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Case Tatro
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I am a 5th-year PhD candidate at Binghamton University on the job market. I work in applied micro, economics of education, and labor economics.

I love to teach! Check out my YouTube channel:
YouTube.com/@InCaseofEconStruggles

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I am excited to announce I am on the #EconSky Job Market! In my #EconJMP, I find that weighting a teacher's test-score impacts differently across students increases the predictive power of test-score value-added measures for a teacher's impact on high school graduation.

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I am excited to be on the #EconSky job market. My #EconJMP on Nepal's 2002 abortion legalization finds weaker son-biased stopping, more prenatal sex selection (~1 in 75 girls missing), and longer breastfeeding for surviving girls, a clear quantity quality tradeoff.

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From Prohibition to Choice: The Impact of Abortion Legalization on Fertility and Child Investments in Nepal In societies with son-preference, the transition from high fertility to low fertility is often accompanied by a skewed sex ratio at birth. How expanding reproductive autonomy in such societies changes fertility and early-life investments in children remains unclear. We study this question in the context of Nepal by evaluating the impact of the 2002 abortion legalization. Using a triple-difference design comparing girls and boys across firstborn-sex families before and after the reform, we find that the abortion legalization substantially reduced son-biased fertility stopping: the gap in the number of children between firstborn-girl and firstborn-boy families fell by nearly three-fifths, while the probability that a girl is missing due to sex-selective abortion rose by 1.8 percentage points. A back-of-the-envelope calculation implies that roughly 1 in 75 girls is missing from post-reform birth cohorts. On investments, daughters in firstborn-girl families gained about two months of breastfeeding, closing most of the pre-existing deficit. Taken together, the policy response to abortion legalization in a son-preferring society indicates a quantity-quality trade-off: lower cost of achieving desired family size and sex mix can lead to intensified prenatal selection against girls and increased early-life investments in those who are born.
November 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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In addition to my research and teaching, I run a YouTube channel about economics! I cover a huge variety of topics in economics from the undergraduate to the PhD level. Feel free to share with students/others as an additional (hopefully) helpful resource!

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November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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I am excited to announce I am on the #EconSky Job Market! In my #EconJMP, I find that weighting a teacher's test-score impacts differently across students increases the predictive power of test-score value-added measures for a teacher's impact on high school graduation.

Website: casetatro.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM