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Florencia Torche

@ftorche.bsky.social

Professor of Sociology at Princeton

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James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 4w ago

1) Interesting "Dems Not in Disarray" front-page framing. 2) Point Dems need to keep making: -Virtually every Dem leader has now come out publicly against Platner. -Virtually every GOP party leader still all-in for Ken Paxton. (And, of course, for Trump) This is not a "both sides" situation.

NYT headline: Platner's Fall Might Just Help Democrats Win Swing State."
Amanda Weiss@amandaweiss.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Y'ALL I was reading up on the history of the Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, which is already wild. Then I discovered that THIS is how young Evelyn became Mrs. Kitagawa (even before becoming Dr. Kitagawa).

Wikipedia screenshot of a biography of Evelyn Kitagawa, which reads: "She was born as Evelyn Mae Rose, in 1920[4] in Hanford, California, to a family of Portuguese Catholic descent. After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1941, she began working for the War Relocation Authority, which ran the internment camps of Japanese-Americans during World War II, as head of its statistics unit. In one of the camps, she met her future husband, Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa, who had come to the US in 1941 as a divinity student and became an Episcopalian minister while interned. After marrying him, her family disowned her and she lost contact with them."
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's notable that Sen. Ossoff is pressing this attack in a tight re-election fight in a purple state. The rest of the party needs to pay attention.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

NBER@nber.org · 4mo ago

A student-level event-study design across three states shows special education supports substantially boost achievement of students with disabilities, from Stephanie G. Coffey, Joshua Goodman, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel, Marcus A. Winters, and Yunee H. Yoon www.nber.org/papers/w34998

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Florencia Torche@ftorche.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New @aeraedresearch.bsky.social article: “Bright but Poor”. Many talented students from low-income families have the grades for higher education but do not make it. We show where the missed opportunities arise across the education pipeline Low-hanging fruit for ed policy doi.org/10.3102/0002...

Bright but Poor: Undermatching in the Access to Postsecondary Education - Alejandra Mizala, Luis Herskovic, Alejandra Abufhele, Florencia Torche, 2026

Undermatching identifies high school graduates who do not attend selective colleges even if they have high academic performance. To date, the study of undermatc...

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Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 5mo ago

I ran a simple model with new public data then used 1 prompt to make ChatGPT guess what the model would produce. With 10 seconds of "thinking," it was very close. The implications of this are catastrophic. The American Sociological Association should do something about this but it doesn't care to /1

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo@karenguzzo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The obscenely wealthy rarely earn much in taxable income, and our system is replete with ways for the mega-rich to avoid paying taxes. Yet we're still blaming immigrants for our economic woes - and that's exactly how the mega-rich want it. It's all misdirection so they can hoard wealth and power.

Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches

The richest Americans can largely avoid paying income and other taxes. A new book explains the history.

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