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Jacob Van Leeuwen

@jacobvanecon.bsky.social

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Economics Job Market Canditate @ Texas A&M. Labor, econ history, and urban.

Jacob Van Leeuwen @jacobvanecon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Happy St Patrick’s Day! If you’re looking for something festive to read today, check out my job market paper on Irish discrimination in Philadelphia! See 🧵below for a summary of what I find, and check out my website (sites.google.com/view/jacobva...) for the paper

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Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

“You will be visited by three spirits”

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

(it’s a fig tree)

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Jacob Van Leeuwen @jacobvanecon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm on the job market this year! My #EconJMP examines the long run and intergenerational impacts of institutional discrimination against immigrants. Here's a thread of what I find (1/8)🧵 #EconJobMarket #EconSky

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Jacob Van Leeuwen @jacobvanecon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I find that individuals who moved from Philadelphia and their children are less negatively affected than those who stayed. My findings point to the persistent impacts of institutional discrimination, especially for those unable to escape it. (8/8)

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Jacob Van Leeuwen @jacobvanecon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Using children of individuals in Philadelphia and New York, I find no effects on adult socioeconomic outcomes. However, this masks interesting heterogeneity based on whether an individual moved to a different county. (7/8)

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Jacob Van Leeuwen @jacobvanecon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I find that in 1880, nearly 25 years after the policy, impacted Irish individuals in Philadelphia have worse jobs, lower labor force participation, and greater migration to a different county. (6/8)

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Jacob Van Leeuwen @jacobvanecon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Irish men are significantly more likely to be incarcerated after the implementation of these policies, with incarceration rates increasing nearly 60% over baseline rates. (5/8)

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Jacob Van Leeuwen @jacobvanecon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I use two DiD designs to estimate impacts of this policy. The first compares Irish and non-immigrant men before and after implementation. The second estimates long run effects by comparing and non-immigrant individuals in Philadelphia and New York over 20 years later. (4/8)

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Jacob Van Leeuwen @jacobvanecon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Using newly digitized prison data from a large Philadelphia prison that I link to the Census, I estimate effects on incarceration. To estimate long run term effects, I use linked Census data I created with Joe Price and Kasey Buckles (from censustree.org) (3/8)

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Census Tree

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Jacob Van Leeuwen @jacobvanecon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I use a bundle of discriminatory policies that targeted Irish immigrants in Philadelphia in 1856. These policies included a ban on hiring immigrants as police officers and the prohibition of public drinking on Sundays, which targeted Irish immigrants in Philadelphia. (2/8)

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Jacob Van Leeuwen @jacobvanecon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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Jacob Van Leeuwen @jacobvanecon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Add me please!

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Jacob Van Leeuwen @jacobvanecon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I'm a candidate this year!

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