🚨✨📝 Our article “How Do Labour Inspections Deal with the Transformations of Work?” (with Alessandro Pelizzari & Nicolas Pons-Vignon) is now published in @jirjournal.bsky.social. ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic,” by Arteaga (@caroartc.bsky.social) and Barone (@vickybarone.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns,” by Rao (@nirupama.bsky.social) and Risch: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

gt 1.2.0, an R pkg for making tables, is now out (on CRAN)! Major highlights include: - SI prefix formatting w/ `fmt_number_si()` - multi-column stubs for hierarchical row labels - new `summary_columns()` function - major improvements to LaTeX, Word, and RTF rendering github.com/rstudio/gt/r...

Featured in the latest Digest: Overlap in Corporate Leadership Increases Collusion www.nber.org/digest/20251...

Nursing home effort fluctuates with the inspection cycle, affecting patient survival. Unpredictable inspection schedules may boost effort and save lives, from Ashvin Gandhi, Andrew Olenski, and Maggie Shi www.nber.org/papers/w34491

Ons werk is zelden écht democratisch – en dat zie je ook buiten het kantoor, zegt @standespiegelaere.bsky.social (UGent & Denktank Minerva). “Wie inspraak ervaart, gedraagt zich als burger.” Lees waarom democratie begint op de werkvloer in @apache.org 👇 apache.be/2025/12/16/s...

For the historical polling nerds out there, an article about our project with @ropercenter.bsky.social that digitised ~800 surveys by Gallup poll in Britain between 1955 and 1991 has been published in JEPOP. The merged dataset contains over three-quarters of a million respondents.

NEW: Ely Strömberg, Per Engzell, "How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Join us on 23 January in Leuven for Rune Stubager’s keynote on the enduring impact of social class on political behaviour in Western democracies! You can register below 👇

From October 2025 - Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - cup.org/47ifc4B "we show that educational divides are diminished in the presence of countervailing networks" - @davidattewell6.bsky.social & @dpzollinger.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Political polarization on confidence in the scientific community accelerated in the 2024 General Social Survey, with moderates now showing a significant downturn. (Apologies if I missed this updated with 2024 data already) /1

Use of mental health medications in the population of Swedish PhD students is 40% higher than a matched sample by the fifth PhD year. Be kind to PhD students. Don't take up PhD students you can't invest in. Alert prospective students of the reality of a PhD. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New article by Susanne Wanger (@iabnews.bsky.social): collective bargaining coverage and works council presence jointly increase the amount -- and reduce inequalities -- of vacation days for German workers journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

📢 New #OpenAccess! Why do some professors appear in the media far more than others? #RH_Heiberger @BasHofstra #S_Unger find both patterns of cumulative advantage & gender inequality, with men more likely to become “short-listed”! ➡️ Read it ungated at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf037 image.png

New paper out in the Journal of Contemporary History! Could be of interest for anyone interested in profit squeezes and economic policy in the turbulent 1970s and 1980s, and the decline of Social Democracy in Sweden. Open Access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

[Out] 'Inheritance, wealth transfers, and the case for a capital accessions tax'. New paper by Eric Fabri, Postdoctoral Researcher at SciencePo ULB (Centre de théorie politique), for the Journal of Public Policy. resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Uit angst voor uitzetting durven veel ongedocumenteerde werknemers misstanden niet te melden. Terecht, blijkt uit onderzoek van OneWorld en @groene.nl. De Arbeidsinspectie werkt namelijk samen met de Vreemdelingenpolitie. Daarom worden ook de schoonmakers van Saints & Stars waarschijnlijk uitgezet.

Studying the labor market effects of recent state-level policies that require employers to disclose salary information in job postings, from David Arnold, Simon Quach, and Bledi Taska www.nber.org/papers/w34480

🎉Celebrating 50 years of @eurofound.europa.eu: 5 decades of tripartite-backed rigorous policy research supporting trade unions, employers and governments in improving living and working conditions in the EU: www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/news-and-...

Professors in the media: dynamics of cumulative advantage, reputation, and gender Translation of science to a general public is increasingly important in modern academia. Yet, there is little knowledge on whether and why scientists do so. Here, we provide an account of a populati #sociology link

Curious how #algorithmicmanagement changes the role of managers and workplace power dynamics beyond the gig economy? Me and Sander have something for you! Hope you enjoy it - all feedback is welcome! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Latest piece for the @thehousemag.bsky.social, on the island of strangers speech and similar. Also ft Bob Hawke. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

NEW: Depressive symptoms have risen among women in their late 50s and early 60s, particularly among the least wealthy women. 📗 @beeboileau.bsky.social and Jonathan Cribb's new report examines health, wealth and employment in the run-up to the state pension age: [THREAD]

If you think that major companies mostly utilize their power across borders, think again. Here a paper on Denmark showing strong connection to government of the top 50 companies.

