Bhash Mazumder

Heya, this is the correct link:
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Hey JMCs, I know the waiting can be stressful.
Good news: @billingsecon.bsky.social, @schnepel.bsky.social, & I are hiring a postdoc on our project funded by Arnold VentureS
📢 Apply here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…
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Despensas/ Food Drive Join our Community Food Drive to support those in need while nurturing faith and fellowship. With your help, we can extend a helping hand and foster a sense of community.Your contribution will go towa...

My eldest just donated a fifth of their savings to DHH Church and I'm verklempt.

It's a lot of $ -- a lot of hours of earning -- for them and a lot of safety for Minnesota families.
www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Everyone talks about the "credibility revolution", but I think one of the most valuable shifts in econ over the last decade has been the rise of rigorous descriptive historical work like this in top journals:

New post on Substack

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First, if you live in a politically “red” or “purple” state, call your elected (especially Republican) officials and tell them to oppose mass ICE raids. Tell them you will not tolerate what is happening in Minnesota anywhere in your country and that their lack of action to protect U.S. citizens and other legal residents will heavily influence your vote in November. Second, send money. Pick a reputable (non-government) immigrant rights organization, public school PTA or support organization, or (non-government) social service agency. Send them as much money as you are comfortable sending; they need it desperately (mainly to feed people and provide legal assistance, but there are many other needs). Third, directly reach out to your friends or family members in the Twin Cities … every day. Like me, they need to know that the world is aware of what is happening here and cares.

The Minneapolis resident who wrote this post pointed to three ways you can help:
*Contact your elected official - make clear what is happening in Minneapolis is unacceptable
*Donate - they suggested www.standwithminnesota.com
*Communicate - let ppl in the Twin Cities know they are not alone

I should also acknowledge the amazing job that @durlauf.bsky.social and Felix Elwert and the @ucstonecenter.bsky.social did in arranging the workshop

It really was an excellent workshop, I learned so much, now if I can only retain it :)

Went to a conference on inequality at the Harris School last week where @wrigleyfield.bsky.social gave the most moving academic talk I have ever been to, highlighting the many profound and largely unexplored human costs of the Black-white mortality gap across many dimensions

Missouri’s Medicaid Contraction and Consumer Financial Outcomes | American Journal of Health Economics: Vol 11, No 4 Abstract In July 2005, the state of Missouri implemented a series of cuts to its Medicaid program. These cuts resulted in the elimination of the Medical Assistance for Workers with Disabilities progra...

My paper on the consumer financial impacts of Missouri's 2005 Medicaid cut with @1armedeconomist.bsky.social and Slava Mikhed is finally out in the fall issue of AJHE: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Surveying the evidence on intergenerational mobility studies that use alternative measures with a focus on health, consumption and life satisfaction, from Jonathan Davis, Nathan Deutscher, and @bhashmazumder.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34407

Thank you Erika!

Open call for papers, Gender in the Economy: Structural Transformation and Women's Time-Use. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on March 27, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on Decem... https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/gender-economy-structural-transformation-and-womens-time-use

#Nokings in Chicago

On the L heading to No Kings

Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe Abstract. Despite increasing concerns over socioeconomic barriers in access to doctoral education, relatively little is known about the degree to which PhDs are selected in terms of their social backg...

Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe: higher in the Nordics, lower in Eastern Europe, but overall, European PhDs are socioeconomically diverse. doi.org/10.1162/euso...

Last day to weigh in on Trump's plan to politicize the civil service Trump has already shown us how he would use Schedule F powers

Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions.
It's easy - here is how:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...

Doing gender and the surname choices of married women Marital surname choices reflect deeply embedded, often unspoken gender norms. According to the marital exchange/bargaining approach, women are more li…

New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages.

As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority
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Looking for a postdoc opportunity? Want to work on intergenerational mobility? Looking to be in the land down under? Here is a great opportunity to consider working for @siminskipeter.bsky.social, @rkwilkins.bsky.social, Nathan Deutscher and myself:

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We forget that professional sports such as baseball and football were originally integrated and then *became* segregated in response to White fans and, in some instances, White owners and White players.

Schedule Policy/Career Rule is a Threat to Federal Statistical Agencies. Take Action Today. The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is very concerned about the potential impact on federal statistics of Schedule Policy/Career Rule, a proposed change to federal employment policy. This change, initially introduced at the end of the first Trump administration (then referred to as “Schedule F”) seeks to reclassify certain senior federal employees, making it easier to remove them from their positions. Doing this requires adoption of regulations (a “rule”) to govern its implementation. On April 23, 2025, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) opened a 30-day comment period on a rule to institute Schedule Policy/Career. OMB is accepting comments through May 23, 2025. We urge all Friends of BLS to utilize the templates below and take action to help preserve the integrity and objectivity of the federal statistical system by: Writing to your Representatives in Congress. Submitting a comment on regulations.gov. Policy Brief Email Template Comment Template

The administration is moving the rule. Official public (that's us!!) comment period is open.

Friends of BLS has resources making it super easy & efficient for you to:
1) submit evidence to the official record &
2) communicate to your federal reps
#econsky
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

The Education Exchange: The Largest Educational Intervention You’ve Never Heard Of Paul E. Peterson interviews Bhash Mazumder, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine

On this podcast I tried to string together some coherent sentences about the Rosenwald schools and their long-run effects on the civil rights movement: www.educationnext.org/the-educatio...

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As someone who has studied public accommodations discrimination, the dismantling of the Woolworth lunch counter is so disturbing. What a sad day…

🚀 Excited to share that our paper, "𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻," is now officially published in the 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙨 with 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴! 📚🌍

Link 👉: doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...

i could not believe this was true -- that they really stopped testing milk today -- but i looked it up and it is.

People holding protest signs by main beach in Laguna Beach

Laguna Beach protesting too!

Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool