Bastian Betthaeuser
@betthaeuser.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the Sciences Po, Paris. Social and educational inequality, social mobility, and life-course research.
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How do teenagers spend their time? 🤔
We use social sequence analysis and high-frequency time-use diaries to identify and visualise typical time-use patterns of teenagers in Germany.
Now out in the Journal of Time Use Research w/ @miriamsglrtmr.bsky.social & Anette Fasang
👉 doi.org/10.32797/jtu...
We use social sequence analysis and high-frequency time-use diaries to identify and visualise typical time-use patterns of teenagers in Germany.
Now out in the Journal of Time Use Research w/ @miriamsglrtmr.bsky.social & Anette Fasang
👉 doi.org/10.32797/jtu...
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Hi Bluesky!
I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)!
It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D).
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I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)!
It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D).
Thread below 👇 (1/)
April 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hi Bluesky!
I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)!
It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D).
Thread below 👇 (1/)
I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)!
It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D).
Thread below 👇 (1/)
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🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 25, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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🚀 The first ISI Newsletter just launched!
Inside: center insights, job opportunities… and a few surprises we promise are way better than finding an extra fry at the bottom of the bag. 🍟✨
Check your inbox — you don’t want to miss this.
isi-munich-news.beehiiv.com/p/issue-1-27...
#isimunich
Inside: center insights, job opportunities… and a few surprises we promise are way better than finding an extra fry at the bottom of the bag. 🍟✨
Check your inbox — you don’t want to miss this.
isi-munich-news.beehiiv.com/p/issue-1-27...
#isimunich
ISSUE #1
ISI has a newsletter now, isn't it exciting?
isi-munich-news.beehiiv.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🚀 The first ISI Newsletter just launched!
Inside: center insights, job opportunities… and a few surprises we promise are way better than finding an extra fry at the bottom of the bag. 🍟✨
Check your inbox — you don’t want to miss this.
isi-munich-news.beehiiv.com/p/issue-1-27...
#isimunich
Inside: center insights, job opportunities… and a few surprises we promise are way better than finding an extra fry at the bottom of the bag. 🍟✨
Check your inbox — you don’t want to miss this.
isi-munich-news.beehiiv.com/p/issue-1-27...
#isimunich
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RC28 invites all scholars working in the field of educational inequalities to contribute to RC28’s first online thematic meeting. The meeting will take place on 20-21 January 2026. For further info,
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...
RC28 Online Meeting on Educational Inequalities
20th - 21st January, 2026 - Call for Papers
www.sciencespo.fr
August 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
RC28 invites all scholars working in the field of educational inequalities to contribute to RC28’s first online thematic meeting. The meeting will take place on 20-21 January 2026. For further info,
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...
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ISI has a new website.
Yes, one that works.
Yes, also on your phone.
No, we didn’t do it ourselves. We called Max from Goodaim (en.goodaim.de). He speaks both design and durkheim.
Visit www.isi-munich.de/en
Come for the inequality, stay because you accidentally closed all your other tabs.
Yes, one that works.
Yes, also on your phone.
No, we didn’t do it ourselves. We called Max from Goodaim (en.goodaim.de). He speaks both design and durkheim.
Visit www.isi-munich.de/en
Come for the inequality, stay because you accidentally closed all your other tabs.
July 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
ISI has a new website.
Yes, one that works.
Yes, also on your phone.
No, we didn’t do it ourselves. We called Max from Goodaim (en.goodaim.de). He speaks both design and durkheim.
Visit www.isi-munich.de/en
Come for the inequality, stay because you accidentally closed all your other tabs.
Yes, one that works.
Yes, also on your phone.
No, we didn’t do it ourselves. We called Max from Goodaim (en.goodaim.de). He speaks both design and durkheim.
Visit www.isi-munich.de/en
Come for the inequality, stay because you accidentally closed all your other tabs.
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🆕🔥
"Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles:
Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap"
w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon
🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul...
🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns!
1/🧵
"Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles:
Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap"
w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon
🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul...
🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns!
1/🧵
May 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
🆕🔥
"Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles:
Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap"
w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon
🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul...
🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns!
1/🧵
"Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles:
Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap"
w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon
🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul...
🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns!
1/🧵
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Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
March 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
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Hello, Bluesky! ☀️
We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.
Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.
Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
February 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Hello, Bluesky! ☀️
We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.
Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.
Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
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Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
(1/13)
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
(1/13)
January 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
(1/13)
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
(1/13)
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Hi alll,
Jakob and I digitized parish-vote data from the 1920 referendum on the Danish-German border.
We have made the data available for everyone to use here: hhsievertsen.github.io/Data-on-the-...
#data #econsky
1/3
Jakob and I digitized parish-vote data from the 1920 referendum on the Danish-German border.
We have made the data available for everyone to use here: hhsievertsen.github.io/Data-on-the-...
#data #econsky
1/3
January 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Hi alll,
Jakob and I digitized parish-vote data from the 1920 referendum on the Danish-German border.
We have made the data available for everyone to use here: hhsievertsen.github.io/Data-on-the-...
#data #econsky
1/3
Jakob and I digitized parish-vote data from the 1920 referendum on the Danish-German border.
We have made the data available for everyone to use here: hhsievertsen.github.io/Data-on-the-...
#data #econsky
1/3
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Child poverty in the U.S. is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Why Poor American Kids Are So Likely to Become Poor Adults
Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the biggest role.
www.theatlantic.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Child poverty in the U.S. is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I’ve shown here that systems with later tracking do better at exposing students from disadvantaged backgrounds to high achieving peers journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Within-School Achievement Sorting in Comprehensive and Tracked Systems - Per Engzell, Isabel J. Raabe, 2023
Why do inequalities in schooling persist, even in relatively egalitarian school systems? This article examines within school sorting as an explanation. We use c...
journals.sagepub.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I’ve shown here that systems with later tracking do better at exposing students from disadvantaged backgrounds to high achieving peers journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on digital inequalities (application by 15 March).
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
January 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on digital inequalities (application by 15 March).
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
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📣 Join our research team at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social to work on the ERC-funded LEARN project on major health crises and children's educational development. We're hiring:
⭐️Postdoc
⭐️Doctoral researcher
⭐️Predoc / Research Assistant
👉Apply by 30 Nov: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
⭐️Postdoc
⭐️Doctoral researcher
⭐️Predoc / Research Assistant
👉Apply by 30 Nov: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
October 9, 2024 at 1:52 PM
📣 Join our research team at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social to work on the ERC-funded LEARN project on major health crises and children's educational development. We're hiring:
⭐️Postdoc
⭐️Doctoral researcher
⭐️Predoc / Research Assistant
👉Apply by 30 Nov: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
⭐️Postdoc
⭐️Doctoral researcher
⭐️Predoc / Research Assistant
👉Apply by 30 Nov: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
📣 Join our research team at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social to work on the ERC-funded LEARN project on major health crises and children's educational development. We're hiring:
⭐️Postdoc
⭐️Doctoral researcher
⭐️Predoc / Research Assistant
👉Apply by 30 Nov: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
⭐️Postdoc
⭐️Doctoral researcher
⭐️Predoc / Research Assistant
👉Apply by 30 Nov: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
October 9, 2024 at 1:52 PM
📣 Join our research team at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social to work on the ERC-funded LEARN project on major health crises and children's educational development. We're hiring:
⭐️Postdoc
⭐️Doctoral researcher
⭐️Predoc / Research Assistant
👉Apply by 30 Nov: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
⭐️Postdoc
⭐️Doctoral researcher
⭐️Predoc / Research Assistant
👉Apply by 30 Nov: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
How do teenagers spend their time? 🤔
We use social sequence analysis and high-frequency time-use diaries to identify and visualise typical time-use patterns of teenagers in Germany.
Now out in the Journal of Time Use Research w/ @miriamsglrtmr.bsky.social & Anette Fasang
👉 doi.org/10.32797/jtu...
We use social sequence analysis and high-frequency time-use diaries to identify and visualise typical time-use patterns of teenagers in Germany.
Now out in the Journal of Time Use Research w/ @miriamsglrtmr.bsky.social & Anette Fasang
👉 doi.org/10.32797/jtu...
October 9, 2024 at 12:44 PM
How do teenagers spend their time? 🤔
We use social sequence analysis and high-frequency time-use diaries to identify and visualise typical time-use patterns of teenagers in Germany.
Now out in the Journal of Time Use Research w/ @miriamsglrtmr.bsky.social & Anette Fasang
👉 doi.org/10.32797/jtu...
We use social sequence analysis and high-frequency time-use diaries to identify and visualise typical time-use patterns of teenagers in Germany.
Now out in the Journal of Time Use Research w/ @miriamsglrtmr.bsky.social & Anette Fasang
👉 doi.org/10.32797/jtu...
