Na'ama Shenhav
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Selected work in progress
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Social Costs of Work Interruptions: Evidence from Physicians and their Patients (with Leila Agha and Myles Wagner)

​Life-Cycle Effects of Women’s Education on their Careers and Children (with Danielle H. Sandler)


Forthcoming and published 

Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth (with Eric Chyn), ​American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 17(4): 260-291, November 2025.
  • Online appendix; Replication
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School is Out, Is the Doctor In? Gender Gaps in Holiday Work among Parent Physicians (with Leila Agha and Myles Wagner), AEA Papers and Proceedings, 1015: 238-242. May 2025.
  • Replication​

Long-Run Effects of Incentivizing Work After Childbirth (with Elira Kuka), American Economic Review, 114(6): 1692-1722, June 2024.
  • Short summary; Online appendix; Replication
  • In the media: Center for Retirement Research

Selection into Identification in Fixed Effects Models, with Application to Head Start (with Douglas Miller and Michel Grosz), Journal of Human Resources, 58(5): 1523-1566, September 2023.
  • Online appendix; Replication​

Women's Suffrage and Children's Education (with Esra Kose and Elira Kuka), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13(3): 374-405, August 2021.
  • Online appendix​; Replication​
  • In the media: the Atlantic, Washington Post, AEA Chart of the Week

Lowering Standards to Wed? Spouse Quality, Marriage, and Labor Market Responses to the Gender Wage Gap. Review of Economics and Statistics, 103(2): 265-279. May 2021.
  • Online appendix; Replication
  • In the media: the Atlantic (2016, 2023), Marginal Revolution, Wall Street Journal​

A Century of the American Woman Voter: Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship Since Women's Enfranchisement (with Elizabeth U. Cascio). Journal of Economic Perspectives, 34(2): 24-48, Spring 2020.
  • Online appendix; Replication
  • ​In the media: The Atlantic, FiveThirtyEight

Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA (with Elira Kuka and Kevin Shih). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 12(1): 293-324. February 2020.
  • Online appendix; Replication
  • In the media: Vox, Inside Higher Ed, Chalkbeat, and MarketWatch.
  • Summary on ProMarket
  • Cited in the Supreme Court (1, 2) in 2019; and in the DHS final rule on DACA in 2022.

A Reason to Wait: The Effect of Legal Status on Teen Pregnancy (with Elira Kuka and Kevin Shih). AEA Papers and Proceedings, 109: 213-217. May 2019.
  • ​Replication