

Misty HeggenessUniversity of Kansas
Senior Advisor/Research EconomistU.S. Census Bureau
Research interests
Content by Misty
- Institute Working Paper 75 (Revised February 2025)Misty Heggeness and Ana Sofía León
This paper previously circulated with the title "Parenthood and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Chile."
Employment & Labor Markets; COVID-19
- Institute Working Paper 52 (Revised November 2021)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."
Employment & Labor Markets
- Institute Working Paper 33 (Revised October 2020)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.
Child Care; Public health; Employment & Labor Markets
- Institute Working Paper 28 (December 2019)Marta Murray-Close and Misty Heggeness
Wages, Income, Wealth
- Institute Working Paper 27 (October 2019)Misty Heggeness
Published in Journal of Development Economics, March 2020, Vol. 143, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.102405.
K-12 Education; Public Policy; Economic Growth