Research
Publications
Byker, Tanya, Elena Patel, and Shanthi Ramnath. “Who Cares? Paid Sick Leave Mandates, Care-Giving, and Gender”. National Tax Journal, Forthcoming (2023).
Berazneva, Julia, and Tanya Byker. “Impacts of Environmental Degradation: Forest, Loss, Malaria, and Child Outcomes in Nigeria”. The Review of Economics and Statistics (Sept. 2022): 1–46.
Byker, Tanya, Amanda Gregg, and Dylan Mortimer. “Interactive Web-based Simulations to Teach Econometrics: Making Abstract Concepts Tangible”. Journal of Economics Teaching (2022): 92–102.
Abel, Martin, Tanya Byker, and Jeffrey Carpenter. “Socially optimal mistakes? debiasing COVID-19 mortality risk perceptions and prosocial behavior”. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 183 (Mar. 2021): 456–480.
Byker, Tanya, and Italo A. Gutierrez. “Estimating the Impact of Sterilization under a Government Campaign Using Contaminated Treatment Data”. Economic Development and Cultural Change 70, no. 1 (Oct. 2021): 159–202.
Byker, Tanya, and Jeffrey Smith. “Chapter 6: Are Participants Good Evaluators? Evidence from the Connecticut Jobs First Program”. In Are Participants Good Evaluators?, ed. by Jeffrey Smith, Alexander Whalley, and Nathaniel Wilcox. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2021.
Byker, Tanya, Caitlin Myers, and Maura Graff. “Can a social media campaign increase the use of long-acting reversible contraception? Evidence from a cluster randomized control trial using Facebook”. Contraception 100, no. 2 (Aug. 2019): 116–122.
Branson, Nicola, and Tanya Byker. “Causes and consequences of teen childbearing: Evidence from a reproductive health intervention in South Africa”. Journal of Health Economics 57 (Jan. 2018): 221–235.
Berazneva, Julia, and Tanya Byker. “Does Forest Loss Increase Human Disease? Evidence from Nigeria” American Economic Review 107, no. 5 (May 2017): 516–521.
Byker, Tanya. “Paid Parental Leave Laws in the United States: Does Short-Duration Leave Affect Women’s Labor-Force Attachment?” American Economic Review 106, no. 5 (May 2016): 242–246.
Byker, Tanya. “The Opt-Out Continuation: Education, Work, and Motherhood from 1984 to 2012”. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 2, no. 4 (2016): 34.
Working Papers and Works in Progress
Bailey, Martha J, Tanya Byker, Elena Patel, and Shanthi Ramnath. “The Long-Term Effects of California’s 2004 Paid Family Leave Act on Women’s Careers: Evidence from US tax Data”. National Bureau of Economic Research w264161, Revisions Requested, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Byker, Tanya, Elena Patel, and Kristin Smith. “Families First Coronavirus Response Act: Effect on Paid Leave Taking During the Early Pandemic”. Washington Center for Equitable Growth Working Paper Series.
Byker, Tanya, Sara Malik, Elena Patel, and Jason Sandvik, “Gender Diversity and Boards of Directors: Impacts on Gendered Employment Outcomes and Organizational Diversity”
Abel, Martin, Tanya Byker, and Jeffrey Carpenter, “Moving the Needle on COVID-Vaccination: The Effect of Information from Black Health Care Professionals”
Berazneva, Julia, Tanya Byker, and Elena Patel “Health and Labor Impacts of Mining: Evidence from South Africa”
Byker, Tanya, and Elena Patel “When Single Mothers Return to Work: Evaluating the Long-term Impacts of Welfare Reform on Children’s Outcomes”