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Corinne Low

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Economist at Wharton. Author of Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives & Getting the Most Out of Yours, out Sept 23 from Flatiron. Co-founder of @openheartsnyc.bsky.social. Femonomics Newsletter: corinnelow.substack.com

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · May 2

Thrilled to share the cover of my upcoming book, Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours. @flatironbooks.bsky.social, Sept 23! Containing 15 years of research & my personal story. Preorder links, book talks, & newsletter here! corinnelow.com/book

Orange, pink, and yellow book cover with white text, showing various objects representing women's lives, from a house to a kid's bike to an airplane, with some objects representing the stress of it all: dinner on fire, a broken high heel, a crying baby, a spilled coffee cup, and overflowing inbox. Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours. Corinne Low, PhD. On Sale 9.23.25.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 2d

Well that's big news!!!! Well done UZH!!!!

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Oh my god!!! Reading rainbow is coming back, with Mychal the librarian!!!!

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 7d

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹

This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨

Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
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No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 4d

Got to tape at the storied BBC with the one and only @timharford.ft.com!
Can't wait for you to hear about what the data has to say about men pulling their weight.
Femonomics is the UK title of Having It All. Thank you for hosting me for 36 hours, London!!!

Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 5d

This paper has been a long time coming (we've, collectively, had 5 babies as a coauthor team since the start), but we're so happy to share this counterintuitive research on the gap dowry is filling in India (the paper is "dowries as pensions) and how it shapes migration decisions.

VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 5d

🆕 How dowry shapes migration decisions in modern India

Today on VoxDev w/ Natalie Bau (UCLA), Gaurav Khanna (UCSD), Corinne Low (Wharton) & Alessandra Voena (Stanford): https://voxdev.org/topic/migration-urbanisation/how-dowry-shapes-migration-decisions-modern-india

How dowry shapes migration decisions in modern India

New data from India shows that parents often retain a share of dowry, which may enable sons to migrate for work, and provide a new role for dowry in modern times.

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 6d

Um.

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Like WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY, Phee was too nice!!!!

Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 9d

I could not love this article any more. YES the NBA makes more-- but players get a higher PERCENTAGE of revenue.

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Katy Milkman @katymilkman.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations to my Wharton colleague @corinnelow.com on her fantastic new book HAVING IT ALL, which is a must read for women everywhere who are trying to juggle all the things. a.co/d/6v3ZNp2

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Jana M. Perkins @janajm.com · 10d

For Women of Letters, I had the great pleasure of talking with @corinnelow.com.

We discuss her new book, the economics of women’s lives, why she left a job at the top consulting firm in the world, becoming a tenured professor at Wharton, & so much more. 📚💙

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Having It All: In Conversation with Corinne Low

"I really did not want my book to gaslight women about the real challenges that we face in making it all add up. I wanted to be really honest about my own struggles to make that all work."

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Fast-forward to today. How did the path to what you’re doing now unfold?

CL: I majored in economics while I minored in kind of my true passion of writing.

I loved economics, and I thought it was a really elegant and beautiful way to understand the world. I didn’t necessarily know what a career in economics looked like, but a lot of my friends were interviewing for consulting positions. So, at the same time as I was deciding, like, maybe writing isn’t what’s going to pay off my student loans, my friends were interviewing for these consulting positions. They were like, “Oh, you get a signing bonus— it’s great!” And I was like, “I’ll just give it a try. I’ll interview.”

“You’re not going to be able to plan it out from the beginning. But how are you setting yourself up for that next step?”

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In her meticulously researched, newly published book, Corinne brings her years of expertise as a Wharton professor and an economist studying gender to answer the age-old question: is it possible for women to have it all?

From parenting to partnership to career planning to self-care, she offers a wealth of accessibly articulated and data-rich insight into so many subjects central to women’s lives—including a detailed account of the many reasons why, historically, ‘having it all’ has been such an elusive goal. If there was one book published on this topic in the last year I would recommend as essential reading, it would be this one.

Jana M. Perkins
 Founder, Women of Letters

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11d

Stress-Free Eric Adams Spends Day Bribing Pigeons In Central Park

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 16d

Get an agent and let them kick your butt through the process to make it happen. Feel free to email me a proposal snippet and I'll make some intros!

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 16d

I love Professor @corinnelow.com's advice to economists on how to write a trade press book. www.aeaweb.org/content/file...

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 16d

Thank you so much!!!! I am, um, still learning by doing 🤣🤣🤣

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Zoe Greenberg @zoegberg.bsky.social · 17d

come on by! Gonna be in conversation with Wharton prof @corinnelow.com, subject of this iconic article: www.thecut.com/article/cori...

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 17d

New Yorkers, would love to see you at this event tomorrow! Our book events have been a blast and this one promises to be extra fun! On the UWS and they have childcare on site!!!
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Workplayce Talks: Having it All

Child care available upon request. The Details: April 8, 2024, 6-8pm

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