Melissa Thomasson
@mthomasson.bsky.social
Professor of Economics @Miami University. Research Associate @NBER. Passionate about economic history, health economics and policy, business for a better world. Dog person, cat person, horse person. All opinions my own.
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Just a reminder to sign up for this webinar on IPUMS International on Wednesday!
Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
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Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
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Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Register for IPUMs International Online Session
Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Just a reminder to sign up for this webinar on IPUMS International on Wednesday!
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Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
CMFdata.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Please send me your favorite independent news outlets. Repost! At this point, the only reason I have a Times subscription is because of the cooking app. Please send me your favorite cooking apps, too! (Mood is frustrated)
October 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Please send me your favorite independent news outlets. Repost! At this point, the only reason I have a Times subscription is because of the cooking app. Please send me your favorite cooking apps, too! (Mood is frustrated)
I finally have a hurricane named after me. 😼
October 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I finally have a hurricane named after me. 😼
Celebrated our new partnership with the Cleveland Clinic yesterday with a naming ceremony. 18 months in the making, it includes Miami’s BS in quantum computing- one of the first in the world. Very cool to see it!
October 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Celebrated our new partnership with the Cleveland Clinic yesterday with a naming ceremony. 18 months in the making, it includes Miami’s BS in quantum computing- one of the first in the world. Very cool to see it!
It’s always great to see that the world supply of soy (or virtually any other commodity) is indeed perfectly elastic. Gotta say that this tariff brought in a heap of revenue. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0.
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It’s always great to see that the world supply of soy (or virtually any other commodity) is indeed perfectly elastic. Gotta say that this tariff brought in a heap of revenue. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
Great write-up of new research by @riacton.bsky.social !
Thanks @j-alonso.bsky.social @insidehighered.com for the thoughtful coverage of our new work on how politics are affecting college choices
September 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Great write-up of new research by @riacton.bsky.social !
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Very happy to see my review of the racial residential segregation literature with John Parman in the latest issue of Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Racial Residential Segregation in the United States
(September 2025) - Residential segregation is a central factor in explaining socioeconomic gaps across race and ethnicity in the United States. Place of residence directly impacts access to schools, j...
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September 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Very happy to see my review of the racial residential segregation literature with John Parman in the latest issue of Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Now’s a good time to share one of several recent @planetmoney.bsky.social episodes about the importance of Federal Reserve independence from partisan electoral politics.
www.npr.org/2025/04/23/1...
www.npr.org/2025/04/23/1...
A primer on the Federal Reserve's independence : Planet Money
President Donald Trump has been loudly critical of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for years now. Since January, the President has accused him of playing politics by keeping interest rates high. T...
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August 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Now’s a good time to share one of several recent @planetmoney.bsky.social episodes about the importance of Federal Reserve independence from partisan electoral politics.
www.npr.org/2025/04/23/1...
www.npr.org/2025/04/23/1...
I just gave! Alums, employers and friends: please consider donating - every dollar counts these days and helps give our students amazing experiences and top skills!
One way donations from #MoveInMiami help is for student research. This can vary in many ways: departmental honors, MA thesis, brown bag seminar, etc. Please consider helping students gain more knowledge with research.
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August 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I just gave! Alums, employers and friends: please consider donating - every dollar counts these days and helps give our students amazing experiences and top skills!
When the uber home (hard to find) comes late and the seat looks like this:
August 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
When the uber home (hard to find) comes late and the seat looks like this:
It really is Ground Hog Day. My garden is… a little less big than it was yesterday…
August 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It really is Ground Hog Day. My garden is… a little less big than it was yesterday…
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This week we (with @ajhollingsworth.bsky.social talk with @talgross.bsky.social on The Hidden Curriculum on productivity and how to improve our teaching and some ideas for new exercises for your class!
August 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This week we (with @ajhollingsworth.bsky.social talk with @talgross.bsky.social on The Hidden Curriculum on productivity and how to improve our teaching and some ideas for new exercises for your class!
A monarch today!
August 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
A monarch today!
Such a great project! Congrats to this amazing team and to MU alum Margaret Layding for helping us develop it!
We're thrilled to announce that Peter Nencka (
@peternka.bsky.social ), Riley Acton (riacton.bsky.social) and Carla Nietfeld have received an NSF award to expand their work integrating social context into principles of eco courses.
See below for more info
@peternka.bsky.social ), Riley Acton (riacton.bsky.social) and Carla Nietfeld have received an NSF award to expand their work integrating social context into principles of eco courses.
See below for more info
July 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Such a great project! Congrats to this amazing team and to MU alum Margaret Layding for helping us develop it!
Wow fellow Ohioans- this will have a major impact.
CBO’s new estimates of the new tax and spending law includes federal Medicaid spending cuts of $911 billion over 10 years.
The spending cuts vary by state. Louisiana, Illinois, Nevada, and Oregon could see the largest cuts of 19% or more: on.kff.org/46VjNK4
The spending cuts vary by state. Louisiana, Illinois, Nevada, and Oregon could see the largest cuts of 19% or more: on.kff.org/46VjNK4
July 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Wow fellow Ohioans- this will have a major impact.
Caturday on the coffee table. Just missing the coffee.
July 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Caturday on the coffee table. Just missing the coffee.
When my kids were younger, they asked why we call it “rolling up the windows” in the car….
When your family finally got a phone, sharing the line with the next door neighbours so only one of you could make a call at a time. (The phone had a special table in the hall.)
What’s a real thing from your childhood that kids these days would find completely foreign?
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
July 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
When my kids were younger, they asked why we call it “rolling up the windows” in the car….
The recent disaster and loss of lives in Texas is so sad. But I’m reading that the cuts to weather personnel are related to a “decades-long effort to privatize weather information.” But I’m thinking that weather information is almost a quintessential public good? www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
As Trump slashed weather agency, his appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing forecasts
Companies poised to step into the void have ties to those tapped by President Donald Trump to run agencies that collect weather data and publish forecasts.
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July 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The recent disaster and loss of lives in Texas is so sad. But I’m reading that the cuts to weather personnel are related to a “decades-long effort to privatize weather information.” But I’m thinking that weather information is almost a quintessential public good? www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
Happy Caturday. This animal has learned a new trick. 😱
June 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Happy Caturday. This animal has learned a new trick. 😱
Seen uptown and spot on!
June 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Seen uptown and spot on!
Yet another prime example of how useful economic history is for modern economics. Excellent summary by Barry Eichengreen of how crypto can return us to the (not) glory days of wildcat banking.
This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
Opinion | This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Yet another prime example of how useful economic history is for modern economics. Excellent summary by Barry Eichengreen of how crypto can return us to the (not) glory days of wildcat banking.
This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
All the rain and I guess my walnut tree couldn’t hang on to its sloped perch. No damage to house. Firewood, anyone?
June 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
All the rain and I guess my walnut tree couldn’t hang on to its sloped perch. No damage to house. Firewood, anyone?