👇Staggering results of expansion of early public children on female employment in Germany

Qualitative versus quantitative: how personality explains political science students’ preferences for their studies’ epistemological orientation - Quality & Quantity Quality & Quantity - The traditional qualitative–quantitative debate in Political Science often overlooks a deeper question: how students’ individual dispositions shape their...

Paper on how personality explains (oh, yes, you heard me) qualitative vs quantitative preferences. Haters, rejoice link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Interesting working paper on effect of CEO having connections ot Epstein. Makes me want to break things papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Does Gender-Affirming Care Make Mental Health Worse? The case of a rather poorly-done paper.

A new paper has come out that has Twitter/X afire. It seems to argue that gender-affirming care for transgender youth is not only ineffective, but potentially harmful.

It's also a very poorly-done piece of work. My new piece:
gidmk.substack.com/p/does-gende...

Jars with spices.

I concur! 🤝

I'm not that much into educational stuff. To me, the extent was a novelty.

Does statistical discrimination explain grading bias? Evidence from a natural experiment Abstract. Statistical discrimination theory suggests that discrimination arises when gatekeepers lack individual-level information and therefore draw on th

"We find substantial grading bias in Danish reading against boys, ethnically minoritized students, and students of non-university-educated parents and in written mathematics against boys and students of non-university educated parents..."

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Very nice discussion here about selection into treatment

Editorial: What we promised, and what we delivered As we write our final editorial for European Societies, we return to the spirit of our first editorial (Präg, Ersanilli and Gugushvili, 2022) and to the question that guided our tenure: did we deliver...

The flagship journal of the European Sociological Association, European Societies, makes published articles free for everyone & does not charge authors a publication fee.

Authors of quantitative work are required to openly share data & code.

No @asanews.bsky.social journal shares all these traits.

1. @rebeccasear.bsky.social for social science research.
2. @aedwardslevy.bsky.social for survey research & puns.
3. @scientificdiscovery.dev for science news.

Doing computational social science research on inequality on your own? This special issue is for you!

We’re inviting submissions for a Historical Social Research issue on “Computational Social Inequality Research in Practice.”

📅 Deadline: 15 May 2026

#CallForPapers #CompSocSci #Inequality

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
It was statistically significant (p<0.05)
Which means that it's true.

We’d like to believe that effort matters to what we attain in life. In fact our belief in meritocracy depends on that. But what if how much effort people spend itself depends on your social background?

“The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children”

Thumbnail is emptiness, and emptiness is thumbnail.

Here's a link to the video tho, in case anybody is wondering what they're apologizing for 😂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-6...

Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World Dani Rodrik of Harvard University will present his new book, "Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global…

On Feb 17, our @inetoxford.bsky.social team will launch the INET Oxford Inequality Working Group, an online seminar series that invites discussion on inequality and public policy. Our first speaker: @drodrik.bsky.social presents his new book. Details & registration: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/share...

As we write our final editorial for European Societies, we return to the spirit of our first editorial (Präg, Ersanilli and Gugushvili, 2022) and to the question that guided our tenure: did we deliver on what we promised? At the outset, we set out a twofold vision. We wanted to keep European Societies a genuinely general sociology journal with a focus on Europe and European sociology, open to all substantive areas and to authors worldwide. At the same time, we wanted to modernize the journal by lowering barriers to participation, moving toward open access and open science, and by running peer review as fairly, comprehensively, and efficiently as possible. Looking back, we believe the direction of travel has been consistent with that agenda, even if some constraints have become more pronounced as submissions have grown. The most tangible step toward barrier reduction has been the shift in the journal's publishing model. The move to MIT Press and the adoption of a noncommercial, diamond open-access model have made the journal free to read and free to publish in. This has mattered not only as an institutional achievement by ESA, but also as a signal of what a flagship journal of the European Sociological Association can be: a truly public scholarly resource rather than a gated space shaped by the ability to pay. In parallel, we worked to reduce friction in submission and production by making procedures more predictable and less resource-intensive for authors, and by strengthening the journal's commitment to transparency, including the routine expectation of replication materials for quantitative work published in the journal (Präg, Ersanilli and Gugushvili, 2025). We have thought of these changes as working on “access” and “voice” simultaneously. By “access,” we mean making it easier for people to read the journal and to submit their work. By “voice,” we mean that a broader range of scholars, institutions, and regions appears on our pages and shapes the debates. Bot…

