🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

A good time for a reminder that mass deportations hurt all workers - not just immigrants. 🧵

📽️Meet Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, professor of global development and public policy Cornell University. Parfait’s research explores the effects of contemporary demographic changes on global inequality, education, youth employment, health, food security & conflicts. youtube.com/watch?v=_xNqeE…

Russell Sage Foundation interviews authors of our edited volume on disparate effects of disruptive events Florencia Torche Jason Fletcher russellsage.org/news/rsf-journ…

Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024) Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations. austinkocher.substack.com/p/immigration-…

The Race and Stratification Working Group at NBER will have its annual meeting on Friday, April 4, 2025! @DaniaFrancis Vicki Bogan Ellora Derenoncourt and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper before the December 19, 2024 deadline! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

“The Causal Effect of Increasing Area-Level Income on Birth Outcomes”: In a study of the PA Marcellus Shale economy, Molly A. Martin Tiffany Green is now tiffanylgreen.bsky.social & A Chapman find that a $1K gain in mean income correlates w/ a 1.5-pp drop in low birth weight. UPenn Prevention Research Center ow.ly/eVqQ50UlL46

A smaller share of Americans moved in 2023 than ... ever. New from U.S. Census Bureau at census.gov/data/tables/20…

Cornellians: Please join me on Jan 14th for an overview of our NIH Grant Development Program.

In 2024, the OMB approved major changes to the ethnic/racial self-identification questions used by all federal agencies, including the Census. Do these changes shape Americans’ ID choices? Edward Telles, Ilana Ventura, PhD, and I address this question: 🧵 sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11-4…

📢Sabino Kornrich and I are hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join us at NYUAD Social Science to work on parenting, childhood inequalities, and parenting norms in international/comparative perspective using experimental methods. apply.interfolio.com/160976 PAA IUSSP @ASA_Family

The newly released population estimates from the US Census Bureau show that New York State added population in the last two years, after a sizeable dip during the pandemic. We prepared a memo of highlights from this release, available here: pad.human.cornell.edu/papers/downloa…

New paper on donations to immigrant-serving legal aid. We track donations to immigrant-serving legal aid nonprofits with DOJ accreditation over time. We find a dramatic rise in financial contributions to these organizations during Trump's first election. doi.org/10.1177/019791…

Nerds: They’re pulling down data sets that collect gender and sexual data. YRBS has been pulled and word on the street is that BRFSS is next. Download your data.

It probably goes without saying for most of you who follow me, but the extent to which the private sector relies on open government datasets is massive. Limiting access to data or taking data offline would have huge consequences for everyone from startups to large corporations.

A PSA for US Census geodata users: while the TIGER/Line shapefiles are inaccessible, all Census geographies are still up via the TigerWeb API Endpoints are here: tigerweb.geo.census.gov/tigerwebmain/T… Use @JosiahParry's {arcgislayers} package to pull them into #rstats with minimal fuss

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

Cornell researchers: Join us for a panel discussion on changes in public data access this Friday, 2/28, from 2-3pm Register here: cornell.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

He was in a union, not a gang. Follow the law. Bring him back.

It’s hard not to find this image — of a single Democratic senator standing alone in some empty room in a foreign country and defending the rule of law — very moving. There should have been more senators there with him, but kudos to Van Hollen.

Romaine Campbell kicks of TxECW 2025 presenting his work on Prison Education. Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy