Danielle Graves Williamson

We are excited to announce the upcoming PIER 2026 conference, celebrating undergrad econ research! The conference will be May 2; submissions due Mar 20. Submit here: sites.google.com/williams.edu...
Our keynote speaker is the great @caitlinmyers.bsky.social!

The Nazis stopped Jewish doctors from practising, so thousands of them left the country (my great grandfather was one of them). So many left that this was a good natural experiment for estimating the causal effect of losing doctors on infant mortality (& thousands died)

adrftools: Estimating, Visualizing, and Testing Average Dose-Response Functions Facilitates estimating, visualizing, and testing average dose-response functions (ADRFs) for characterizing the causal effect of a continuous (i.e., non-discrete) treatment or exposure. Includes suppo...

I'm so excited to announce the first release of my newest #Rstats package, {adrftools}! This package facilitates estimation, visualization, and testing for the causal effect of a continuous (i.e., non-discrete) treatment.

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#statssky #episky #causalinference

The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | The Segregation Tracking Project Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.

VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here!

New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more!

edopportunity.org/segregation/

The sessions are typically grouped by subject and are back to back over the course of a day and a half. People treat these sessions like a mini conference and attendance is high—we were spilling out of our room last year. There's always a nice social event. Grad student friendly! 2/2

Econ historians of bluesky! Submit your paper to the SEA econ history sessions, sponsored by Clio and EHA, by March 22: forms.gle/YomRiP8iAUYK...

Proposals due: March 22, 2026
Authors notified of acceptance of paper: March 28, 2026
Conf dates: Nov 21-23

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I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.....

A better Alabama government requires a bigger Alabama electorate | Alabama Reflector What Alabama voters want is not necessarily what Alabamians want. Because in state elections, most Alabamians don't vote.

My column from Monday. Alabama politicians give voters little but paranoia and niche right-wing issues, which may be why just 37% of voters turned up for the last midterm in 2022. Those politicians who truly want to make a government for Alabama have to restore Alabamians’ faith in the process.

Applications for the Economic History Association Graduate Dissertation Fellowships are due in two days (January 14)

eh.net/graduate-dis...

Welcome to the Dynamic Democracy App This app lets you manipulate, explore, and download the Dynamic Democracy datasets with information on state policies and public opinion assembled by Devin Caughey and Chris Warshaw. Click on the triangle next to each category for more details. • State Policies: This dataset includes information on approximately 200 policies in place in at least one state between 1936 and 2024. • State Policy Ideology : Measures summarizing aggregate policy outputs in each state/year between 1936-2024. • Public Opinion: Measures summarizing state publics views on approximately 80 issues, covering 1936-2024. • Mass Ideology.: Measures of state publics' economic and cultural ideological preferences, 1936-2021. • Policy Proximity.: Measures of how closely state policies match public preferences.

🚨 the best state policy & public opinion database is now online. ~200 (!!!) state policies and 80 public opinion series on abortion, labor, taxes, environment, guns, education…

dynamicdemocracy.shinyapps.io

Massive public goods provision from @devincaughey.bsky.social & @chriswarshaw.bsky.social

I wish I was clever enough for the first scheme. Though, one COULD say that, by willingly taking the apparent lack of outlets at face value, I was scheming to watch sex and the city on my (charged) ipad instead of doing work on my (conveniently dead) laptop...

We @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social are hiring a director for our Policy-Aligned Research Agenda Buildling Lab (PARABL), to help education system leaders build research roadmaps to effect change in a particular area.

More info here:

wheelockpolicycenter.org/wp-content/u...

I was gently informing my seat mate that unfortunately there are no outlets on the new Acela, yes, yes, a shame, really, and giving him the insider tip that he could go to the cafe car to plug in his computer when a very nice woman turned around and pointed them out to us. Thanks again Sue!

Putting together the list of papers and posters that I want to see at the ASSA Annual Meeting, and this poster session project (by @michaelbriskin.bsky.social) looks interesting

Paper is here: mbbriskin.github.io/files/Briski...

Joining the throng of economists taking a delayed Amtrak to PHL today to present my JMP at #ASSA2026!

📍 Philadelphia Convention Center, 204-A (Elementary & Secondary Education)
⏰ Sunday, 1/4, 10:15-12:15

#EconConf

Two women pose in front of a large deep freezer

There has not been a grocery store in the small Mississippi Delta town of Drew in 11 years. The nearest grocery store is a 20-minute drive to Cleveland, forcing residents like Melinda Davis to make a 40-minute commute to access fresh food.

buff.ly/g1gSdiz

Identity and Ideology in the School Boardroom Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Wow, the estimated effects of the orientation of elected school board members are enormous!

Identity and Ideology in the School Boardroom www.nber.org/papers/w34590

ICYMI: Do workers actually learn from collaboration, or just benefit from the help?

New paper uses teacher co-teaching to answer this question. Spoiler: genuine skill transfer is real, but partner experience matters a lot.
john-fallon-econ.com/Files/LBDT.pdf
#ASSA2026 #EconSky

List of frequently cited papers including Cohodes et al. (2016) "The Effect of Child Health Insurance Access on Schooling."

Pretty cool to have one of my papers listed as most cited in the Economic Reports of the President from the past 15 years.

See the recent NBER working paper for the source on this: www.nber.org/papers/w34597

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)
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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