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The dramatic decline in the US teen birth rate.

My Brookings report with Mark Muro and Shriya Methkupally got another write-up in Fortune, which connects it to the NYC primaries. I'm agnostic on their framing, but it's an interesting read nonetheless.

The blue counties share the same county name as at least one other county.

It's fun to see my research with @markmuro1.bsky.social and @shriyared.bsky.social appear in the Financial Times!

How does AI exposure map onto political geography? In our new @brookings.edu piece, we find that occupations in Democratic counties are, on average, more exposed to AI. www.brookings.edu/articles/ai-...

The political geography of AI exposure | Brookings

As concerns about AI’s impact on jobs grow, understanding where AI-exposed workers live and how they vote offers new insight into the technology’s emerging political geography ahead of the election.

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The first pizza I cooked on my pizza oven, a present for getting tenure! I made the dough and sauce, and the basil was fresh from the garden.

. @tomdee.bsky.social very interesting work! Out of curiosity, how much of the patterns described here (www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...) can be explained by the public school enrollment decreases? And what type of selection is there of students leaving public school?

SIEPR@siepr.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The steep ⬇️ in U.S. public school enrollment during the pandemic has not reversed, SIEPR's @tomdee.bsky.social tells @theguardian.com in a fascinating story about the difficult. choices cash-strapped schools now face. "There are no free lunches," Dee says. Link 👇 #PublicEducation #EduSky

Where the S&P 500 firms are incorporated

Share of U.S.-born workers who work in their state of birth, by area of residence (PUMA)

Number of NBER Affiliates by State

Counties in which The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a top-2 religious tradition

Percent Uninsured Among People Under 65.

Share of commuters who leave for work before 6 AM.

It's great to see our "Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI" paper again get cited in The New York Times.

Most Commonly Reported Ancestry, by County.

Mean Elevation, by County.

The first harvest of the season.

Percent of Workers Working in Their Home State, by County.

For Every Senior Citizen, How Many Kids Under 5?

County size in square miles.

The largest religious tradition in each county.

Percent of Residents Living in Their Birth State, by County.

Most common way people heat their homes.

Distance to nearest US Latter-day Saint Temple.

View at lunch.

Fascinating interview of a Latter-day Saint Apostle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkqt...

#46: Elder Neil L. Andersen (Faith Conversation with a Latter-day Saint Apostle, My Dad)

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Percentage of adults with a Ph.D.

The geography of distinctive Utah boy names.

The most distinctive baby names in Utah.