Very useful resource for family policy scholars

Unfortunately I cannot make it to #ESPAnet this year, but for a good reason: I got married last weekend! Looking forward to reconnecting with colleagues next year.

We'll be presenting our book at ESPAnet with a commentary by Anton Hemerijck. 🤩 My first book pitch session ever. #espanet2025

Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is? NO We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Presented joint work with @kunlee.bsky.social on intra-couple time allocation at the 2025 READI. Loved the beautiful campus, great talks — and meeting researchers working on similar questions!

About yesterday: Korean dinner and fête nationale in Luxembourg city with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social @kunlee.bsky.social @keonkim.bsky.social 🇱🇺

Great to see this out! Thanks to editors

Excited to join the #Netspar International Pension Worshop for the first time, in the beautiful city of Leiden. Looking forward to meeting new people and presenting my ongoing work, "Technological change, workers' anxiety, and pension savings behavior"

Excited to spend a month as a visiting researcher at @lisdata.bsky.social & @liser.lu. Grateful for the warm welcome — especially from @kunlee.bsky.social — and such a pleasure to meet fellow visitors @nicolekapelle.bsky.social and @apweiland.bsky.social

Excited that @nicolekapelle.bsky.social and I have started our time as (LIS)2ER visitors at @lisdata.bsky.social and @liser.lu - Thanks @kunlee.bsky.social and @esiermin.bsky.social for having us! Looking forward to fruitful exchanges and new insights in the coming weeks 🇱🇺

How have immigrant poverty rates changed in the US in recent decades? A new WP by Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @davebrady72.bsky.social uses LIS data to create an improved demographic portrait of immigrant poverty from 1993-2023 across 50 states and D.C. @lisdata.bsky.social bit.ly/4dRnbr2

📣 Upcoming @lisdata.bsky.social-LISER Visitor Seminar features presentations from Despina Gavresi of @uni.lu & Ana Muñoz Fernandez of @internationaluma.bsky.social 📅 May 28th, 2025: 12h30-14h | 📍 @liser.lu 🔗 Register here: www.liser.lu/events/lis-l... 👏 Event organiser: @kunlee.bsky.social

Let’s say you have very low sample response rate (recruit tens of millions and only tens of thousands self select into sample). Then you have a RCT where there is clean random assignment of treatment. Does the first stage sample selection bias your estimate of causal effect of treatment?

Had a fruitful session and discussions at #PAA2025 in DC. Photo credit @emanuelagu.bsky.social

You can wake up at 3am without an alarm when you are so much concerned about your country's political future. We finally impeached the president who declared martial law. Democracy keeps alive there! Next election in May/June

Here we go! Looking forward to seeing old colleagues and getting to know new people! #RC28 #Milan

Curious about the LIS/LWS database and eager to learn how to use quantitative methods with the harmonised cross-national dataset for comparative research? Register for the LIS Summer Workshop! I will also contribute to teaching macro-panel (or time-series cross-section) methods using LIS data.

Memorable event in Luxembourg! Chico Ferreira & I had the pleasure of talking with @brankomilan.bsky.social about "Visions of #Inequality". Merci to our excellent hosts: @lisdata.bsky.social, @liser.lu, @uni.lu. Brilliant audience of about 150. @stone-lis.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social

We streamlined six new DID-like estimators and created this tutorial for implementation in R. yiqingxu.org/packages/fec... Hope you no longer need to spend months figuring out what these estimators are and how to use them.

I'm leading a mixtape session on IV in two weeks. Scott was nice enough to write about it here causalinf.substack.com/p/peter-hull... Sign up here! www.mixtapesessions.io/session/iv_f...

Deadline extended! You have now one more week to apply for the LIS-LISER visiting programme! - Benefits: full access to LIS/LWS microdata + opportunities to collaborate with amazing inequality scholars from diverse backgrounds + funding for travel & living expenses

Are you a LIS/LWS user curious about how variables are harmonized in detail? Here's our detailed mapping process!

Registration for the 2nd III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference 2025 is open! Please find the conference agenda here: www.lisdatacenter.org/wp-content/u.... Note registration is mandatory (this is an in-person event only): form.jotform.com/243322120968.... @lseinequalities.bsky.social

Just a reminder that the deadline for the LIS-LISER visiting programme application is the end of this month!

LIS has joined Bsky! @lisdata.bsky.social #LISdata

@lisdata.bsky.social LIS Data Center has now joined Bsky!

