“Genes Linked to Educational Attainment & Adult SES Across Birth Cohorts”: @hdobewall.bsky.social, @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social et al. examine whether genetic endowment for high education is assoc. with subsequent socioeconomic outcomes. @invest-flagship.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Recently, I got quite frustrated listening to a large group of economists discussing preregistration and pre analysis plans. So, I've channelled that into an argument for why they should be preregistering their work whenever performing confirmatory research
kdoroc.substack.com/p/arguing-wi...
Do work requirements work? @laurenhlb.bsky.social and @chloeneast.bsky.social review the literature and conclude that SNAP work requirements “do not encourage work but do reduce program access.”
Health, poverty and employment effects of cutting income replacement benefits for the disabled: a difference-in-differences analysis of the 2017 welfare reforms
jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
@benbgeiger.bsky.social
Health, poverty and employment effects of cutting income replacement benefits for the disabled: a difference-in-differences analysis of the 2017 welfare reforms
jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
I'm just kicking against the pricks.
The geeks shall inherit the earth.
New QJE paper measures spending flows between 1000s of small groups of consumers and producers, government, rest of the world. Most consumer spending stays domestic, esp in rural, older, less-educated areas->higher fiscal multipliers; targeting "left-behind" groups boosts economy
New review of my book Underbelly!
"Conditions are systematically misread and maligned by global health program design as seemingly insurmountable cultural barriers. [Local] epistemology, Hall-Clifford insists, is entirely rational. It is global health programming that is not."
Check it out!
Inequalities in school spending across local authorities in England: A time-trend analysis. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Infographic (in Arabic) from Lebanon's Public Health Emergency Operation Center showing the number of Lebanese killed and wounded since Israel intensified its attacks on March 2nd. 2020 people killed 6436 people injured
Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 2,000 people, and wounded more than 6,400, since March 2nd:
— 165 children killed.
— 248 women killed.
— 85 healthcare workers killed.
(Source: Lebanese Ministry of Health)
📣 Publication news!
📄 Study co-authored by PHPS colleague @edmhill.bsky.social found inequalities in childhood pneumococcal vaccine uptake persist in England despite schedule change.
🔗 paper in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe: doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
📰 Press release: tinyurl.com/yj5drr76
A three-panel comic with Peter Parker (Spiderman in his civilian outfit) as the protagonist. The left hand side panel has Peter with a book open with the title "How to finish a paper". The right hand side panel has two images: on the top Peter reads in the book the phrase "Write It". In the bottom right panel, the third one, Peter sheds tears.
Fellow academics/writers, I come bearing bad news:
#AcademicSky #WritingSky #AcWri #AmWriting #GetYourManuscriptOut
Some excellent recent papers in Perspectives in Public Health — great examples of public health happening in real lives, workplaces and communities. A short thread 🧵👇
journals.sagepub.com/toc/RSH/0/0 @rsph.bsky.social @journals.sagepub.com
We all kevin now
A navy blue social card that reads 'Inequalities in childhood pneumococcal vaccine uptake persist in England despite schedule change' in white text with a stock image of a child about to receive a vaccine.
Researchers from @livuni-ives.bsky.social and @livuni-iph.bsky.social have found that the inequalities gap in uptake rates of pneumococcal vaccine (PCV) for vulnerable groups is widening, and simplifying the vaccine schedule hasn't reduced this.
🔗 bit.ly/4vzOI8T
#TeamLivUni
I’ve been warned that by engaging in politics, I might undermine myself as a scientist. Or worse, reduce the trust that people have in me or scientists as a whole.
This latter point is the thesis of a recent article by Byron Hyde: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I disagree for multiple reasons.
The constant Westminster-based attacks on S. Cambs by Conservatives and Labour are both depressing and incredibly boring
It’s good for councils to try new things!
Evidence suggests the 4 day week scheme has been successful!
If residents don’t like it, they can vote out the Lib Dems next month!
I think I support this but have no idea what the data visualization is saying.
It's interesting to read this given the Journal of Labor Econ paper that just came out on network effects AND the fact that it never mentions cultural capital, which is literally what is being described and has been studied for decades by sociologist 1/2
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The four types of dementia most people don’t know exist 🧠
Dr Clarissa Giebel, Senior Research Fellow @livuni-iph.bsky.social, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast, @liverpooluni.bsky.social writes @theconversation.com @uk.theconversation.com
👉 theconversation.com/the-four-typ...
One of the greatest privileges of academia is supervising remarkable young people. Absolutely thrilled by @lucindahiam.bsky.social successful DPhil defence at Oxford yesterday - with thanks also to my co-supervisor @dannydorling.bsky.social
But behind the scenes, Israeli officials have conveyed a more targeted message. In private calls to local leaders across southern Lebanon, Israeli military officials have assured several Christian and Druse communities that they could remain in the evacuation zone. They have pressed them, however, to force out any Lebanese from neighboring Shiite Muslim communities who have sought refuge among them as Israeli bombardment flatten Shiite towns, according to local Christian, Druse and Shiite leaders who spoke to The New York Times. The Shiites make up the majority of southern Lebanon.
So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...
🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science.
Here’s what we found 👇
Getting rid of the 2 child limit is by my calculation worth *£12.5million* per year to Birkenhead's economy.
Over £1m extra a month. Not a small thing when you think about where it will be spent (locally) and by who (parents who have struggled to make ends meet).
Happy April everyone.
I have yet to dig into detail but it’s interesting to note that the same discipline, economics, has the highest reproducibility (does the code run?) and lowest replicability (does it work on different data?)
