky.social!!👇

Great idea! I would love to be added!

Would love to join 😊

Thrilled and grateful that my dissertation received an Honorable Mention from the Upjohn Institute, whose work inspired my own 😊

And big congrats to Angela Wyse and Agostina Brinatti—I followed their work on the market, and it's incredible to be recognized together with them!

Gender gaps: back and here to stay? Evidence from skilled Ugandan workers during COVID-19 - Review o... We investigate gender disparities in the effect of COVID-19 on the labor market outcomes of skilled Ugandan workers. Leveraging a high-frequency panel dataset, we find that the lockdowns imposed in Ug...

Our article is out 🎉 We explore the impact of COVID-19 on skilled workers in Uganda. The labor market trajectories of economically empowered women in low-income countries are highly vulnerable to temporary shocks. With
Livia Alfonsi and Mary Namubiru link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Next is Sara Spaziani (saraspaziani.com/home;
@saraspaziani.bsky.social): an applied microeconomist studying social insurance programs & labor market inequity

Her JMP derives and applies a "Baily-style" formula to evaluate the optimality of firm experience ratings in UI tax systems. Nice!

Good morning, NTA! I will be presenting my JMP on Optimal Unemployment Insurance Financing at the 8.30am session on The Effects of Social Insurance Programs. 🏔️: Gray's Peak A. Hope to see you there 😊