Register for the 2nd III/ @lisdata.bsky.social Conference, 27–28 Feb 2025 in Luxembourg. 🎓 80+ papers, keynotes by Nora Lustig & @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social, and a book presentation by @brankomilan.bsky.social 🔗 For programme and registration: edu.nl/83j3b

Sociologists working on inequality: Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required) EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f... Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

Recently, our book on the Transformation of the Left in Europe came out Open access tinyurl.com/ahuxx6d6 A few interviews that summarize key findings: 🔉 Polisci No problem et al. podcast: tinyurl.com/54tvx3md 🔉 Swiss SD party podcast: tinyurl.com/ds4maabc 📖 SamPol Magazine: tinyurl.com/y93nd6cm

I have now posted 14 decks of slides covering a lot of DiD materials. I also want to add a few more decks: - Triple Differences - DiD with Continuous Treatment - Instrumented DiD - Synthetic DiD and related extensions - Heterogeneity analysis in DiD I also want to add more applications to these!

I am thinking of making my DiD materials that I used for teaching in the last 5 years available. I am hoping these would find begineers in need of a step-by-step opinionated walkthrough of several developments Let’s see if I find the energy to do this!

Now the time has come. #Impeach_Yoon #대통령_탄핵하라

Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!" 1/ (Twitter rerun!)

We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between evidence and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself?Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question. www.michellerao.com/research

If you are a doctoral candidate doing social policy research, consider submitting your paper! At least you will receive four excellent comments, so definitely worth trying

Had a first go at creating a starter pack for social policy research. I’m new here and have surely missed lots so please say if you’d like added or removed!

Walter Korpi, respected scholar in social policy & welfare state, passed away

As I just deactivated my X-account, I hope to find more interaction on pension and retirement research in this place. Please follow all these wonderful researchers and tell me if you think someone is missing (including if it is yourself) go.bsky.app/AXDfpkM

This one go.bsky.app/FP9qJZV I'm not sure that's the origin of your spike in follows though!

Is this the second great migration happening right now...?

Today, I received an official letter that my doctoral degree has been confirmed. Special thanks to my supervisors Bernhard Ebbinghaus & Marek Naczyk for educating me throughout this journey, and to my examiners Michaela Kreyenfeld & Kenneth Nelson, also Bess Bukodi at milestone exams

Huge thanks to the organizers, @katjamoe.bsky.social @katikuitto.bsky.social @moritzhess.bsky.social !!

Soon will be there to host the Stream on Sustainability of pensions in ageing welfare states with @katikuitto.bsky.social & @moritzhess.bsky.social #ESPAnet2024 Papers by @ilmakunnasilari.bsky.social @kunlee.bsky.social @tbiegert.bsky.social @jeinhoff.bsky.social @crowold.bsky.social & others

Very pleased to receive _CHALLENGING INEQUALITY_ by Evelyne Huber & John Stephens! This is THE most important book on rising economic inequalities across post-industrial societies. Everyone studying inequality, the welfare state, social policy, labor unions, & parties should read it.

In our new OA research report, @apolvinen.bsky.social , Satu Nivalainen, @susankuivalainen.bsky.social and I look at how people combine work and retirement in the Finnish pension system with a flexible old-age retirement age and how this is related to their income 1/4 doi.org/10.1093/work...

My paper, which has been awarded JESP/ESPAnet Doctoral Researcher Prize, is now published in the Journal of European Social Policy. Check out: doi.org/10.1177/0958...

Call-for-contribution for the next round of our webinar series "work-in-progress edition" targeting research projects using sequence analysis at their developmental stages! Deadline for submission (for presenting Feb.-May) Jan.8th, 2024. More info and form at sequenceanalysis.org/saa-webinar-...

🚨Job Vacancy!🚨I'm hiring a post-doctoral researcher (two years, competitive compensation) to work on a project related to labour market inequalities using new data on EU platform economy. Join our growing research lab of 10 post-docs, PhDs & RAs at Bocconi in Milan. Full details at link below.

In our chapter contribution to the Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies, we provide an overview of the literature across disciplines on reversing early retirement and fostering late careers among older workers. Check out: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

Interested in #pensions? Join our online webinar Wed 1 November 14.00–15.00 (local time EET) / 13.00–14.00 (CET) to discuss the Dutch pension reform 2023 and its capacity to strengthen the sustainability of the system. You find the programme and registration below www.etk.fi/en/research-...