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🔥 Real-time update: AI's labor market effects.
1⃣ Work is increasingly getting simplified.
2⃣ Occupations predicted to gain from AI continue to rise in importance as of January 2026.
3⃣ We've made our data publicly available.
@ReichardtHugo
Lukas Althoff
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Lukas Althoff
@AlthoffLukas
Assistant Professor @StanfordEcon
- 🚨 I am excited to share my Job Market Paper. "Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress After Slavery" (w/ @ReichardtHugo) We provide new evidence that a Black family's socioeconomic status today strongly depends on their historical exposure to racially oppressive institutions.
- I'm hiring a Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant starting fall 2025. Together, we will build and analyze big data to study inequality in America. @Stanford @SIEPR siepr.stanford.edu/programs/predo…
- I am hiring a full-time Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant at Yale starting in the Fall of 2024. Details: tobin.yale.edu/opportunities/…
- Replying to @AlthoffLukasBlack families who were enslaved until the Civil War have considerably lower education, income, and wealth than Black families freed before the Civil War (in 1940 & even today). The "Free-Enslaved" gaps in these outcomes equal 40% of the corresponding Black-white gaps.
- I am excited to host a session on "Systemic Discrimination" with the amazing @MaggieECJones & @mellosteve2. Please be part of the friendly applied micro takeover of the SED by sending in your paper by Feb 15.The next SED meeting will take place in Barcelona, Spain, on June 27-29. Submissions are open: editorialexpress.com/conference/SED… Deadline: Feb 15!! @afogli001 @emanresa82 @paures12 @RevEconDyn
- Immensely grateful for the opportunity to present at the @lindaunobel + 5 days of meeting other young economists! #LINOecon
- Replying to @AlthoffLukasIn sum, systemic discrimination—the higher exposure to ongoing discrimination 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯—is the driving force that has perpetuated slavery‘s legacy.
- Replying to @AlthoffLukasWhy has the Free-Enslaved gap been so persistent? We find a key factor is the difference in location between enslaved & free Black Americans by the end of slavery.
- Looking forward to sharing my JMP at the @nberpubs Economics of Mobility meeting this Friday (Dec 2). 📢 Amazing program incl. keynote by Stefanie Stantcheva. 📺 All live-streamed on NBER YouTube: nber.org/conferences/ec…🚨 I am excited to share my Job Market Paper. "Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress After Slavery" (w/ @ReichardtHugo) We provide new evidence that a Black family's socioeconomic status today strongly depends on their historical exposure to racially oppressive institutions.
- Replying to @AlthoffLukas🙏🏻 I'm greatly indebted to my advisors @leah_boustan, @EDerenoncourt, and @ReddingEcon; many other people who have generously offered their comments and suggestions; and the @PrincetonEcon Program for Research on Inequality for its generous support.
- Replying to @AlthoffLukasAfter slavery, the states in the Deep South adopted the strictest Jim Crow regimes. Those regimes were targeted at limiting Black economic progress through racial segregation, Black voter disenfranchisement, and restrictions to Black geographic mobility.
- Replying to @AlthoffLukasWe assess the likely force behind the importance of states—namely, their Jim Crow regimes. We measure a Jim Crow regime's intensity via 1. Our new database on 800 Jim Crow laws 2. @ReginaSBaker's index of states' historical racial regimes 3. Measures of Black school quality
