Dylan Connor

Where have all the Patrick's gone?

David Card: Behind the Nobel

'A good theory is a Picasso painting. Empirical work is more like fixing a tractor - you just need the stupid thing to run.'

My podcast with the great labor economist and Nobel Prize laureate David Card is out!

Playing from 20:50
open.spotify.com/episode/4nui...

@casbsstanford.bsky.social

🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE

1996-97 CASBS fellow David Card chats w/2024-25 fellow @dyligent.bsky.social on the innovative empirical work on the labor market effects of immigration, minimum wages & education that earned Card the Nobel Prize in economics in 2021

🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#davi...

Congrats to @garimajain.bsky.social on defending her dissertation on the aquaculture transformation in India!

She integrates satellite data, field work & modeling to understand the who/how/where.

Committee: Billie Turner, me, Hallie Eakin, @amyfrazier.bsky.social

#PhDDefense #Geography

7/7 Link to GEOWEALTH-US data: openicpsr.org/openicpsr/pr...

6/7 This was a big team effort leveraging the new GEOWEALTH-US dataset. Huge thanks to my co-author team & institutions @tkemeny.bsky.social. Special shout out to the team at @ipums.bsky.social and @umnlifecourse.bsky.social for their fantastic work + support of our project.

5/7 The policy takeaway is clear: Place-based investment and wealth building is a powerful public health tool. Our simulation shows that reducing wealth gaps between communities could prevent tens of thousands of cases of cognitive impairment. #policy

4/7 Crucially, the protective effect of community wealth is largest for non-white, non-college-educated, and low-income Americans. This is a story of #HealthEquity.

3/7 How? We argue for the importance of public goods. Wealthier places can invest more in the likes of parks, libraries, safety, sanitation & healthcare—the very things that support brain health. It’s not just about what you own; it's about what your community can provide for everyone.

2/7 The effect size is substantial. A 1-SD increase in local wealth = a 6.7% drop in cognitive impairment risk. In the poorest 10% of communities, risk is 80% higher than in the wealthiest. Wealth matters more than income. Community wealth matters beyond your personal wealth.

1/7 New research: The wealth of your neighbors may protect your brain. Our new WP finds that higher community wealth is linked to a significantly lower risk of cognitive decline in older adults in the USA Link: osf.io/preprints/so...

#aging #HealthEquity #geography

Remembering David C. Berliner: Scholar, gadfly, mentor and defender of public education | ASU News Two bored 18-year-olds walk into a bar.That is, in fact, almost how the career trajectory of one of the most influential and admired education scholars in America began.Not long after he turned 18, Da...

We're sad to learn of the passing of 1987-88 CASBS fellow David Berliner, a renowned educational psychologist & public intellectual who influenced generations of scholars

ASU obit: news.asu.edu/20251002-art...

Berliner's CASBS work: casbs.stanford.edu/people/david...

Where have all the Patricks gone? The Patricks of Ireland have left a formidable mark, but new parents appear to have moved away from using that name

Interviewed by RTE on the past and future trajectory of Irish baby names!

Check it out: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Thanks to @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social

Super news! Honored to win the annual Editors' Choice Award at the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society for our paper "Who gets left behind by left behind places?"

@cjres.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social @tkemeny.bsky.social

My PhD students Yilei Yu and Alex Cliff have defended their dissertations, producing outstanding research at the intersection of spatial data science and flooding!

Thanks to committee members @sarameerow.bsky.social (co-advised Alex), Melanie Gall, and Aaron Flores.

#PhD #SpatialDataScience

In addition to hosting 1996-97 CASBS fellow & Nobel Prize winner David Card on the CASBS podcast recently (we'll publish the episode in the fall), we took David to the study he occupied during his fellowship - now occupied by his podcast conversation partner, Dylan Connor

📷: @dyligent.bsky.social

A conversation with Nobel Prize-winning economist David Card for the Human Centered podcast. Coming later this year.. @casbsstanford.bsky.social

A conversation with Nobel Prize-winning economist David Card for the Human Centered podcast. Coming later this year..

An important piece from the @apsrjournal.bsky.social (by @devorahmanekin.bsky.social and @tmitts.bsky.social) to make sense of ongoing events: it matters not only which tactics are adopted by protesters but also who they are.

The most important paper on democratic backsliding I've read this year

This Thursday (March 6) I'll be speaking at the Department of City & Regional Planning at Berkeley about 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 & 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀. Reach out if you'd like to attend.

Many flood-prone buildings are not currently under the purview of FEMA. These buildings are more likely to be deficient in physical condition, poorly constructed, and underinsured - meaning that their residents can face v high costs due to flooding. Read more Yilei Yu's first paper!

Big cities fuel inequality within and across generations Abstract. Urbanization has long fueled a dual narrative: cities are heralded as sources of economic dynamism and wealth creation yet criticized for fosteri

This study's title sounds like "US cities are bad because they foster inequality." But they find that the problem began in the mid-20th century, which happens to be when cities started planning for cars.

So the problem isn't cities. The problem is cars.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Satellite Data Reveals Concerning Trend in Major Cities That Were Once a Gateway to Opportunity Satellite data and city records suggest major metropolitan areas have ceased functioning as effective springboards for progress.

Some sweet coverage of recent findings by CASBS fellow @dyligent.bsky.social & collaborators showing that major metropolitan areas have ceased functioning as effective springboards for social & financial mobility since the mid-20th century

thedebrief.org/satellite-da...

Where have all the Patricks gone? The Patricks of Ireland have left a formidable mark, but new parents appear to have moved away from using that name

Where have all the Patricks gone? New #RTEBrainstorm podcast presented by @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social with @dyligent.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social & @clodaghtait.bsky.social MIC Limerick - proudly supported by @researchireland.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Big cities fuel inequality within and across generations Abstract. Urbanization has long fueled a dual narrative: cities are heralded as sources of economic dynamism and wealth creation yet criticized for fosteri

Big cities once lifted generations out of poverty. Now, they entrench it.
New research by @dyligent.bsky.social, @tkemeny.bsky.social et al. shows that since the mid-20th century, upward mobility has shifted to smaller towns.
#Cities must reconnect growth with opportunity. doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Maps of intergenerational mobility, early and late 20th century. Darker (blue) colors indicate childhood locations that are associated with higher income attainment among children from poorer backgrounds while lighter (yellow) colors show lower levels of upward income mobility.

Combining remote sensing and administrative data, researchers reveal that since the mid-20th century, growing cities have ceased to be centers of upward social and economic mobility. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Thanks to IPUMS (@ipums.bsky.social), NHGIS, Opportunity Insights (@oppinsights.bsky.social), and the National Landcover Database for their wonderful commitment to open data and science, and to @casbsstanford.bsky.social & SGSUP for support.
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Big cities fuel inequality within and across generations Abstract. Urbanization has long fueled a dual narrative: cities are heralded as sources of economic dynamism and wealth creation yet criticized for fosteri

Read the full paper: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Explore our wealth database: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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