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Bhash Mazumder

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Professor of Economics at UC Irvine. Co-editor at Labour Economics. Love to rock climb. https://sites.google.com/view/bhash/home

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Bhash Mazumder @bhashmazumder.bsky.social · Nov 23

Ok, I tried making a starter pack on intergenerational mobility. I'm sure I've missed many folks so please let me know if you want to be added: go.bsky.app/DvGG8zV

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Bhash Mazumder @bhashmazumder.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thank you Erika!

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NBER @nber.org · Jul 4

Open call for papers, Gender in the Economy: Structural Transformation and Women's Time-Use. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on March 27, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on Decem... https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/gender-economy-structural-transformation-and-womens-time-use

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Bhash Mazumder @bhashmazumder.bsky.social · Jun 14

#Nokings in Chicago

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Bhash Mazumder @bhashmazumder.bsky.social · Jun 14

On the L heading to No Kings

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Jun 12

Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe: higher in the Nordics, lower in Eastern Europe, but overall, European PhDs are socioeconomically diverse. doi.org/10.1162/euso...

Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe

Abstract. Despite increasing concerns over socioeconomic barriers in access to doctoral education, relatively little is known about the degree to which PhDs are selected in terms of their social backg...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jun 6

Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions.
It's easy - here is how:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...

Last day to weigh in on Trump's plan to politicize the civil service

Trump has already shown us how he would use Schedule F powers

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Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · May 28

New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages.

As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Doing gender and the surname choices of married women

Marital surname choices reflect deeply embedded, often unspoken gender norms. According to the marital exchange/bargaining approach, women are more li…

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Bhash Mazumder @bhashmazumder.bsky.social · May 22

Looking for a postdoc opportunity? Want to work on intergenerational mobility? Looking to be in the land down under? Here is a great opportunity to consider working for @siminskipeter.bsky.social, @rkwilkins.bsky.social, Nathan Deutscher and myself:

#econsky

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EJM - Econ Job Market

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · May 2

We forget that professional sports such as baseball and football were originally integrated and then *became* segregated in response to White fans and, in some instances, White owners and White players.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · May 2

Frederick Douglass's youngest son, Charles, was 23 years old when he started working for the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1867.

He was also a fervent baseball player and an organizer of a Black DC baseball club called the Alerts. 🗃️

How Baseball Shaped Black Communities in Reconstruction-Era America

From the end of the Civil War to World War I, African Americans experienced extraordinary change. In one respect, they went from being enslaved people to citizens, from slavery to freedom, in a com…

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Apr 29

The administration is moving the rule. Official public (that's us!!) comment period is open.

Friends of BLS has resources making it super easy & efficient for you to:
1) submit evidence to the official record &
2) communicate to your federal reps
#econsky
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

Schedule Policy/Career Rule is a Threat to Federal Statistical Agencies. Take Action Today.
The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is very concerned about the potential impact on federal statistics of Schedule Policy/Career Rule, a proposed change to federal employment policy. This change, initially introduced at the end of the first Trump administration (then referred to as “Schedule F”) seeks to reclassify certain senior federal employees, making it easier to remove them from their positions. Doing this requires adoption of regulations (a “rule”) to govern its implementation. On April 23, 2025, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) opened a 30-day comment period on a rule to institute Schedule Policy/Career. OMB is accepting comments through May 23, 2025.

We urge all Friends of BLS to utilize the templates below and take action to help preserve the integrity and objectivity of the federal statistical system by:

Writing to your Representatives in Congress.

Submitting a comment on regulations.gov.

Policy Brief

Email Template

Comment Template

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Bhash Mazumder @bhashmazumder.bsky.social · Apr 29

On this podcast I tried to string together some coherent sentences about the Rosenwald schools and their long-run effects on the civil rights movement: www.educationnext.org/the-educatio...

The Education Exchange: The Largest Educational Intervention You’ve Never Heard Of

Paul E. Peterson interviews Bhash Mazumder, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine

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Bhash Mazumder @bhashmazumder.bsky.social · Apr 28

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · Apr 25

As someone who has studied public accommodations discrimination, the dismantling of the Woolworth lunch counter is so disturbing. What a sad day…

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Apr 25

“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.”

blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...

The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance

Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.

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Hanchen Jiang @hanchenraphael.bsky.social · Apr 23

🚀 Excited to share that our paper, "𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻," is now officially published in the 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙨 with 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴! 📚🌍

Link 👉: doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · Apr 22

i could not believe this was true -- that they really stopped testing milk today -- but i looked it up and it is.

Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social · Apr 22

Dr. Josephine Baker fought for milk testing in lower Manhattan over a century ago, where babies were 7 times more likely to die than WWI US soldiers in the trenches. Milk was often adulterated with chalk and germ-y water. Today the FDA stopped testing milk due to lack of staff. Shame on you, Trump.

pictures of physician Sara Josephine Baker dressed in tweed suit & tie in 1922

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Bhash Mazumder @bhashmazumder.bsky.social · Apr 19

Laguna Beach protesting too!

People holding protest signs by main beach in Laguna Beach

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Apr 19

Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Apr 19

"Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management."
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

The Next Terrorist Attack

And What Comes After

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Apr 17

Resistance with slides:

when presenting scientific evidence created by federal data and/or $

tell your audience what they won’t be seeing more of

Slides templates here

https://sites.google.com/view/tobeclear/

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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · Apr 10

Today marks 100 years since the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s #TheGreatGatsby.

So #EconSky let’s celebrate by recalling how the #GreatGatsbyCurve got its name!

The subtext of my post is that policy relevant research always needs a communication strategy

milescorak.com/2016/12/04/h...