European societies in motion, and a commitment to voice A general sociology journal should reflect the major currents shaping European societies, not by chasing headlines, but by publishing sociological work that helps explain how Europe is changing. Over the past years, the journal has continued to engage research on inequalities and social stratification, climate change and ecological transition, migration and shifting borders, transformations in work and welfare, population aging and health inequalities, and the reconfiguration of social trust and political contestation. The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 further underlined how quickly the horizon of “normal” European development can rupture, and how urgent it becomes to understand societies that have too often been treated as peripheral in general sociological publishing. The Special Issue on understanding Ukrainian society before and after the invasion (Martsenyuk et al., 2024) was therefore an attempt to contribute to that understanding while also practicing what we had argued for from the start: that underrepresented parts of Europe should not appear only through external observation, but should be visible through scholarship that is locally grounded, rigorously theoretical, and fully integrated into European sociology. Throughout our tenure, we also sought to ensure that the journal provided space for the plurality of sociological traditions across Europe. European sociology remains multi-paradigmatic and unevenly structured by regional and institutional inequalities. We therefore aimed to combine a high threshold for publication with broad openness to different intellectual styles, methods, and substantive agendas, and to keep ourselves accountable by paying attention to patterns in submissions and editorial outcomes across regions and approaches. This is unfinished work, but it is work that cannot be postponed if we want a journal that represents European sociology as it exists, rather th…

the structural reality remains that a general journal with finite capacity cannot publish all of the strong sociology it receives, even when that sociology deserves a wide readership. This pressure is intertwined with another growing challenge: the difficulty of securing peer reviewers. Reviewing is the central infrastructure of scholarly publishing, but it rests on time and goodwill that are increasingly stretched. Across our term, it has become harder to find the right expertise quickly, particularly for more specialized topics or for underrepresented contexts where the pool of suitable reviewers is smaller. We therefore want to thank reviewers once more, not as a ritual, but as recognition that the journal's quality and fairness depend directly on their labor. We also hope that our community continues to treat reviewing as part of academic reciprocity, because without a sustainable reviewing culture, no editorial team can reliably balance speed, rigor, and equity. Thanks, acknowledgments, and handover We owe special thanks to Patrick Präg, who left his editorial role slightly earlier but contributed enormously to the journal's direction and to the everyday work that makes a journal function. His intellectual judgment, practical ambition, and commitment to fairness and transparency shaped many of the changes implemented during our tenure, and the journal is stronger because of his contributions. We also thank our associate editors, without whom our work would have been impossible: Plamen Akaliyski (Lingnan University), Çetin Çelik (Koç University), Roxanne Connelly (University of Edinburgh), Ivana Dobrotić (University of Zagreb), Marta Dominguez Folgueras (Sciences Po), Magne P. Flemmen (University of Oslo), Pablo Gracia (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Mobarak Hossain (London School of Economics and Political Science), Mathieu Ichou (INED), Katya Ivanova (Tilburg University), Cyril Jayet (Sorbonne University), Agnieszka Kubal (University of Oxford), Anna K…

An era has come to an end

Thanks Patrick and the team. This was an outstanding performance. Really an inspiration for other editors.

