New labor market measure just dropped @bradhershbein.bsky.social @upjohninstitute.bsky.social The New Separation Quality Index (NHQI) tracks real earning power of newly separated workers. Its rise => separations (quits & firings) increasingly affect higher earning workers. #NumbersDay #EconSky

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Families in the top 10% spend 13x more on developmental activities than those in the bottom 25%, compared to 3x in 1980. "Even More Unequal Childhoods: 45 years of Widening Income Gaps in Parental Investments in the United States" now out at @sociologicalsci.bsky.social doi.org/10.15195/v13... 🧵👇

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Have we abandoned #TWFE too quickly?😮 New in #Sociological #Methodology w/ @aksoyundan.bsky.social We compare TWFE event studies vs dynamic #DID estimators. Results suggest a more nuanced picture than "never use TWFE" and clarify when different estimators perform well 👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0081...

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The long-promised thread on my new article: How does the match between university major and occupation change when education expands? doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

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The results from this study are exactly what you would expect based on Teitelbaum's argument. Folk theory in the US, Canada, and UK is that everyone should major in STEM, and there's too much competition for "Mickey Mouse degrees." Turns out, the natural and physical sciences aren't different.

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