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Enclaves outside the exclusion zone boomed, gaining roughly 0.8 Japanese Americans for every Japanese American who was already there. These new enclaves, however, remained smaller than their West Coast predecessors.
We find: The locations of Japanese enclaves proved remarkably resilient. But historic West Coast Japantowns lost 25–50% of their prewar Japanese American populations. The vacancies created by internment were filled almost one-for-one by Black households.
We digitize enumeration-district maps from the 1940 and 1950 censuses for 14 cities (representing newly every city with a significant Japanese population) and use them to track racial composition changes across thousands of neighborhoods.
During WWII, the U.S. government incarcerated all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast (the “exclusion zone”) in internment camps. While there is a large literature on how internment affected the internees themselves, far less is known about what happened to the Japantowns they left behind.
My coauthor Tate Twinam and I have a new NBER working paper: “Shutting Down Japantown: The Effects of WWII Internment on Japanese Enclaves.”
nber.org/papers/w34510
Tessie Krishna’s fields are health economics and the economics of crime. Her JMP studies the effects of a juvenile diversion program on recidivism.
tessiekrishna.wordpress.com
Pim Pinitjitsamut’s fields are crime, urban, and labor economics. Her JMP studies the effect of arbitration caps on police performance in New Jersey.
www.pimpinitjitsamut.com
Roisin O'Neill’s fields are labor, public, and family/gender economics. Her JMP studies how paid family leave and paternal leave-taking affect the child penalty.
economics.rutgers.edu/people/facul...
Shailee Manandhar’s fields are labor, development, and migration. Her JMP studies how the 2015 earthquake affected migration trends in Nepal.
sites.google.com/view/shailee...
Md Wahid Ferdous Ibon’s fields are labor, education, and development. His JMP studies whether the effect of parental job loss on college enrollment and dropout varies with the academic calendar.
www.wahidferdousibon.com
Ji Hye Choi’s fields are labor, household/gender economics, and crime. Her JMP studies the mechanism through which marriage reduces male criminal behavior, focusing on bargaining power within the household.
sites.google.com/view/jihyech...
I am pleased to announce the Rutgers Economics 2025–2026 Job Market candidates. We’ve got six students this year, all in applied microeconomics.
economics.rutgers.edu/job-market
They are:
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COME ON! IT’S NOT SO BAD!
Despite the increase in anti-vaccine discourse, pro-mandate court decisions still reduced mortality. In short, while mandates did energize the anti-vaccine movement, this backlash wasn't large enough to negate the mortality benefits. N/N
We then measure how court decisions upholding vaccine mandates affect anti-vaccine discourse. Pro-mandate decisions led to a rise in anti-vaccine discourse for two years before returning to baseline. 4/N
We use ML models to measure anti-smallpox vaccine discourse in American newspapers. Below is an example from a particularly anti-vaccine paper: 3/N
A common argument is that vaccine mandates might be counterproductive because they energize the anti-vaccine movement, potentially rendering mandates ineffective. 2/N
My paper with Paul Brehm, “Vaccines and Verdicts: How Smallpox Court Decisions Affect Anti-Vaccine Discourse and Mortality,” has been accepted at The Economic Journal!
Here’s a quick thread summarizing the findings: 1/N
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Just joined this place and am still finding my way around. If you post interesting work in econ history, health econ, text as data, or applied micro more generally, let me know and I’ll follow.
