Misty Heggeness

Misty Heggeness University of Kansas

Senior Advisor/Research Economist U.S. Census Bureau

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Research interests

dynamics of high-skilled scientific workforce, improvements to measures of poverty and inequality, gender economics

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Institute Working Paper 75 (Revised February 2025)

Heterogeneous Effects of School Reopenings on the Labor Supply of Parents of Young School-Age Children

Misty Heggeness and Ana Sofía León

This paper previously circulated with the title "Parenthood and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Chile."

Topics: Employment & Labor Markets; COVID-19

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Institute Working Paper 52 (Revised November 2021)

Telework, Childcare, and Mothers’ Labor Supply

Misty Heggeness and Palak Suri

This paper previously circulated with the title "Telework Did Not Save Us: Motherhood, Work, and a Once in a Century Pandemic."

Topics: Employment & Labor Markets

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Institute Working Paper 33 (Revised October 2020)

Why Is Mommy So Stressed? Estimating the Immediate Impact of the COVID-19 Shock on Parental Attachment to the Labor Market and the Double Bind of Mothers

Misty Heggeness

Published in the _Review of Economics of the Household_ under the title "Estimating the Immediate Impact of the COVID-19 Shock on Parental Attachment to the Labor Market and the Double Bind of Mothers" (October 2020), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-020-09514-x.

Topics: Child Care; Public health; Employment & Labor Markets

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Institute Working Paper 28 (December 2019)

Manning Up and Womaning Down: How Husbands and Wives Report Earnings When She Earns More

Marta Murray-Close and Misty Heggeness

Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth

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Institute Working Paper 27 (October 2019)

Improving Child Welfare in Middle Income Countries: The Unintended Consequence of a Pro-Homemaker Divorce Law and Wait Time to Divorce

Misty Heggeness

Published in _Journal of Development Economics_, March 2020, Vol. 143, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.102405.

Topics: K-12 Education; Public Policy; Economic Growth

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