Dani Sandler
@dismalscientist86.bsky.social
Economist at the Census Bureau studying women's employment, post-prison outcomes, and low-income housing. Living in Davis, CA.
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New Census Working Paper: "Creating High-Opportunity Neighborhoods: Evidence from the HOPE VI Program" by Raj Chetty, Rebecca Diamond, Thomas B. Foster, Lawrence Katz, Sonya R. Porter, Matthew Staiger, and Laura Tach
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Creating High-Opportunity Neighborhoods: Evidence from the HOPE VI Program
HOPE VI revitalization cut neighborhood poverty and boosted children’s adult earnings and college via reduced social isolation—without raising adults’ earnings.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:17 PM
New Census Working Paper: "Creating High-Opportunity Neighborhoods: Evidence from the HOPE VI Program" by Raj Chetty, Rebecca Diamond, Thomas B. Foster, Lawrence Katz, Sonya R. Porter, Matthew Staiger, and Laura Tach
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📢now forthcoming in ECMA!
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
January 27, 2026 at 10:34 PM
📢now forthcoming in ECMA!
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
New Census Working Paper: "Fresh Start or Fresh Water: The Impact of Environmental Lender Liability" by Aymeric Bellon
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Fresh Start or Fresh Water: The Impact of Environmental Lender Liability
Pollution cleanup liability for banks affects borrower behavior. Pollution rises and abatement drops when liability falls but production and jobs change little.
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January 26, 2026 at 8:17 PM
New Census Working Paper: "Fresh Start or Fresh Water: The Impact of Environmental Lender Liability" by Aymeric Bellon
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New Census Working Paper: "The U.S. Multinational Advantage during the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis: The Role of Services Trade" by Fariha Kama and Zachary Kroff www.census.gov/library/work...
The U.S. Multinational Advantage during the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis: The Role of Services Trade
We study the role of services exports in boosting U.S. multinationals' goods-export growth during the global financial crisis.
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January 26, 2026 at 8:12 PM
New Census Working Paper: "The U.S. Multinational Advantage during the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis: The Role of Services Trade" by Fariha Kama and Zachary Kroff www.census.gov/library/work...
New Census Working Paper: "Same Shock, Separate Channels: House Prices and Firm Performance in the Great Recession" by G. Jacob Blackwood www.census.gov/library/work...
Same Shock, Separate Channels: House Prices and Firm Performance in the Great Recession
I find evidence of house prices working through collateral and local banking channels. I incorporate these channels into a quantitative macro model.
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January 26, 2026 at 8:00 PM
New Census Working Paper: "Same Shock, Separate Channels: House Prices and Firm Performance in the Great Recession" by G. Jacob Blackwood www.census.gov/library/work...
New Census Working Paper: "Integrating Multiple U.S. Census Bureau Data Assets to Create Standardized Profiles of Program Participants" by Dominy, Glick, Hahn, King, Molinet, Naddeo, Sabelhous, and Weinstock www.census.gov/library/work...
Integrating Multiple U.S. Census Bureau Data Assets to Create Standardized Profiles of Program Participants
This paper details the production of standardized tables describing program participants, pre-program economic outcomes, and their communities.
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January 26, 2026 at 7:56 PM
New Census Working Paper: "Integrating Multiple U.S. Census Bureau Data Assets to Create Standardized Profiles of Program Participants" by Dominy, Glick, Hahn, King, Molinet, Naddeo, Sabelhous, and Weinstock www.census.gov/library/work...
Reposted by Dani Sandler
Minnesota X Census fact: Minnesota has the highest self response rate of any state in the Union
❤️ Minnesota
January 24, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Minnesota X Census fact: Minnesota has the highest self response rate of any state in the Union
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Mort sneaking up on the birdie
January 22, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Mort sneaking up on the birdie
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January 16, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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Come join us this spring 🌸🌸🌸 in DC on April 17th for the Society of Government Economists Annual Conference. All are welcome.
