Nothing like paying a $175 journal submission fee to get desk rejected on Christmas Eve!

Mmmhmm

Proud of Indiana today! Fellow Hoosiers, it’s a great time to break out this banger: Indiana Christmas by Straight No Chaser

Can I just say that 👏 this 👏 is 👏 not 👏 it? A policy that simultaneously devalues caregiving by suggesting one can do their job alongside providing care and devalues (mostly women's) work by implying one can easily manage care responsibilities while getting work done. events.in.gov/event/govern...

The application portal for CSWEP's CeMENTWorkshop in Chicago, IL is open. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

‘For policy, it means shifting the question from “How can we change or reverse current trends?” to “How can societies remain prosperous, equitable, and sustainable under conditions of low fertility, population aging and, in many places, population decline?”’ Yes! That’s the right question.

We're hiring an endowed chair in economic demography--please apply, or pass along to good candidates! apply.interfolio.com/173456

I used to feel bad for the aunt cleaning up while everyone else talked but now I know she just wanted to be alone

The democrats should pay people to stand in the toy and Christmas decor aisles and complain audibly about tariffs (I have been doing this for free)

Y’all, this CSWEP newsletter is a banger. Five women economists generously share their stories about navigating family and career. 🔥 @jialanw.bsky.social @kmpjones.bsky.social Sarah Hamersma, Kosali Simon, and Sarah Baird. It was an honor to "edit" (which mostly involved sitting back for good reads)

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

One of the delights of fall is getting my coats out again and finding fun stuff in the pockets. It’s like little gifts from the past! 🎟️🍬💵

Our grad students are in the Halloween spirit @ndecon.bsky.social

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Happy to have the chance to set the record straight, alongside one of the best in the biz @karenguzzo.bsky.social

Yesterday's IVF press conference was full of inaccurate claims. @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and I try to correct some of those claims in this @newsweek.com piece.

RFK Jr says something stupid and now I have to spend part of my morning saying that no, girls aren’t hitting puberty six years earlier 🙄 (and anyway, wouldn’t that increase fertility rates?)

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days. Epstein Shutdown.

The Economic Demography Workshop will be on May 6, at the PAAs in St. Louis. See the call for papers 👇 Thanks to co-chairs @hnmansour.bsky.social & @mguldi.bsky.social !

My old Reds Cabbage Patch doll (Barth Willie) is very happy today

New CSWEP newsletter focused on visibility in the economics profession: Christine Exley on self-promotion, Olga Stoddard on professional visibility, Corinne Low on public scholarship and how to write and publish a trade press book, Khoa Vu on social media and its professional uses.

Senior Economics major Andrew Brooks is a drum major with the Notre Dame Band. Yesterday, he brought his mace to class and let Prof. Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social hold it!

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook won a round in federal court in her bid to keep her job despite President Trump's effort to fire her.

🎂🎉 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.

rule of law Rule of law Rule of Law Rule of Law! RULE OF LAW!!! Still alive in many lower federal courts. #EconSky www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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).

US Open rolls over, adding themselves to a growing, embarrassing list. And he’s only there because Rolex is trying to get special treatment on tariffs.

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.

For Day 10🎂🎉 I'll share work by a team that includes PhD student @adrianhaws.bsky.social--one of my awesome collaborators in building the Census Tree They exploit quasi-random oil discoveries in early 20thC OK to document large long-run benefits from parental wealth shocks for both daughters & sons

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.

The Census Tree is turning 2! 🎂🎉Our links allow researchers to follow people through the 1850-1940 US censuses. To celebrate, I'll be featuring a paper each day that uses the Census Tree in its empirical work. If you have a paper you think I should know about, contact us at censustree.org/contact👇

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

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.”

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.

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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*

Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."

Love to see it! If you’d like to learn more about @aeacswep.bsky.social’s peer mentoring program, go to cswepmentoring.org

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

Your periodic reminder that this account is a must-follow 👇

Using data on 2.5 million great-grandchildren linked to great-grandfathers (1850–1940) to find strong economic persistence across 4 generations, from Zachary Ward, @kaseybuckles.bsky.social, and Joseph Price https://www.nber.org/papers/w33923