Fantastic lineup of speakers at the Virtual Economic History Workshop this Spring! Join the mailing list here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New at Can We Still Govern? "I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government." Please read, share, help. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...

Turn your anger into action. Call your rep tonight and leave a voicemail demanding impeachment and removal of Noem and her criminal.boss, Trump. ☎️(202) 224-3121 Then email your rep the same message. Make them encounter full email and voicemail inboxes tomorrow.

In the light of ICE's unjustifiable murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, AAUP President Todd Wolfson has released a statement urging that ICE should suspend all operation in American cities. Read full statement at link below 👇 and at the graphic in this thread 🧵 #AbolishICE #AcademicSky

#FundSocSci #Sociology #PolicySky #PoliSky

Missed Leah Boustan's AEA Distinguished Lecture at the conference? Watch it here: www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202... Her new findings on recent immigrant assimilation patterns across Europe show some similarities, but also some critical differences compared to the US.

📢CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS | Virtual Economic History Workshop for early-career researchers The workshop turns 3 in January! 🎉🎉🎉 Presenters have come from 15 universities in 3 countries (list below) Sign up to present: forms.gle/vt21XRe4KA4J... Join the mailing list: forms.gle/tVWH2TPYaRuD... 1/

Excited to present at #ASSA2026 tomorrow! Come to the Marriott a few minutes before the AEA Distinguished Lecture, and I'll explore how imperfect skill transferability (think: taxi-driving doctors) might explain some of the patterns shown by Leah Boustan and her colleagues

📢CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS | Virtual Economic History Workshop for early-career researchers The workshop turns 3 in January! 🎉🎉🎉 Presenters have come from 15 universities in 3 countries (list below) Sign up to present: forms.gle/vt21XRe4KA4J... Join the mailing list: forms.gle/tVWH2TPYaRuD... 1/

Haley Wilbert @hwilbert.bsky.social is an applied microeconomist with interests in demography, health, history, and labor. Her JMP is "After the Cut: Cesarean Delivery and Subsequent Fertility." She also has a publication in Explorations in Economic History. sites.google.com/view/haleywi...

One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.

The Friends of BLS are currently seeking organizational and individual support for our FY26 BLS Endorsement Letter and hope you will join us by signing on as an organization or individual. #EconSky #NumbersDay

The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse. Read our full statement here:

Disappointed in Cornell's announcement today. Despite finding no violations of the law, Cornell will make a direct $30 million direct payment "as a condition for ending pending claims."

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

Also check out #EconJMP. I will repost job market candidates' threads there. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

🧵 This thread is a summary of what’s happened in the Chicago area in recent weeks as the Trump regime uses masked, armed immigration agents to terrorize Chicagoans. 🧵 / A federal agent shot a Presbyterian minister in the head with a pepper ball at an ICE facility in a Chicago suburb.

There's a job posting for a Grok "AI tutor" on the American Economics Association website. No salary, benefits, or job security. It's gig work for PhDs. Are we really doing this? @aeainformation.bsky.social #EconJobMarket #EconSky

We're RT'ing the BEST #CensusData and #govtstats insights, news, etc. Recent tweets from SDCs, affiliates in: CA, CO, CT, DC, GA, IN, MA, MD, MN, NC, NY, OR, PR, TN, TX and UT. Follow us on 🟦@censussdc.bsky.social#CensusData– also 🐘sciences.social/@censusSDC

Did you hear the USDA plans to cease data collection for the CPS Food Security supplement? We have a blog post to give you more information. If you want to sign a letter asking for data collection to continue, see the threaded opportunities below. blog.popdata.org/food-securit...

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.   American citizens are being detained & brutalized.   This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

We need to keep talking about this.

What a week.

We should be horrified that a live news broadcaster is calling for murdering homeless people. But this is just another blip in the barrage of violence and dehumanization against many groups including... 1/

Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him do it for U.S. citizens.

🎂🎉 Lucky 13 is William Cockriel's fascinating paper on the introduction of the McKay stitcher, which dramatically changed shoe production in the late 19th century. Using the Census Tree, he shows that the most exposed shoemakers and their children lost 2.2 and 1.9 years of wages, respectively.

Universities must be bastions of open inquiry, not battlegrounds for partisan intimidation. Please sign & share.

