My old Reds Cabbage Patch doll (Barth Willie) is very happy today

New CSWEP newsletter focused on visibility in the economics profession:
Christine Exley on self-promotion,
Olga Stoddard on professional visibility,
Corinne Low on public scholarship and how to write and publish a trade press book,
Khoa Vu on social media and its professional uses.

Fascinating! Did the bake times on the other sizes go down? I'm wondering if there's less batter in a 9" pan now, are they recommending a lower cook time?

Senior Economics major Andrew Brooks is a drum major with the Notre Dame Band. Yesterday, he brought his mace to class and let Prof. Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social hold it!

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook won a round in federal court in her bid to keep her job despite President Trump's effort to fire her.

🎂🎉 Lucky 13 is William Cockriel's fascinating paper on the introduction of the McKay stitcher, which dramatically changed shoe production in the late 19th century. Using the Census Tree, he shows that the most exposed shoemakers and their children lost 2.2 and 1.9 years of wages, respectively.

rule of law
Rule of law
Rule of Law
Rule of Law!
RULE OF LAW!!!

Still alive in many lower federal courts.
#EconSky
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

We're back at it with Day 12 🎂🎉:

In his job market paper, Dongkyu Yang uses the Census Tree to create the shift-share IVs for his investigation into the role of labor scarcity in facilitating capital-augmenting technical change in the American South during the Second Great Migration (1940-1970).

US Open rolls over, adding themselves to a growing, embarrassing list.

And he’s only there because Rolex is trying to get special treatment on tariffs.

Census Tree Bday Celebration 🎂🎉Day 11:

Ager & Malein use the Census Tree to show that early 20th century charity nurseries w/kindergarten instruction significantly improved children’s educational attainment & long-run economic outcomes, especially for disadvantaged immigrant children.

For Day 10🎂🎉 I'll share work by a team that includes PhD student @adrianhaws.bsky.social--one of my awesome collaborators in building the Census Tree

They exploit quasi-random oil discoveries in early 20thC OK to document large long-run benefits from parental wealth shocks for both daughters & sons

(somehow this original post was deleted so had to recreate it--see my profile for the entries from prior days!)

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.

The 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👇

We took Labor Day off, but we're back with Day 8 of the Census Tree's bday celebration!🎂🎉

Bazzi et al. find that frontier exposure entrenched inegalitarian conservative gender norms in the U.S., leading to long-run decreases in female labor force & political participation & higher fertility rates.

It’s Day 7! 🎂🎉

@jacobvanecon.bsky.social‬
uses the Census Tree to show that individuals exposed to the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 were less geographically mobile, had shorter lifespans, and were less likely to be literate, with some of these effects persisting across generations.

For Day 6 🎂🎉 I bring you Clay & Schmick, who use the Census Tree in their paper showing that the boll weevil’s damage to cotton production reduced labor market frictions in the American South, significantly increasing the long-run wages of Black sons born after the shock.

www.nber.org/papers/w27101

For Day 5 of the Census Tree’s bday celebration 🎂🎉 we bring you @econzach.bsky.social & Priti Kalsi’s work on wealth in the Gilded Age. While they find
substantial turnover at the very top, descendants of the extremely wealthy were much more likely to reach the top 1% of the wealth distribution.

Without CT we couldn’t have written the paper!

The 4th entry in our Census Tree celebration 🎂🎉 is @guoxu.bsky.social & team's work that uses the CT to show that sudden ⬆️ in female public sector employment during WWI ⬆️ LFP among daughters of civil servants, suggesting that “temporary shocks can give rise to persistent changes in societal norms.”

It's Day 3 of the Census Tree's bday celebration 🎂🎉!

@danielavidart.bsky.social revisits the link between electrification & fertility, and finds that electrification efforts in the US account for 3.1% of the fertility decline from 1900-1940 due to the increase in the opportunity cost of children.

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For Day 2 of our celebration of work using the Census Tree we highlight @lukestein.com & co's work on the gendered impacts of perceived skin tone. They find that among African Amer. sisters, women perceived to be darker-skinned were disadvantaged.

*They also cite a great QJE pub by Lisa Cook et al*