🤔 You're interested in how exposure to AI affects people's risk perceptions and policy preferences, but don't have time to read a full paper? 💡 @unisg.ch has got you covered with a write-up about our recent paper in @jeppjournal.bsky.social. www.unisg.ch/en/newsroom/...

I'm excited to share the schedule for the Politics of AI workshop I have the pleasure of co-hosting together with @benansell.bsky.social at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social next week. Link: matthiashaslberger.github.io/ai/

NEW - Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos "moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties" - @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Of all the housing charts not made by MMI, this one is my favourite. It shows how, despite rhetoric, housing shortages aren't a global phenomenon, but they do seem to be an Anglo-American one.

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021. This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏 A short 🧵

⚡9.-Klässler:innen 2024 vs. 2018: Mathe -24⬇️ Bio -24⬇️ Chemie -24⬇️ Physik -23⬇️ Die neuen Ergebnisse des IQB-Bildungstrends. Ganz grob gesprochen: 9.-Klässler:innen liegen heute etwa auf Niveau der 8.-Klässler:innen noch vor 6 Jahren. 1/3

Ever insightful by @beamagistro.bsky.social and colleagues on political consequences of AI in the labor market. The hopeful part of their message - the policies that are most likely to work, such as retraining programs, enjoy widespread popular support - is also borne out in my work on the UK.

Happy German Reunification Day! And thanks for the insightful thread, @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social!

I know senior scholars have too much on their plates already, but I hope they will give this blogpost (and the ones to follow) a read. The "Early Career state of mind" is very real, and the anonymous ECRs here capture so many of the challenges that it raises

At the blog I wrote about a new paper by @natewilmers.bsky.social , @zparolin.bsky.social , and @lukaslehner.bsky.social . We're living in a novel era of inequality discordance. What's going on?! asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

🚨Very excited to see our new paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social! We looked at how working with AI shapes people's risk perceptions and social policy preferences, with some surprising results ⬇️

Thanks for the shout-out, @sophieehill.bsky.social! Our findings are a snapshot from the early days of AI adoption. You pick up on many of the open questions that we're trying to answer in follow-up work (how accurate are risk perceptions, role of people's psychological traits, etc), so stay tuned!

We've talked to the team at @worldpolitics.bsky.social about our recent paper on inheritance taxation. This is what came out of it. Have a look!

3 of 6 authors of the July @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, "Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality" spoke with The Storied Teller about #inheritance #taxation & #wealth #inequality. @madselk.bsky.social @benansell.bsky.social @mhaslberger.bsky.social wpj.princeton.edu/storied-tell...

🚨New article alert in @jvetjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Together with Scherwin Bajka www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This should be of interest not just for economists!

Figure 3 from "Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality" illustrates how people with low #wealth are much less likely to have an opinion about #inheritance #taxation than people with high wealth @madselk.bsky.social @benansell.bsky.social @aslicansunar.bsky.social @mhaslberger.bsky.social

🚨New #OpenAccess paper🚨 The viability of dual VET has come under scrutiny in the knowledge economy, but in a new article with Patrick Emmenegger in the Journal of European Social Policy, we argue that it continues to offer benefits such as lower wage inequality. tinyurl.com/3ayms6n2

It helps explain why governments, despite high and rising levels of wealth inequality, have not done more to alleviate it: Public opinion is disproportionately driven by informed and mobilized families of homeowners, who support low inheritance taxes 6/n

Did you ever wonder why governments don’t do more to counteract wealth inequality? In our new @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, we seek to answer this question, studying the electoral politics of inheritance taxation muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 1/n

College bat > college cat

🚨 New OA article with Scherwin M. Bajka in @reggovjournal.bsky.social: “Subjective Technology Risk and Education Preferences: VET as a Safe Haven or Dead End?” (link in last post) When people fear job loss from new tech, do they prefer vocational training over academic tracks? Short answer: yes.

RIP Tom Lehrer www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDE...

Poetry collection is going well thanks for asking

Absolute must read

Our paper (w/ @cbwlezien.bsky.social) is now in print! Perhaps of interest to survey researchers contemplating whether/how to use the DK response option when measuring the public's policy preferences. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to announce the #OxfordLLMs tuition-free AI workshop for social scientists! Join us for 5 days of lectures, coding tutorials, and collaborative research, to learn hot to use LLMs for social science🙂 Dates: 22-26 September Venue: @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social llmsforsocialscience.net

Seriously, Europe needs to get its act together on AC!

