📄 New working paper out: osf.io/preprints/so... We (@thiloalbers.bsky.social @felixkersting.bsky.social and Fabian Kosse) try to understand why some citizens who are objectively well off still feel left behind, and why this matters for populist attitudes.

Tate St Ives, Cornwall

Good round up of AC use in Europe, puts the latest heatwave into context. The mind-blowing stat is that the number of deaths caused by heat in Europe is roughly equivalent to the number of gun deaths in the US! www.carbonbrief.org/eight-facts-...

Abolition of 🇬🇧 -🇨🇭 roaming charges especially interesting, given Switzerland remains outside 🇪🇺 Roam Like at Home. Have we finally identified a Brexit benefit???

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3w ago

UK and Switzerland to loosen visa restrictions as part of services trade deal ft.trib.al/QlPOU03

London (at a much more reasonable temperature) 🩵

Right hand side points to some degree of collective discussion and coordination IMO. Difficult to hold out if you know everyone else is plugging the assessment into AI...

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4w ago

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

Assistant professorship in political science at the @eui-sps.bsky.social! Come and work with us. www.eui.eu/About/JobOpp...

#Walmart #Supercenter openings are associated with a 2.2 percentage point (18%) rise in #poverty, and the increase persists for at least a decade. Our article is now published in #LabourEconomics, with @zparolin.bsky.social, Clemente Pignatti & Rafael Pintro-Schmitt.

New article: Experimental education research: rethinking why, how, and when to use random assignment Out today (even though it’s Saturday): doi.org/10.1080/1380... With @drsamsims.bsky.social @mjinglis.bsky.social @benweidmann.bsky.social @benstyles.bsky.social & Hugues Lortie-Forgues

Experimental education research: rethinking why, how, and when to use random assignment

Over the last twenty years, education researchers have increasingly conducted randomized experiments. Such experiments are usually designed in the hope of supporting comparisons of cost effectivene...

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Not sure exactly what it says about our respective political economies that 🇸🇪 LinkedIn ads were almost exclusively for state-owned Vattenfall energy, while 🇬🇧 ones are 95% individuals promoting AI-related nonsense

Me charging towards the front of the Bayeux Tapestry queue @britishmuseum.bsky.social

Are preferences for authoritarian rule individual predispositions—or can they spread socially? Using field + survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces, we show that openness to strongman rule can spread socially. American Journal of Political Science: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The increasing popularity of strongman rule in democratic societies underscores the need to explore how authoritarian regime preferences might spread socially. We assess the role of social influence ...

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I am always struck by how much of the spatial inequality within East Germany is obscured when Germany is considered as a whole. The disparities between Mecklenburg and the Pomeranian parts of the same federal state are particularly revealing.

ONE WEEK LEFT TO SUBMIT. See you in Vienna!

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us in Vienna to discuss inequality, economic mobility & labor markets! With @franziskadbacher.bsky.social and @izmartinez86.bsky.social I'm stoked to announce this workshop, keynotes by @emilynix100.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social. Nov 19-20, submit by June 30: www.wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26

The other World Cup, at sunny Headingley

Glad midsommar 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

Well! Who knew watching England could be fun? ⚽

📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏

2 three-year postdocs in political communication and political psychology at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

Sadly my always ambitious ECSR Dublin ➕ EPSS Belfast plan proved incompatible with relocation realities, but good island conferencing all

New preprint out with @mfphilipp.bsky.social & @eileenpeters.bsky.social ✨️ From #neighborhood exposure to #genderbeliefs? We find that local female employment patterns are linked to beliefs about when mothers should return to full-time work. Read more here: osf.io/preprints/so...

From tiny threads, a whole univers(e)ity @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Group Differences in Income Distributions, Poverty Gaps, and Poverty Buffers: Inequalities between the Children of Swedish-Born and Migrant Parents New Data visualisation, published with @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social and @rafgrotti.bsky.social in @sociusjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Bidding a fond farewell to @sofi.su.se and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social Will miss the 11.30 lunches and the wonderfully vibrant and supportive research environment very much, but SOFI is like Hotel California: you can check out, but you never really leave Vi ses 💙💛

Out now at American Sociological Review: "Countervailing Powers: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters" with @joshuachoper.bsky.social & @zparolin.bsky.social We find that unions deter Walmart but where Walmart opens, it harms union members journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Shifting returns to education, not educational inequality, is the main force driving intergenerational income persistence today. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... Proud supervisor moment to see this out in @sfjournal.bsky.social

Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters? Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations. Out now in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Nothing quite like babysitting bilingual 🇸🇪 children to shatter any illusions of competence you might have “You need to translate into English for Katy”, says 6-year old admonishing 4-year old Crushing; also very sweet

Today in four weeks, Switzerland will vote on a far-right SVP initiative that demands a cap on the Swiss population of 10 million. What is often misunderstood is that the initiative does not necessarily demand an end to immigration, but — even worse — the complete disenfranchisement of immigrants.