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Lea Bart
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Lea Bart is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Michigan studying the interactions between government policies, childbearing, and women and families’ outcomes. Her job market paper uses linked administrative data to study the dynamic effects of job-protected maternity leave on women’s labor market experiences. Lea Bart’s other research studies the experiences of low-income families, and the tradeoffs between the needs of families and the labor supply incentives of transfer programs like TANF and the EITC. She is on the 2024-25 economics job market.