Scholarly Writing

Budd, J., A. Sojourner, T. VanHeuvelen, and B. Zipperer. Growing Up in a Union Household: Impacts of Adult Union Status on Children's Life Course

Sojourner, A. & J. Yang (2022) Effects of Union Certification on Workplace-Safety Enforcement: Regression-Discontinuity Evidence. ILR Review. 75(2): 373-401.
Working Papers

IZA Discussion Paper 9610
Data: NLRB Elections 1962-2009 consolidating Thomas Holmes & Henry Farber data. OSHA inspections from U.S. Department of Labor.

Summaries

The Conversation: Unionized workers are more likely to assert their right to a safe and healthy workplace
- Also published in: Houston Chronicle

Press Mentions

Common Dreams: COVID-19 gag rules endanger everyone, but study shows unions make it easier to assert workplace safety rights
UnionTrack: Has the pandemic been a turning point for healthcare unions?
The Daily Poster: Amazon tries to block vote on worker safety initiative

Hotz, J., C. Bollinger, T. Komarova, C. Manski, R. Moffitt, D. Nekipelov, A. Sojourner, & B. Spencer (2022) Balancing Data Privacy and Usability in the Federal Statistical System. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(31).
---Letter to PNAS Editors with same co-authors: "The Key Role of Absolute Risk in the Disclosure Risk Assessment of Public Data Releases"

Azar, J., X. Dai, Y. Qiu, & A. Sojourner. Common Ownership and Employee Earnings.
Press Mentions

New York Times: What BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street Are Doing to the Economy

Borowsky, J., E. Davis, and A. Sojourner. How Far Will They Go? Consumer Choice in Subsidized Early Care and Education
Press Mentions

U.S. Treasury Department: The Economics of Child Care Supply in the United States

Flood, S., J. McMurray, A. Sojourner, & M. Wiswall (2022) Inequality in Early Care Experienced by U.S. Children. Journal of Economic Perspectives. 36(2): 199-222
Working Papers

IZA & NBER

Summaries

Economic Report of the President (2023) President's Council of Economic Advisers: p. 132 & 141

Press Mentions

American Economics Association Research Highlights: Childcare and Inequality
New York Times: How Other Nations Pay for Child Care. The U.S. Is an Outlier.
Small Talks
NBER Reporter: Children and Families Program Report 2024

Larson, R., S. Shannon, A. Sojourner & C. Uggen (2021) Felony History and Change in U.S. Employment Rates. Social Science Research.
Press Mentions

American Public Media: Ban the Box may be counterproductive
Phys.org: Felons remain out of work despite paying debt to society
Star Tribune: Economists at Minneapolis Fed meeting explore persistent racial gaps in hiring, wealth
Minneapolis Fed: Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute spring 2018 conference

Ruffini, K., A. Sojourner & A. Wozniak (2021) Who's in and who's out under workplace COVID symptom screening? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
Working Papers

Minneapolis Fed

Summaries

Econofact: COVID Symptom Screening at the Workplace

Press Mentions

The Hill: Employers have critical role to prevent second wave
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank: How well do workplace COVID-19 screens work? And do they discriminate?
Tradeoffs podcast: The perils of self-reported COVID screening

Greenwood, B., R. Hardeman, L. Huang, & A. Sojourner (2020) Physician-Patient Racial Concordance and Disparities in Birthing Mortality for Newborns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117 (35): 21194-21200.

Benson, A., A. Sojourner, & A. Umyarov (2020) Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market. Management Science. 66(5):1802-1825
Working Papers

Mpls Fed OIGI, HCEO & IZA

Press Mentions

Minneapolis Fed The Region: In the gig economy, reputation counts
Workday Minnesota with video: Researchers draw lessons from online labor markets
IZA Newsroom (Germany): New forms of work and shady employers: How reputation can discipline the "gig economy"
- Picked up by: EU CEDEFOP's Skills Panorama
Technology Policy Institute: Research Roundup Strikes Back
Economisch Statistische Berichten (Netherlands): Reputatie als tegengas in de sjeesconomie
BuzzFeed Tech: American Labor Unions Are Falling Down on Digital Workers

Partial Identification of Willingness to Pay Using Shape Restrictions with an application to the Value of a Statistical Life

Chaparro, J., A. Sojourner, & M. Wiswall, Early Childhood Care and Cognitive Development
Working Papers

IZA NBER

Press Mentions

Poverty Research and Policy podcast: The Value of Investments in Quality Child Care

Simon, D., A. Sojourner, J. Pedersen & H. Ombisa-Skallet. Financial Incentives for Adoption and Kin Guardianship Improve Achievement for Foster Children. Other distributions: NBER, IZA.
Summaries

Minn-LInK Research Brief: Adoption, Financial Incentives, and Child Achievement
Minn-LInK Discussion Guide: Adoption, Financial Incentives, and Child Achievement

Press Mentions

NBER Digest: Financial Incentives Can Increase Permanence for Foster Children
Public News Service: Researchers link better outcomes to MN adoption reforms
MinnPost: A look at Minnesota's adoption policy change. Is it working?