Mean life satisfaction in the survey years 2010, 2015 and 2023, separately for female and male gender. In general, girls have lower scores but in 2023, they are drifting even further down

The city of Leipzig in Germany conducts large-scale school surveys of adolescents in secondary education schools. Following the regular surveys in 2010 and 2015, the 2020 survey had to be rescheduled to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this latest survey wave, the gender gap in general life satisfaction has significantly grown. While in 2010 and 2015 girls were somewhat less satisfied than boys (0.26 to 0.33 SD), in 2023 this gender gap had doubled (with girls 0.57 SD less satisfied). Why? Here, we probe various explanations, aiming to provide a template for researchers who are asking reverse causal questions (“What caused this?”). First, we find that the widening of the gender gap is much more pronounced among students with a migration background. This could plausibly be explained by a shift in the composition of the underlying population, with a strong increase of Syrian students, and a relative decrease of Vietnamese ones. Second, among students without a migration background, part of the increasing gender gap could potentially be attributed to survey mode: In 2023, for the first time, the survey was conducted on tablets—and unexpectedly, girls (but not boys) reported significantly lower satisfaction when surveyed on tablet rather than on paper. Third, beyond these two patterns, we still find significantly widening gender gaps in satisfaction with leisure time activities and relationships to friends. Thus, there may be a substantive increase in the gender gap in satisfaction in those two domains that is not readily attributable to changes in population and survey mode.

New preprint 🥳
The city of Leipzig conducts large-scale surveys of adolescents. In 2023, the gender gap in life satisfaction has significantly widened, with girls declining more steeply than boys. What's up with that?>
(work with @rmcelreath.bsky.social and @gregork.bsky.social)

Introducing Causion: A web app for playing with DAGs | Peder M. Isager Personal website of Dr. Peder M. Isager

New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....

She is a 3/3 stars but not preregistered.

Wie Corona unser soziales Miteinander veränderte: Ergebnisse aus dem BMFTR-Projekt CoESI | Geistes- & Sozialwissenschaften Welche Spuren hat die Corona-Pandemie im sozialen Leben hinterlassen â�� und was folgt daraus? Diese spannende Frage stand bei der Online-Abschlussveranstaltung des CoESI-Projekts Ende November 2025 z...

Was hat die #Corona-Pandemie mit unserem sozialen Leben gemacht? #Einsamkeit #Exklusion
Dazu haben wir am @dza-berlin.bsky.social im Projekt #CoESI drei Jahre lang geforscht.
👉 Überblick über zentrale Erkenntnisse hier:
www.geistes-und-sozialwissenschaften-bmftr.de/de/News-Wie-...
#GSWRahmenprogramm

An experimental study on institutions and social norms of tax payment Abstract. The production of public goods, which are fundamental to well-functioning societies, requires the payment of taxes, but taxpayers have clear ince

New OA In ESR

How do institutions and social norms affect tax payment?
@lucaspasin.bsky.social #Aaszekely @squazzoni.bsky.social find that in low-quality institutions contexts, social norms can trigger vicious cycles of evasion, even when evasion is socially disapproved
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf057

Beautiful business research people: The Leibniz Information Centre for Economics has created an accessible introduction to Open Science that you can download in both English and German here: expedition-open-science.org

You can even order the German print version for free!

Working with EU-SILC, but don't know which variables are available in each year?😵‍💫🤷🆘🏳️
🛟MISSY can help!🛟
Simply select years, data set, file type & concepts to quickly get an overview, with optional csv export.
Details like frequencies across countries also available!
🔗 www.gesis.org/en/missy/mat...

I'm gonna tell my kids that this was Heated Rivalry

Mit Jana Münkel im @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy Kultur Studio.

Hat - wie immer - einen Heidenspass gemacht.

And you're saying AI has no positive use cases

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

Weil die Kinder noch eine Note brauchen, müssen sie im Fach Technik die Computertastatur binnen einer Woche auswendig lernen - und mehr muss man über das Schulsystem nicht wissen.

Does social media harm everyone?

No. But it harms *most* adolescents.

However, not all platforms are harmful.

An analysis of 44,211 diaries from 479 adolescents over 100 days finds that 60% of adolescents experienced small, negative effects of social media
link.springer.com/article/10.1...