Seasonal Work
The Quarterly Workforce Indicators at the 6-digit industry level has been available since earlier this year.
Dismal Scientist
A place for me to share my thoughts, since I'm tired of social media. Sometimes with charts (but I've renamed for chart of the day because that was too restrictive)
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Who does the chores when we work from home?
Women continue to do the majority of the housework in modern households even though most work in the labor market just like their male spouses.
Fire in Paradise
I have a bunch of ideas of analyses I could do with public use data (Census or otherwise), that I may never have time to turn into complete papers.
Temp Agencies
Using the new QWI data by 6-digit NAICS to understand temp agency employment
Highlights from the 2026 ASSA meetings
These were some of my favorite sessions and events from the ASSA meetings this weekend.
Does Working from Home Make Us More Isolated?
As the structure of work changes from work in an office to remote and hybrid work, the people we spend time with will also change.
Work-from-Home as a Lever Against the Motherhood Penalty
Emma Harrington and Matthew Khan recently posted their paper "Has the Rise of Work-from-Home Reduced the Motherhood Penalty in the Labor Market?" as an NBER working paper. I first encountered this paper at the Society of Labor Economics annual meeting in May 2024 and I have been a little obsessed over the idea ever since. The motherhood penalty seems like such an intractable problem. It has been…
The Politics of Parenthood: Two Decades Later, the Same Struggles
I just started reading The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women’s Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother by Mary Frances Berry. It was published in 1993, so probably written nearly 25 years ago, yet except for the statistics being dated, it could have been written yesterday. Some quotes from the introduction:
Government Efficiency
Part of the reassignment from my home office in Davis to the FSRDC in Berkeley was a change in my locality.
A book (?)
As I said in my previous post, I am working mostly on personal projects on the train.