Reposted by Bastian Betthaeuser
📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on environmental inequalities (application by 30 September).
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
July 2, 2024 at 6:01 PM
📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on environmental inequalities (application by 30 September).
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
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🚨 New report for the Nuffield Foundation
We dive into the growing issue of pupil absences in the UK, exploring its impact on educational and labour market outcomes, including the role of timing of absences, trajectories, and mechanisms.
Main report: shorturl.at/QWZqy
Exec summary: shorturl.at/zTUge
We dive into the growing issue of pupil absences in the UK, exploring its impact on educational and labour market outcomes, including the role of timing of absences, trajectories, and mechanisms.
Main report: shorturl.at/QWZqy
Exec summary: shorturl.at/zTUge
September 2, 2024 at 1:22 PM
🚨 New report for the Nuffield Foundation
We dive into the growing issue of pupil absences in the UK, exploring its impact on educational and labour market outcomes, including the role of timing of absences, trajectories, and mechanisms.
Main report: shorturl.at/QWZqy
Exec summary: shorturl.at/zTUge
We dive into the growing issue of pupil absences in the UK, exploring its impact on educational and labour market outcomes, including the role of timing of absences, trajectories, and mechanisms.
Main report: shorturl.at/QWZqy
Exec summary: shorturl.at/zTUge
✨Grateful and excited that my research project
‘Understanding the Consequences of Major Health Crises for Education: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic’
will be funded by an ERC Starting Grant #ERCStG 🇪🇺
‘Understanding the Consequences of Major Health Crises for Education: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic’
will be funded by an ERC Starting Grant #ERCStG 🇪🇺
September 5, 2024 at 10:28 AM
✨Grateful and excited that my research project
‘Understanding the Consequences of Major Health Crises for Education: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic’
will be funded by an ERC Starting Grant #ERCStG 🇪🇺
‘Understanding the Consequences of Major Health Crises for Education: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic’
will be funded by an ERC Starting Grant #ERCStG 🇪🇺
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2025 Spring School: Perceptions of wealth inequality
Check out this research incubator where small teams will work with a great set of scholars on this topic. Apply by Aug 31: dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/
@dariatisch.bsky.social @natrinh.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @janlo.bsky.social
Check out this research incubator where small teams will work with a great set of scholars on this topic. Apply by Aug 31: dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/
@dariatisch.bsky.social @natrinh.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @janlo.bsky.social
Spring School on perceptions of wealth (inequality)
SCHOOL ON PERCEPTIONS OF WEALTH INEQUALITY
dariatisch.github.io
July 31, 2024 at 9:44 AM
2025 Spring School: Perceptions of wealth inequality
Check out this research incubator where small teams will work with a great set of scholars on this topic. Apply by Aug 31: dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/
@dariatisch.bsky.social @natrinh.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @janlo.bsky.social
Check out this research incubator where small teams will work with a great set of scholars on this topic. Apply by Aug 31: dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/
@dariatisch.bsky.social @natrinh.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @janlo.bsky.social
📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on environmental inequalities (application by 30 September).
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
July 2, 2024 at 6:01 PM
📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on environmental inequalities (application by 30 September).
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
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We have a cover and a publication date. It will be out on the 10th September. Nervous but excited! @samfriedman.bsky.social
If you like books on culture, elites, or politics you can pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/born-to...
If you like books on culture, elites, or politics you can pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/born-to...
May 15, 2024 at 7:25 AM
We have a cover and a publication date. It will be out on the 10th September. Nervous but excited! @samfriedman.bsky.social
If you like books on culture, elites, or politics you can pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/born-to...
If you like books on culture, elites, or politics you can pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/born-to...
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🥳New pre-print on #PanelData Analysis with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social
Explore the power of tracking between-person differences & within-person changes over time📈🧐 with an example on
#Marriage & #SexualSatisfaction
Link: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Explore the power of tracking between-person differences & within-person changes over time📈🧐 with an example on
#Marriage & #SexualSatisfaction
Link: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
May 3, 2024 at 1:17 PM
🥳New pre-print on #PanelData Analysis with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social
Explore the power of tracking between-person differences & within-person changes over time📈🧐 with an example on
#Marriage & #SexualSatisfaction
Link: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Explore the power of tracking between-person differences & within-person changes over time📈🧐 with an example on
#Marriage & #SexualSatisfaction
Link: doi.org/10.31235/osf...