Amidst all the posts about how NSF funds the basic science that (eventually) leads to marketable products, its role in funding data infrastructure is getting lost.
The GSS (1972), ANES (late 1960s), and PSID (1968) are rounding error in the discretionary budget but vital national resources.
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Inequality Readers. Piketty Strikes Back
Has inequality grown over the last half century? The great debate continues!
The great debate over inequality's rise continues. At the blog, I summarize a Piketty, Saez, and Zucman response to an important critique of their work. They make a convincing case that inequality after taxes has, in fact, probably risen.
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Competition and Consumer Discrimination
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...
Economists often use models that show firm discrimination cannot withstand market competition. The discriminating firm is unprofitable. But what happens when itβs consumers that have discriminatory preferences? In this case, the market doesnβt solve the problem. A 𧡠www.nber.org/papers/w33547
10.03.2025 15:18 β π 74 π 21 π¬ 2 π 3
Examining the history of the U.S. racial wealth divide shows stagnating progress on closing these disparities
New research finds that the U.S. racial wealth divide narrowed after the Civil War but then stagnated and even began to grow starting in the 1980s.
A 2023 analysis of the U.S. racial wealth divide shows that progress in reducing disparities has slowed over time.
Understanding this history is crucial for shaping more effective economic policy solutions for the future. ππ‘#BlackHistoryMonth
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Double disadvantage of Black, Hispanic, and Asian American women in earnings, revisited - Andrew Taeho Kim, ChangHwan Kim, 2025
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991β2020 - Andrew Taeho Kim, ChangHwan Kim, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Persistent Educational Advantages of Asian Immigrantsβ Children, 1940 to 2015β2019 - ChangHwan Kim, Andrew Taeho Kim, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Two Great Reads - Monday - December 2
Siblings!
It's Monday, so over at the blog I wrote about two great new papers that take a swing at what you can and can't do with sibling data.
asocial.substack.com/p/two-great-...
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Check in on your quantiles, people, they might not be (interpreted) alright.
Excellent paper by Nicolai Borgen, @andreashaupt.bsky.social, and @oyvindw.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/esr/article/...
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