
Misty Heggeness University of Kansas
Senior Advisor/Research Economist U.S. Census Bureau
Research interests
dynamics of high-skilled scientific workforce, improvements to measures of poverty and inequality, gender economics
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Senior Advisor/Research Economist U.S. Census Bureau
Misty Heggeness and Ana Sofía León
This paper previously circulated with the title "Parenthood and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Chile."
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets; COVID-19
Misty Heggeness and Palak Suri
This paper previously circulated with the title "Telework Did Not Save Us: Motherhood, Work, and a Once in a Century Pandemic."
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets
Misty Heggeness
Published in the Review of Economics of the Household under the title "Estimating the Immediate Impact of the COVID-19 Shock on Parental Attachment to the Labor Market and the Double Bind of Mothers" (October 2020), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-020-09514-x.
Topics: Child Care; Public health; Employment & Labor Markets
Marta Murray-Close and Misty Heggeness
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth
Misty Heggeness
Published in Journal of Development Economics, March 2020, Vol. 143, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.102405.
Topics: K-12 Education; Public Policy; Economic Growth