Is crypto anti-elite rebellion or tax-savvy portfolio strategy? Our study of Germany points more to the latter: crypto ownership is socially stratified, linked to risk tolerance, and embedded in existing wealth portfolios rather than forming a distinct investor class. On OSF: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

#GoogleTrends #PoliticalConcerns 📣New publication by Julia Weiss Julia Weiß and Barbara Binder Barbara Binder: “Comparing the ‘Most Important Problem’ Measure of Issue Salience and Google Trends” (doi.org/10.13094/SMI...).#GoogleTrends

From surveys to data donations: “Search and Stream” offers new research data on 🔍Google Search, 🎧Spotify streaming, and digital participation — linkable to the German ISSP 2024 survey. Now available at GESIS: 🔗ZA9079: doi.org/10.4232/1.14700 🔗ZA9080: doi.org/10.4232/1.14701

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs shows how easily pseudonymous users can now be re-identified from unstructured text alone. When discussing our EJMR paper at NBER SI 2023 Catherine Tucker argued that rising compute would soon erode online anonymity. The future may already be here.

Who opts into a data donation study asking for Google Search histories – and more importantly, who actually donates their data? Sina Chen and I found that Green Party and FDP voters were more likely to follow through, hinting at political skew in donated data 👇

#DataDonation #DBD #GLES #ElectionResearch Who actually donates their #GoogleSearch data during an election #BTW25? Barbara Binder#DataDonation#DBD#GLES#ElectionResearch#GoogleSearch#BTW25?ina Chen explore the potential of enriching election surveys with donated platform data in their new paper "Opting in but not donating?

🚨 New GLES data release for #BTW25: GLES Tracking March 2025 – repeatedly questioned respondents T60W (ZA10132) 💻📱 CAWI survey 👥 n = 977 interviews 📅 Fieldwork: 05–21 March 2025 🗳️ Post-election follow-up survey of a subset of the T60 (ZA10105) respondents. 📥 Access the data: doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

Wow! The “official” poverty guidelines were quite problematic. But hard to see how eligibility for Medicaid & other programs will be determined given they were based on these guidelines.

The field of gender and sexual minority (LGBTQ) health is being erased. Hundreds of ongoing NIH grants being immediately terminated. Deb Umberson and my decade long longitudinal study on marriage and health joined the termination list last night.

The current administration is straight up censoring the scientific record by requiring authors to alter an already-accepted research paper because it uses banned words such as "gender" and "equitable" and presents data broken down by sexual orientation.

🚨 New Preprint! 🚨 How are generational shifts shaping hormonal contraceptive use in Germany? We analyze societal, economic, and personal predictors across three cohorts using machine learning. 💡 Key findings below 👇 Read here: doi.org/10.31235/osf... Thanks to co-authors Theresa Nutz & Bryan Chan

Looking for linkable social media data of candidates? 🔎 Check out the candidates’ social media accounts (ZA7959) and the candidates’ social media activities (ZA8917) and contact the GLES team for possibilities to link the data!📧

🚨 New data release! 🚨 GLES Candidate Study European Election 2024 (ZA7960)!🎉 Questions include background & nomination, election campaign, attitudes, democracy & representation. Special focus on use of social media in election campaigns. ➡️ dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

🚨Check out our new paper with @schechtlm.bsky.social on the role of public redistribution in wealth-income correlations across countries! 🚨💰💶 OA in Socius doi.org/10.1177/23780231241261599

Data collection of GLES Candidate Study European Election 2024 has started!🎉 Questions on candidates' backgrounds, recruitment & selection, attitudes, policy positions, campaigns & special focus on social media campaigning Pre-release questionnaire: www.gesis.org/en/gles/over...

Der Grundfreibetrag soll ein festgelegtes steuerfreies #Existenzminimum garantieren. Die absolute Entlastungswirkung steigt jedoch kontinuierlich mit dem Einkommen, wie unsere neue Studie zeigt. #ifo_Institut 🧵1/2 ➡️ zentrum-neue-sozialpolitik.org/projekte/ifo...

🚨 New data release! 🚨 GLES Candidate Study European Elections 2024, Social Media Accounts (ZA7959)! 🎉 The data covers accounts from Facebook, Instagram, X, and personal websites of German candidates for the upcoming European Elections. ➡️ doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

🚨 Policy works! 🚨 Low-wage workers saw dramatically fast wage growth from 2019-2023—even after accounting for inflation—largely because of federal and state policy measures like COVID relief and minimum wage increases. This is in stark contrast to prior decades. 🧵 1/4

Eine Chance für die Quote? In Hessen einigen sich Land und Gewerkschaften auf eine bundesweit einzigartige Regelung zum Ausbau von Dauerstellen an Hochschulen. Was das für die #WissZeitVG-Debatte bedeuten könnte. #IchbinHanna Im Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/2024/03/18/e...

That very viral "Holocaust denial among young people" finding doesn't replicate. t.co/9wT82XfBzW

OnlineFirst in #JESP: András Gábos, Réka Branyiczki, István G. Tóth and I show that using a floating poverty threshold dramatically underestimates the strength of the relationships between poverty, employment and social transfers: https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241232272 Thread 👇👇👇

Der deutsche Sozialstaat im IMK-Datencheck: Weder besonders groß, noch besonders stark gewachsen. Die realen Sozialausgaben stiegen in den letzten 20 Jahren um 26% – drittniedrigster Wert unter 27 OECD-Ländern. Alle Infos ➡️ www.boeckler.de/de/pressemit...

@schechtlm.bsky.social und ich zeigen (osf.io/preprints/so...), dass das deutsche Erbschafts- und Schenkungssteuerrecht in Verbindung mit geschlechterspezifischem elterlichen Transferverhalten zu einem Gender-Tax-Gap führt. Erklärt hier: www.zeit.de/geld/2023-10... #GenderSky #Sociology

Die Pressemitteilung der @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social findet sich hier: www.boeckler.de/de/pressemit... Die vollständige Studie von @janbruelle.bsky.social und Dorothee Spannagel kann hier heruntergeladen werden: www.wsi.de/fpdf/HBS-008... 15/

Der diesjährige Verteilungsbericht des WSI @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social ist erschienen und offenbart eine anhaltend hohe Einkommensungleichheit. Zudem zeigt er, wie Einkommensungleichheit zu einer Entfremdung einzelner Gruppen vom demokratischen System beiträgt. 1/ www.boeckler.de/pdf/pm_wsi_2...