💰 Childcare in the U.S. is expensive: in 2022, annual costs ranged from 5% to 35% of median income.

Prices are highest in the Northeast and West Coast, but many counties elsewhere still fact childcare costs >20% of median household income.

Thanks so much!

Thank you!!

A great idea! @peternka.bsky.social and I are kicking off a broader agenda on Catholic schooling… this seems really interesting

Absolutely! My work would not have been possible without them and benefitted from reading their work. Bruckman, Stern, Orfield, and Lassiter, just to name a few… Amberly Sheffield is a history doctoral student at Ole Miss who also does great work in this area and @hyres376.bsky.social gave advice!

Thank you so much, Trevon -- your early support for this project really mattered and helped give it momentum.

Thank you so much, Kristine! I certainly felt the impact growing up in Alabama

Thank you so much!!

Website: daniellecgw.github.io

Contact: dcgw[at]bu.edu

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Thank you so much!

Why is this economics?

We show how backlash to the most significant social policy since the abolition of slavery -- school integration --reshaped markets, reallocated resources, and reduced human capital.

Read the paper 👇

(P.S. I'm presenting this at APPAM this weekend! Come say hi!)

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