Junior Economic History Conference

This paper uses the Environmental Impacts Frame to highlight new facts about the distribution of flood risk in the US.

Gender and Racial Differences in Migration Behavior: Evidence from the Farm Exodus within and out of the U.S. South, 1900–1940

We study how unpaid household production shapes trends in inequality in material living standards in the U.S. in the last five decades. We construct e…

The Care Board: Visualizing care connections across the U.S. economy. Using data, we reveal the essential role of care in sustaining families, communities, workers, and the broader economy.

We expand the existing literature on the child penalty in earnings for opposite-sex couples to understand the earnings patterns in same-sex couples.

Laura L. Lovett (1963-2025) Our dear colleague Laura Lovett passed away unexpectedly on March 4, 2025. Laura joined Pitt’s History Department and its Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Program in 20...

After the Trump administration ordered federal workers to end all remote work and return to offices full-time, some parents say they feel forced to choose between their jobs and their families. Expert...

On January 30th at 5pm Census.gov went down, so that the Census Bureau could review the website for materials that did not comply with one of the anti-trans executive orders. It is being called the “d...