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elizwebhand.bsky.social
Empirical Labor Economist, reader of economic history, wife, mother of three. My posts represent my own opinions. I only engage with people whose names I know.
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Very sorry to miss the chance to catch up with so many of my labor economist colleagues at the WALES conference today, but I've got a medical appointment that can't be rescheduled. Post about the research you see, please?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

When I took demography in graduate school, they told me the baby boom was a period (not cohort phenomenon) without an adequate explanation. I've now heard two explanations in recent months (this paper says mortgages, and a paper presented at NBERSI/DAE said unions).

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I spent literally years of my career in a statistical agency, trying to figure out how to improve our statistics without access to data from another government agency, because the other agency could not legally share datasets that had been improved using Treasury data.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Confused about wage requirements for the H-1B visa? I have a new 2-page explainer at crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Interested in trying to understand the various measures of agricultural employment in the U.S.? I have a new report: crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The abstract of this paper literally made my jaw drop. They randomized what? How?

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

My colleague Sarah Donovan and I have updated our two-page overview of the current Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) methodology for the H-2A visa. It's at crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12408

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

I love reading all the different economists who write about the Employment Situation every month and I do love seeing their charts. But I don't think enough people know about the charts that BLS publishes itself every month. They're available at 8:30am at bls.gov/charts/emplo...

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

The 1906 San Francisco Fire was one of the largest urban fires in American history. @hannaschwank.bsky.social's excellent paper on its long-run consequences has sadly become very timely. Luckily we have learned some lessons (e.g. insurance more common), still an invaluable piece of research.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

People in the Baltimore/DC region: this group played a spectacular free concert this afternoon in a church that could have easily fit five or six times as many people (and my kid and I were the youngest people there). You're missing out! www.mountvernonvirtuosi.com/202425-season

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not seeing enough other people reposting this story, so maybe you haven't all already read it yet? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

The US Capitol was missing this morning.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

I was asked to write a 2-page explanation of CES Benchmark Revisions--what they are, why they happen, etc. The online version with links to detailed BLS documentation is only available to Congressional staff, but a PDF is publicly available at crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/...

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

I paid $5.20 for this service, and have confirmed that my stand-alone tweets have been moved (there were not so many of them, as most of my Twitter activity was quoting or replying to other people's Tweets). Now I will delete the original Tweets.

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

People who know about electric power: why are the NC/TN and VA/KY state lines so clear on this map? Hurricane damage doesn't follow state lines--do power grids?

submitted 151 days ago • 1 comment

Today I learned that researchers who wish to access Canadian microdata enter into a contract with the British monarch, whom the contract subsequently refers to as "Statistics Canada".

submitted 165 days ago • 3 comments

It's Sunday. I am NOT at work. 2 additional insights about what's going on the the CPS: (1) The threat to the CPS is the INTERACTION of declining response and flat (nominal) funding. When people are less willing to respond, it takes more time and effort per response--and staff time costs money.

submitted 166 days ago • 1 comment

Not my area of expertise at all, but whenever I hear about taxes and tips, I think of the summer I spent as a payroll clerk in Yellowstone National Park.

submitted 200 days ago • 1 comment