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Thomas Davidson @thomasdavidson.bsky.social · 2d

There is one week left to apply to join us at Rutgers! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Sociology as part of a cluster of new hires in data science and AI.

Applications are due next Wednesday, 10/15.

Assistant Professor in Computational Sociology

The Department of Sociology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, seeks applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level specializing in Computational Sociology. The search i...

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Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 4d

I resent this! 🤣🤣

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 8d

Interview with @epopppp.bsky.social that clarifies what it might mean to reject what she calls "the economic style of reasoning". In the 2nd answer below, she describes deontology as it's usually thought of in ethics these days: as the view that consequences aren't the *only* thing that matter.

DA: You argue that particular forms of expertise carry implicit theories of policies within them. What
is the implicit theory of policy in economic expertise?
EPB: The economic style has some values, epistemological positions and a theory of politics attached to it. Your question prompts me to spell these out a little more explicitly than I do in the book. First, the economic style of reasoning prioritizes consequentialist over deontological values. Economics is all about tradeoffs, not absolutes. So, any time we say something is a right we should protect regardless of cost, or that we want to limit the concentration of economic power, not because of any direct effects, but simply because we think that is a good thing-well, that conflicts with the economic style of reasoning. You can see this kind of conflict happen, for example, when people with disabilities are given the right to access public transportation. Well, it turns out that the cost of making the New York subways wheelchair-accessible is billions of dollars. If a policy is rights-based, you have to do it regardless; economic logic would dictate otherwise.

Is the economic style of reasoning not just about taking the reality of limited resources into account?
Could any policy goal not be attained in a more or less efficient manner?
This is a really good question, because I would never say that we shouldn't consider tradeoffs or try to increase efficiency. I don't think the problem is considering efficiency per se. But there are a couple of issues here.
One is recognizing efficiency as one value among many, and not just giving it top billing by default.
Maybe we do think that some universal benefits are so important that we should just pay for them because that's the kind of society we want to live in, even if that's less efficient. I mean, we pay for everyone to have K-12 [from kindergarten to 12" grade] education in the U.S., even though many families could afford to pay for their children's education themselves. That doesn't mean you don't recognize the cost at some level. It just means that you don't see formal cost-effectiveness as a sort of trump card that trounces everything else.

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NBER @nber.org · 11d

Studying a survey of Danish mothers' pre-birth beliefs about how their career will unfold finds they accurately anticipate their eventual return to work but underestimate the duration of the career interruption, from Andrew Caplin, Søren Leth-Petersen, and Chris... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34289

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 12d

Of you've never seen it, La Operación, classic 1982 documentary, is on youtube:
youtu.be/cGeustqUI78

La Operacion (English)

YouTube video by Pretzel!

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Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 12d

This is the “how many times can you cite yourself “ challenge

Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 12d

Money I don’t have but hey

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Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 12d

Damn I wish I was still going to be around in 2139 I would bet them soooo much money on how wrong they are

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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 12d

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 12d

NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social

Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr

Research on fertility and families enhanced with new harmonised cohort data | CLS

Harmonised data on the fertility histories of four British cohorts are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service.

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 12d

Study on maternal (ethnic and socioeconomic) characteristics and child mortality in the UK. The study uses linkage of the 2011 census with birth and death registrations.

Educational differences, heightened risk of unemployed & Pakistani mothers stand out.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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NBER @nber.org · 12d

Electric vehicle adoption reduces air pollution and improves infant health, lowering rates of very low birth weight, prematurity, and child asthma, from Cavit Baran, Janet Currie, Bahadir Dursun, and Erdal Tekin https://www.nber.org/papers/w34278

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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 15d

So grateful for this support from the amazing @dianeravitch.bsky.social
We’re SO CLOSE to our end-of-quarter fundraising goal. Please consider chipping in too! 👇

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Josh Cowen Is Running for Congress as a Champion for Public Schools!

You may have read about Josh Cowen . He’s a professor of Education Policy at Michigan State University. For twenty years, he worked on voucher research, hoping to find definitive evidence tha…

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Neal Caren @haphazardsoc.bsky.social · 15d

Carolina Sociology is hiring!

• Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods
• Open rank in population health.

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Assistant Professor

This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · Sep 8

This new study shows: in Germany, it has become much harder for children to earn more than their parents, now about as hard as in the US: "parental income has become much more important for educational outcomes of children"

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UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social · 17d

“People should not be concerned about the U.S. population into the future.”

PBS News Hour interviewed Nicholas Mark about the pronatalism movement encouraging Americans to have more children. @pbsnews.org @nickdemark.bsky.social

A look inside the pronatalism movement encouraging Americans to have more children

The U.S. fertility rate reached an all-time low in 2024, according to the CDC. This trend has sparked fear among many on the right, from Elon Musk to Donald Trump, who believe Americans should have mo...

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Taylor Odle @taylorodle.bsky.social · 19d

🚨 Come join us in Ed Policy at @uwmadison.bsky.social! We're hiring an Asst/Assoc Prof studying the intersection of education and the environment. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant or Associate Professor in Educational Policy Studies - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · 22d

Recruiting for a new study on men’s sexual health experiences! Please share :)

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Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 19d

Pretty soon we will be back to calling them “confinements”

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Laura Lindberg @lauralindberg.bsky.social · 19d

Shouldn’t compare the 2022-2023 NSFG to prior waves: indeed, NCHS no longer provides the weights needed to test for change over time correctly

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Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 20d

@lauralindberg.bsky.social I’m thinking of you!

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Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 20d

Am I the only one who is a little skeptical of the 20-24 numbers given NSFGs response rate drop off?

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 20d

US women aged 20-24 plan to have fewer children than in the past
2002: 2.4 children
2012: 2.3 children
2023: 1.5 children
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/18/us-adults-in-their-20s-and-30s-plan-to-have-fewer-children-than-in-the-past/

Chart shows declining expectations across age groups over time in the number of children than US men and women plan to have.

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Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 22d

This is the running soundtrack to my causal inference class: m.youtube.com/watch?v=QdDZ...

Eddie Harris & Les McCann - Compared To What (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1969)

YouTube video by Eddie Harris

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Emily Rauscher @emilyrauscher.bsky.social · Sep 10

New paper with Jeremy Fiel @ricesocsci.bsky.social.
We find school finance reforms reduced inequality of school funding by income, but did not reduce inequality by race/ethnicity and in some cases increased funding inequality by race/ethnicity.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

Slow Progress: School Finance Reforms and Racial Disparities in Funding - Emily Rauscher, Jeremy E. Fiel, 2025

School funding has become more economically progressive but remains unequal by race/ethnicity. As desegregation efforts decline, school finance reforms (SFRs) a...

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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · Sep 10

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary.

careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...

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