What do tax cuts for the rich do? They increase inequality. They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment. "Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."
It’s publication day! Jen Cyr and I are thrilled to announce Doing Good Qualitative Research. Our goal is simple: help folks produce, publish and evaluate qualitative work (especially for people at places without qual methods). Check it out here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
And to @laiabalcells.bsky.social@apvjustino.bsky.socialky.social for welcoming our paper in the forthcoming CPS issue Legacies of Repression and Resistance in Early 20 th Century Europe alongside many other fantastic pieces of research
A special shout-out to @apvjustino.bsky.social and UNUWIDER's "Institutional legacies of violent conflict" for supporting the original idea behind this project
The memory of the Italian partisan resistance is alive and well, buon 25 Aprile, viva la Resistenza!
Today is the perfect day to share that my article with Juan Masullo "The Political Legacies of Wartime Resistance: How Local Communities in Italy Keep Anti-fascist Sentiments Alive" is forthcoming at @cpsjournal.bsky.socialosf.io/ve8w4 polisky
But wait, there's even more 311 papers in Social Forces! Yet another important contribution to the literature. Are we seeing a surge of interest in local government service delivery?!? academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
This looks like the book on measurement you always wished you had read 👇
Now online at Nature Human Behaviour: "Consumption Responses to an Unconditional Child Allowance in the U.S." We study how the 2021 CTC expansion affected family expenditures using observed (rather than reported) consumption data from 1.3 million establishments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Does cultural or behavioral similarity always promote social cohesion? Just published, we add some foundational theory that shows the answer is "no" - it depends on your causal assumptions about a particular social interaction. Paper: doi.org/10.1017/ehs.... Here's a thread! 1/