Goda, G., M. Levy, C. Manchester, A. Sojourner, & J. Tasoff (2020) Who Is a Passive Saver Under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 173: 301-321.
Working Papers

IZA, NBER, HCEO, Mpls Fed OIGI

Summaries

VoxEU: Auto-Enrollment Changes Who Is a Passive Saver
TIAA Institute: Mechanisms Behind Retirement Saving Behavior. Paper & brief
RRC brief: Do Defaults Have Spillover Effects?

Press Mentions

Minneapolis Fed: Saving for retirement

Sajjadiani, S., A. Sojourner, J. Kammeyer-Mueller & E. Mykerezi (2019) Using Machine Learning to Translate Pre-Hire Work History into Predictors of Performance and Retention. Journal of Applied Psychology. 104(10):1207-1225.
[Slides] Press Mentions

Quartz at Work: An experiment to find teachers who perform better and stay longer shows promising results
Education Week: Taking the Guesswork Out of Teacher Hiring
Education Week: Districts Are Screening for Racial Biases During Teacher Job Interviews. Here's How
Nimble: Nimble partners with researchers to identify excellent teachers
City Pages: Can AI help Minneapolis Public Schools find better teachers who stay longer?
Carlson School magazine: Aaron Sojourner helps Minneapolis Public Schools invest in their students
UBC Sauder magazine: Study finds using machine learning can hire better teachers
U Minnesota Research Brief: Predicting Job Performance and Turnover in Education Using Machine Learning

Goda, G., M. Levy, C. Manchester, A. Sojourner, & J. Tasoff (2019) Predicting Retirement Savings Using Survey Measures of Exponential-Growth Bias and Present Bias. Economic Inquiry. 57(3): 1636-1658.
Working Papers

HCEO Working Paper 2018-059 & NBER Paper 21482

Summaries

2015 NBER Retirement Research Consortium annual meeting brief and slides.
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Brief: The Role of Exponential-Growth Bias and Present Bias in Retirement Savings

Press Mentions

The Atlantic: The Two Biases that Keep People from Saving Money
WBUR: Study Finds Two Biases That Hurt Americans' Savings
NBER Bulletin on Aging & Health: How Biases Affect Retirement Savings
Dow Jones MarketWatch Retirement Weekly: How Does Your 401(k) Contribution Translate Into Retirement Income?
PBS Next Avenue: Two Mental Roadblocks That Keep Us From Saving
- Picked up by: Forbes and Yahoo! Finance Canada
Money Magazine: The Real Reasons Americans Aren't Saving Enough for Retirement
PBS Next Avenue: The $24 Billion Workers Are Leaving on the Table: Why are employees passing up so much free 401(k) money
Squared Away: Our Blind Spots Cut Retirement Savings. One of most popular posts of 2016.
Think Advisor: These 2 Behavioral Biases Could Mean Up to 70% Less in Retirement
PolicyGenius: Struggling to save money? Blame your brain
ETF Trends: 5 Behavioral Finance Biases That Hurt Investment Decisions

Chaparro, J., A. Sojourner & N. Huey (2019) Differential effects from access to high-quality early care. In Sustaining Early Childhood Learning Gains. Editors: A. Reynolds & J. Temple. Cambridge Univ Press: Cambridge, U.K.
Working Papers

IZA

Press Mentions

U.S. Treasury Department: The Economics of Child Care Supply in the United States
Testimony to Minnesota House Early Childhood Finance and Policy Division: Investments in early childhood could prevent, close skill gaps, division hears
IZA Newsroom (Germany): Subsidized high-quality early care improves child development especially among children in low-income families
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Sustaining early childhood education gains

Sojourner, A. & J. Pacas (2019) The relationship between union membership and net fiscal impact. Industrial Relations. 58(1): 86-107.
Working Papers

IZA & HCEO

Press Mentions

The Nation: Union Benefits Go Far Beyond the Workplace
HCEO Global Working Group: Research Spotlight: The Relationship between Union Membership and Net Fiscal Impact

Davis, E., W. Lee & A. Sojourner (2019) Family-Centered Measures of Access to Early Care & Education. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 47: 472-486.
Working Papers

IZA

Summaries

ChildCareAccess.org: maps and reports on families’ child care access in every Minnesota neighborhood.
Won Lee won University of Minnesota U-Spatial 2019 prize for best use of maps by graduate student.

Press Mentions

U.S. Treasury Department: The Economics of Child Care Supply in the United States
UMinnesota: New University of Minnesota tool reveals child care access challenges across the state
Minnesota Daily: UMN researchers create a child care access tool
New Ulm Journal: UM tool shows child care access challenges
Hutchinson Leader: Litchfield child care access below state average, report says
Aitkin Independent Age: Revealing local child care access challenges
SouthernMinn.com: Number of reasons for child care shortage, no easy answers
Pine County Journal: Mapping tool provides insight into child care needs & How the child care shortfall affects Carlton County and what officials are doing to address it

Budd, J., A. Sojourner & J. Jung (2016) Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration. ILR Review. 70(4): 865-893
Working Papers

IZA

Press Mentions

Research Features: Conflict Resolution: Are Voluntary Agreements More Favourable?
Management INK interview w/Budd: Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration
Carlson School story: Dispute Lessons from the Major Leagues & video interview w/Budd

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