Submissions are OPEN for the 2026 SGE Annual Conference and are due by Friday, February 13th.
Submit abstracts for individual paper and poster presentations as well as proposals for panels and organized sessions of four papers.
For more information: www.sge-econ.org/sge-2026-ann...
Submit abstracts for individual paper and poster presentations as well as proposals for panels and organized sessions of four papers.
For more information: www.sge-econ.org/sge-2026-ann...
Call for Papers: Society of Government Economists 2026 Annual Conference – The Society of Government Economists
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January 17, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Come join us this spring 🌸🌸🌸 in DC on April 17th for the Society of Government Economists Annual Conference. All are welcome.
New Census Working Paper: "Who’s in and who’s out? An analysis of Unit Non-Response using Interviewer Metadata" by Lindsay M Monte www.census.gov/library/work...
Who’s in and who’s out? An analysis of Unit Non-Response using Interviewer Metadata
This paper uses observational data collected from SIPP Field Representatives to try to identify patterns that predict non-response at a household level.
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January 16, 2026 at 4:07 PM
New Census Working Paper: "Who’s in and who’s out? An analysis of Unit Non-Response using Interviewer Metadata" by Lindsay M Monte www.census.gov/library/work...
New Census Working Paper: "Examining Multilingualism in the United States Using ACS Language Write-ins" by Daniela Mejia www.census.gov/library/work...
Examining Multilingualism in the United States Using ACS Language Write-ins
This paper uses a text-processing algorithm to reclassify ACS language write-ins and analyze differences among English-only, bilingual, and multilingual groups.
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January 16, 2026 at 3:55 PM
New Census Working Paper: "Examining Multilingualism in the United States Using ACS Language Write-ins" by Daniela Mejia www.census.gov/library/work...
Remarks by Janet L. Yellen on receiving the inaugural Janet L. Yellen Award for Excellence in Public Service from CSWEP www.brookings.edu/articles/rem...
Remarks by Janet L. Yellen on receiving the inaugural Janet L. Yellen Award for Excellence in Public Service from CSWEP | Brookings
Speech by former Fed Chair and Treasury Secretary Yellen, upon receiving the inaugural Janet L. Yellen Award for Excellence in Public Service from CSWEP.
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January 13, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Remarks by Janet L. Yellen on receiving the inaugural Janet L. Yellen Award for Excellence in Public Service from CSWEP www.brookings.edu/articles/rem...
New Census Working Paper: "Food Fight: U.S. Exporters' Adjustments to Russia's 2014 Agricultural Import Ban" by Emek Basker and Fariha Kamal www.census.gov/library/work...
Food Fight: U.S. Exporters' Adjustments to Russia's 2014 Agricultural Import Ban
We study the impact of a 2014 Russian ban on food imports on U.S. firms that exported food to Russia in the pre-ban period.
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January 8, 2026 at 9:53 PM
New Census Working Paper: "Food Fight: U.S. Exporters' Adjustments to Russia's 2014 Agricultural Import Ban" by Emek Basker and Fariha Kamal www.census.gov/library/work...
New Census Working Paper: "Technology-Driven Market Concentration through Idea Allocation" by Yueyuan Ma and Shaoshuang Yang www.census.gov/library/work...
Technology-Driven Market Concentration through Idea Allocation
Tech breakthroughs spur more inventors to start firms and weaken concentration; a model of idea allocation explains a large share of the post-1990s HHI rise.
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January 8, 2026 at 9:50 PM
New Census Working Paper: "Technology-Driven Market Concentration through Idea Allocation" by Yueyuan Ma and Shaoshuang Yang www.census.gov/library/work...
New Census Working Paper: "Specialization in a Knowledge Economy" by Yueyuan Ma www.census.gov/library/work...
Specialization in a Knowledge Economy
U.S. firms, especially innovators, narrowed production scope in the 1980s–90s as patent trade shifted innovation from small to large firms, boosting growth.
