While struggling to understand why a minor field correction divided my estimates by 2.5… I discovered today that log function in R/duckb is a log_10 one !!!
Don't say: this estimate is not causal. Rather say: I don't identify my causal effect well.
Sometimes (human/animal) social groups split into two (or more). Team departures in corporate firms, political party splits, religious schisms, software forks, etc. Let's study this. I hire a predoc or a postdoc on social group splits. www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/events/...
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AxPo Research Assistant/Postdoc Application 2026AxPo Research Assistant/Postdoc Application 2026Research Assistant job application for Research Group on Social Group Splits at AxPo, Sciences Po, Paris...
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@joefrancis.bsky.social's Damascene conversion on the merits and limits of AI for peer reviewing is worth a read: thepoorrichworld.substack.com/p/reflection...
Reflections on My Adventures in Replication
My attempts to demonstrate the problems in the knowledge production system have led me to a Damascene conversion on the need for peer review
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This paper comes timely and raises many questions. At Socio-Economic Review, where I serve as associate editor, we are currently discussing as in many journals which AI policy to adopt. Should we ban AI (beyond its copy-editing role)? Should we accept it as long as the papers are good?
Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
The growing earnings gap between global and/or superstar cities and their hinterlands is a source of increasing social discontent. Some argue that this concentration is due to these cities' global coordination role in a globalised economy.
I am super happy to share the program of this one-day workshop on Outsourced Workers at Sciences Po on June 29. www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/events/...
- So? Second goodies? - github.com/oliviergodec... - What’s that? - A staggered event study DiD R package. - Again?! - Yep—last event in a series of staggered DiD solutions. - Explain? - Unroll the thread…
GitHub - oliviergodechot/lpdidcsa
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World Inequality Lab@wid.world · 4mo agoOutsourced workers in low-skilled service jobs (cleaning, catering, security) in 🇫🇷 face a substantial earnings penalty—about 10 log points—persisting for up to 7 years after outsourcing, find @ulojkine.bsky.social & @oliviergodechot.bsky.social in new study. More findings▶️ wid.world/news-article...
Outsourced workers in low-skilled service jobs (cleaning, catering, security) in 🇫🇷 face a substantial earnings penalty—about 10 log points—persisting for up to 7 years after outsourcing, find @ulojkine.bsky.social & @oliviergodechot.bsky.social in new study. More findings▶️ wid.world/news-article...
Cutting hours through outsourcing - WID - World Inequality Database
Cutting hours through outsourcing Olivier Godechot and Ulysse Lojkine study the effects of on-site outsourcing of low-skilled service jobs (cleaning, catering, security) in France.
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Beyond the content on outsourcing, there are two additional goodies of potential interest for many social scientists. Here's the first for CASD fans (as us) : we improved the Babet-Godechot-Palladino chaining of the French BTS (a.k.a. DADS).
Ulysse Lojkine@ulojkine.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew @wid.world working paper with @oliviergodechot.bsky.social
Academic inbreeding—when a university hires its own former PhD students as assistant professors—is widespread in many countries, yet it often sparks heated debate. In this paper, we assess its impact on the fairness of assistant professor recruitment in France.[1/n] booksandideas.net/Academic-inb...
Academic inbreeding: new estimates
By analyzing nearly 8,000 recruitments for assistant professor positions in France between 2017 and 2024, Olivier Godechot, Rachel Issiakou, Yann Renisio, and Adrien Rougier revisit the long-standing ...
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Fabian Muniesa - 'Paranoid Finance' @ Sciences Po Paris (AxPo / CEE) 19.02.2026 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
In Minneapolis the icy Good was pretti And Pretti was good But shot in cold blood For against what they stood
Your new year party is over. It is time to complete.
Olivier Godechot@oliviergodechot.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe AxPo Observatory on Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po is offering a 2-year postdoctoral position focusing on socioeconomic polarization and fragmentation. Ph.Ds in sociology, economics, political science, and related fields are encouraged to apply. www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/applica...
Publication, with Simon Bittmann: Chains of Exploitation: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration in Theory & Social Inquiry
L'adoption du mode de scrutin proportionnel apparaît aujourd'hui, selon deux politistes, comme une condition nécessaire pour redonner à la démocratie française la capacité de renouer avec des gouvernements représentatifs, stables et opérationnels.
