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Siobhan O'Keefe

@smokeefe.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor of Economics at Davidson College Applied microeconomist thinking about infant health, fertility, child outcomes, incarceration UC Davis, Wellesley Alumna She/her. Pronounced: Shih-VAWN Oh-KEEF www.siobhan-okeefe.com

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The JHR @j-humanresources.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

#NewResearch reveals a stark pattern: Black workers transitioned to cognitive jobs one generation after white workers. @econhistoryorbust.bsky.social, @smokeefe.bsky.social, Sarah Quincy & Zachary Ward find that even today, Black workers move down while white workers move up. doi.org/10.3368/jhr....

Tasks and Black-white Inequality over the Long Twentieth Century
Rowena Gray, Siobhan O’Keefe, Sarah Quincy and Zachary Ward
We present new evidence on the long-run evolution of occupational task content by race in the United States, 1900-2021. Black workers began the transition to better paid, cognitiveintensive modern jobs at least a generation after white workers; substantial convergence only occurred after 1960. Longitudinal data suggests that task transitions were racially biased: Black men moved to jobs with lower rewarded task content than white men, conditional on initial tasks, though gaps decreased after 1940. Routine-intensive Black workers were less likely to move up into non-routine analytic work in all periods. The results suggest that task-displacement shocks widen Black-white inequality.

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Siobhan O'Keefe @smokeefe.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

PARRA SHARK ❤️🦈

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006,” by Lyons (@ronanlyons), Shertzer (@econhist-allday), Gray (@econhistoryorbust), and Agorastos: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

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The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006*

Abstract. We construct the first annual market rent and home sales price series for American cities over the 20th century using 2.7 million newspaper real

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Siobhan O'Keefe @smokeefe.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

If you use Direct File or just believe taxpayers should have access to electronic filing without a private third party, here's your chance to share your thoughts.

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The fantastic Atlanta Workshop on Public Policy & Child Well-being is now accepting paper submissions! 👇 Thanks to the organizers @lindsbullinger.bsky.social @danieldench1.bsky.social

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Lindsey Bullinger | Workshop

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Lea Woods @lea9223.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...

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StataTex Blog @statatexblog.com · 01/07/2025

This seems like an extremely exciting ado file by @julianreif.bsky.social:

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Siobhan O'Keefe @smokeefe.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🚨🚨🚨 Call for papers! 🚨🚨🚨 The Liberal Arts College Public & Labor Economics Virtual Seminar series is soliciting papers for Fall 2025. Submit your extended abstract by May 30: forms.gle/RbBwjBpqzA4J... #EconSky

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LAC-PaL Virtual Seminar Series Submission

Below is the submission form for the Liberal Arts Colleges Labor and Public Economics Group's (LAC-PaL) Virtual Seminar Series for August 2025 though December 2025. The virtual seminar will be an hour...

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Siobhan O'Keefe @smokeefe.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

So excited to be in DC to present our work on the intergenerational effects of the Head Start program at the Economic Demography Workshop later today! #econsky

Beautiful cherry blossoms in Washington, DC

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Marie Hull @mariehull.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 "The impact of children's access to public health insurance on their cognitive development and behavior" coming out in the Journal of Health Economics. Co-authored with Ji Yan at App State. Recap below👇 Share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1jyLcc7LGC...

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Siobhan O'Keefe @smokeefe.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

As early voting starts in many states and campaign workers everywhere are gearing up for #GOTV, I want to highlight research from my awesome colleague Angela Cools that shows parents (especially moms) of young children are less likely to vote. 📈📉 #econsky

An event study figure that shows the probability of voting decreasing markedly for female parents when their child is 0 and then fading out by the time the child is 5. A link to the paper in provided in a reply.

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Siobhan O'Keefe @smokeefe.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Liberal Arts College Economists of #econsky -- are you looking for an outlet to present your public/labor work? Or just want to see what other LAC economists are working on? Submit to and check out the LAC-PaL Virtual Seminar Series:

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