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It's Monday, so over at the blog I wrote about four interesting articles. Hope you find this useful: asocial.substack.com/p/monday-oct...
UBI experiment, caregiving, history-as-experiment, AI board member hypes AI
In a new @SociusJournal article, we show that state level policies and attitude contexts predict a wide range of health behaviors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New paper just accepted at @readdemography.bsky.social@rsbaker.bsky.socialbradydave.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
So excited to announce that our textbook with Xavier, "Difference-in-Differences for Simple and Complex Natural Experiments", is now under contract with Princeton University Press. Check out the "working textbook" version here! Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
“The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities” Open Access in _Sociology of Education_. 2nd article from ASA Taskforce on First-Gen & Working Class Sociologists. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Crash course in good and bad controls ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser...mixtape.scunning.com To grad students, I'd also recommend: don't just read methods articles - read excellent empirical papers, focusing specifically on the mthd. logic used.
Excellent conversation about the causes, consequences, and solutions to child poverty in the US with @zparolin.bsky.social@rsbaker.bsky.social@stone-lis.bsky.socialwww.youtube.com/watch?v=_sDM...
When the enhanced Child Tax Credit of 2021 was not renewed by Congress, millions of American children fell back into poverty. Although the program dramatical...
Congrats! This looks super interesting.
New science: A deep dive into occupational licensing across different countries (USA/Germany) and how it is connected to wages. The bottom line: Licensing typcially reduces penalties of employees in low- and medium-wage setting contexts. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/JFBVC...
