Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...

My second PhD paper is out! 🎉 'Assessing the Agreement Between Microsimulated and Register-Based Kin Counts in Sweden',with @demography.bsky.social , @martinkolk.bsky.social & @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @suda-sthlm.bsky.social 🔗 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00324728.2026.2706778

Assessing the agreement between microsimulated and register-based kin counts in Sweden

Estimating kinship networks is a data-intensive undertaking, usually conducted using empirical sources or demographic models. Although empirical data, such as population registers, provide observed...

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How hot and humid is it in Minnesota? It’s GBBO Chocolate week.

Just published in Historical Methods: Chris Minns & coauthors link Ontario marriage to historical census records to show married women & men had similar rates of intergenerational mobility 1871-1901. Unexpectedly, the inclusion of more false positive links does not bias the mobility estimates. OA

Mobility and marriage: Preliminary findings from a new longitudinal dataset of Canadian women, 1871-1901

This article develops a methodology to create a longitudinal historical database of women by linking Ontario marriage records 1859-1938 to complete count Canadian census data between 1871 and 1921....

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My family‘s annual MN lake vacation is in its 33rd year, but the warm and smokeless summers from my childhood lake memories are not the same ones my nieces and nephews now have.

Reading the Archive by Machine: An OCR Benchmark for Historians, 1612–1921 Here is version 1 of a working paper on the new OCR tools that are transforming digital history. working-papers-in-critical-search.github.io/paper-004-oc...

Two years after the first submission, my job market paper "The effect of a woman-friendly occupation on employment: U.S. postmasters before WWII" is now published at Explorations in Economic History ☺️: doi.org/10.1016/j.ee... #econhist

New working paper With Torben Johansen and @ChristianVedel It's on a methodological issue that we think is crucial for the discipline of economic history: Whenever we use machine learning tools in our workflow, they can introduce structural bias. So, what should we do?

Delighted to see this OA output from @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social with @rachelmurphy.bsky.social Prof Tiziana Margaria and our talented PhDs Marco, Sami (Daniel) and Sebastian. Thanks to all hlcs.nl/article/view... @uccresearch.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

Genealogy has always been government work. Where do you come from, who are your people, & what will that mean for your rights --and future? We're rightly focused on the 14th amendment and birthright citizenship, but those questions have driven policy for centuries. My book turns 1 today! Thanks...

Trudeau-Laurin, Bignami & coauthors provide the first portrait of living arrangements for Manitoba's Indigenous & Metis households in 1901, after three decades of massive population displacement. Extensive corrections to the census transcription permit a nuanced picture of household structures.

Using the TCP data to study Indigenous households’ living arrangements at the turn of the 20th century: Challenges and opportunities

Although a vast body of literature identifies an indissoluble link between Indigenous families and their organization in households, the residential arrangements of Indigenous Peoples in Canada hav...

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A new practitioner's guide to using LLMs in economic history covers the workflow, pitfalls, and validation, with four worked examples from paintings to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s wartime speeches, from @andyferrara.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35374

More kin, closer ties: Black young adults have 30–40% more emotionally close, frequently contacted, and nearby relatives than their white peers – a surplus rooted in horizontal kin (siblings, cousins, aunts/uncles).

The 1901 Canadian census was the first to enumerate earnings for an entire employed population. Shari Eli, Nicholas Li & Janki Shah review the strengths & limits of these newly available data alongside other historical status indicators with particular attention to the social position of farmers.

Measuring socioeconomic status in historical censuses of Canada

We use the new complete count Canadian Census records spanning from 1871 to 1901 to explore measures of socioeconomic status including income, occupation, and literacy, which scholars commonly use ...

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The 1901 population census is the single most complete tally of Indigenous peoples in territory claimed by Canada. This new paper argues the census was a colonial construction limited by its presuppositions but still informative of the diversity of First Nations including a large number of Metis.

Enumerating Indigenous populations at the turn of the twentieth century

In 1901, the Canadian government published a summary of the Indigenous population resident within the boundaries of what would become present-day Canada. Until now, the census microdata underlying ...

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New versions of the variables EDUC, HIGRADE, and INCTOT are available for the 1950 full count data on IPUMS USA. This update is the result of new data capture and represents a significant improvement in the accuracy of these measures. https://bit.ly/4xTlO4I

A reminder on Father's Day that the history of the American Revolution is about more than Founding Fathers. IOW Dad Books can be about moms, daughters, sisters, aunts, wives, friends, and compatriots.

🚀 "ntwrk": A Stata package for network analysis 🚀 ⭐ Yesterday at the @statacorp.bsky.social Germany 2026 conference in Munich, I showcased the #ntwrk package: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... The package is a designed for both network analysis and graph layouts. Check it out! Up soon SSC.

How reliable are web surveys for studying family structure & relationships? Comparing #KINMATRIX survey with demographic projections/surveys/registers for 10 Western countries reveals the potential & limits of nonprobability data in family demography. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Human Rights Watch has released a comprehensive report detailing human rights abuses by the government during this winter’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, which the group alleges also violates international human rights treaties that the U.S. is signed onto.

Report authors say feds violated Minnesotans' human rights during ICE surge

The 186-page report from Human Rights Watch in part highlights how federal agents stopped or detained thousands of people and alleges that many of the arrests were arbitrary and race-based.

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UW-Madison Sociology is hiring! We're inviting applications for an assistant professor position in the fields of demography, soc of population, and health, to begin August 2027. Come join @uwsoc.bsky.social and the great @cdeuw.bsky.social! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Sociology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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Been waiting for Census to OK our disclosure of new results on a project with the Longitudinal Business Database. RDC administrator just informed us, no disclosure because of new rule. This is gonna mess up a lot of ongoing research & especially job-market candidates. #EconSky

What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

White Americans who were eligible for the GI Bill, or had fathers who were, benefitted massively, while the equivalent Black Am benefitted much less on average bc they were funneled into using it on vocational schools (or scam “schools”) Paper estimates that accounts for *5 pp* in sons’ college gap

Blindly Discriminating: The GI Bill and Racial Inequality

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NEW: The Census Bureau has two new deputy directors — Michael Lachanski as deputy director for data, policy and science, and John Studds as deputy director for administration and operations www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...

Census Bureau Announces Appointment of Two New Deputy Directors

Dr. Michael Lachanski and John Studds Named as Deputy Directors for the Census Bureau.

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DHS's Operation Metro Surge hurt Minnesota's leisure and hospitality industry in Jan-Mar 2026, destroying: - 4,600 jobs, - 3.8 million work hours, - $71 million in wages. New analysis by me & @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @northstarpolicy.org northstarpolicy.org/leisure-and-...

Job Opportunity! The Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking outstanding candidates for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) position in the history of U.S. political economy from the Civil War to the present. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess...

Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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This is super concerning... please read and comment by July 13th if you care about the future of US federally funded research. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...?

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

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📣We are excited to share another Call for Papers. This time for a special issue on 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺: 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴, 𝘋𝘺𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴. Submissions are possible from 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 15 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐜 15, 2026. ℹ️CfP with all the info here: www.demographic-research.org/files/202605...