Assistant Professor at @SmithSchool via @UMich, @LSEnews, and @Dartmouth.
Washington, DC
Joined February 2014
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Reuben Hurst retweeted
Can you guess how much hiring companies in the U.S. have backtracked from their stated commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) since Trump’s 2024 election victory?
Here’s what one new study of 371 million U.S. job postings (2016-2026) finds:
📈 Before June 2020: About 1 in 8 job postings (12%) explicitly affirmed a commitment to DEI.
📈 November 2024: That had climbed to 1 in 4 postings (25.4%).
📉 February 2026: It had fallen to 1 in 5 postings (19.9%).
The decline is substantial. But it doesn’t erase what came before.
As the authors put it:
“The reversal is unprecedented, yet partial: it has undone roughly a third of the post-2020 rise, but pro-diversity claims remain twice as common as they were pre-2020.”
Reuben Hurst retweeted
Just now noticing a very interesting write-up by @ryanburge which makes use of our #VRscores data from the Politics at Work project with @JustinFrake @ReubenHurst2. Tremendously exciting to see how people are making use of the data to uncover new insights!
Reuben Hurst retweeted
Wow. This is wild.
Researchers from Columbia, Michigan, and Maryland released VRscores.
VRscores is a dataset linking voter registrations to online worker profiles that allow you to measure the partisan leanings of U.S. employers.
24.5M workers. 500k employers. 2012–2024.
Reuben Hurst retweeted
Wow! This project looks amazing.
In it, three scientists at Columbia, Michigan, and Maryland introduce VRscores: a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the United States.
The dataset is constructed by linking U.S. voter registrations to online worker profiles.
The dataset covers the 2012-2022 period. VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8 million workers across 2.6 million employers.
Wow!
Reuben Hurst retweeted
1/ Excited to share our new paper on measuring workforce politics with @ReubenHurst2
and @JustinFrake , where we measure the partisan composition (Democrats and Republicans) for over 3.5 million companies and nearly 28 million workers.
Reuben Hurst retweeted
My cousin’s artisan wood furniture business in Asheville, NC was completely destroyed by Hurricane Helene.
Please consider donating to help him rebuild, or read his story and share with others. 🙏
gofundme.com/f/help-matt-chr…
Nice writeup of my work with Ronnie Lee and @JustinFrake in HBR:
Study (N=8K) finds job ads that emphasize a flat hierarchy had 28% fewer women applicants. Women perceived flat hierarchies as boys' clubs, challenging to fit in, higher workloads & fewer opportunities for career advancement. @ReubenHurst2 @JustinFrake
hbr.org/2024/09/research-fla…
Reuben Hurst retweeted
Excited to see our paper published in JPE Micro! “Do Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias?: Evidence from 15,992 Test Statistics and Suggestions for Improvement” w/ Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook (@nikolaimcook), and Anthony Heyes. A thread🧵
The August issue of JPE Micro is now available online at journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jp…. #EconTwitter
@ChicagoJournals
ALT JPE Micro August 2024 cover
Reuben Hurst retweeted
Very interesting data on segregation by gender in the US workforce.
In a working paper with @ReubenHurst2 and @JustinFrake we use administrative data and find that gender segregation is about the same size as segregation by political partisanship.
hq.ssrn.com/submissions/Abst…
Young U.S. men and women without college degrees tend to work in occupations surrounded by their own gender
That itself *may* (speculatively) encourage gendered polarisation, as men are less likely to interact with women colleagues each day pewresearch.org/short-reads/…
Reuben Hurst retweeted
How much data do you need to conduct an informative staggered diff-in-diff? In our new working paper @fhollenbach and I simulate the power of #DiD estimators, and find that you might need *a lot*, even to detect large effects. We also provide suggestions for improving power 1/
Reuben Hurst retweeted
Find my co-authored paper "Are Firms Gerrymandered", forthcoming at @apsrjournal, in open-access pre-print online.
In it we provide the first evidence that firms, not jut voters, are gerrymandered.
#gerrymandering
#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal -
Are Firms Gerrymandered? - cup.org/3R7ojwb
- JOAQUÍN ARTÉS (@unicomplutense), @aaronrkaufman, BRIAN K. RICHTER (@UChicago) & JEFFREY F. TIMMONS (@NYUAbuDhabi)
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Reuben Hurst retweeted
In this #APSRNewIssue article, @lpargyle & @mbarber83 introduce a new machine learning influenced method to correct for misclassification in Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG), reducing the misclassification error by up to 50 percent.
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Reuben Hurst retweeted
Polarization is a rising issue. We worry about political sorting in social media and in real life. But what about at work? Is work a place where we are exposed to partisan diversity, or just another echo chamber?
Read on for a 🧵about our working paper…
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Are US workplaces politically homogenous? I recently had the chance to talk with @MattGrossman on the @NistkanenCenter #ScienceofPolitics podcast about our working paper with @ReubenHurst2 (@SmithSchool) and @JustinFrake (@MichiganRoss). Do give it a listen 🎧
Reuben Hurst retweeted
Join us at the inaugural *Equitable Opportunity Conference* at @MichiganRoss on June 6-7, 2024.
Theme: Organizations shape socioeconomic opportunities in ways that more/less align w/notions of fairness & justice.
Submission/registration link below.
tinyurl.com/UMRSB-EOC
Reuben Hurst retweeted
Important work by my colleague Ronnie Lee, @ReubenHurst2, & @JustinFrake
Another blow to mindless faith in "flat" organizations.
Women are less likely to apply to companies with flatter hierarchies. A hallmark of "bro cultures?" Women perceive it will be harder to fit in and they will be burdened with more shit work.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Reuben Hurst retweeted
People who favor a policy do not always care about it to the same degree. In this paper, forthcoming at PSRM, we examine alternative ways of measuring differences in "preference intensity" (1/5)
charlottecavaille.wordpress.…
Nice write-up by @SmithBrainTrust of my recent research on why firms speak up on social issues.
.@SmithSchool’s Reuben Hurst examines 2017’s ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville as stigmatizing local employers and prompting a tactical shift in recruiting: rhsmith.umd.edu/research/whe…
