Chalem Bolton

Sociology PhD student @UMsociology. Mostly thinks inequality and politics in American states along with some labor market stuff. He/him.

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@mrchrisquarles It seems to be about trends in labor force participation over time too. I thought there would have been an upward secular trend though

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The long-term trend of households that contain multiple workers may not quite be what you expected

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Reading this made me want to tweet something https://t.co/HMBFeQGvXR

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It actually is tho

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Touchscreen glove

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Can't believe the price of coffee these days

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I used a food processor two days in a row, now where's my Michelin Star?

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It's primary day in Michigan and my new precinct's polling place is at a bar. Unrelatedly, I just thought of a great way to incentive midterm turnout.

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A crucial innovation I've been waiting years for

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Really enjoying fiscal federalism literature from the 1960s-80s is maybe my biggest academic secret

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When you do a search for articles using a basic quantitative technique and realize nobody really knows what it is and just uses the Stata command...

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@jw_lockhart I thought they'd just clip out the controversial parts, maybe make some photocopies, and mail to anyone who mattered

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Is this how people used to react to the news? Email??

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@joseph_wallers I could probably fit you in on April 31

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This is my first normal workday with no Zooms since Feb 12th 🙌

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Had about as ideal as a voting experience as I could imagine. Got my absentee ballot weeks ago and dropped it off with my clerk today. Had to wait in like for about 30 seconds. Can’t imagine doing it any other way. And I still got a sticker!

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One silver lining of quarantine is that you can have that extra cup of coffee and nobody will notice how buggy and twitchy you might be getting

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A lot of millennials have been spending quarantine figuring out how to bake bread. I've gone a somewhat more fun route in figuring out how to make beer and seitan brats

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@joseph_wallers Especially on the front-end!

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Soc people, I'm probably not the only one who gets frustrated by ASR articles. Front-ends often seem bloated, and interesting questions get weird hooks. Is this functional (introducing topics to non-specialists in a broad discipline) or does it undermine contributions?