Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Long-Run Impacts of Public Industrial Investment on Local Development and Economic Mobility: Evidence from World War II,” by Garin (Andy Garin) and Rothbaum: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

🚨 JMP thread: Peers and Social Mobility🚨 On the Academic JM 2024/2025!🔜 How do social interactions shape economic opportunity? In my JMP, I uncover how school-based peer networks influence lifetime earnings. 🧵👇 pietro-campa.github.io/CampaJMP.pdf

Great paper shows that US laws that allowed women to own property and wages increased child literacy rates dropbox.com/scl/fi/06qvhy2…

I'm on the job market this year! My #EconJMP examines the long run and intergenerational impacts of institutional discrimination against immigrants. Here's a thread of what I find (1/8)🧵 #EconJobMarket #econtwitter

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Thank you Jennifer Doleac for sharing my JMP! Punchline: Minimum wage increases result in negative employment effects for smaller firms and positive effects for larger firms. We rationalize this in a model of monopsonistic competition. I will post a more in-depth thread soon!

My amazing wife wrote a novel. It's a coming-of-age adventure inspired by 20th-century fantasy classics, which she is releasing chapter by chapter on substack. If that's your sort of thing, check it out! byamward.substack.com/p/1-the-third-…

Causal callback returns to majors. Even among the business-related jobs we targeted, Biology has the greatest callback rate, with Economics close second (omitted major is Philosophy). 3/6

I am so glad to see my JMP in the Journal of Human Resources. It has been a long road (due to my own pace) and I could not be more thankful to have this paper land in such an outlet. Parents matter, here is a natural experiment about that. A Mighty Toll: jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/…

Most elite families did not maintain their position in the top 1 percent between 1850 and 1940, from Priti Kalsi and Zach Ward nber.org/papers/w33355

Check out our new publication with Cecilia Peluffo and Mariana Viollaz on the effects of extending the school day on divorce! The availability of full time schools ⬆️ divorce, especially in areas with non traditional social norms. authors.elsevier.com/c/1kUHS_14odP6…

The Budget Lab Link to the report: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/econo… Link to a brief supplemental explainer about the role of the dollar and the Federal Reserve in thinking about tariffs: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/tarif… 4/4

Our paper (Zach Ward Edward Kosack ) is forthcoming! We use high-frequency data to identify the magnitude, timing, and persistence of conflict-induced migration during the Mexican Revolution. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Conflict events triggered substantial but temporary increases in monthly migration rates.

Our paper that shows violent events during the Mexican Revolution led to a temporary spike in migration to the US is now forthcoming at the Journal of Development Economics. Check it out!

A reminder to all newly minted #econhistory PhDs that the deadline to submit for the EHA Gerschenkron and Nevins dissertation prizes is May 31 (eh.net/dissertation-a…). The committee looks forward to reading the great work of our newest colleagues.

I'm excited to help organize Opportunity Insights' 2025 Conference on Economic Mobility (Oct 9-10)! Submit your papers by August 1st here: opportunityinsights.org/updates/2025-c…. Looking forward to reading your submissions! #EconTwitter

Blowing a $50 billion hole in the budget of every state flagship and top private university in America. Gunshot wound to the head of the best education system in the world and the crown jewel of American soft power. Absolute madness.

Thank you Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern 🙏🏼 Excited to share my working paper studying the impacts of a work creating technological change on women’s labor and family outcomes!