Thanks, Regina!

A unionized career has substantial benefits for physical health in older adulthood. Really excited to see this article out in JHSB, a great collaboration with Xiaowen Han, Jeylan Mortimer, and @zparolin.bsky.socialt.co/35cWsz7OHW

My article with Heather O'Connell in the Journal of Marriage and Family is featured in a new research spotlight by the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at CUNY. stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/are-single-m...

Are Single Mothers to Blame for Racial Inequality in Poverty? A Study Looks at the Impact of Structu...

Research by Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Regina S. Baker of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Heather A. O’Connell of Louisiana State University analyzes the impact of structura...

I'm pretty sure there is in fact a pretty stable wealth premium. We aren't living in a world where Millenial doctor and Millenial landscaper wealth levels are functionally indistinguishable. Higher ed has plenty of problems, but I'm not totally convinced this is a major one.

I played around with the transformations used in the Fed paper that motivated the NYT article - I think the transformation of wealth unintentionally overshot median HS wealth and undershot college wealth - each growing more in recent years. t.co/GVN6ZcWNW7

David Deming wrote a great Atlantic article about this too - college jobs have more rapid growth than noncollege jobs. 24 year old college / noncollege workers may have similar earnings - but college worker earnings tend to grow more. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The College Backlash Is Going Too Far

Getting a four-year degree is still a good investment.

Jonathan Rothwell basically solved the issue - The original Fed paper the NYT story's based on doesn't allow cohort-varying age effects for wealth. twitter.com/jtrothwell/s...

I started thinking about this in response to Tough's NYT Magazine article last month: "But younger white college graduates — those born in the 1980s — had only a bit more wealth than white high school graduates born in the same decade" t.co/ShLQMrLjuz

Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That?

For most people, the new economics of higher ed make going to college a risky bet.

I wrote a little bit about the argument that the college wealth premium has functionally gone away among recent cohorts. I'm quite skeptical and don't think that it has. t.co/GVN6ZcWNW7

There's no more college wealth premium?

I doubt it strongly.

Jennifer Karas Montez talking about how state policies, typically in Republican states, are driving declining life expectancy. www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter...

How red-state politics are shaving years off American lives

Along Lake Erie, three states show how Republican lawmakers’ decisions over decades on cigarettes and seat belts are shortening life spans.