Dani Sandler
@dismalscientist86.bsky.social
Economist at the Census Bureau studying women's employment, post-prison outcomes, and low-income housing. Living in Davis, CA.
I highly recommend NABE’s Econ Career Week for anyone who’ll be on the Econ PhD job market this Fall… #EconJobMarket conta.cc/4yUpx2p
Entering the Econ Job Market? Hear Directly from Employers During NABE’s Econ Career Week!
Email from National Association for Business Economics NABE Econ Career Week | August 10-13 Greetings! Whether you're preparing to enter the PhD job market this year or planning ahead for a future job
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TIL: After a series of devastating floods, the city of Sacramento raised itself up by around 15 feet over the course of the 1860s and 1870s, filling in streets, jacking up buildings, and rebuilding sidewalks. Source: Sacramento History Museum Underground Tour sachistorymuseum.org/underground-...
Underground Tours – Sacramento History Museum
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New Census Working Paper: Access to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) at the State and Substate Levels: Meaning and Measurement by O’Connor, Prell, McBride, Foster, Bhaskar, Perez-Patron, Vickstrom, Knop, and Dillon www.census.gov/library/work...
Access to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) at the State and Substate Levels: Meaning and Measurement
This study provides guidance in understanding the Census Bureau and USDA, FNA (formerly FNS) estimates of WIC eligibility, participation, and access rates.
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My daughter's school has a virtual ID program (check out books or buy lunch with your phone) and "Away for the Day" policy for phones. I can see merit in both policies, but they seem incompatible.
New Census Working Paper: "Integrating Administrative and Survey Data to Estimate WIC Eligibility and Access" by Linden McBride, Thomas B. Foster, Renuka Bhaskar, Mark Prell, Maria Perez-Patron, Erik Vickstrom, Brian Knop, and Michaela Dillon www.census.gov/library/work...
Integrating Administrative and Survey Data to Estimate WIC Eligibility and Access
This paper details the data linkage and estimation methods used to produce WIC eligibility and access rates at the state, county, and demographic levels.
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New Census Working Paper: "Who Hires Whom? Entrepreneurial Backgrounds and Labor Market Opportunities" by Josh Feng and Xavier Jaravel www.census.gov/library/work...
Who Hires Whom? Entrepreneurial Backgrounds and Labor Market Opportunities
Entrepreneurs build organizations that are better able to make use of workers from similar backgrounds.
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New Census Working Paper: "Minimum Wages and the Rise of the Robots" by Erik Brynjolfsson, J. Frank Li, Javier Miranda, Robert Seamans, Andrew Wang www.census.gov/library/work...
Minimum Wages and the Rise of the Robots
Minimum wage hikes spur automation: a 10% rise in the wage floor increases manufacturing robot adoption by ~8%, new plant-level Census data show.
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TIL: The US Treasury stamped all the money issued on Hawaii with the word HAWAII in WWII in case it the island were invaded.
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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My paper is out today in PNAS documenting how ICE activity in Trump 2.0 compares to the last 10 years and the mismatch between the action and the rhetoric. Joint with the fabulous @caitlinpatler.bsky.social and @elizabethacox.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
TIL: U.S. born women married to non-citizen men lost their U.S. citizenship in 1907, until and unless their husbands became citizens. This was reversed in 1922, but then those women who had not become citizens again through their husband's naturalization had to reapply independently for it.
As the US industrialized, workers and businesses entered protracted labor disputes over what a fair pay increase would be to keep up with the cost of living. Workers thought businesses were gaslighting them about how much prices were going up...🧵
Lemondrop 👉 anime arbor! 📚@lipstick-lemondrop.bsky.social · 3w agoholy moly @hausofdecline.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com ???
We can’t solve the child care shortage without measuring it accurately. New research reflects how families really search for care, measuring childcare within a short drive and accounting for competition for slots. This provides a more realistic picture of local supply. https://bit.ly/4aV0qlD
To solve child care shortages, we first need to measure them
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As air quality reaches record danger levels, resharing this easy DIY kit to make an air purifier out of inexpensive box fans that can clean up to 800 cubic feet per minute— which outperforms many consumer air purifiers at ⅓-⅕ of the cost. engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/science...
