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.

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.

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

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

“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. 🗃️

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.