Thomas Pearson
@tpearson_tweets
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Assistant Professor of Economics @SyracuseU || PhD from Boston University || Labor/Development/Political Economy
Syracuse, NY
Joined February 2011
My research team (w/ Sam Bazzi, Eric Chyn, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Pearson, and Pat Testa) is hiring a full-time economics pre-doc for the 2025-26 academic year! If you know someone who might be interested, see the link below:
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Thrilled to have found such a fantastic home @QJEHarvard for this paper w/ @kbuzard7 & @LauraKGee! https://t.co/bSg4ounXrj
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Had a blast presenting research on "The Confederate Diaspora" (joint work with @SamuelBazzi @Andreas_Ferrara @MartinFiszbein Patrick Testa) @LeMoyne in their Social Science Seminar. Thanks to Professor Grove for the invite!
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Blog your job market paper 2024: submissions now open - our 14th year of publishing posts by PhD students on the development job market (submissions due Nov 6)
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Helpful article by @chrambrosio and @a_velasquezg discussing the evidence on the effects of deportations.
In Mexico and northern Central America, the number of cumulative deportations from the US since 2000 add up to between 3% and 5% of the current population Here’s what the consequences of rising forced returns can be for origin countries ➡️ https://t.co/ljSRfdHsRK
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Social acceptance of same-sex couples affects their location decisions https://t.co/zYEoKIMEim
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Facts, Facts, Facts (Hercule) Incarcerations for Immigrants and non-Immigrants in the Land of the Free; @JDVance @realDonaldTrump may want to have a look (if they read...); perhaps @elonmusk too. great work by @leah_boustan, Ran, Elisa, Santiago, and Juan https://t.co/RHa5JVvMJD
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(December 2024) - We provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration...
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Very excited that my paper, "New evidence on the underrepresentation of Asian Americans in leadership positions," is coming out! https://t.co/xXGUpZwHGy
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Why does DACA increase crime reporting? I provide evidence that suggests DACA reduces the fear of deportation among victims, empowering them to come forward. These findings highlight how protective policies like DACA could positively impact criminal justice and public safety.
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Recent papers have also shed light on the positive effects of DACA on native-born workers (Emily Battaglia) and students (@BrianaBallis). This paper builds off of this literature by studying another policy-relevant outcome: crime reporting.
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There is lots of other great work showing positive direct effects of DACA on: educational attainment (@EliraKuka, @econoshih, @shenhav_n, @amyhsin), health and healthcare access (@Osea82, @jakub_lonsky), and labor market outcomes (@AmuedoDorantes, @FranciscaAntman, Nolan Pope).
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DACA was established in 2012 by President Obama through an executive order. DACA provides protection from deportation for Dreamers, undocumented migrants who came to the U.S. as children. Over 800k people have benefitted from DACA.
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Excited to have my first solo-authored publication in the latest issue @JUrbanEcon! Headline result: I find that DACA eligibility increased victims’ likelihood of reporting crimes to the police. Link to paper:
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Call for papers for the 17th annual conference on migration and development, this year to be held in Bologna on Dec 9/10. Submissions due Sept 20. Always an excellent conference & has featured some of the best work on the topic. Keynotes are @deanyang & @SMGSequeira
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I'm currently reading a difficult-to-navigate introduction of an economics paper. I admit that I appreciate it when papers follow this simple formula https://t.co/ROkh7iFnMf.
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New paper: We study how the Russian invasion of Ukraine affected the mental health of over 10,000 Ukrainians who were living in Sweden at the time. Headline result: Prescriptions for mental health drugs immediately increased by 30 percent relative to other migrants.
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Join us in congratulating Professor @tpearson_tweets: He’s on a team of scholars who are using a $195K grant from @RussellSageFdn to study the exclusion and expulsion of minority groups from U.S. communities between 1850 and 1950.
maxwell.syr.edu
Thomas Pearson’s Research on Racial and Ethnic Exclusion Supported by Russell Sage Foundation Grant
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Are you an education economist attending the ASSAs in San Antonio? Join us for an informal meet-up at Rosario's at 5pm on Saturday, January 6. We'll meet outside Rosario's at 5pm and then try to get some space on the rooftop terrace.
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"We find that Southern counties where Democrats lost in presidential elections between 1880 and 1900 were nearly twice as likely to experience Black lynchings over the subsequent four years." https://t.co/W6qvTC2tws
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