Likely several violations of constitutional and international human rights. And it’s happening every day now. Masks, secrecy, and lightning speed are the actions of a group that knows its own illegitimacy. www.archives.gov/founding-doc... www.law.cornell.edu/wex/crime_ag...

We're back at it with Day 12 🎂🎉: In his job market paper, Dongkyu Yang uses the Census Tree to create the shift-share IVs for his investigation into the role of labor scarcity in facilitating capital-augmenting technical change in the American South during the Second Great Migration (1940-1970).

Census Tree Bday Celebration 🎂🎉Day 11: Ager & Malein use the Census Tree to show that early 20th century charity nurseries w/kindergarten instruction significantly improved children’s educational attainment & long-run economic outcomes, especially for disadvantaged immigrant children.

Thanks for the shoutout! Without the Census Tree, we could not have studied how a parental wealth shock affects daughters‘ education, labor market, and marriage outcomes

🚨 The Cornell Population Center is recruiting our next CPC Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow (start: Aug 2026). We welcome outstanding early-career scholars in all disciplines engaging population research. Apply + share widely: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30347

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.

We took Labor Day off, but we're back with Day 8 of the Census Tree's bday celebration!🎂🎉 Bazzi et al. find that frontier exposure entrenched inegalitarian conservative gender norms in the U.S., leading to long-run decreases in female labor force & political participation & higher fertility rates.

It’s Day 7! 🎂🎉 @jacobvanecon.bsky.social‬ uses the Census Tree to show that individuals exposed to the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 were less geographically mobile, had shorter lifespans, and were less likely to be literate, with some of these effects persisting across generations.

For Day 6 🎂🎉 I bring you Clay & Schmick, who use the Census Tree in their paper showing that the boll weevil’s damage to cotton production reduced labor market frictions in the American South, significantly increasing the long-run wages of Black sons born after the shock. www.nber.org/papers/w27101

This is an amazing and valuable data collection. Link for community contributions: greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu/centered-hea...

For Day 5 of the Census Tree’s bday celebration 🎂🎉 we bring you @econzach.bsky.social & Priti Kalsi’s work on wealth in the Gilded Age. While they find substantial turnover at the very top, descendants of the extremely wealthy were much more likely to reach the top 1% of the wealth distribution.

Without CT we couldn’t have written the paper!

The 4th entry in our Census Tree celebration 🎂🎉 is @guoxu.bsky.social & team's work that uses the CT to show that sudden ⬆️ in female public sector employment during WWI ⬆️ LFP among daughters of civil servants, suggesting that “temporary shocks can give rise to persistent changes in societal norms.”

"Lee said he asked the official if the constitution applied to his client, and [the official] replied, 'No.'"

Proud of my colleagues for speaking out. I just signed this as well.

Q: “Are you worried all this pushback could provoke Trump to follow-through with sending the National Guard?” MAYOR @brandon4chicago.bsky.social Johnson: “As a descendant of slaves, can you imagine if my ancestors had that same rationale?“

It's Day 3 of the Census Tree's bday celebration 🎂🎉! @danielavidart.bsky.social revisits the link between electrification & fertility, and finds that electrification efforts in the US account for 3.1% of the fertility decline from 1900-1940 due to the increase in the opportunity cost of children.

For Day 2 of our celebration of work using the Census Tree we highlight @lukestein.com & co's work on the gendered impacts of perceived skin tone. They find that among African Amer. sisters, women perceived to be darker-skinned were disadvantaged. *They also cite a great QJE pub by Lisa Cook et al*

Great opportunity for a predoc RA at the NBER

Fantastic lineup of speakers at the Virtual Economic History Workshop this fall! Join the mailing list here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You can't teach U.S. history without "divisive" narratives. Slavery wasn't "unifying." The Japanese incarceration wasn't "unifying." The anti-immigrant Operation Wetback (real name) wasn't "unifying." It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.

Econ PhDs who will be on the #EconJobMarket: Next Tues Aug 19 at 1pm ET is a NABE (‪@nabe-econ.bsky.social)‬ Career Week panel on "Industry, Government, or Academia? Choosing Your Path in Applied Economics" Register here 👉 www.nabe.com/NABE/Events/...

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