Danielle Graves Williamson

rooting for you!

"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."

I don't just work at @propublica, I'm also a donor. And today your donation is doubled PLUS free swag. give.propublica.org/campaign/748....

Even $5 would be enough. (A $5 monthly recurring donation would be awesome.)

I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.

In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.

Line graph showing cumulative state adoption of chiropractic boards over time

I'm John Fallon, a labor economist on the job market. My JMP uncovers something wild: when chiropractors got licensed in the early 1900s, medical boards responded by making it HARDER to become a doctor.

Why would competition lead to stricter regulations?
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john-fallon-econ.com

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Hi #SEA2025! I’m presenting my JMP on segregation academies at SEA today alongside some other great papers on labor and education in US history!

📍Edison (3rd floor JW marriot)
⏰ 1pm

Why No One Knows How Many People Die in Mississippi’s Jails Mississippi has long failed to count and report all deaths in local jails that serve the state’s 82 counties, despite a federal requirement to do so.

Mississippi has long failed to count and report all deaths in local jails that serve the state’s 82 counties, despite a federal requirement to do so. These often dangerous facilities operate virtually free of any state oversight.

Deeply concerned about the trauma and developmental harm this admin is inflicting on students. Local news reporting absenteeism rate post ICE raid doubled relative to its rate from prior year in Charlotte. What @tomdee.bsky.social found in Central Valley, CA occurring in many cities throughout US.

Why have girls' test scores declined relative to boys' in recent years? Next Tuesday (11/18) at 4 pm, join the PIER Public Seminar series for a conversation with Stanford University's sean... Why have girls' test scores declined relative to boys' in recent years? Next Tuesday (11/18) at 4 pm, join the PIER Public Seminar series for a conversation with Stanford University's sean reardon, wh...

Girls’ test scores dropped more than boys’ post pandemic—but not everywhere. We use 15 years of data from 7k+ districts to understand why, and what this might teach us about how societal shocks impact gender disparities in ed outcomes. Hear sean present our findings tomorrow: lnkd.in/eEe-DTND

I remember when this was a thing in my town. All of a sudden, a new private school opened… it was just several rooms in an office building. And I remember my parents conversation at the dinner table saying that other parents had taken their kids out of public school

💰 Childcare in the U.S. is expensive: in 2022, annual costs ranged from 5% to 35% of median income.

Prices are highest in the Northeast and West Coast, but many counties elsewhere still fact childcare costs >20% of median household income.

👋 I'm a health and labour economist on the #EconJobMarket!

My JMP explores a factor that often comes up when talking to people about having children - childcare costs

🗣️ “It’s frustrating to read articles asking why people aren’t having kids - have they looked at the cost of childcare?”

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Hi #APPAM2025! I'm presenting my JMP on segregation academies this morning with some other great work on school stratification by income and race -- would love to see folks there!

📍Grand Hyatt, Leonesa 3
⏰ 10:15 - 11:45 AM

Michael is a dear friend, an excellent writer and presenter (communicator of research), and pretty funny. My work is better because I share an office with him. Everyone should check out his JMP 👇

TLDR APPAM Ed Policy folks informal happy hour tonight starting at 6, at Seattle Beer Co. #2025Appam #Appam2025

All welcome, hope to see you there!

Exposure to a field-specific faculty sexual misconduct incident decreases degree completion in that field by 3.4 percent four years after the incident, from Sarah R. Cohodes and Katherine B. Leu www.nber.org/papers/w34456

Thanks so much!

Thank you!!

A great idea! @peternka.bsky.social and I are kicking off a broader agenda on Catholic schooling… this seems really interesting

Absolutely! My work would not have been possible without them and benefitted from reading their work. Bruckman, Stern, Orfield, and Lassiter, just to name a few… Amberly Sheffield is a history doctoral student at Ole Miss who also does great work in this area and @hyres376.bsky.social gave advice!

This is such interesting and impt work--and especially so in light of today's voucher push and the fact that, per @douglasharris9.bsky.social, the average private school in the US is a low-tuition school serving 30 kids. It'd be pretty cheap to create new, low-quality, segregative private schools.

Thank you so much, Trevon -- your early support for this project really mattered and helped give it momentum.

Thank you so much, Kristine! I certainly felt the impact growing up in Alabama

Thank you so much!!

Website: daniellecgw.github.io

Contact: dcgw[at]bu.edu

#EconSky #EconJMP #APPAM2025

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Thank you so much!

Why is this economics?

We show how backlash to the most significant social policy since the abolition of slavery -- school integration --reshaped markets, reallocated resources, and reduced human capital.

Read the paper 👇

(P.S. I'm presenting this at APPAM this weekend! Come say hi!)

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3️⃣ We find white children exposed to academies fared worse as adults.

📉 Human capital index ↓ 0.04 SD
📉 Economic self-sufficiency ↓ 0.06 SD

This evidence suggests White families may have sacrificed educational quality to maintain racial segregation.

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