📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 12 April: ⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate www.google.com/url?q=https:... ⭐️Postdoctoral Researcher www.google.com/url?q=https:...

What happens when politicians pivot during a crisis? I examine Trump’s July 2020 mask pivot. It increased Republican mask use, closing 40% of the partisan gap. But paradoxically, beliefs about masks' efficacy didn’t change. doi.org/10.1177/0003... @asanews.bsky.social #Trump #PublicHealth

When Political Pivots Shift Behaviors but Not Beliefs: Evidence from Trump’s Position Reversal over Facemasks during the COVID-19 Crisis - Bartholomew A. Konechni, 2026

Political leaders play a potentially important role shaping behaviors and beliefs during crises. In the pandemic, a number of high-status politicians, notably l...

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📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 12 April: ⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate www.google.com/url?q=https:... ⭐️Postdoctoral Researcher www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Hi Bluesky! I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)! It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D). Thread below 👇 (1/)

🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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/...

🚀 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

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ISI has a newsletter now, isn't it exciting?

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RC28 invites all scholars working in the field of educational inequalities to contribute to RC28’s first online thematic meeting. The meeting will take place on 20-21 January 2026. For further info, www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...

RC28 Online Meeting on Educational Inequalities

20th - 21st January, 2026 - Call for Papers

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ISI has a new website. Yes, one that works. Yes, also on your phone. No, we didn’t do it ourselves. We called Max from Goodaim (en.goodaim.de). He speaks both design and durkheim. Visit www.isi-munich.de/en Come for the inequality, stay because you accidentally closed all your other tabs.

🆕🔥 "Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles: Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap" w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon 🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul... 🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns! 1/🧵

Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

Hello, Bluesky! ☀️ We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late. Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.

Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣 It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social (1/13)

Hi alll, Jakob and I digitized parish-vote data from the 1920 referendum on the Danish-German border. We have made the data available for everyone to use here: hhsievertsen.github.io/Data-on-the-... #data #econsky 1/3

Child poverty in the U.S. is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why Poor American Kids Are So Likely to Become Poor Adults

Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the biggest role.

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I’ve shown here that systems with later tracking do better at exposing students from disadvantaged backgrounds to high achieving peers journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Within-School Achievement Sorting in Comprehensive and Tracked Systems - Per Engzell, Isabel J. Raabe, 2023

Why do inequalities in schooling persist, even in relatively egalitarian school systems? This article examines within school sorting as an explanation. We use c...

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📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on digital inequalities (application by 15 March). Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...

📣 Join our research team at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social to work on the ERC-funded LEARN project on major health crises and children's educational development. We're hiring: ⭐️Postdoc ⭐️Doctoral researcher ⭐️Predoc / Research Assistant 👉Apply by 30 Nov: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...

📣 Join our research team at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social to work on the ERC-funded LEARN project on major health crises and children's educational development. We're hiring: ⭐️Postdoc ⭐️Doctoral researcher ⭐️Predoc / Research Assistant 👉Apply by 30 Nov: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...

How do teenagers spend their time? 🤔 We use social sequence analysis and high-frequency time-use diaries to identify and visualise typical time-use patterns of teenagers in Germany. Now out in the Journal of Time Use Research w/ @miriamsglrtmr.bsky.social & Anette Fasang 👉 doi.org/10.32797/jtu...

📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on environmental inequalities (application by 30 September). Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...

🚨 New report for the Nuffield Foundation We dive into the growing issue of pupil absences in the UK, exploring its impact on educational and labour market outcomes, including the role of timing of absences, trajectories, and mechanisms. Main report: shorturl.at/QWZqy Exec summary: shorturl.at/zTUge

✨Grateful and excited that my research project ‘Understanding the Consequences of Major Health Crises for Education: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic’ will be funded by an ERC Starting Grant #ERCStG 🇪🇺

2025 Spring School: Perceptions of wealth inequality Check out this research incubator where small teams will work with a great set of scholars on this topic. Apply by Aug 31: dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/ @dariatisch.bsky.social @natrinh.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @janlo.bsky.social

📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on environmental inequalities (application by 30 September). Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...

We have a cover and a publication date. It will be out on the 10th September. Nervous but excited! @samfriedman.bsky.social If you like books on culture, elites, or politics you can pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/born-to...

🥳New pre-print on #PanelData Analysis with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social Explore the power of tracking between-person differences & within-person changes over time📈🧐 with an example on #Marriage & #SexualSatisfaction Link: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

❗New methods paper out on OSF ❗ A new R-squared for multilevel models 👀👀 Resolves a long-standing R-squared oddity identified by Snijders/Bosker 30 years ago! with the amazing Anders Holm #sociology #erc Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

Last week, we launched Data Insights, our new brief format on Our World in Data. We just published our seventh Data Insight — 'Declining child mortality, fast and slow'. ourworldindata.org/data-insights