La proportionnelle : une urgence démocratique
L'adoption du mode de scrutin proportionnel apparaît aujourd'hui, selon deux politistes, comme une condition nécessaire pour redonner à la démocratie française la capacité de renouer avec des gouvernements représentatifs, stables et opérationnels.
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New article "Stressful discrimination: two field experiments on social interaction" by Martin Aranguren shows that stressful discrimination is a mechanism that includes but is more encompassing than perceived discrimination (the focus of most research in the area). academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
Stressful discrimination: two field experiments on social interaction
Abstract. Interactional incidents are a common object of survey studies on perceived discrimination and of field experiments on discrimination in social in
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En analysant près de 8 000 recrutements à la maîtrise de conférences en France entre 2017 et 2024, Olivier Godechot, Rachel Issiakou, Yann Renisio et Adrien Rougier reviennent sur la question ancienne et controversée du localisme académique.
Le localisme universitaire, nouvelles évaluations
En analysant près de 8 000 recrutements à la maîtrise de conférences en France entre 2017 et 2024, Olivier Godechot, Rachel Issiakou, Yann Renisio et Adrien Rougier reviennent sur la question ancienne et controversée du localisme académique.
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The AxPo Observatory on Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po is offering a 2-year postdoctoral position focusing on socioeconomic polarization and fragmentation. Ph.Ds in sociology, economics, political science, and related fields are encouraged to apply. www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/applica...
Call for Applications for Postdoctoral Research Position
Call for Applications for Postdoctoral Research Position at the AxPo Observatory of Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po, Paris, FranceGeneral informationPosition Definition: Post-doctoral resea...
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Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol. Come hear a fascinating talk on the new book by Sanyu Mojola Monday November 17 at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social and the Urban School of @sciencespo.bsky.social. @ucpress.bsky.social www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/even...
Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol
CRIS Lectures: book talk with Sanyu A. Mojola - Death by Design Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Si ça ne crée pas un scandale d’Etat, c’est qu’on ne vit pas en démocratie.
Mediapart@mediapart.fr · 9mo agoMediapart et « Libération » révèlent des images inédites du 25 mars 2023. Elles montrent des consignes prohibées et dangereuses données par la hiérarchie. Enquête vidéo de @camillepolloni.bsky.social et @laurawoj1.bsky.social 👉 www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Quand les hedge funds imposent aux milliardaires des frais de gestion 2/20 (2% annuel des actifs sous mandat, 20% des profits), c'est de la juste rétribution de la création de valeur. Mais si c'est l'État, avec la taxe dite 'Zucman' (2/0), c'est du bolchévisme sanguinaire...
✨CREST Sociology is hiring ✨ Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology Details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le
It seems that machines learned to solve the unsolvable age-time-cohort decomposition...
NBER@nber.org · 10mo agoA new approach to handling the age-time-cohort problem based on proxy variables and machine learning, from David Bruns-Smith, Emi Nakamura, and Jón Steinsson www.nber.org/papers/w34380
Macron invente le remaniement premier ministériel.
La féminisation marche mieux que le neutre. theconversation.com/lecriture-in... (D'où peut-être un argument en faveur du féminin générique italisé : olivier.godechot.free.fr/hoparticle.p...)
L’écriture inclusive, une arme contre les stéréotypes de genre
Une étude montre que les formulations d’écriture inclusive rendant visibles à la fois le masculin et le féminin – comme « étudiants et étudiantes » – sont les plus efficaces pour réduire les stéréotyp...
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We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
Reposting with correct link! sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
Streaming Platforms, Filter Bubbles, and Cultural Inequalities. How Online Services Increase Consumption Diversity
Article: Streaming Platforms, Filter Bubbles, and Cultural Inequalities. How Online Services Increase Consumption Diversity | Sociological Science | Posted September 4, 2025
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Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 11mo agoNEW: Samuel Coavoux, Abel Aussant, "Streaming Platforms, Filter Bubbles, and Cultural Inequalities. How Online Services Increase Consumption Diversity" sociologicalscience.com/streaming-pl...