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📜 One census is a snapshot. Several reveal a family's journey.
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October 23, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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October 19, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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#CensusResearch in @aeajournals.bsky.social "Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Exports: When Modern Supply Chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism" by Kyle Handley, Fariha Kamal, & Ryan Monarch www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Exports: When Modern Supply Chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism
(January 2025) - We examine the impacts of the 2018–2019 US import tariff increases on US exports through the lens of supply chain linkages. Using 2016 confidential firm-trade linked data, we identify...
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January 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
dismalscientist86.bsky.social
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"Who Scars the Easiest? College Quality and the Effects of Graduating into a Recession" by Anstreicher & Miller shows the effects of graduating into worse economic conditions vary over college quality.
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Graduating from college into a recession is associated with earnings losses, but less is known about how these effects vary across colleges. Using restricted-use data from the National Survey of College Graduates, we study how the effects of graduating into worse economic conditions vary over college quality in the context of the Great Recession. We find that earnings losses are concentrated among graduates from relatively high-quality colleges. Key mechanisms include substitution out of the labor force and into graduate school, decreased graduate degree completion, and differences in the economic stability of fields of study between graduates of high- and low-quality colleges. Table showing that while those at higher quality colleges earn more after graduation, the interaction between college quality and the unemployment rate at graduation is negative. Those at the highest quality colleges are most affected by the poor labor market conditions.
September 23, 2024 at 12:56 PM
dismalscientist86.bsky.social
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"Who Marries Whom? The Role of Segregation by Race and Class" by Goldman, Gracie, and Porter examines whether residential segregation limits marriage across race and class lines in the US. www.census.gov/library/work...
Americans rarely marry outside of their race or class group. We distinguish between two possible explanations: a lack of exposure to other groups versus a preference to marry within group. We develop an instrument for neighborhood exposure to opposite-sex members of other race and class groups using variation in sex ratios among nearby birth cohorts in childhood neighborhoods. We then test whether increased exposure results in more interracial (white-Black) and interclass (top-to-bottom parent income quartile) marriages. Increased exposure to opposite-sex members of other class groups generates a substantial increase in interclass marriage, but increased exposure to other race groups has no detectable effect on interracial marriage. We use these results to estimate a spatial model of the marriage market and quantify the impact of reducing residential segregation in general equilibrium. For small changes in exposure, the model implies effects in line with recent estimates from policy ex This figure summarizes key patterns of marital homophily by class (parent income) and race. In Panel A, we plot the fraction of individuals who are married at age 30 to a spouse from a low-income (bottom parent quartile) and high-income (top quartile) family, separately for those who themselves come from low- or high-income families. We include unmarried people in the calculation. In Panel B, we construct analogous statistics, using a sample of white and Black individuals. We include two benchmarks. The fully random benchmark is the overall marriage rate multiplied by the fraction of the population from each class or race group. The random spouse benchmark is equal to the actual marriage rate for each class or race group multiplied by the fraction of the married population that comes from each class or race group. For both benchmarks, we include those with missing class or race in the population, which we estimate as the share of spouses with missing data.
September 13, 2024 at 2:25 PM
dismalscientist86.bsky.social
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"Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility" by Chetty, Dobbie, Goldman, Porter, and Yang shows class gaps are rising and race gaps are falling between 1978-1992 cohorts www.census.gov/library/work...
We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades and use these trends to study the causal mechanisms underlying changes in economic mobility. For white children in the U.S. born between 1978 and 1992, earnings increased for children from high-income families but decreased for children from low-income families, increasing earnings gaps by parental income (“class”) by 30%. Earnings increased for Black children at all parental income levels, reducing white- Black earnings gaps for children from low-income families by 30%. Class gaps grew and race gaps shrank similarly for non-monetary outcomes such as educational attainment, standardized test scores, and mortality rates. Using a quasi-experimental design, we show that the divergent trends in economic mobility were caused by differential changes in childhood environments, as proxied by parental employment rates, within local communities defined by race, class, and childhood county. Outcomes improv Two graphs. The first showing child income vs parental income for the 1978 and 1992 birth cohorts, where the income of children to parents in 1992 is strictly above the 1978 level for black children, while the line for white children crosses at around the 75th percentile. The lower graph shows the white class gap is growing over time, while the White-Black gap is falling.
September 11, 2024 at 1:25 PM
dismalscientist86.bsky.social
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"Driving the Gig Economy" by Abraham, Haltiwanger, Hou, Sandusky, and Spletzer explores the effects of the introduction of online ridesharing platforms on entry, employment and earnings in the Taxi and Limousine Services industry www.census.gov/library/work...
Four graphs showing percent under age 35, percent female, percent white, and percent native born in nonemployer sole proprietors in NAICS 4853 are all going up Using rich administrative tax data, we explore the effects of the introduction of online ridesharing platforms on entry, employment and earnings in the Taxi and Limousine Services industry. Ridesharing dramatically increased the pace of entry of workers into the industry. New entrants were more likely to be young, female, White and U.S. born, and to combine earnings from ridesharing with wage and salary earnings. Displaced workers have found ridesharing to be a substantially more attractive fallback option than driving a taxi. Ridesharing also affected the incumbent taxi driver workforce. The exit rates of low-earning taxi drivers increased following the introduction of ridesharing in their city; exit rates of high-earning taxi drivers were little affected. In cities without regulations limiting the size of the taxi fleet, both groups of drivers experienced earnings losses following the introduction of ridesharing. These losses were ameliorated or absent in more heavily regulated marke
September 10, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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September 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM