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Patrick Präg
@ppraeg.bsky.social

I'm a sociologist working at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST)

I also have a website: patrickpraeg.com

Political science 24%
Sociology 21%
Do you happen to work with data from the Integrated World Values/European Values Study? If so beware: there is a rather influential coding error in the variable on religious denomination (F025). Go and check e.g. Spain and Germany and compare to F025_EVS and F025_WVS @gesis-dataservices.bsky.social

New publication in @actasociologica.bsky.social!

@filippogch.bsky.social and I use a novel decomposition method (@ang-yu.bsky.social and Elwert) to study if and how *childcare arrangements* under age 3 shape disparities in children’s cognitive skills

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👇 Why do migrants vote for anti-immigrant parties? 👇
🗳️ New study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: AfD achieved significant results in councils elected exclusively by voters with migration backgrounds. It's not about economics—it's about political competition. (1/3)
🗳️ New study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: AfD achieved significant results in councils elected exclusively by voters with migration backgrounds. It's not about economics—it's about political competition. (1/3)

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🎓 New paper accepted today, on the intergenerational educational mobility among immigrants in Denmark!

At first glance, immigrants seem more mobile than natives – but this is largely a data illusion. Poor register data quality drives the pattern.

w/ @rlandersoe.bsky.social

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There used to be something called plotmatrix
How to make a sociological argument

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This was my big news for today - six years of funding to do my own research!

I will be recruiting soon, most importantly, a Senior Research Fellow on a five year contract, plus a couple of postdocs for shorter stints: people who know EU-Silc, PSID, SOEP, or have experience on using register data
Our Director Jani Erola has been appointed Academy Professor by the Research Council of Finland 🎉 Congratulations @janierola.net!

He’ll study how AI, digitalization & labour market change shape social mobility and equality of opportunity.

#Research #AI #Inequality
👉 invest.utu.fi/news/jani-er...
Jani Erola appointed Academy Professor - INVEST Research Flagship Centre
The Research Council of Finlandhas appointed Professor Jani Erola, Director of the INVEST Research Flagship Centre at the University of...
invest.utu.fi

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New paper available:

🗞️ Partner's Education and Mortality in Finland: A Study of Married and Cohabiting Unions Among Cohorts Born Between 1932 and 1970

#Education #Mortality

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Partner's Education and Mortality in Finland: A Study of Married and Cohabiting Unions Among Cohorts Born Between 1932 and 1970 - European Journal of Population
The consequences of educational expansion and changes in couples’ educational distribution on mortality risk remain understudied. Using Finnish full population register data, this study examines the e...
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KKV ultras 💪
If you are in the Oxford area next Thursday, I’m giving a talk on the birds of the Lye Valley area. It’s a multimedia presentation (pictures and calls!) covering the resident and migratory birds recorded in this part of the city. See you there!

@friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#Oxonbirding
#Oxford

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OPEN NOW the call for presenting your work at the @seqanalysisassn.bsky.social webinar series from Jan.2026! info for submission sequenceanalysis.org/saa-webinar-...
GESIS Training Courses
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Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on:
🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences
🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added
The genetic lottery goes to school: Better schools compensate for the effects of students’ genetic differences
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Data viz now in Socius: Americans with pronatalist view are more conservative, religious, older, male, married, highly educated. Also: view climate change, racism, and gun violence as not serious; illegal immigration and the state of moral values as serious.
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The ENSAE-CREST is hiring a computational sociologist -- Assistant or Associate Professor.

Date of appointment: September 2026.
Details here : www.css.cnrs.fr/assistant-or...
www.css.cnrs.fr
Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology at CREST in Paris
The position is open to computational sociologists regardless of their research area. Deadline for applications: January 31, 2026. All details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le
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Moving up by moving up?

D. Witteveen (@dirkwitteveen.bsky.social)'s new #Socius study pushes back against the logic of #industrialism by comparing career trajectories for Black and White men by #domesticmigration status during and after the #GreatMigration

Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

This is just to reserve the title ~~ for my next article
Best spam conference invitation ever:

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Best spam conference invitation ever:

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Your publication titled " " is truly remarkable and of exceptionally high standard on the core subject.
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Actually, " " is a nice title!
We have a fantastic line-up of panel speakers - Christina Dragon, Fernanda Fortes de Lena, Onikepe Owolabi, and Kristopher Velasco - for our November FemQuant online event: Feminist Research and Data Activism in Political Turmoil. Sign up to join us on 5 Nov femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
Pleased to see this out in print - detailing MAIHDA's desirable statistical properties.

"MAIHDA is especially valuable when inequalities are subtle or data for marginalised intersections are sparse - conditions common in practice"

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@clarerevans.bsky.social
The Statistical Advantages of Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy for Estimating Intersectional Inequalities - George Leckie, Andrew Bell, Juan Merlo, SV Subram...
Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) is a multilevel regression approach grounded in intersectionality theory. I...
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Do contact me if you have any questions!
✨CREST Sociology is hiring ✨

Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology

Details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le
✨CREST Sociology is hiring ✨

Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology

Details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷

Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social

Details here (please RT)
www.shorturl.at/E57le

Surely the seminar that I am the most excited about
THIS THURSDAY, 12 noon Paris time: Katia Begall's seminar "A Dyadic Approach to the Intergenerational Transmission of Household Work" in person at ENSAE or on-line at Zoom: zoom.us/j/9148878841...