Household production time and inequality in material living standards in the U.S., 1965–2018 We study how unpaid household production shapes trends in inequality in material living standards in the U.S. in the last five decades. We construct e…

New paper out in the Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social w @nancyfolbre.bsky.social! 🧵

What happens to U.S. inequality trends when you add the imputed $ value of household production to market income and consumption?

Open access: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272726000186

We can back this up with a stacked diff in diffs too: weiyangtham.com/files/tcps_f...
(new conditionally accepted version out soon)

We find that a funding interruption... increases the probability of not working in the US by 3 percentage points (40%) .

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!

Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:

"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"

The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.

A JMP 🧵 -->

I have had the huge privilege of being a part of Danielle's project estimating the long-run effects on students of all-white private schools opened by segregationists following Brown v. Board of Education. Read all about it in her job market thread below (and our paper!): #econjobmarket

Studying how exposure to scientific research in university laboratories influences students’ pursuit of careers in science, from Ina Ganguli and Raviv Murciano-Goroff www.nber.org/papers/w34244

I must explain that this is not accurate, particularly the part about Ellis Island. I cannot speak to the Chinese diaspora angle, but many of us have family whose names were expressed in non-Roman alphabets when they immigrated. This is a long thread, but I literally do this for a living. 1/

Census Tree birthday party Day 9 🎂🎉:

@withrowjenny.bsky.social uses the Census Tree to explore the roles of race & gender in migrant selection & sorting during the exodus of single young people from U.S. Southern farms from 1900-1940. Female migration rates ⬆️ in response to ⬇️ male marriageability.

Congratulations Meredith!

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

State Comparison - Flow Of Care | The Care Board The Care Board: Visualizing care connections across the U.S. economy. Using data, we reveal the essential role of care in sustaining families, communities, workers, and the broader economy.

Check out our BRAND NEW state-level estimates of economic statistics on care! thecareboard.org/distribution...

Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Couples and the Child Penalty We expand the existing literature on the child penalty in earnings for opposite-sex couples to understand the earnings patterns in same-sex couples.

A revised version of our paper "Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Couples and the Child Penalty" is now available as a CES Working paper. Joint work with Barbara Downs, Lucia Foster and Rachel Nesbit. www.census.gov/library/work...

This has happened before: as late as 1982, Goldsboro Christian School in North Carolina did not admit Black students because “We believe that God in his plan and purpose and wisdom separated men into . . . races and that those races should be preserved” (source: www.nytimes.com/1982/01/18/u...)

I was devastated to learn about the unexpected passing of gifted historian and my former committee member Laura Lovett. Dr. Lovett was not only a renowned expert in women's history, but also an incredible mentor. I will miss her greatly. www.history.pitt.edu/news/memoriam

Your job or your kid? Federal worker moms say return-to-office order forced them to choose After the Trump administration ordered federal workers to end all remote work and return to offices full-time, some parents say they feel forced to choose between their jobs and their families. Expert...

“I literally for a second thought I would have to quit.” President Trump’s order ending remote work for federal employees led some government worker parents to make tough decisions – and even leave their jobs.

#CNS2025 Symposium Session 9 | Happening now
Hosted by Aaron Kucyi kicking-off immerging cool research area in “Decoding spontaneous thought from neural activity.”

#CNS2025 | Happening now
Symposium 9 Talk 2
Prof. Aaron Kucyi is sharing the preliminary results under the topic of “predicive neural modeling of resting-state spontaneous though” with neural data from 3 intensively-sampled individuals.

The Journal of the Civil War Era will have a special issue on political economy edited by me, @maggor.bsky.social, Sofia Valeonti & Nicolas Barreyre. I'll post again when the link is up on the Muster, but wanted to get the word out now. See CFP. Submission deadline is April 25. 🗃️

Defending Transgender Women On January 30th at 5pm Census.gov went down, so that the Census Bureau could review the website for materials that did not comply with one of the anti-trans executive orders. It is being called the “d...

open.substack.com/pub/dismalsc...

I'm very sad that "I have a paper on this" continues

Funding delays of > 30 days lead to, after 5 years:

- 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force (effect concentrated among those born in the US)
- 20% decrease in wages
- Burden is born by postdocs, grad students, and staff

It's such a weird thing to hear the news and think "that's bad, but also I have a paper about (an aspect) of that"

Funding delays are really not great for people who work in science. Funding delays of > 30 days lead to:

- 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force
- 20% decrease in wages

We extended the Environmental Impacts Frame backward to 1940 using the Census Bureau's historical decennial and IRS 1040 data! Looking forward to working with and seeing what others do with these cool new (old) data!

Some current issues to update 1950 Preliminary IPUMS Full Count Data users;

1. Educational attainment is underestimated.
2. RACE data underrepresent Japanese and Chinese persons in the population.

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