Na'ama Shenhav
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Forthcoming and Published 

Women's Suffrage and Children's Education (updated 8/20), accepted at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
(with Esra Kose and Elira Kuka)
  • Previously circulated as "Who Benefited from Women's Suffrage?" and "Women's Enfranchisement and Children's Education: The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement"
  • NBER WP 24933 [gated]
  • In the media: the Atlantic, Washington Post

Lowering Standards to Wed? Spouse Quality, Marriage, and Labor Market Responses to the Gender Wage Gap (updated 1/20). Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming)
  • In the media: the Atlantic, Marginal Revolution​

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.
  • NBER WP 26709 [gated]
  • 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.
  • NBER WP 24315 [gated], [ungated]
  • In the media: Vox, Inside Higher Ed, Chalkbeat, and MarketWatch.
  • Summary on ProMarket

A Reason to Wait: The Effect of Legal Status on Teen Pregnancy, (with Elira Kuka and Kevin Shih). American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 109: 213-217. May 2019.
  • ​[ungated]
  • ​In the media: the Atlantic
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Working Papers

Long-Run Effects of Incentivizing Work After Childbirth (updated 11/20)
(with Elira Kuka)

Selection into Identification in Fixed Effects Models with Application to Head Start (updated 1/21), revise and resubmit at Journal of Human Resources
(with Douglas Miller and Michel Grosz
)
  • Significant update to NBER WP 26174 [gated] ​​