Alicia Sasser Modestino

• 2020 Outstanding Faculty Research Team Award, College of Engineering, Northeastern University
• 2020 Interdisciplinary Research Sabbatical (with College of Engineering), Office of the Provost, Northeastern University
• 2019 Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Social Science and Humanities, Northeastern University
• Principal Investigator. “A Community Health Center Buyback Program to Reduce the Supply of Opioids to Secondary Users.” Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Total=$48,552, February 2019-July 2020.
• Principal Investigator. “An Evaluation of Boston’s Tuition-Free Community College Program.” The Boston Foundation, Total=$6,350, January 2019-December 2019.
• Principal Investigator. “The Greater Boston Housing Report Card.” The Boston Foundation, Total=$77,284, September 2018-June 2019.
• Principal Investigator. “The Return on Investment to English Language Learning Programs.” The Boston Foundation, Total=$65,213, September 2018-August 2019.
• Principal Investigator. “Building Boston’s Talent Pool.” Neighborhood Jobs Trust, Total=$30,929, May 2018-September 2018.
• Principal Investigator. “A Multi-Year Evaluation of Boston Summer Youth Employment Program Features to Reduce Inequality Across Groups.” William T. Grant Foundation, Total=$280,714, July 2017-June 2019.
• Co-Principal Investigator (with Agnes Chan). “Increasing Qualified Cybersecurity Educators: Market Study on Shortages of Educators.” National Security Administration, Total=$150,000, Co-PI share=$48,400, May 2017-December 2017.
• Co-Principal Investigator (with Trinh Nguyen). “Technical Assistance for Social Innovation Fund Pay for Success Project for the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program.” Third Sector Partners, Total=$250,000, Co-PI share=$57,000, December 2016-August 2017.
• Co-Principal Investigator (with Daniel Shoag). “Upskilling: Why Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?” Russell Sage Foundation, Total =$35,000, Co-PI share=$11,000, January 2016-December 2017.
• Co-Principal Investigator (with Trinh Nguyen). “Citi Community Development Concept Proposal: Youth Credit Building Initiative.” Citi Community Development Foundation, Total=$260,750, Co-PI share=$28,800, January 2016-December 2017.
• Principal Investigator. “A Multi-Year Evaluation of Boston Summer Youth Employment Program Features to Reduce Inequality Across Groups.” City of Boston, Office of Workforce Development, Total=$15,000, September 2015-December 2016.
• Principal Investigator. “Reducing Economic Inequality by Increasing Equality of Opportunity. Policy Options: College and Career Readiness.” Partners Healthcare, Total=$5,000, January 2015-April 2015.
• Co-Principal Investigator (with Barry Bluestone). “Greater Boston Housing Report Card.” The Boston Foundation, Total=$75,000, Co-PI share=$18,750, August 2014-July 2015.
• Co-Principal Investigator (with Daniel Shoag). “Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?” Russell Sage Foundation, Project #85-14-05, Total=$50,000, Co-PI share=$20,000, August 2014-July 2016.
• Principal Investigator. “Gender Differences in Physician Pay: Tradeoffs Between Career and Family.” National Science Foundation, Grant for Improving Doctoral Research, Total=$5,000, September 2000-August 2001.

Publications:

• Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars (with Pascaline Dupas, Muriel Niederle, Justin Wolfers, and the Seminar Dynamics Collective) January 20, 2021
• Modestino, A., Shoag, D., & Ballance, J. 2019. Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful? Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics.
  https://aliciasassermodestino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019-RESTAT-Upskilling-Preprint-1.pdf
• Modestino, A. 2019. How Do Summer Youth Employment Programs Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes, and for Whom? Forthcoming. Journal of Public Policy Analysis and Management, pp. 1-29.
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pam.22138
• Modestino, A., & Paulsen, R.* 2019. Reducing Inequality Summer by Summer: Lessons from the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program Survey. Evaluation Program and Planning, 72: 40-53.
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149718918300636
• Modestino, A., Shoag, D., & Ballance, J. 2016. Downskilling: Changes in Employer Skill Requirements Over the Business Cycle. Labour Economics, 41: 333-347.
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927537116300240
• Modestino, A., & Dennett, J. 2013. Are Americans Locked into Their Houses? The Impact of Housing Market Conditions on State-to-State Migration. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 43(2): 322-337.
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166046212000725?via%3Dihub
• Sasser, A. 2010. Voting with Their Feet: Relative Economic Conditions and State Migration Patterns. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 40(2-3): 122-135.
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166046210000049?via%3Dihub
• Cutler, D., Long, G. Berndt, E. Royer, J., Fournier, A., Sasser, A., & Cremieux, P. 2007. The Value Of Antihypertensive Drugs: A Perspective On Medical Innovation. Health Affairs, 26(1): 97-110.
  https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.26.1.97
• Sasser, A. 2005. Gender Differences in Physician Pay: Tradeoffs Between Career and Family. Journal of Human Resources, 40(2): 477-504.
  http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XL/2/477.abstract
• Sasser, A., Taylor, M., Birnbaum, H., Schoenfeld, M., Oster, E., & Rousculp, M. 2005. Assessing the Economic Impact of Chronic Conditions in Post-Menopausal Women. Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, 6(11): 1803-1814.
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1517/14656566.6.11.1803?src=recsys&

