Tanya Byker
Tanya Byker

Associate Professor

Middlebury College

Tanya Byker is an associate professor of economics at Middlebury College. Her research focuses on the interrelated choices individuals make about education, work, and parenthood. She has studied how birth-related career interruptions in the United States vary by mother’s education, and the ways that parental leave laws impact labor supply decisions. In a developing country context, she has studied how access to family planning impacts fertility and longer-term outcomes such as schooling and employment in Peru and South Africa. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan in 2014 and her B.A. with honors in economics and philosophy from Swarthmore College.

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Emergency paid leave during the COVID-19 pandemic offered essential protections for U.S. workers

Labor
TOPICS: 1
TOPICS: Paid Leave
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Fitting the Bill? The First Federal Paid Leave Mandate

Inequality & MobilityFamiliesLabor
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Fitting the Bill? The First Federal Paid Leave Mandate

FamiliesLabor
TOPICS: Health, Paid Leave
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Who Cares? Paid Sick Leave Mandates, Care-Giving, and Gender

FamiliesInequality & Mobility
TOPICS: Gender, Health
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Families First Coronavirus Response Act: Effect on Paid Leave Taking During the Early Pandemic

FamiliesLabor
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The Long-Term Effects of California’s 2004 Paid Family Leave Act on Women’s Careers: Evidence from U.S. Tax Data

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