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Dealing with taxes in the US versus France is a totally different world. I emailed the French administration at 8.30 am with a question. I got a detailed answer 2h later, backed by a reference to the law 🤯. And we are in the middle of tax season.

Fascinating piece, check it out. The materialist in me is a little bummed that easing resource competition does not seem to help (the results are interesting to read in tandem with my paper on Austria with J. Ferwerda). On the other hand, suggests a fascinating research agenda on welfare chauvinism.

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This is the 4th time since September I am being called Camille by mistake. Is Camille the equivalent of Karen in France? 😂

Yes, I had France in mind! (Ann Abor municipal elections are usually in the Summer-Fall)

I am so jealous. We had pretty depressing municipal elections here, low turnout, no debate, retreat on the environment... :/

Les enseignants possèdent un niveau de vie inférieur aux autres cadres de la Fonction publique Une étude du ministère de l’éducation nationale détaille les conditions de vie des enseignants par rapport aux autres fonctionnaires de catégorie A.

Le Monde : les enseignants ont un niveau de vie inférieur à celui des autres cadres de la Fonction publique : pas une découverte mais un rappel...
www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

ChatGPT translated graph. Not there yet. No sure there has been much improvement on that front. I wonder why images are so difficult.

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ROSALÍA - Berghain (Live at The BRIT Awards 2026) ft. Björk YouTube video by RosaliaVEVO

Finally caught up on Rosalia's performance. Check the comments if you want to experience the birth of a European melting pot identity on live TV (unlikely to stick, but still :-))

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fyu...

Just wanted to share my excitement: I have a few days planned in London where I will get to talk about research with a bunch of incredible scholars, followed by plans to hang out in pubs with myself and a book, listen to some live music and enjoy my time in this half homecountry of mine. 🇬🇧🍺🎤🎶🎸

These are the Frank books I have in mind (great for UG teaching):

www.amazon.fr/Darwin-Econo...

www.amazon.com/Winner-Take-...

Claude Code 27: Research and Publishing Are Now Two Different Things Some Claude Code fan fiction about the economics of publishing with AI agents set in the very near future

Interesting papers and posts on AI. Robert Frank is about to get very fashionable (again?).

Social Dynamics of AI Adoption --> www.nber.org/papers/w34488

causalinf.substack.com/p/claude-cod...

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Also that LFI has managed to be perceived as extremists baffles me (it isn't "crazy left"). Feels like 1990s Newt Gingrich is colonizing French politics in ways that an argument based on institutional design cannot explain.

I am personally concerned the centrists/center-right are going to abstain instead of choosing LFI over RN.

"Few Reform supporters have voted for Labour at any point in the 21st century. This is true if we look at where Farage’s parties drew votes between 2015 and 2025, and across twenty years of voting history" This type of conclusion is not specific to the UK.

Same thing happening in France though in this case, many think LFI's leadership style plays a key role. Or maybe it provides an easy scapegoat for people on the left who feel helpless.

we all are, we have to get published! I'll read more carefully your argument and share thoughts later!

I just dont think I habe the answer though :-) I just wish we were more collectively humble in our claims. Anti-immigrant sentiment is a behavior (among others) that we struggle to explain according to the scientific method.

Work connecting people's socio-economic context to anti-immigrant sentiment as mediated by social identity is often debated. But I am struggling to find good empirical
tests that do not "regress attitudes on attitudes." (4/4)

Finally, most studies do not explain the strong education gradient and the well documented *causal* impact of local economic decline / hardship (3/4).

I would argue that few studies carefully document this causal chain. I would also argue that few studies connect this type of causal mechanism to support for Trumps' crackdown. (2/4)

Happy to chat! To be clear, I think it is very important to show that it is islamophobia more than let's say arabo-phobia that is driving anti-Muslim prejudice. One can then hypothesize that people who have invested in a Christian identity are more committed to policies that make Xty the norm. (1/4)

super important findings that I read as a way of generalizing what the ethnography says about meaning making. The Why question on the other hand remains unanswered. The more I read the less I believe we can actually explain anti-immigrant backlash...

Very! Confirms me in my assessment that this literature need to defend itself against accusations of tautology (people who have a predisposition to dislike people of type A are more likely to be prejudiced against people of type A).

Thank you, no I had not seen that one! (that's because I explicitly censored research on discrimination to keep it manageable, bad idea it seems)