Science in Action: How to Build a Corsi-Rosenthal Box
Learn how to build a Corsi-Rosenthal box. The device was created to provide significant reduction in the amount of virus-laden, aerosol particles that are in the air. Follow along as Dean Richard L. C...
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#QJE Aug 2026, #1, “The Power of Proximity to Coworkers,” by Emanuel, Harrington, and Pallais: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
The Power of Proximity to Coworkres*
Abstract. How does proximity to coworkers affect training and productivity? We study software engineers at a Fortune 500 firm from 2019 to 2024, leveraging
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Caregiving is a massive economic opportunity or a massive economic crisis in waiting because nearly the entire care infrastructure rests on the unpaid labor of women, especially.
Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 3w agoSharing a gift link to this because I know when I was caretaking my mom every ounce of validation that I was doing something emotionally, physically, professionally and financially impossible helped me feel less alone
Blog post on measuring seasonal industries using public use QWI data open.substack.com/pub/dismalsc...
Seasonal Work
The Quarterly Workforce Indicators at the 6-digit industry level has been available since earlier this year.
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New Census Working Paper: "What Happens to Contractors After States Ban Affirmative Action?" by Benjamin V. Rosa www.census.gov/library/work...
What Happens to Contractors After States Ban Affirmative Action?
Using business survey data linked to the LBD, I explore how affirmative action bans in state contracting affect minority and women-owned business enterprises.
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New Census Working Paper: "Tip of the Iceberg: How Much Do Tips Bunch at Reporting Thresholds?" by Emek Basker, Lucia Foster, and Martha Stinson www.census.gov/library/work...
Tip of the Iceberg: How Much Do Tips Bunch at Reporting Thresholds?
We use tax reports of restaurant workers and employers to measure the importance of bunching in reported tip income in response to minimum-wage incentives.
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New Census Working Paper: "The Impact of Female Teachers on Female Students’ Lifetime Well-Being" by David Card, Ciprian Domnisoru, Seth Sanders, Lowell Taylor, and Victoria Udalova www.census.gov/library/work...
The Impact of Female Teachers on Female Students’ Lifetime Well-Being
When women had more female teachers at young ages, they completed more education, married later and better, had higher household earnings, and died later.
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On Thursday, July 16 at noon (eastern), Mirya Holmes (@mirya.bsky.social) and I will hold a Zoom workshop on "How to do Tenure Track," designed to help new TT faculty navigate better their new position. To RSVP, please fill the form below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
How to do tenure track (sign up)
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New Census Working Paper: "The Variation of SNAP Receipt by Survey" by Brian Glassman www.census.gov/library/work...
The Variation of SNAP Receipt by Survey
This paper explores the differences in SNAP receipt between the CPS ASEC, the ACS, and the SIPP.
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It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
Venezuela struck by two strong earthquakes back-to-back: a 7.2. followed by a 7.5 Videos of massive damage and rescue efforts are emerging.
Brandon Bishop@brandontbishop.bsky.social · last mo.And PAGER is up. Very likely more than 1,000 dead from this earthquake and likely in the 10,000 range. Damage estimates in the $10+ billion range, 2% to 20% of Venezuela's GDP. Shit.
New Census Working Paper: "Experimental Capture/Recapture Estimation Using Census and Administrative Data" by Thomas Mule, Andrew Keller, William Bell, and Mary Mulry www.census.gov/library/work...
Experimental Capture/Recapture Estimation Using Census and Administrative Data
This report documents some of the research results from the Administrative Records Dual System Estimation study.
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New Census Working Paper: "Flood Risk, Insurance, and Housing in the United States" by Suvy Qin and John Voorheis www.census.gov/library/work...
Flood Risk, Insurance, and Housing in the United States
This paper uses the Environmental Impacts Frame to highlight new facts about the distribution of flood risk in the US.
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A very nice write-up on why data users should be concerned about the new Commerce Dept. policy, which likely means a lot of granular, local-level data used for economic development is about to disappear. agglomerations.eig.org/p/a-new-thre...
A New Threat to Economic Data
A Commerce Department policy risks damaging the public’s understanding of the economy.
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