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Max Thaning @thaning.bsky.social · 10h

🚨Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition working paper out!

Extending KBO decomposition for more than two groups by relating group prevalence and estimated coefficients to the sample average - as well as other juicy meth discussions 😎

Joint work together with @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social

Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · 19h

mKBO: Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition

Always wanted to do a KBO decomposition with more than 2 groups? @thaning.bsky.social and I present a multi-group generalization that overcomes this limitation, while providing a number of methodological advantages:

osf.io/preprints/so...

OSF

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 12h

With the Inequality Cluster, Alex Ludwig (EUI Economics), Francis Vella (Georgetown U), and I organize a one-day conference on Social Mobility. www.eui.eu/events?id=58.... Looking forward to welcoming speakers @pengzell.bsky.social @xisong.bsky.social, Jo Blanden, Kjell Salvanes and Mikael Lindahl>

Workshop on

Organised jointly by EUI scholars Alexander Ludwig and Herman van de Werfhorst, together with Professor Francis Vella (Georgetown University), this event offers a unique forum for dialogue across disc...

www.eui.eu

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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 1d

And the 1st Replication Award of the Academy of Sociology goes to..

Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, and Arnout van de Rijt

for "The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication"

#AkadSoz25 #sociology

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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 2d

Join us at INET Oxford (@inetoxford.bsky.social)! I'm hiring one post-doctoral researcher and three research assistants in the field of inequality, social policy, and social mobility to join our research team. Deadline: October 24. Read more and apply: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Vacancies

Jobs and Vacancies at INET Oxford, The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

www.inet.ox.ac.uk

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 1d

Just because an LLM can produce a report with various figures & charts doesn't mean it is good at statistics.

Because good statistics is not about producing code.

It's about deep knowledge of study design & conduct. In my opinion, 95% of all data science problems come from poor questions & design.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 2d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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Remy Levin 🌻 @remylevin.bsky.social · Sep 10

Ok, this is actually dope. First real solution I’ve seen to ensuring human writing in the age of LLMs.

Maybe the college essay isn’t dead after all?

youtube.com/shorts/AhA1l...

Just give me the grade I know I deserve

YouTube video by Study with J

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Jan Sauermann @jansauermann.bsky.social · Aug 25

@ifau.bsky.social utlyser forskningsbidrag 2025! Ansök senast 15 september om medel för projekt inom arbetsmarknad eller utbildning. Totalt ca 5,6 miljoner kr delas ut.

👉 Läs mer och ansök: ifau.se/Forskningsbidrag

#forskning #utbildning #arbetsmarknad #IFAU

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Max Thaning @thaning.bsky.social · Aug 20

hear hear!

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 20

Luxembourg is going to be unstoppable. The world better get ready for Bouneschlupp and Kniddelen

Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · Aug 20

The IZA network @iza.org will survive!!

That's such great news. Moving to Luxemburg and joining @liser.lu

I don't know details and backend stories, but I see a bright opportunity ahead

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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · Aug 20

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk

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Alba Lanau @albalanau.bsky.social · Aug 18

Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · Aug 14

You cannot be truly creative if it is not safe to fail.

Yet modern academic science requires constant short term success.

To survive, you must win grants & 'deliver' on those grants by publishing lots of papers.

That leads to a culture of low risk, iterative research oversold as 'groundbreaking.

Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Aug 14

Some say you either have "it" or you don't, and that creativity cannot be learned, but that really misses the point. Creativity is lost in the wrong environment. We need to recognize the "night science" aspect of our work and that we need to nurture it in our training. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can creativity in science be learnt? These researchers think so

Time pressure gets in the way of ideas. Developing ‘creative oases’ and small grants for risky ideas can encourage innovative thinking in science.

www.nature.com

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INEQ - Research Institute Economics of Inequality @ WU Vienna @ineq-wu.bsky.social · Aug 5

Voices from INEQ 🔊
"In bester Gesellschaft" is a podcast co-created by INEQ. In episode 6: Wealth @franziskadbacher.bsky.social joins the discussion.
🎧 Listen (in German): short.wu.ac.at/ineq_podcast_06
#INEQ

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RC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social · Aug 7

The winner of this year’s significant contribution award goes to

The great separation: Top earner segregation at work in advanced capitalist economies

O Godechot, et al
American Journal of Sociology 130 (2), 439-495, 2024

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · Aug 7

It was such an honor to receive this award from @isa-rc28.bsky.social
on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and other coauthors.

RC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social · Aug 7

The winner of this year’s significant contribution award goes to

The great separation: Top earner segregation at work in advanced capitalist economies

O Godechot, et al
American Journal of Sociology 130 (2), 439-495, 2024

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · Aug 1

The families in households typology

In this new paper from the @reusilience.bsky.social project, we improve standard family-type variables in EU-SILC

By @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social, @thaning.bsky.social, @wvlancker.bsky.social and @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The families in households typology: searching for families in social surveys

Studying families with social surveys is not always as straightforward as it may seem. The reasons for the challenges are both conceptual and methodological, stemming from the specificity of the da...

www.tandfonline.com

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Max Thaning @thaning.bsky.social · Jun 28

Final conference of rEUsilience and this is (parts of) the wonderful crew - here w/ miami vice flair. Thx for a great journey!
@rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @wvlancker.bsky.social @abrarbawati.bsky.social @amatysiak.bsky.social @cofaceeu.bsky.social and analog 📷 by great @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · Jun 26

I asked Chatbox AI for a graph: trends by political party in their attention for educational expansion (with a more elaborate instruction). This is what came out.😱

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Max Thaning @thaning.bsky.social · Jun 25

Congrats and well-deserved, Carlos!

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Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · Jun 25

Tech bros pitching machine learning over "conventional stats" be like

Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · Jun 24

How I explain frequentism vs Bayesianism to my students

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Clément de Chaisemartin @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social · Jun 25

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🚨 We have finalized our DID textbook!
You’ve run out of excuses for sketchy pre-trends and mysterious TWFE coefficients.

📘 Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
By Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments

<div> The purpose of this book is to introduce applied researchers to </div> <div> modern Differences-in-Differences (DID) estimators, tailored to potentially

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Jun 23

Interested in doing a PhD at the Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social? Look no further: 1-2 fully funded PhD positions now available!

PhD student in Analytical Sociology

liu.se

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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · Jun 23

The need and capacity for resilience in European labour markets: an inequalities in resilience framework

New @reusilience.bsky.social working paper by @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social, @thaning.bsky.social, @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social and Lovisa Backman.

reusilience.eu/publications...

The need and capacity for resilience in European labour markets: an inequalities in resilience framework — rEUsilience

Resilience has become a prominent concept in EU social and economic policy, positioned as a response to megatrends such as technological change, labour market deregulation and demographic shifts. This...

reusilience.eu

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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research @isi-munich.bsky.social · Jun 18

Why do social class and income still stick together after 100 years?
@thaning.bsky.social has the Swedish data – and the answers.
June 24, 12:15
Hosted by @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social
Because meritocracy is more of a vibe than a reality.
#isimunich #sociology #inequality #lmu

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Jun 3

Academia will form these little pockets -- people whose theorizing is outrageous & supported by methods outdated since the 90s -- but once it reaches a critical size those people just review each others papers & grants, form societies, hand out awards etc, like a self-contained parallel society.

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