Thrilled to be awarded a Peder Sather Grant to spend 2026 at UC Berkeley 🐻✨

I'll work on causal ML applied to health & social science ⚕️🔬

Grateful to Peder Sather Center, Henrik Zachrisson, Nicolai Borgen, Astrid Sandsør @unioslo-uv.bsky.social , and David Harding @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

I had the pleasure of publishing an introduction to instrumental variables co-authored with Henrik Daae Zachrisson for the #JClinEpi key concepts in clinical epidemiology series! 🔬📖

www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Always a pleasure to visit Madison, WI, to work with smart and fun collaborators! #UWMadison

Great postdoc opportunity! Join the Segregation of Opportunities (SEGOP) project led by Nicolai Borgen, with methods for causal inference using registry, survey, and genotyped data 📊 Located at CREATE (@uio.no), an exciting environment with many working on similar topics!

tinyurl.com/segop-postdoc

Genetically-informed designs offer new ways to tackle causal questions in the social sciences. Excited to see where this approach goes next! 🚀

It was a privilege to learn so much from this amazing team of coauthors and special shout-out to Perline for key contributions on the genetic data. 🎉

We also look further into potential heterogeneity and found consistent results for lifetime earnings, and the education premium is bigger for women and for individuals from low-income families.

We really strived for methodologically sound analyses and tested our methods’ assumptions with multiple sensitivity analyses. That’s especially the case for Mendelian randomization, which treats genetic variation as a natural experiment, for which we also performed within-family.

Using Norwegian registry data, our study reveals that on average one additional year of schooling raises annual earnings by at least 19,000 NOK (~ $1,700) during one's 30s. This consistent finding across methods underscores that education is a solid investment.

🚨 Excited to share our latest work with @perlinedemange.bsky.social, Felix Elwert, Nicolai Borgen, @eivindy.bsky.social, and Henrik Zachrisson.

Does more schooling increase earnings? We revisit this classic question using multiple genetically informed designs 📚🎓🧬 💰

osf.io/preprints/so...

Want to get out of Dodge? Do a postdoc @uio.no! You will be using the MoBa study and registers to study intergenerational transmission and GxE for #MentalHealth and #education using @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social and @pgcgenetics.bsky.social approaches. Please share!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Our new AJS article shows that high earning family and work life courses are remarkably similar in different countries, but differ much for low earners. This is related to country specific policies structuring especially the low-earning life courses.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Good initiative! We published an introduction to instrumental variables article in JCE www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Fascinating new paper by Bukodi and Goldthorpe, showing among other things recent growing educational inequalities by family background in West-Nordic countries, after marked declines in the first half of the 20th century.

#sociology #econsky

Link, OA: academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Check in on your quantiles, people, they might not be (interpreted) alright.

Excellent paper by Nicolai Borgen, @andreashaupt.bsky.social, and @oyvindw.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/esr/article/...

In “Effect of Social Origins on Educational Attainment,” Anderson @ppraeg.bsky.social Akimova & @cmonden.bsky.social find considerable variation in SC. @crestsociology.bsky.social @purduesociology.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Today’s Podcast is a two-parter!

First Felix Elwert, David Harding, and Geoff Wodtke discuss neighborhood effects, while Marissa Thompson shares insights on school segregation and parental perceptions.

Listen every other Monday:
Website: bit.ly/3YdiCkj

#NeighborhoodEffects #SchoolSegregation

"Reading and conducting instrumental variable studies: guide, glossary, and checklist" - nice new paper in the @bmj.com from @tfeend.bsky.social and colleagues!

#EpiSky #StatsSky

www.bmj.com/content/387/...