Associate professor of economics at Baylor University. Trying to figure out how this world works bit by bit.
Waco, Texas
Joined January 2010
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Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @drescamillag @econstandrews who works on topics related to economic history, labor + migration in the context of developing countries
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Our last Inequality Workshop of the academic year has arrived!
Join us in asking: How much of your future is shaped before you are born? This Friday, @EconZach (@Baylor) will present research linking families across four generations.
Register Here → zurl.co/ONJSj
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Three economic history Nobel Prizes in a row! Go economic history! Congratulations Joel!
(Perhaps more departments should reconsider letting economic history die???)
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Sergio Garcia, celebrated Chef who came to the US before ICE even existed. Deported after 36 years.
The picture tells you a lot about the decline of the Republican party.
texastribune.org/2025/10/07/…
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Menzie Chinn provides a useful roundup of some of the recent misrepresentations and basic misunderstandings of government statistics from Trump's nominee to be our next BLS Commissioner. The clear theme is a commitment to winning a partisan news cycle over the truth: econbrowser.com/archives/202…
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Thank you @IPRatNU 🙏🏼 Excited to share my working paper studying the impacts of a work creating technological change on women’s labor and family outcomes!
In a new working paper, IPR graduate RA @MyeraRashid explores how the adoption of the typewriter reshaped women's job and marriage prospects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—showing how technology can change economic mobility and social life. spr.ly/601345Y9W
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I'm excited to help organize @OppInsights' 2025 Conference on Economic Mobility (Oct 9-10)! Submit your papers by August 1st here: opportunityinsights.org/upda…. Looking forward to reading your submissions! #EconTwitter
📣We’re hosting our 4th annual conference on economic opportunity on October 9-10 with opening remarks from Raj Chetty and a Keynote from @DavidAutor.
This is an excellent opportunity for both junior and senior scholars to share their work. ⬇️
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A reminder to all newly minted #econhistory PhDs that the deadline to submit for the @EconHistAssoc Gerschenkron and Nevins dissertation prizes is May 31 (eh.net/dissertation-awards/). The committee looks forward to reading the great work of our newest colleagues.
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Conflict events triggered substantial but temporary increases in monthly migration rates.
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Our paper (@EconZach @ekosack ) 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/ar…
📢🤩@ekosack @EconZach & I have a new @nberpubs WP. We use novel high-frequency (monthly) data to estimate the impact of conflict events on the magnitude, timing, and persistence of migration to the US during the Mexican Revolution.
nber.org/papers/w31531
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Link to the report: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/…
Link to a brief supplemental explainer about the role of the dollar and the Federal Reserve in thinking about tariffs: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/…
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Check out our new publication with Cecilia Peluffo and @ViollazMariana 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…
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Most elite families did not maintain their position in the top 1 percent between 1850 and 1940, from Priti Kalsi and @EconZach nber.org/papers/w33355
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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/earl…
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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).
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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-th…
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