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Elena Patel

@elenaspatel

Assistant Professor, Ski Bum, Amateur Creative

 Utah
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Joined November 2008
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TOMORROW: Listen to leading experts discuss concrete policy options to make #paidleave and #childcare more accessible. Sign up below. connect.brookings.edu/regist… #SocialSafetyNet
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@nberpubs21 Apr 2021
Analysis of data from the first year of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act implementation reveals only limited responses to the section 199A deduction for pass-through income, from Lucas Goodman, Katherine Lim, Bruce Sacerdote, and @rawecon nber.org/papers/w28680
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TARC@TARC201315 Jun 2020
Tax Enforcement and the Intended and Unintended Consequences of Information Disclosure is our next free online seminar on Wednesday 17 June at 14.00 BST presented by @elenaspatel from University of Utah To join this event, please register at feele.exeter.ac.uk/vseminar_…
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I had a great time a UMD @UMD_MPRC and economics department yesterday. Thanks for the awesome, interdisciplinary attendance!
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Thanks to @martha_j_bailey from @umichECON for presenting the long-term effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act on women's careers using IRS tax data. Results suggest fewer children born, mothers spending less time at work and thus longer parenting time #paidleave
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Thanks @equitablegrowth for writing an excellent blog post summarizing our paper on paid leave (with better data visualizations!) @elenaspatel @UpshotNYT ⁦@tbyker1⁩ ⁦@clairecm⁩ equitablegrowth.org/new-paid…
New paid leave research demonstrates challenge of balancing work and caregiving

New paid leave research demonstrates challenge of balancing work and caregiving

Alix Gould-Werth from Equitable Growth analyzes new research from Bailey and others on how an expansion in paid leave in the state of California in 2004 affected both the parenting experienced by the...

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Is Paid Family Leave a game-changer for closing the gender wage gap? @UUtah economist @elenaspatel says there is little evidence that California’s Paid Family Leave Act increased women’s earnings & employment rates, based on research she did w/ @UMich: bit.ly/2OjVQlG
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@UpshotNYT14 Nov 2019
An extensive new study of paid maternity leave finds that mothers who take it are less likely to return to work, the opposite of what earlier research suggested. nyti.ms/34RuolU
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Alan Otto@ottopia12 Nov 2019
Replying to @KCRWPressPlay
@KCRWPressPlay today 11/11 -Mariana Magaña @CHIRLA -Ariane de Vogue CNN @Arianedevogue -Jessica Levinson Professor Loyola Law School @LevinsonJessica -Elena Patel University of Utah @elenaspatel -Melissa Mora Hidalgo Mozlandia: Morrissey Fans in the Borderlands @Mozlandia
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We couldn’t be more grateful for @UpshotNYT thoughtful reporting on our @nberpubs paper on the long-term impact of CA paid leave on women’s careers. The story is complicated. Thanks @clairecm for the careful reporting. @elenaspatel @tbyker1 nytimes.com/2019/11/11/upsho…
A Surprising Finding on Paid Leave: ‘This Is Not the Way We Teach This’ (Published 2019)

A Surprising Finding on Paid Leave: ‘This Is Not the Way We Teach This’ (Published 2019)

New mothers who took leave in California were less likely to work a decade later than those who didn’t. Why?

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@nberpubs3 Nov 2019
California’s 2004 Paid Family Leave Act lowered employment and annual wage earnings for new mothers by 7% and 8%, respectively. 1 in 10 mothers taking leave had one less kid by 2014, from @martha_j_bailey, Tanya S. Byker, Elena Patel, and Shanthi Ramnath nber.org/papers/w26416
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A @UMich-led study on found little evidence that California's Paid Family Leave Act increased women’s employment, wage earnings, or attachment to employers. myumi.ch/ovQzd h/t @martha_j_bailey @UM_PSC @umisr @umichECON @equitablegrowth #EGrantee #PaidLeave
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Thanks to @MargRev for adding to the discussion of this important policy issue. @martha_j_bailey @tbyker1 marginalrevolution.com/margi…
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Thrilled that the @washintonpost gave such thoughtful coverage to our new @nberpubs paper on the effects of CA paid leave. Thanks, @schmidtsam7! @umisr @umichECON washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…
Do paid family leave policies help fix the gender pay gap? This study found the opposite.

Do paid family leave policies help fix the gender pay gap? This study found the opposite.

For first-time mothers, California’s paid leave policy reduced employment by 7 percent and lowered annual wages by 8 percent, the study found.

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