Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD

"dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap" hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

More and more young people are turning to the far right. Why and what can we do about it? Join our #COVIDEU Workshop on Nov 21 (2–5 PM) to discuss causes and counter-strategies. 🚀 Hosted by @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social 💡 Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/bdenyfnw

🚨 Wir schreiben den 1. Marie Neurath Preis für Datenvisualisierung aus! Alle Infos hier: wien.arbeiterkammer.at/neurath Prämiert werden 3 Visualisierungen mit Fokus auf Verteilungsfragen. Wir freuen uns auf viele Einreichungen!

Can AI-generated images work as visual vignettes in survey experiments? I argue yes - and discuss how . in my new @sscratsage.bsky.social paper: doi.org/10.1177/0894...

🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky

Excellent data journalism on housing rents in Vienna and other major European cities. Includes great interactive visualizations (in German): wien.orf.at/stories/3327...

🍴 Bites of Inequality is back on the menu! Our lunchtime colloquium serves fresh research, sharp ideas, and a generous sprinkle of social curiosity — all in bite-sized talks that fit perfectly between your sandwich and your next meeting.

Great piece on the absurdity of brute force multiverse analyses. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

📣 New call for postdoctoral researchers! We are seeking candidates with a doctorate in the social sciences for our research areas Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) and Economic Sociology (Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert). Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/ySJx5p

Can people please stop interpreting every control variable in their regression as if it somehow posses magical exogenous variation.. 🫠

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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.

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

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... @europeansocreview.bsky.social

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.

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/...

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

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

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...

📊 @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....

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"

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

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....

🚀 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. isi-munich-news.beehiiv.com/p/issue-1-27... #isimunich

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_...

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...

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

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

#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

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-...

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

"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 👏

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

Wie fair empfinden Menschen die Vermögensungleichheit? Das fragen sich @markusmarterbauer.bsky.social, @juliahofmann.bsky.social und ich in einem Artikel in der Fachzeitschrift "Review of Income and Wealth": doi.org/10.1111/roiw... (open access) Hier ein paar Blitzlichter aus unserem Beitrag 👇

Registered report of 35 social class hypotheses (N = 33,536) finds around 50% are supported. New work by @anatoliab.bsky.social, Nicolas Sommet, and @frederiqueautin.bsky.social Open Access: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

1/ Week 28: Theory paper in focus this week is the seminal article by Anthony Atkinson and @josephestiglitz.bsky.social that is now famously referred to as the "zero commodity/ capital taxation" benchmark in public economics. It has led to much technical & policy debates. Let's find out.

Looking forward to present at the @isi-munich.bsky.social colloquium next week. Are people in favor of welfare retrenchment or fiscal expansion when confronted with fiscal deficits? See the answer on Tuesday

Our article (with @madselk.bsky.social, @jacobnyrup.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, and Laure Bokobza) on why it is so hard to counteract wealth inequality through inheritance taxation is out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social!

Ever wondered about #Geodata and #SpatialRegression? There is still space at the #Geodata and #SpatialRegressionAnalysis 🌍📉 course @gesistraining.bsky.social 09-11 July in Mannheim: training.gesis.org?site=pDetail... For materials from previous years see: ruettenauer.github.io/Geodata_Spat...

📢 Final #ACPP dataset now available via @aussda.bsky.social 🔍 Tracked how people in Austria experienced COVID-19 📅 35 waves (Mar 2020–Jul 2023) 👥 ~1,500 interviews per wave 🌍 English translations 📂 SUF: doi.org/10.11587/28K... 📖 OA: doi.org/10.11587/P5Y... 📊 Explore: woco.univie.ac.at/dashboard/

What do Europeans think about their public-private pension income mix? In our (@karendublin.bsky.social and Juan J Fernandez) new study in the Journal of European Social Policy, we analyse pension attitudes across 6 countries based on a novel survey: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

🧠🎓 Signal or substance? What do employers really see in a university degree? Our new paper in @europeansocreview.bsky.social dives into “sheepskin effects” using a factorial survey experiment. With @jpheisig.bsky.social & @thijsbol.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

To all the "but what's the mechanism?" warriors.

It is concerning that chatbots are increasingly speeding up the demise of older platforms that collect actual human knowledge…

Should the government 🏛️ fight economic inequality? You probably have a strong take. But why do you believe that? 📌 Spoilers from our new Social Science Research paper with Giacomo Melli: it depends jointly on where you think you stand in society🪜 and how unequal your surroundings actually are!

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." Interested in making scholarly & societal impact? We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)

📢 Extended deadline: Submit your abstract for the 14th Young Economists Conference (2–3 Oct 2025, Linz) by 26 May! 🎓 For MA/PhD/early Post-Docs 🚆 Travel/accommodation within AT covered 💶 €1,000 paper prize 👉 wien.arbeiterkammer.at/yec2025

How effective are policies of predistribution or redistribution for reducing in-work poverty? How do their effects differ by household type? Some answers in my paper using EU-SILC data out in @europeansocieties.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1162/euso...