Print Media Highlights

The Academic Lore of Taylor Swift

New Documentary Explores How Taylor Swift Changed the Business of Music, NBC Local/New York, December 5, 2024

Taylor Swift-Themed Speaker Series Begins at KU, The University Daily Kansas, September 18, 2024

The Taylor Swift Economy Is Now a High School Curriculum, Axios, February 6, 2024

Year of the Economic Woman

The 'Silver Lining of the Pandemic' for Working Mothers, New York Times, October 28, 2023

The Vanishing She-cession, The Atlantic Magazine, September 29, 2023

The Other Work Remote Workers Get Done, The Atlantic Magazine, September 1, 2023

American Mothers Re-Enter the Workforce at High Rates, Financial Times, August 27, 2023

Women Own This Summer. The Economy Proves It. Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2023

There's a New Star of the U.S. Economy This Summer: Women. 'Is This How Men Have Always Felt?' MarketWatch, August 2, 2023

Return of Working Moms Defies Pandemic Expectations, Axios, May 25, 2023

Caregiving and the Care Economy

What is Going On with Working Moms, Welcome to the Jungle, December 19, 2023

What We Get Wrong About the Care Economy, Axios, April 21, 2023

Pandemic Parenting 

The Pandemic Has Been Punishing for Working Mothers. But Mostly, They've Kept Working, New York Times, May 11, 2022

Moms with Access to Remote Work Were Most Likely to Leave Their Jobs in Pandemic, New Research Shows, The 19th*, November 8, 2021

Burned Out and Restless from the Pandemic, Women Redefine Their Career Ambitions, Wall Street Journal, September 27, 2021

Summer Camps Haven't Fully Recovered, The 19th*, June 9, 2021

The Professional Moms Who Are Leaning Out, The Atlantic, May 2, 2021

Nearly 1.5 Million Mothers Are Still Missing From the Workforce, Wall Street Journal, April 27, 2021

Mothers Are Regaining Jobs, Even While Shouldering Pandemic Burdens at Home, New York Times, March 4, 2021

The Pandemic Has Derailed Women's Careers and Livelihoods. Is America Giving Up on Them?, Fortune Magazine, January 29, 2021

COVID-19 Shock Hits Working Mothers Hard, Bloomberg, July 19, 2020

When Wives Earn More

Why Men Who Make Less Than Their Wives Lie About Their Earnings, The Economist, November 19, 2018

The Big Little Lies That Cover Couples' Salary Squeamishness, Financial Times, July 20, 2018

When Wives Earn More than Husbands, Neither Partner Likes to Admit It, New York Times, July 17, 2018

Couples Fudge Earnings When Wives Outearn Husbands, U.S. News & World Report, July 17, 2018

Honey, I Shrunk Our Income Gap, Washington Post, July 16, 2018

2020 Census

U.S. Drops Citizenship Question from Census, Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2019

Supreme Court Leaves Citizenship Question Blocked from 2020 Census, National Public Radio, June 27, 2019

The Supreme Court Blocked a Citizenship Question from the Census. Now What?, PBS News Hour, June 27, 2019

ACLU Notifies Supreme Court of Recent Findings on Census Citizenship Question, The Hill, June 24, 2019

Justice Ginsburg Stops Effort to Block Officials' Census Lawsuit Depositions, For Now, National Public Radio, September 29, 2018

Training and Career Outcomes

What Medical Researcher Training Can Learn from the 'Yellow Berets,' WIRED Magazine, September 6, 2021

Early Experience with Intensive Research Has Long-Lasting Effects, NBER Digest, September 3, 2019

Postdoctoral Fellowships and Career Choice in Science, NBER Digest, July 2018

One NIH Grant Can Lead to Another, Nature, April 18, 2018

Aging and the NIH-Funded Workforce

Younger Researchers Win NIH Grants at Rates Similar to Their Elders, Science, July 18, 2016

Grant Awards: Age is No Advantage, Nature, July 15, 2016

Young Stem Cell Scientists Struggle for Funding: Older Colleagues Get Vast Majority of Approvals, San Diego Union-Times, July 7, 2016

Why Don't Young Scientists Get More Grants? Often They Don't Apply, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 7, 2016

Other Random Mentions

Training Awards Increasingly Important for Future Funding and Landing a Faculty Job, Science, May 16, 2019

Will More Studies of the Training and Career Mess Actually Create Change?, Science, February 1, 2017

The Next Generation Researchers Initiative at the National Academies: New Study Begins, Future of Research, January 17, 2017

What Makes Elite Academics Move?, Science, February 25, 2016