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Tasks and Black-white Inequality over the Long Twentieth Century Rowena Gray, Siobhan O’Keefe, Sarah Quincy and Zachary Ward We present new evidence on the long-run evolution of occupational task content by race in the United States, 1900-2021. Black workers began the transition to better paid, cognitiveintensive modern jobs at least a generation after white workers; substantial convergence only occurred after 1960. Longitudinal data suggests that task transitions were racially biased: Black men moved to jobs with lower rewarded task content than white men, conditional on initial tasks, though gaps decreased after 1940. Routine-intensive Black workers were less likely to move up into non-routine analytic work in all periods. The results suggest that task-displacement shocks widen Black-white inequality.

#NewResearch reveals a stark pattern: Black workers transitioned to cognitive jobs one generation after white workers. @econhistoryorbust.bsky.social, @smokeefe.bsky.social, Sarah Quincy & Zachary Ward find that even today, Black workers move down while white workers move up.
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The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006* Abstract. We construct the first annual market rent and home sales price series for American cities over the 20th century using 2.7 million newspaper real

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006,” by Lyons (@ronanlyons), Shertzer (@econhist-allday), Gray (@econhistoryorbust), and Agorastos: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Related... this makes me wonder where economists land on these things. I suspect we fall into roughly two groups: rational actors who outsource this to someone with the comparative advantage, and stubborn actors who are determined to do it themselves.

If you use Direct File or just believe taxpayers should have access to electronic filing without a private third party, here's your chance to share your thoughts.

The fantastic Atlanta Workshop on Public Policy & Child Well-being is now accepting paper submissions! 👇

Thanks to the organizers @lindsbullinger.bsky.social @danieldench1.bsky.social

HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...

This seems like an extremely exciting ado file by @julianreif.bsky.social:

That's one of the big downsides to loving a small market/less popular team. The best sports journalists/media are never going to write an investigative article about something like that for the rox or nats, but I it might get covered for the yankees/dodgers/etc

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LAC-PaL Virtual Seminar Series Submission Below is the submission form for the Liberal Arts Colleges Labor and Public Economics Group's (LAC-PaL) Virtual Seminar Series for August 2025 though December 2025. The virtual seminar will be an hour...

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The Liberal Arts College Public & Labor Economics Virtual Seminar series is soliciting papers for Fall 2025.

Submit your extended abstract by May 30: forms.gle/RbBwjBpqzA4J...

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This is so sad, but also makes me feel weirdly out of touch -- I feel like part of the reason I had a kid was for the joy of reading with them??

Beautiful cherry blossoms in Washington, DC

So excited to be in DC to present our work on the intergenerational effects of the Head Start program at the Economic Demography Workshop later today! #econsky

I was there last week and did indeed instantly recognize this!

We had a nice set of leaf shapes we put up for Thanksgiving and now are making some more to turn into hearts for valentines day.

Not sure if this counts as an "adult" craft but I've been really enjoying this with my toddler! First, you draw/paint whatever you want (real pictures, patterns, motivational phrases, anything). Second, you cut out shapes from those finished drawings and hang them up as a garland!

What a cool exercise!

But really, this brought me so much joy to read, thank you for compiling it!!!

You forgot to include a very important point: "Mar 3 -- Bryce Harper says he wants to "bring a championship back to DC"!!

I told my (much taller than me) husband to put it on the highest shelf of the pantry for exactly this reason...

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨

"The impact of children's access to public health insurance on their cognitive development and behavior" coming out in the Journal of Health Economics. Co-authored with Ji Yan at App State.

Recap below👇

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Angela isn’t on here (yet!) but you can check out the full paper here: www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

Childcare for Voters — Politisit At Politisit, we believe that parents shouldn't have to choose between voting and care for their children.

If you want to help the parents of young children to vote, you can support universal vote by mail, reach out to the parents you know to see if they need help getting to the polls, or support the work of organizations that provide childcare for voters, like www.politisit.org/childcare-fo....

This result is probably not surprising to anyone who has tried to wrangle an infant/toddler while in a long line!

An event study figure that shows the probability of voting decreasing markedly for female parents when their child is 0 and then fading out by the time the child is 5. A link to the paper in provided in a reply.

As early voting starts in many states and campaign workers everywhere are gearing up for #GOTV, I want to highlight research from my awesome colleague Angela Cools that shows parents (especially moms) of young children are less likely to vote. 📈📉 #econsky

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