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
Jennifer Withrow
@withrowjenny.bsky.social
she/her. Economic Historian. Views are my own. PhD UMass Amherst. https://sites.google.com/view/jennifer-withrow 📍Philly
📢 Ahead-of-print 📢 in #REEP "The Census Environmental Impacts Frame" by John Voorheis, Jonathan Colmer , Kendall Houghton, Eva Lyubich, Mary Munro, Cameron Scalera, and Jennifer Withrow. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/KCvgDEm 📈📉 #Econsky
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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Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
My former job market paper has been published in the Journal of Economic History! This paper follows women in the US South as they migrated from the farm to the city in the early twentieth century. 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Gender and Racial Differences in Migration Behavior: Evidence from the Farm Exodus within and out of the U.S. South, 1900–1940 | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core
Gender and Racial Differences in Migration Behavior: Evidence from the Farm Exodus within and out of the U.S. South, 1900–1940
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New paper out in the Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social w @nancyfolbre.bsky.social! 🧵 What happens to U.S. inequality trends when you add the imputed $ value of household production to market income and consumption? Open access: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272726000186
Household production time and inequality in material living standards in the U.S., 1965–2018
We study how unpaid household production shapes trends in inequality in material living standards in the U.S. in the last five decades. We construct e…
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We can back this up with a stacked diff in diffs too: weiyangtham.com/files/tcps_f... (new conditionally accepted version out soon) We find that a funding interruption... increases the probability of not working in the US by 3 percentage points (40%) .
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Jim Woodgett@jwoodgett.bsky.social · 8mo agoMust say, while interviews with established PIs with deep cuts to their funding are important, the principal and longest term effects are on the trainees. An entire generation wiped of confidence.
👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->
I have had the huge privilege of being a part of Danielle's project estimating the long-run effects on students of all-white private schools opened by segregationists following Brown v. Board of Education. Read all about it in her job market thread below (and our paper!): #econjobmarket
Danielle Graves Williamson@daniellecgw.bsky.social · 9mo ago👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->
Studying how exposure to scientific research in university laboratories influences students’ pursuit of careers in science, from Ina Ganguli and Raviv Murciano-Goroff www.nber.org/papers/w34244
I must explain that this is not accurate, particularly the part about Ellis Island. I cannot speak to the Chinese diaspora angle, but many of us have family whose names were expressed in non-Roman alphabets when they immigrated. This is a long thread, but I literally do this for a living. 1/
Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 10mo agoLots of us have great-grandparents names who were absolutely changed when they came here, and when people say otherwise, they're assuming your great-grandparents name was in the Roman alphabet.
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.
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Kasey Buckles@kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe 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👇
It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
Check out our BRAND NEW state-level estimates of economic statistics on care! thecareboard.org/distribution...
State Comparison - Flow Of Care | The Care Board
The Care Board: Visualizing care connections across the U.S. economy. Using data, we reveal the essential role of care in sustaining families, communities, workers, and the broader economy.
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A revised version of our paper "Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Couples and the Child Penalty" is now available as a CES Working paper. Joint work with Barbara Downs, Lucia Foster and Rachel Nesbit. www.census.gov/library/work...
Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Couples and the Child Penalty
We expand the existing literature on the child penalty in earnings for opposite-sex couples to understand the earnings patterns in same-sex couples.
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This has happened before: as late as 1982, Goldsboro Christian School in North Carolina did not admit Black students because “We believe that God in his plan and purpose and wisdom separated men into . . . races and that those races should be preserved” (source: www.nytimes.com/1982/01/18/u...)
NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL'S RACIAL POLICY FOLLOWS A RATHER UNEVEN COLOR LINE (Published 1982)
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jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.looking forward to some parents suing to demand segregated schools because integration violates their religious beliefs
I was devastated to learn about the unexpected passing of gifted historian and my former committee member Laura Lovett. Dr. Lovett was not only a renowned expert in women's history, but also an incredible mentor. I will miss her greatly. www.history.pitt.edu/news/memoriam
In Memoriam | Department of History | University of Pittsburgh
Laura L. Lovett (1963-2025) Our dear colleague Laura Lovett passed away unexpectedly on March 4, 2025. Laura joined Pitt’s History Department and its Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Program in 20...
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“I literally for a second thought I would have to quit.” President Trump’s order ending remote work for federal employees led some government worker parents to make tough decisions – and even leave their jobs.
Your job or your kid? Federal worker moms say return-to-office order forced them to choose
After the Trump administration ordered federal workers to end all remote work and return to offices full-time, some parents say they feel forced to choose between their jobs and their families. Expert...
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#CNS2025 Symposium Session 9 | Happening now Hosted by Aaron Kucyi kicking-off immerging cool research area in “Decoding spontaneous thought from neural activity.”
#CNS2025 | Happening now Symposium 9 Talk 2 Prof. Aaron Kucyi is sharing the preliminary results under the topic of “predicive neural modeling of resting-state spontaneous though” with neural data from 3 intensively-sampled individuals.
The Journal of the Civil War Era will have a special issue on political economy edited by me, @maggor.bsky.social, Sofia Valeonti & Nicolas Barreyre. I'll post again when the link is up on the Muster, but wanted to get the word out now. See CFP. Submission deadline is April 25. 🗃️
I'm very sad that "I have a paper on this" continues Funding delays of > 30 days lead to, after 5 years: - 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force (effect concentrated among those born in the US) - 20% decrease in wages - Burden is born by postdocs, grad students, and staff
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2y agoNational Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
It's such a weird thing to hear the news and think "that's bad, but also I have a paper about (an aspect) of that" Funding delays are really not great for people who work in science. Funding delays of > 30 days lead to: - 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force - 20% decrease in wages
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2y agoTrump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring www.science.org/content/arti...
We extended the Environmental Impacts Frame backward to 1940 using the Census Bureau's historical decennial and IRS 1040 data! Looking forward to working with and seeing what others do with these cool new (old) data!
Dani Sandler@dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 2y ago📈📉 New Census Working Paper: "The Census Historical Environmental Impacts Frame" by Jenny Withrow (@withrowjenny.bsky.social), Kendall Houghton, Eva Lyubich, Mary Munro, Suvy Qin, and John Voorheis (@johnvoorheis.bsky.social) www.census.gov/library/work...
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.
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