Happy St Patrick’s Day! If you’re looking for something festive to read today, check out my job market paper on Irish discrimination in Philadelphia! See 🧵below for a summary of what I find, and check out my website (sites.google.com/view/jacobva...) for the paper
“You will be visited by three spirits”
(it’s a fig tree)
I'm on the job market this year! My #EconJMP examines the long run and intergenerational impacts of institutional discrimination against immigrants. Here's a thread of what I find (1/8)🧵
#EconJobMarket #EconSky
I find that individuals who moved from Philadelphia and their children are less negatively affected than those who stayed.
My findings point to the persistent impacts of institutional discrimination, especially for those unable to escape it. (8/8)
Using children of individuals in Philadelphia and New York, I find no effects on adult socioeconomic outcomes.
However, this masks interesting heterogeneity based on whether an individual moved to a different county. (7/8)
I find that in 1880, nearly 25 years after the policy, impacted Irish individuals in Philadelphia have worse jobs, lower labor force participation, and greater migration to a different county. (6/8)
Irish men are significantly more likely to be incarcerated after the implementation of these policies, with incarceration rates increasing nearly 60% over baseline rates. (5/8)
I use two DiD designs to estimate impacts of this policy. The first compares Irish and non-immigrant men before and after implementation.
The second estimates long run effects by comparing and non-immigrant individuals in Philadelphia and New York over 20 years later. (4/8)
Using newly digitized prison data from a large Philadelphia prison that I link to the Census, I estimate effects on incarceration.
To estimate long run term effects, I use linked Census data I created with Joe Price and Kasey Buckles (from censustree.org) (3/8)
I use a bundle of discriminatory policies that targeted Irish immigrants in Philadelphia in 1856. These policies included a ban on hiring immigrants as police officers and the prohibition of public drinking on Sundays, which targeted Irish immigrants in Philadelphia. (2/8)
I'm on the job market this year! My #EconJMP examines the long run and intergenerational impacts of institutional discrimination against immigrants. Here's a thread of what I find (1/8)🧵
#EconJobMarket #EconSky
Add me please!
I'm a candidate this year!