New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents? Short answer: yes 1/2 academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

🎴NEW PAPER!🎴 Majorities in 11 HICs support: ✅Foreign aid ✅Debt relief for low-income countries (LICs) ✅An international carbon price financing a worldwide basic income ✅An international 2% tax on wealth above $1 million with 30% funding LICs and much more. bsky.app/profile/wid.... A 🧵⬇️

Public support for pro-environment and environment-critical movements doi.org/10.1017/S000... Paper in @bjpols.bsky.social by @dirckdekleer.bsky.social @catherinedevries.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student @simonvanteutem.bsky.social

Proof-of-concept to try out the new #HuskyLens 2 vision sensor: object recognition using build-in self-learning classifier + LMS #ESP32 module + #micropython + servo = basic Lego brick detection ;-).

Onder werknemers blootgesteld aan controletechnologie had 43% het afgelopen jaar psychische problemen. @mhermans.net

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Welfare agencies increasingly rely on targeting to ensure that limited resources reach those deemed most in need. A new WP by @pietrovaletto.bsky.social and @ivemarx.bsky.social shows how asset testing in the EU and US often undermines their stated goal of poverty reduction. bit.ly/47M6L0c

💥 Vandaag verschijnt ons nieuwste nummer: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 👉journalistiek 👉gezondheid 👉overheid 👉privacy 👉fiscaliteit 👉milieu 👉onderwijs 👉muziek 👉oorlog 👉werk Ontdek 'em via sampol.be/latest

New paper with @mhamjediers.bsky.social German judges have discretion to apply rehabilitative juvenile criminal law (Jugendstrafrecht) or punitive adult criminal law to 18–20-year-old offenders. We show that immigrant youths are ~10 percentage points less likely to be sentenced under juvenile law

🆕 Latest article out @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Left parties' higher salience on cultural issues associated w/ higher support from working-class voters. Social democrats much more sensitive to different strategies, should pursue more left/salient economics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled, not spiralling Worklessness is near record lows My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Third dissertation paper is out now in @govandopp.bsky.social! OA: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... It studies the ideological structure of European electorates – finding broad similarities between countries, despite that party electorates and social groups remain structured nationally

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...

🚨New publication out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social @danielk24.bsky.social & I show that the support for green subsidies by unions & business interest groups in the 🇺🇸 & in 🇩🇪 goes hand in hand with the support for eco-social policies. Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/rego... A summary below 👇

🎨 Theming got a huge overhaul with the latest #ggplot2 release. In honour of that @teunbrand.bsky.social has written a comprehensive deep-dive into styling your plots, covering both old and new functionality. Grab a coffee and dive in! #rstats

🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions. Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Workers are happier at Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) firms, which give them a say in collective work, or when they WFH, which gives flexibility in individual work. ESOPs had more WFH than other firms during the pandemic, from Richard B. Freeman and Huanan Xu https://www.nber.org/papers/w34231

Examining how healthcare providers' opioid prescriptions are affected by changes in their home values, which proxy for shocks to their wealth, from Isil Erel, Shan Ge, and Pengfei Ma https://www.nber.org/papers/w34273

Is werk wel "zwaar", wanneer vrouwen het doen? Het voorkomen van spier- en skeletaandoeningen in typisch mannelijke en vrouwelijke sectoren toont een opvallende genderongelijkheid in perceptie, schrijft @mhermans.net in @apache.be apache.be/2025/09/29/w...

European democracies are harmed by societal polarization, but can benefit from partisan polarization: the former lowers quality and trust, the latter is linked to better democratic quality www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Disney makes spending decisions easy, I just saved myself 10€/month in the category "funding for anti-democratic corporate behemoths". #JimmyKimmel #DisneyPlus

"New study finds salary benchmarking cuts pay gaps by 25%. Pay dispersion partly arises from firms’ uncertainty about market rates, with key implications for pay transparency policy." New paper from Perez-Truglia, Li & Cullen www.restud.com/whats-my-emp...: #econsky #REStud

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...