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.

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.

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.”

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*

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Me after reading Autor, Levy, and Murname (2003) the first time

The mere physical presence of a one's smartphone causes about a 10% reduction in cognitive capacity—performance on tests of memory & intelligence But 86% of the experimental subjects, undergraduate students, believed that it had no effect By Ward et al. in JACR —> dx.doi.org/10.1086/691462

Job opportunity coming soon from my fave data website IPUMS 😍

Ok, I tried making a starter pack on intergenerational mobility. I'm sure I've missed many folks so please let me know if you want to be added: go.bsky.app/DvGG8zV

Excited to announce I am on the Job Market! My #EconJMP (with @diogobaerlocher.bsky.social and Gustavo Cortes) studies how the influx of migrants displaced by natural disasters affects neighborhoods and housing markets, focusing on the 1930s American Dust Bowl. Link: ssrn.com/abstract=502...

Great paper shows that US laws that allowed women to own property and wages increased child literacy rates www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/06qvh...

Students whose families make less than $100,000 annually will get free tuition and waived fees at any of the academic universities in the University of Texas System

A while back I used linked data to compare the 1950 education response to 1940 education response, figured there was some digitization error, and stopped working on the 1950 education variable.

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.

Got my aea5k shirt, which I felt compelled to do given the top notch design.

Can someone please study the economic effect of the mass deportations of Mexicans in the 1950s. We really don't know much about it.

Low-income students have been a ridiculously tiny share of elite college enrollment for a century

This figure shows our main result: how employment differs for women migrating to parishes of different size, compared to non-movers.

Must have been R2 who asked the ReStat editors to add the "all decisions" column in this turnaround time table.

Turn on the radio to listen to election news and @chris-meissner.bsky.social is talking historical tariffs on NPR? Now that's quality programming

On the reading list today: The technological adoption of milking machines in Norway caused women to migrate to urban areas where there were better opportunities. by the excellent trio Philipp Ager, Marc Goni and Kjell Salvanes papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Enjoyed listening to @chloeneast.bsky.social on NPR this morning, who gave a great explanation on the impact of undocumented immigration on housing prices in the US

Since we have 125 years of prize data, we can ask whether we have gotten any better at creating access for brilliant people from less elite backgrounds. This is cool — not so often you get a 100+ year mobility time series! These graphs show the father income and education ranks over time. 13/N

Baylor economics is hiring up to three positions (all ranks)! We're interested in applied work, econ history included. See ad below. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... I'm biased but I think we have a great department that punches well above its weight. Let me know if you have questions

I appreciate the QJE publishing this fantastic article days before I teach my economics of education lecture on school choice. Time to update my slides again. doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Thinking about creating an adult version of this shirt so my son and I match

Next week I'm teaching poverty measurement and I made a little shiny app where students can move incomes or the poverty line around and see how various common poverty measures change. Feel free to use or share or tell me what I should add or modify. ryanbriggs.shinyapps.io/Poverty_Meas...

just submitted a paper that was started when Obama was president.

Was looking through Broadstreet.blog for an old post of mine, and I found one of my favorites! "Types of HPE Paper, XKCD style" broadstreet.blog/2021/05/19/t...

Might as well make a useful post: Baylor economics is hiring again this year - look for an ad on the JOE in a bit. Maybe even 2 positions!