Nathan Seltzer

My paper "Beyond the Great Recession: Labor Market Polarization and Ongoing Fertility Decline in the United States" has been published in Demography. Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@ThomElston @UTAustin @ut_neuroscience Huge congrats Thom!!!

Big news! I've accepted an offer from @UTAustin @ut_neuroscience and will start my lab in January! We'll be doing NHP #neuropixel recordings and BCIs to understand the neural mechanisms of attention and self control. It's a dream come true and I am so thankful to my mentors 🥲

@max_e_coleman Dr. Coleman!

Passed my dissertation defense today! So grateful to my fantastic committee (left to right): Brea Perry, Anna Mueller, Jane McLeod, and Art Alderson.

@DanielaUrbinaJ @USCSociology Yay!!! Congrats Daniela!!

@annaliese_grant @unlv Great news, congrats!!!

I am thrilled to share that I will be joining @UNLV as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology in Fall 2023! I am so excited to be a part of an incredible department in the part of the country I have always called home.

@max_e_coleman @UUtah Awesome, congrats!!!!

I'm thrilled to announce that I've accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah (@UUtah) starting this fall! I'll also be an affiliate of the interdisciplinary Health, Society & Policy (HSP) program. Come visit me in Salt Lake City! 🏔️

@leafia_ye @UofT_Sociology Awesome, congrats!!!!

In 2018, I went to Toronto to attend one of my first academic conferences. I LOVED the city and bought cheesy socks as a souvenir. Last week, I accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Toronto (@UofT_Sociology ) starting July 2023!!😍

@MasoudMovahed @Schwartz_ChRe Congrats!!!

@JessicaPolos @DePaul_MPH Congrats!!! Great news!!

How can we measure the causes of the opioid epidemic? In our latest visual interview, @n_seltzer explains how he used a unique dataset to trace the links between the decline of manufacturing and drug-related deaths in the U.S. matrix.berkeley.edu/research-artic…

Death by Robots?? @RourkeOBrien & @atheendar examine how the rise of industrial robots increased all-cause mortality among those 45-54, esp by drug overdose & suicide. Safety net generosity mitigated effects, & right to work laws & low wages worsened them. ow.ly/NPPW50I3lmN

Does the idea of college as a great equalizer apply to when and whom one marries? In a new paper out in Demography (@PopAssocAmerica), I use first-gen college grads as a test and find that it does not appear to apply to marriage, for a number of reasons. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…

@alisongemmill @NICHD_NIH @raycatalano @joanacasey @hedwig_lee Congrats!!

Amidst all the bad news, I wanted to share a personal highlight. I am now co-Investigator on a new @NICHD_NIH R01 led by Tim Bruckner! 🎉 Together with contributions from @raycatalano @joanacasey @hedwig_lee et al, we will study multiple dimensions of fetal loss in the US.

@ewrigleyfield I’d suggest Ron Larson’s Applied Approach Calculus textbook. The social science applications are mostly economics though.

Call for Papers Now Available #PAA2022 ow.ly/eKuD50FE1iF

Question: I agree that using 'low-skill' or 'unskilled' to define jobs at the bottom of the labor market is misleading and also faintly pejorative. What is the best alternative? Thread below on some options and difficulties I have with each:

#STATOFTHEDAY Over 93,000 Americans died of a #drug #overdose in 2020 - up nearly 30% from 2019. go.usa.gov/x6huJ

@ArianeOphir @CEDemografia Congrats!!!

@DanielaUrbinaJ @maggiefrye @eduwonkette_jen Awesome, congrats!!!

Slides are here: un.org/development/de…

Will fertility rates in the U.S. rebound after the COVID-19 pandemic? The Great Recession might offer some insight. I’ve put a write-up of my presentation at the @UN Population Division Expert Group Meeting on post-COVID fertility trends up on @socarxiv osf.io/preprints/soca…