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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 1d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 5d

Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bietet Stelle als W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät in Berlin - jetzt bewerben!

www.academics.de

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Ea Blaabæk @blaabaek.bsky.social · 9d

Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research

doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
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How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark

Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 12d

Any data science program without DAGs and causal inference is a failure. We don’t need more grads chasing spurious correlations in big data with zero business sense. Prove me wrong.

Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 12d

Data Science programs often put too little emphasis on causal inference, and it’s hurting their graduates on the job market! The econometrics people are coming for your jobs lol

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13d

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 15d

Congrats, great choice!

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Paul Franz @paul-franz.com · 16d

A new daily puzzle game that asks you to guess what country the chart line represents - super fun for all my #dataviz peeps out there. (h/t @wwb099.bsky.social) chartle.cc

Chartle - A daily chart game

Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart

chartle.cc

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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 20d

NEW: Elias Nosrati, "The Political Economy of Optimal Taxation" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 26d

Quite amazed by the articles that @sociologicalsci.bsky.social puts out on a regular basis -- this one here by Lewis Anderson: imaginative, bold, well-informed, an incredible eye for detail, this will really be moving the field forward

doi.org/10.15195/v12...

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 27d

📊 @mhaslberger.bsky.social, Jane Gingrich, and Jasmine Bhatia explore how exposure to AI shapes social policy preferences in a UK survey experiment.

💡 Their key finding: when faced with AI, people want support, not just protection

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

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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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NBER @nber.org · Sep 2

Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · Aug 27

interesting paper by Young and Lurie on how tax flight per se is negligible, and becomes only relevant once events like Covid break up embeddedness
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research @isi-munich.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚀 The first ISI Newsletter just launched!
Inside: center insights, job opportunities… and a few surprises we promise are way better than finding an extra fry at the bottom of the bag. 🍟✨

Check your inbox — you don’t want to miss this.
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#isimunich

ISSUE #1

ISI has a newsletter now, isn't it exciting?

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

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W. Joel Schneider @w-joel-schneider.bsky.social · Aug 20

Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other.
wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...

Trigonometric functions and a unit circle

A bivariate change model with structured residuals

A hierarchical model of cognitive abilities

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · Aug 19

Interesting paper by Fabian Kratz on education effects across cohort and age on anti-immigrant sentiments sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Rising Educational Divides in Attitudes: How Polarization across Cohorts Can Mask Age-Related Polarization

Article: Rising Educational Divides in Attitudes: How Polarization across Cohorts Can Mask Age-Related Polarization | Sociological Science | Posted August 19, 2025

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Aug 15

Just finished reading (the non-technical parts of 😋) this paper by @ang-yu.bsky.social and Felix Elwert. This is conceptually really cool stuff that may also be of interest to psychologists working on group differences, so here's a short 🧵 with my understanding of it:>

arxiv.org/abs/2306.16591

Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Disparities
Ang Yu, Felix Elwert
We introduce a new nonparametric causal decomposition approach that identifies the mechanisms by which a treatment variable contributes to a group-based outcome disparity. Our approach distinguishes three mechanisms: group differences in 1) treatment prevalence, 2) average treatment effects, and 3) selection into treatment based on individual-level treatment effects. Our approach reformulates classic Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions in causal and nonparametric terms, complements causal mediation analysis by explaining group disparities instead of group effects, and isolates conceptually distinct mechanisms conflated in recent random equalization decompositions. In contrast to all prior approaches, our framework uniquely identifies differential selection into treatment as a novel disparity-generating mechanism. Our approach can be used for both the retrospective causal explanation of disparities and the prospective planning of interventions to change disparities. We present both an unconditional and a conditional decomposition, where the latter quantifies the contributions of the treatment within levels of certain covariates. We develop nonparametric estimators that are n‾√-consistent, asymptotically normal, semiparametrically efficient, and multiply robust. We apply our approach to analyze the mechanisms by which college graduation causally contributes to intergenerational income persistence (the disparity in adult income between the children of high- vs low-income parents). Empirically, we demonstrate a previously undiscovered role played by the new selection component in intergenerational income persistence.

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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · Aug 14

Do not know literature on that but Austria has universal health care and a very strong alternative medicine culture at the same time

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Aug 7

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social -

Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020 - cup.org/45hgOdX

- @alexanderhorn.bsky.social, MARTIN HASELMAYER & @klueserthan.bsky.social

#FirstView

Banner featuring the hashtag #OpenAccess in white text on a green background above the name 'American Political Science Review' in white text on a blue background.

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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · Aug 4

Occupational Earning Potential has landed in @europeansocreview.bsky.social

Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Occupational earning potential: a new measure of social hierarchy in Europe and the US

Abstract. Social stratification is interested in unequal life chances and assumes the existence of a hierarchy of more or less advantageous occupations. Ye

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · Aug 4

I would also like to remind folks that OpenAI wrote a paper in which they prompted GPT-4 on which jobs they thought would be most exposed to automation.

They validated it by comparing it to responses that people who worked OpenAI gave to the same question.

arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130

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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · Jul 25

"In most replicated studies, 2SLS estimates are significantly larger than OLS estimates and their absolute ratio is inversely related to the strength of the instrument in observational studies" had a hunge that this pattern exists awesome that this is shown now 👏

David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · Jul 25

Instrumental variables in observational data: Worse than you thought! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · Jul 24

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"Parenthood and the gender gap in commuting"

By Aline Bütikofer, René Karadakic, & Alexander Willén

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#econsky #publiceconomics #gendergap

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