Madeline Zavodny
Madeline Zavodny
@mzavodny.bsky.social

Economics professor at Univ of North Florida, immigration & labor economics

Sociology 28%
Political science 28%

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$2,000 Professional Development Grant for URM junior faculty in economics! Apply by submitting an essay on your research & its link to economic education. Details: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...
#econsky #teachecon
Professional Development Grant for URM Faculty
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Any economists out there who might be interested in writing about choosing a childfree life? I'm editing an upcoming CSWEP newsletter on fertility choices and hoping to include this perspective. Shoot me a message if you might be my person!

AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...
AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts
AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts
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New macroeconomic analysis from the Dallas Fed:

Mass deportation will reduce US GDP growth by 0.89 percentage points this year and 1.49 percentage points by 2027

It doesn't have to be this way. The choice isn't border chaos or vast militarized raids. The third option: lawful channels for migration
Declining immigration weighs on GDP growth, with little impact on inflation
Unauthorized immigration surged sharply in 2021–24 but has since declined abruptly with negative implications for economic growth.
www.dallasfed.org

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FWD.us @fwd.us · Jul 8
As the Dallas Fed report shows, reducing #immigration will hurt the economy. We should continue to add workers to our labor force through immigration — it is a winning strategy to stabilize and expand our workforce, boost economic growth, and bolster American competitiveness.

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See UF's PACE program -- add the students online for the first year or two, then they can transition to in-person if they are doing decently. Huge increase in capacity.

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New research by economist @mzavodny.bsky.social: “Without immigrants, international students and the children of immigrants, the undergraduate student population in America would be almost 5 million students smaller in 2037 than 2022.” @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social
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New NFAP Policy Brief: The Importance of Immigrants and International Students to Higher Education in America - NFAP
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Contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills

New JOPE paper OPEN ACCESS (see link below). #EconSky

Schoonover, P. Reacting to recalls: contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills in Chile. J Popul Econ 38, 46 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s001...
Reacting to recalls: contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills in Chile - Journal of Population Economics
I examine the impact of an oral contraceptive recall and the news of resulting pregnancies in Chile on contraceptive choice among women aged 15–25. Using an event study approach, I compare changes in ...
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This is incredibly cool!
The @nytopinion.nytimes.com today features a #dataviz of our new global migration flow estimates.
nytimes.com/interactive/...

Using privacy protected records from three billion Facebook users, we estimated country-to-country #migration flows at monthly granularity for 181 countries.
Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First
These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.
www.nytimes.com

ROFL, as the kids say. But obviously this isn't a laughing matter.