Per Engzell
@pengzell.bsky.social
Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
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A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Our friends at Uni of Sheffield economics department are organising a workshop showcasing research using admin data designed to inform education policy
🕕10am-4pm on Thurs 11th Dec, in person in Sheffield
Programme here: tinyurl.com/bdfawbxf
Sign up to attend for free here: tinyurl.com/yakxb9y6
🕕10am-4pm on Thurs 11th Dec, in person in Sheffield
Programme here: tinyurl.com/bdfawbxf
Sign up to attend for free here: tinyurl.com/yakxb9y6
Education Workshop programme final.pdf
tinyurl.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Our friends at Uni of Sheffield economics department are organising a workshop showcasing research using admin data designed to inform education policy
🕕10am-4pm on Thurs 11th Dec, in person in Sheffield
Programme here: tinyurl.com/bdfawbxf
Sign up to attend for free here: tinyurl.com/yakxb9y6
🕕10am-4pm on Thurs 11th Dec, in person in Sheffield
Programme here: tinyurl.com/bdfawbxf
Sign up to attend for free here: tinyurl.com/yakxb9y6
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Beginning in Summer 2026, I will be one of the co-editors of Journal of Economic History. I will be taking over from Bishnu Gupta, who has done a fantastic job the last four years.
Looking for papers asking big questions. Answers must be convincing, but methodology is secondary IMO
Looking for papers asking big questions. Answers must be convincing, but methodology is secondary IMO
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Beginning in Summer 2026, I will be one of the co-editors of Journal of Economic History. I will be taking over from Bishnu Gupta, who has done a fantastic job the last four years.
Looking for papers asking big questions. Answers must be convincing, but methodology is secondary IMO
Looking for papers asking big questions. Answers must be convincing, but methodology is secondary IMO
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Wow I just came across this AI generated sentence in a text from 1953
May 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Wow I just came across this AI generated sentence in a text from 1953
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After a semester exploring the challenges posed by the entanglement of data/algorithms/AI and society, I like to end my semester with hope and joy (b/c I'm filled with hope!). What are your best examples of forward-looking, positive, pro-social, uplifting, creative etc. uses of data/algorithms/AI?
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
After a semester exploring the challenges posed by the entanglement of data/algorithms/AI and society, I like to end my semester with hope and joy (b/c I'm filled with hope!). What are your best examples of forward-looking, positive, pro-social, uplifting, creative etc. uses of data/algorithms/AI?
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"Teaching is incredibly meaningful, but meaning alone won’t fix shortages. Evidence like this can help government design policies that genuinely attract the graduates our schools need." The @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social team present essential insights on why people choose, or rule out, a career in teaching
Why do people choose to become teachers?
Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social
econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...
Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social
econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...
EconPapers: Understanding the decision (not) to become a teacher: evidence from survey experiments with undergraduates in the UK and US
By Sam Sims and Clare Routledge; Abstract: Teacher shortages are widespread, yet the reasons people choose (not) to enter the profession remain poorly understood.
econpapers.repec.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"Teaching is incredibly meaningful, but meaning alone won’t fix shortages. Evidence like this can help government design policies that genuinely attract the graduates our schools need." The @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social team present essential insights on why people choose, or rule out, a career in teaching
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Last minute push for people to attend the Open Science Retreat on April 7-11, 2026, Wales. Applications close on November 30. This is an unconference / hackathon /activist networking event / retreat. Rest is celebrated and outputs are de-prioritised compared to process. open.science-retreat.org
Open Science Retreat
A space for open research advocates to recharge, connect, and think deeply together.
open.science-retreat.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Last minute push for people to attend the Open Science Retreat on April 7-11, 2026, Wales. Applications close on November 30. This is an unconference / hackathon /activist networking event / retreat. Rest is celebrated and outputs are de-prioritised compared to process. open.science-retreat.org
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Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
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my migration policy substack has a gift guide, as you do: www.laurenpolicy.com/p/the-2025-l...
The 2025 Lauren Policy Gift Guide
Why does your migration literature review blog have a gift guide? Because I can.
www.laurenpolicy.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
my migration policy substack has a gift guide, as you do: www.laurenpolicy.com/p/the-2025-l...
Introduce yourself with 5 papers you have rejected
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 papers you have rejected
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CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof).
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof).
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Whenever DAGs have numbers attached to them they're just glorified path diagrams. Don't listen to this guy!
A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Whenever DAGs have numbers attached to them they're just glorified path diagrams. Don't listen to this guy!
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Old style Twitter is back, baby.
A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Old style Twitter is back, baby.
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Got a domain name for a new project so I’m basically half done
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Got a domain name for a new project so I’m basically half done
A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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🚨 🚨 Publication 🚨 🚨
My work on residential relocation of Immigrants and their descendants in France has been published in Population, Space and Place.
This work was part of my time in @standrewssgsd.bsky.social with the @migrantlife.bsky.social project.
Available here
👇👇👇
dx.doi.org/10.1002/psp....
My work on residential relocation of Immigrants and their descendants in France has been published in Population, Space and Place.
This work was part of my time in @standrewssgsd.bsky.social with the @migrantlife.bsky.social project.
Available here
👇👇👇
dx.doi.org/10.1002/psp....
Residential Relocations and Housing Changes Among Immigrants and Their Descendants: An Analysis of Longitudinal Register Data From France
This paper investigates residential mobility and housing changes among immigrants, their descendants, and the native population, alongside the association between family and household characteristics....
dx.doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🚨 🚨 Publication 🚨 🚨
My work on residential relocation of Immigrants and their descendants in France has been published in Population, Space and Place.
This work was part of my time in @standrewssgsd.bsky.social with the @migrantlife.bsky.social project.
Available here
👇👇👇
dx.doi.org/10.1002/psp....
My work on residential relocation of Immigrants and their descendants in France has been published in Population, Space and Place.
This work was part of my time in @standrewssgsd.bsky.social with the @migrantlife.bsky.social project.
Available here
👇👇👇
dx.doi.org/10.1002/psp....
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Proof, if proof be needed, that building networks of separated cycle infrastructure leads to more people cycling more often.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cycling journeys up by 43% in London, TfL report suggests
Cycling journeys have increased to more than 1.5 million daily this year, according to a new report.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Proof, if proof be needed, that building networks of separated cycle infrastructure leads to more people cycling more often.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Why do people choose to become teachers?
Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social
econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...
Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social
econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...
EconPapers: Understanding the decision (not) to become a teacher: evidence from survey experiments with undergraduates in the UK and US
By Sam Sims and Clare Routledge; Abstract: Teacher shortages are widespread, yet the reasons people choose (not) to enter the profession remain poorly understood.
econpapers.repec.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Why do people choose to become teachers?
Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social
econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...
Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social
econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...
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The reverse method is: open 12 papers, read the abstract, and feel intellectually empowered.
The true academic method: open 12 papers, read none of them, feel intellectually intimidated
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The reverse method is: open 12 papers, read the abstract, and feel intellectually empowered.
The true academic method: open 12 papers, read none of them, feel intellectually intimidated
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The true academic method: open 12 papers, read none of them, feel intellectually intimidated
Tag yourself I’m autism bicycle
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Tag yourself I’m autism bicycle
I don’t know what this is but I like it
Remembering the time I was in Türkiye and the hotel welcomed me with an effusive press release and one of the all time great pull quotes
November 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I don’t know what this is but I like it
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Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving.
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK net migration falls sharply with drop in arrivals for work and study
Provisional figures for net migration to the UK show levels dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving.
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The flood of AI slop is upon us
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The flood of AI slop is upon us
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!