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January 8, 2026 at 9:46 PM
New Census Working Paper: "Specialization in a Knowledge Economy" by Yueyuan Ma www.census.gov/library/work...
New Census Working Paper: "Trapped or Transferred: Worker Mobility and Labor Market Power in the Energy Transition" by Minwoo Hyun www.census.gov/library/work...
Trapped or Transferred: Worker Mobility and Labor Market Power in the Energy Transition
Using data on 1.35M displaced fossil-fuel workers, I show local shocks depress jobs and pay; switching helps, but high-monopsony markets keep losses high.
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January 8, 2026 at 9:42 PM
New Census Working Paper: "Trapped or Transferred: Worker Mobility and Labor Market Power in the Energy Transition" by Minwoo Hyun www.census.gov/library/work...
Reposted by Dani Sandler
Can the private sector step in if the statistical agencies fall? Jed Kolko is great on this. In short, his answer is no (go listen for the full take). He also makes a point that I don't see enough, that private sector providers are not immune to cost cutting and political pressures either.
January 6, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Can the private sector step in if the statistical agencies fall? Jed Kolko is great on this. In short, his answer is no (go listen for the full take). He also makes a point that I don't see enough, that private sector providers are not immune to cost cutting and political pressures either.
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Bill Beach and Karen Dynan touch on two of my favorite topics: the need to fund and restaff the statistical agencies after DOGE, and encouraging the economics profession to care more about economic measurement. Give these two some megaphones, we need more people saying this.
January 6, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Bill Beach and Karen Dynan touch on two of my favorite topics: the need to fund and restaff the statistical agencies after DOGE, and encouraging the economics profession to care more about economic measurement. Give these two some megaphones, we need more people saying this.
Reposted by Dani Sandler
This was a great panel, and if you care about economic data, you should definitely listen to the whole thing.
But for those of you who would rather get some highlights, here's what I found most interesting: 🧵
But for those of you who would rather get some highlights, here's what I found most interesting: 🧵
ICYMI: Here's video of the panel -- "The State of Government Economic Statistics" -- that I moderated at the ASSA meetings. Karen Dynan, William Beach, Loretta Mester, Seth Carpenter, and Jed Kolko www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202...
The State of Government Economic Statistics
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January 6, 2026 at 8:22 PM
This was a great panel, and if you care about economic data, you should definitely listen to the whole thing.
But for those of you who would rather get some highlights, here's what I found most interesting: 🧵
But for those of you who would rather get some highlights, here's what I found most interesting: 🧵
My personal highlights from the ASSA meetings: open.substack.com/pub/dismalsc...
Highlights from the 2026 ASSA meetings
These were some of my favorite sessions and events from the ASSA meetings this weekend.
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January 6, 2026 at 4:42 PM
My personal highlights from the ASSA meetings: open.substack.com/pub/dismalsc...
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So important. Work volatility at low income levels is REAL, and exactly the type of thing SNAP should be providing insurance for. Food assistance obviously shouldn't have work requirements. But these that punish people who work a lot, inconsistently, don't even meet their stated objective.
New at Can We Still Govern: @agpines.bsky.social & @lizananat.bsky.social explain how the work volatility of low income service employees will make it hard for them to satisfy new SNAP/Medicaid work requirements, even when they work lots of hours. 🧵
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When Volatile Work Schedules Meet SNAP Work Requirements
New policies put low income workers in jeopardy of losing vital supports
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January 5, 2026 at 5:28 PM
So important. Work volatility at low income levels is REAL, and exactly the type of thing SNAP should be providing insurance for. Food assistance obviously shouldn't have work requirements. But these that punish people who work a lot, inconsistently, don't even meet their stated objective.
I used to get pictures of my kids when I was out of town. Now the kids are big, so I get pictures of my kitties instead
January 5, 2026 at 12:17 PM
I used to get pictures of my kids when I was out of town. Now the kids are big, so I get pictures of my kitties instead