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Sarah Cohodes
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Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy | co-editor Journal of Public Economics | affiliate NBER, J-PAL, and Blueprint

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Without breaking confidences, many of them noted how deeply this affected their lives -- driving them out of chosen fields of study, or just traumatizing them as they continued to navigate a male-dominated world, and their own relationships. Even if they escaped the worst, a psychic meat grinder.,
November 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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6/ Because the discredited, lame-duck Trump administration has no viable plan to actually shut down the Department of Education, they’re just going to pretend to, wasting taxpayer money and damaging program effectiveness in the process. It’s incredibly sad and dumb.
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Ok, I snorted (fatalistically)
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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I’m so glad this paper is making the rounds. And I hope it encourages faculty in particular to think about what they can do to help survivors graduate.

Everyone on campus has a role to play in reducing the harm of sexual misconduct.
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I’m not aware of anything that looks at the faculty-student dimension. There is research on the impact of racist hate crimes and college enrollment: eric.ed.gov?id=ED613159
ERIC - ED613159 - Hate Crimes and Black College Student Enrollment. CEPA Working Paper No. 21-01, Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2021-Jan
Reported hate crimes have increased rapidly in recent years, including on college campuses. Concurrently, general racial animus has increased in the United States. Scholars have shown that the larger ...
eric.ed.gov
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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How do I know that the next generation of economists will be impacted by how these institutions react?

"Exposure to a field-specific faculty sexual misconduct incident decreases degree completion in that field by 3.4 percent four years after the incident." 🙃

#news #harvard #econsky
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The parlance in Econ that implies that gendered “preferences” that contribute to wage/major gaps come fully formed and not shaped by society is one of the things that motivated me to start this project

www.nber.org/papers/w34456
The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct
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...
www.nber.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Me and "Economics of the Public Sector"
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM