Hema Shah
hema-shah-econ.bsky.social
Hema Shah
@hema-shah-econ.bsky.social
Economics PhD candidate at Duke // UVA alum // on the 2025-26 job market // labor, education, children & families
https://www.hema-shah-econ.com/
Looking forward to seeing you all at #2025APPAM!

You can find me presenting in panels on Thursday and Saturday! Message me if you'd like to meet up😀
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I'm on the job market!

My JMP studies the role of high school teachers in preparing students for college success

I find significant positive effects of high school teachers on
🔹College admissions test scores
🔹College enrollment
🔹College performance

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October 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
New NBER WP alert! In this paper, we:
🔸Estimate heterogeneous effects of a monthly unconditional cash transfer on parental investments in Latino & Black families
🔸 Leverage data from the Baby's First Years (BFY) study, a US-based RCT
www.nber.org/papers/w3373...
Money or Time? Heterogeneous Effects of Unconditional Cash on Parental Investments
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
May 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Looking to form/join a panel at #2025APPAM with my JMP!

I estimate teacher value added on ACT scores, then look at impacts on college enrollment & college performance. Message me if you have a related paper on teacher/school VA or predictors of college enrollment/ performance!

#EconSky #EconConf
April 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Headed to my first #AEFP this week! Looking forward to meeting many scholars whose work I admire🙂

Find me in Thursday’s poster session presenting my job market paper, “High School Teachers and College-Relevant Skill Production: Evidence from ACT Score Value Added.” Sneak peek below!
March 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM