Kristy Buzard

I'm very excited that our efforts to broaden the economics pipeline by expanding access to undergraduate research opportunities are taking this next big step!

Thank you for these ideas! Both interacting an LLM and RoBERTa and the ordered probit are interesting. We're working with smaller numbers (about 800 responses from our first pilot, and probably another 1500 or so from a second pilot soon). I need to give the size aspect serious thought

This is for an exciting new project we have examining gender differences in mental load. We'd love your suggestions!

Thanks Anna! We're currently using a three-sentiment model that gives us positive, neutral, and negative and then taking the average positive sentiment as our measure

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Trade wars aren't new—they're history repeating itself. My research on @AcademicMinute explores how early 1900s trade policy relates to what we're seeing today. Tune in Thursday, Oct. 30 or listen online: academicminute.org @SyracuseU @MaxwellSchool

I'm likewise thrilled!

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.

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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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

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/...

My heart is full. I've never been so proud of a research project.

Conference participants at summit of Tunnel Mountain, Banff AB

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...

Gender-based expectations influence external demands for parental involvement Schools are more likely to call mothers than fathers, regardless of availability

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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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...

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.