Invited Articles:

• Modestino, A. 2019. Is the Skills Gap Real? Changes in Employer Skill Requirements During the Great Recession. EconoFact, March 8, pp. 1-3.
  https://econofact.org/?s=modestino
• Modestino, A., & Nguyen, T. 2018. On Helping Teens Get Their First Jobs. CitiesSpeak, National League of Cities, August 28, pp. 1-6.
  https://citiesspeak.org/2018/11/28/on-helping-teens-get-their-first-jobs/
• Modestino, A., & Shoag, D. 2018. When the Economy Is Good, Employers Demand Fewer Credentials. Harvard Business Review, August 21, pp. 1-8.
  https://aliciasassermodestino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2018-Harvard-Business-Review-When-the-economy-is-good-employers.pdf
• Modestino, A. 2018. How Can Summer Jobs Reduce Crime Among Youth? Report, Brookings Institution, pp. 1-21.
  https://aliciasassermodestino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2018-Brookings_how-can-summer-jobs-reduce-crime-among-youth.pdf
• Modestino, A. 2016. The Importance of Middle-Skill Jobs. Issues in Science and Technology. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Fall, pp. 41-46.
  https://aliciasassermodestino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2016-NAS-The-Importance-of-Middle-Skill-Jobs-Fall-2016-IST.pdf

Policy Reports:

• Modestino, A., & Sederberg, R.* 2019. Untapped: Redefining Hiring in the New Economy. Office of Workforce Development, City of Boston, March, pp. 1-43.
  https://aliciasassermodestino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019-Untapped-Redefining-Hiring-in-the-New-Economy.pdf
• Modestino, A., Sederberg, R.*, & Tuller, L.* 2017. An Evaluation of the Boston Youth Credit Building Initiative: Baseline Report. Office of Financial Empowerment, City of Boston, July, pp. 1-57.
  https://aliciasassermodestino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2017-Boston-Youth-Credit-Building-Initiative-baseline-report.pdf
• Modestino, A., & Nguyen, T. 2016. The Potential for Summer Youth Employment Programs to Reduce Inequality: What Do We Know? Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Regional and Community Outreach Issue Brief 16-03, June, pp. 1-18.
  https://aliciasassermodestino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2016-Boston-Fed-Summer-Jobs-cdbrief32016.pdf
• Bluestone, B., Tumber, C., Lee, N., Modestino, A., Costello, L., & Davis, T. Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2014-15. 2015. The Boston Foundation, March, pp. 1-81.
  https://aliciasassermodestino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2015-Greater-Boston-Housing-Report-Card-2014.pdf
• Modestino, A. 2015. Middle-Skill Workers and Today’s Labor Market. Commissioned paper for the “Symposium on the Supply Chain for Middle-Skill Jobs: Education, Training, and Certification,” The National Academies, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, September, pp. 1-59.
  https://aliciasassermodestino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2015-NAS-Middle-Skill-Workers-and-Today%E2%80%99s-Labor-Market.pdf
• Modestino, A., & Dennett, J. Uncertain Futures? Youth Attachment to the Labor Market in the U.S. and New England. 2013. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, New England Public Policy Center, Research Report 13-3, December, pp. 1-43.
  https://aliciasassermodestino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2013-Boston-Fed-Uncertain-Futures-Research-Report-1303.pdf
• Modestino, A. Retaining Recent College Graduates in New England: An Update on Current Trends. 2013. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, New England Public Policy Center, Policy Brief No. 13-2, May, pp. 1-4.
  https://aliciasassermodestino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2013-Boston-Fed-Recent-College-Grads-Update-PB132.pdf
• Sasser, A. Reaching the Goal: Expanding Health Insurance Coverage in New England Current Strategies and New Initiatives. 2007. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, New England Public Policy Center, Research Report No. 07-1, September, pp. 1-67.
  https://aliciasassermodestino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2007-Boston-Fed-Reaching-the-Goal.pdf

• American Economic Association
• Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
• Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management
• Society of Labor Economists