Can banning political ideologies protect democracy? 🛡️🆚🗣️ Our (w. @valentimvicente.bsky.social) paper finds: punishing individuals might backfire. We study a West German policy banning "extreme left" individuals from working for the state. #Democracy #PoliticalScience 🧵 url: osf.io/usqdb_v2

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!

Yay! @madselk.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, @mhaslberger.bsky.social, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, Laure Bokobza, and my piece on 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 is out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social! Find it here: muse.jhu.edu/article/964464

People are more likely to accept gender inequality if it is men who are worse off. A new paper with experiments on 35k Americans shows that when men are worse off people are: - more likely to attribute the inequality to a difference in effort - less likely to support pro-equality policies.

Jasmine Bhatia at Birkbeck and I are hiring a research assistant for our project on irregular migration, organised crime and European asylum governance. If you're a postgraduate or early postdoc and have an interest in those areas, send us a CV! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT307/r...

❗Among their electoral potential, social democratic parties face very few strategic dilemmas. Left-progressive appeals resonate most strongly. New study in @worldpolitics.bsky.social with @tabouchadi.bsky.social , @indubioproreto.bsky.social, Nadja Mosimann, and @markuswagner.bsky.social Thread👇

If you’re like me, googling in disbelief, I regret to inform you this is real

New WP w/ @riazsascha.bsky.social: via >42 million placebo tests, we show type I error inflation in Unexpected Event during Survey Designs (UESD), propose an adjustment, implement via new R package uesdRobust, and demonstrate utility by replicating two top UESD studies. osf.io/preprints/os... 1/9

Last time slot, yet another full house: Stellar end to our series of #EPSA2025 panels on AI and the knowledge economy! Great to see this scholarly community emerging, please get in touch if you want to be involved in future initiatives!

Another packed #EPSA2025 panel with impressive papers by @hilmal.bsky.social, @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social, Dave Hope, @gaetanoinglese.bsky.social & @matteonebbiai.bsky.social. Great to see so much interest in questions around AI and the knowledge economy! One more to go tomorrow (3pm, room -1.A.03)!

Great start to #EPSA2025 chairing a packed panel on "Regulation and Governance of AI," with papers by @paoloagnolin.bsky.social, Alex Kuo, Brady Allardice, and Michael Becher (and @zackgp94.bsky.social discussing). We have three more exciting panels on the politics of AI coming up (see in reply):

Four more days to submit an abstract for our workshop and special issue! If you work on the politics of AI, we'd love to hear from you. We'll host a workshop in Oxford in the fall and put together a special issue for a leading political science journal.

🗣️ we have a new paper and new dataset just out on the transition to the knowledge economy in advanced democracies - both OA, available here academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... and here www.knowledge-economy-index.com

📢Special issue and workshop on "The Politics of AI: Citizen Perceptions, Preferences, and Priorities" 📢 We aim to bring together cutting-edge research on the political ramifications of AI for a workshop in Oxford and a special issue in a leading political science journal.(1/2)

Is wealth inequality corrosive to society? Can't wait to get started on our new project "Wealth and Social Cohesion from a Relational Perspective" with a fantastic team: @natrinh.bsky.social, @dariatisch.bsky.social, @rcarranzan.bsky.social, & @schechtlm.bsky.social www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

🚨Job alert 🚨 I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸 The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰 adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Deadline is Feb 28!

Linking Artificial Intelligence Job Exposure to Expectations: Understanding AI Losers, Winners, and their Political Preferences dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... @ssrn.bsky.social paper by @profjanegreen.bsky.social @zackgp94.bsky.social, Geoffrey Evans & Gaetano Inglese. #PoliSky #NuffSky

I am ecstatic that my paper “Sinking ships: liquidity constraints and return predictability in recessions” is now in press at the Journal of Monetary Economics! 🥳 If you are interested in financial frictions, illiquidity, and asymmetric amplification, you can find it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

How might AI transform the way we interact with government? Join us on 4/19: bit.ly/4ayMzii @shirraviv.bsky.social @kaylynjschiff.bsky.social @melodyyhuang.bsky.social @dashapruss.bsky.social @dschiff.bsky.social @mhaslberger.bsky.social @elizaoak.bsky.social @geomblog.bsky.social

Interested in using tools like #GitHub, #Markdown, #Docker for a more efficient and reproducible research workflow? If yes, my new course at UCL @ioe.bsky.social and NCRM may interest you. Registrations are open. Thanks to @pengzell.bsky.social for coordinating! www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...

GOVPET is a truly amazing community of scholars - can’t think of a better opportunity for PhD students working on these topics to get feedback on their research!