[1][2] In 2023 Rossin-Slater received the Elaine Bennett Research Prize, awarded annually by the American Economic Association to the best female economist not more than ten years beyond her PhD.
[9] In 2023 Rossin-Slater was selected as the winner of the Elaine Bennett Research Prize, awarded annually by the American Economic Association to the best female economist not more than ten years beyond her PhD.
[2] In work with Adam Isen and Reed Walker, Rossin-Slater studies the labor market outcomes of children born in counties affected and unaffected by the statues of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970.
In a paper with Isen and Walker in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,[11] she shows that there exists a negative correlation between economic outcomes at age thirty and pre-natal exposure to days with temperatures exceeding 32 degrees Celsius.
[17] In work with Petra Persson published in the American Economic Review leveraging administrative data from Sweden,[18] Rossin-Slater shows that children born to mothers that experience bereavement stress because of the death of a family member are more likely to be treated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as a child and depression as an adult.