Thrilled to be awarded a Peder Sather Grant to spend 2026 at UC Berkeley 🐻✨ I'll work on causal ML applied to health & social science ⚕️🔬 Grateful to Peder Sather Center, Henrik Zachrisson, Nicolai Borgen, Astrid Sandsør @unioslo-uv.bsky.social , and David Harding @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

I had the pleasure of publishing an introduction to instrumental variables co-authored with Henrik Daae Zachrisson for the #JClinEpi key concepts in clinical epidemiology series! 🔬📖 www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

A Gentle Introduction to Instrumental Variables

Instrumental variables (IV) is a central strategy for identifying causal effects in absence of randomized experiments. Clinicians and epidemiologists may find the intuition of IV easy to grasp by comp...

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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology@jclinepi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Have you ever published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology? To connect our BlueSky community & promote the work of our authors, we started an #JClinEpi Authors Starter Pack. If you've published with us and would like to be included, please reply with a short description of the paper and a link.

Always a pleasure to visit Madison, WI, to work with smart and fun collaborators! #UWMadison

Great postdoc opportunity! Join the Segregation of Opportunities (SEGOP) project led by Nicolai Borgen, with methods for causal inference using registry, survey, and genotyped data 📊 Located at CREATE (@uio.no), an exciting environment with many working on similar topics! tinyurl.com/segop-postdoc

Postdoctoral Fellow - SEGOP (277092) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow - SEGOP (277092), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

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🚨 Excited to share our latest work with @perlinedemange.bsky.social, Felix Elwert, Nicolai Borgen, @eivindy.bsky.social, and Henrik Zachrisson. Does more schooling increase earnings? We revisit this classic question using multiple genetically informed designs 📚🎓🧬 💰 osf.io/preprints/so...

Want to get out of Dodge? Do a postdoc @uio.no! You will be using the MoBa study and registers to study intergenerational transmission and GxE for #MentalHealth and #education using @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social and @pgcgenetics.bsky.social approaches. Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research (272560) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research (272560), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 24, 2025

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Our new AJS article shows that high earning family and work life courses are remarkably similar in different countries, but differ much for low earners. This is related to country specific policies structuring especially the low-earning life courses. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Lives in Welfare States: Life Courses, Earnings Accumulation, and Relative Living Standards in Five European Countries1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 2

How do work and family life courses differ in welfare states with varying emphasis on the state, market, and family for welfare provision? The authors compare life courses until midlife in Denmark, Fi...

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Check in on your quantiles, people, they might not be (interpreted) alright. Excellent paper by Nicolai Borgen, @andreashaupt.bsky.social, and @oyvindw.bsky.social academic.oup.com/esr/article/...

In “Effect of Social Origins on Educational Attainment,” Anderson @ppraeg.bsky.social Akimova & @cmonden.bsky.social find considerable variation in SC. @crestsociology.bsky.social @purduesociology.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Today’s Podcast is a two-parter! First Felix Elwert, David Harding, and Geoff Wodtke discuss neighborhood effects, while Marissa Thompson shares insights on school segregation and parental perceptions. Listen every other Monday: Website: bit.ly/3YdiCkj #NeighborhoodEffects #SchoolSegregation

"Reading and conducting instrumental variable studies: guide, glossary, and checklist" - nice new paper in the @bmj.com from @tfeend.bsky.social and colleagues! #EpiSky #StatsSky www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Reading and conducting instrumental variable studies: guide, glossary, and checklist

Instrumental variable analysis uses naturally occurring variation to estimate the causal effects of treatments, interventions, and risk factors on outcomes in the population from observational data. U...

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