@realDLeblang

Husband. Father. Professor. @UVA studying #migration and #displacement with #bigdata. Unrepentant #Mets #Springsteen fan.

 Charlottesville, VA
Joined February 2018
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Cap’tain Bob
@BobTharinJul 28
Bruce Springsteen & The Sessions Band turn Pay Me My Money Down into a roaring New Orleans party. Press play. The rest takes care of itself. #BruceSpringsteen #LiveMusic #NewOrleans #JazzFest
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Loneliness affects one in five people worldwide. But a new global study also finds it varies between countries, reflecting more than individual circumstances. @realDLeblang @otago theconversation.com/is-there…

Is there really a global loneliness epidemic? Research reveals a more complex picture

Loneliness affects one in five people worldwide. But a new global study also finds it varies between countries, reflecting more than individual circumstances.

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Read this #preprint on @researchsquare: Trade networks multiply the global health returns to bilateral aid researchsquare.com/article/r…

Trade networks multiply the global health returns to bilateral aid

The standard cost-effectiveness estimate for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)—the largest investment in global health history—is $124 per disability-adjusted life year averted....

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Miller Center@Miller_CenterJan 29
"The new inverted pyramid and the accompanying discourse trumpeting 'the end of the war on saturated fats' may encourage Americans to eat [more] saturated fat than is good for them." Margaret Foster Riley discusses the new U.S. Dietary Guidelines. zurl.co/malVb
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Miller Center@Miller_CenterJan 20
"Many conservatives hail 287(g) agreements as an indispensable shield against crime. However, an objective examination of the empirical evidence reveals a stark reality: focused policing, not federalization, delivers real public safety," says @realDLeblang zurl.co/J6i2v
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David Leblang retweeted
Jon Stewart
@jonstewart10 Dec 2025
The New York Mets are pain…only pain…
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"A student who is using a computer may look and see what somebody next to or in front of them is doing...it’s a distraction to everybody else." In @realDLeblang's class, the usual chorus of clicking keyboards is nonexistent: Leblang has a no-tech policy. zurl.co/O7exE

In this classroom, they trade keyboards for conversation

UVA politics professor David Leblang asks students to review notes before class so they can join the conversation and avoid being “stenographers.”

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Remigration "promotes the large-scale, state-orchestrated removal of non-white immigrants and even naturalized citizens with 'migration backgrounds.'" #Trump is shifting immigration policy towards radical nativism, says @realDLeblang. zurl.co/4fbsh #ICE #immigration
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A Mets and Yankee fan kiss on the scoreboard as she shows off her engagement ring. The crowd boos.
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David Leblang retweeted
Sam Stein
@samstein11 Apr 2025
NEW -- The big little secret is now dripping out in public: Trump is getting ready to exempt farm workers from his deportation raids @Carrasquillo on the story thebulwark.com/p/farmers-try…

Farmers Try to Keep Food on the Table Despite Trump

Thanks to Trump’s immigration and tariff policies, the outlook for agriculture is cloudy.

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1/ New resource: The Global Currencies Database: globalcurrenciesdatabase.com…
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“A Deportation Boomerang?”: C Ambrosius & @realDLeblang show how the return of deportees increases violence in origin nations, which leads to ↑ emigration intentions & asylum requests, especially for minors & families. @FU_Berlin @UVABatten @Miller_Center ow.ly/4Pgy50Vp8Gk
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Trump has pledged an immigration crackdown. At the same time he promises to support to the US shipbuilding industry, which is struggling to overcome an acute worker shortage. Immigrants have been critical to helping fill the gaps. Story from @nicoleMfoy propublica.org/article/us-na…

Trump Has Promised to Build More Ships. He May Deport the Workers Who Help Make Them.

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to increase the pace of U.S. military shipbuilding. But his pledge to also clamp down on immigration could make it hard for shipyards already facing workfo...

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David Leblang retweeted
derek guy
@dieworkwear3 Dec 2024
My argument is simple: people who say they want to see a return of American manufacturing don't actually vote with their dollar. Let me show you. 🧵
Wissam Issa@WissamIssa73 Dec 2024
Replying to @dieworkwear
Based on your logic we should just give up local manufacturing and send everything overseas because child labor is cheaper than US labor? That we don’t need to manufacture anything locally? That’s quite a ignorant argument How come every other country has protectionism?
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In this paper, Nones develops and tests novel theoretical claims regarding executive leaders’ prior career in business and their trade policy. The substantive effect of business experience is comparable to that of established factors in the literature: academic.oup.com/isq/article…

Preferential Trade Agreements and Leaders’ Business Experience

Abstract. Many theories attempt to explain the determinants of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) and their design. Existing accounts, however, focus alm

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Ariel Ruiz@ruizags22 Oct 2024
Migrant border crossings fell almost every month since February due to US & MX policies. And as they fall, a higher share of migrants are placed in Expedited Removal. But there is so much more behind these trends. Read our @MigrationPolicy short read 👇 migrationpolicy.org/news/fy2…
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Does the arrival of more immigrants cause wages to fall? The answer is, largely, no. More immigrants cause consumer demand to increase, which leads to more jobs across the economy, which causes more demand for labor, which raises wages. The whole thing largely cancels itself out.
The simple Econ 101 story turned out to have a blind spot: Immigrants aren’t just workers who compete for jobs; they are also consumers who buy things. They therefore increase not only the supply of labor, which reduces wages, but also the demand for it, which raises them. In the end, the two forces appear to cancel each other out. (The same logic explains why commentators who suggest that immigration is a helpful inflation-fighting tool are probably wrong. I have made a version of this mistake myself.)

ALT The simple Econ 101 story turned out to have a blind spot: Immigrants aren’t just workers who compete for jobs; they are also consumers who buy things. They therefore increase not only the supply of labor, which reduces wages, but also the demand for it, which raises them. In the end, the two forces appear to cancel each other out. (The same logic explains why commentators who suggest that immigration is a helpful inflation-fighting tool are probably wrong. I have made a version of this mistake myself.)

Michael Clemens@m_clem3 Oct 2024
"The Truth about Immigration and the American Worker" …or: Why does Econ 101 intuition fail us? I talked with Rogé Karma of @TheAtlantic, who crafted this via months discussion with top immigration economists —> theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv… @PIIE @MasonEconomics @MasonResearch

The Truth About Immigration and the American Worker

In many domains, the conventional wisdom among progressives is mistaken, oversimplified, or based on wishful thinking. The economics of immigration is not one of them.

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Do large-scale deportations lead to safe communities, better jobs & less irregular migration, as promised by policymakers? Research shows the answer is less clear than you may think @chrambrosio & @a_velasquezg walk through some key findings in our Migration Information Source magazine: migrationpolicy.org/article/…
"Research shows that increasing removals and returns may deter some irregular migration in the short term. Nonetheless, without addressing the underlying drivers of migration, these policies may lead to a change only in individuals’ migration strategies rather than a noticeable reduction of irregular migration overall. Also, there is little evidence to support the notion that enforced returns enhance public safety in destination countries... In addition, deportations have been shown to negatively affect U.S.-born workers by significantly reducing their employment opportunities."

ALT "Research shows that increasing removals and returns may deter some irregular migration in the short term. Nonetheless, without addressing the underlying drivers of migration, these policies may lead to a change only in individuals’ migration strategies rather than a noticeable reduction of irregular migration overall. Also, there is little evidence to support the notion that enforced returns enhance public safety in destination countries... In addition, deportations have been shown to negatively affect U.S.-born workers by significantly reducing their employment opportunities."

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