the Gini coefficient for social ties often exceeds that of income & social ties are concentrated among those with the highest incomes
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

to quote a colleague quoting a goose: “alignment to what? alignment to what??”

What effect do ideologically extreme candidates have?

"We show that in-party voters, out-party voters, and independent voters are more likely to turnout to vote and partisans are more likely to support their party’s candidate in elections with ideologically extreme candidates"

tinyurl.com/ycxz3v8m

So, this paper is passion-project of mine, asking questions about #motivation, proactive social actors, & emotional/affective dispositions. It is a long time coming & is a key piece in the argument for an affective #sociology. Check it out, open access (thx UBC)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Data from Google trends indicates misogyny, unexpectedly, helps explain the gender wage gap, from Molly Maloney and David Neumark https://www.nber.org/papers/w33405

Are Democratic leaders making cities more dangerous than Republicans? Trump + others have repeatedly made claims like this. New paper in Science Advances w/ @chriswarshaw.bsky.social, Dan Jones & Matt Harvey shows that, in short, the answer is no.

This. I’ve often seen people called out for not speaking about something on social media while aware that they were offering important behind-the-scenes support that a public statement would jeopardize.

Folks need to be more careful about what they think they know. There are multiple lanes.

DISI is the most interesting training and collaboration opportunity I’ve ever experienced. If you do relevant work, apply!

Proposal to rename the Population Association of America Macro Data Refinement

How policymakers and the US population update their beliefs on the use of science and the trust they have in government following a field experiment that demonstrated the ineffectiveness of a policy intervention, from Guglielmo Briscese and John A. List https://www.nber.org/papers/w33239

This is true and everyone should bookmark @victorerikray.bsky.social's "Why So Many Organizations Stay White" as it's going to come in very handy. Unfortunately.

hbr.org/2019/11/why-...

This is a very good and important paper for scholars of race and identity. Also just one of those papers you read that makes you wonder how this wasn’t done much sooner.

Highly recommend it.

When times are tight, do cities cut police or social service budgets more? In a 🚨new study🚨, I find revenue loss is associated with shallow, temporary cuts to policing and deep, enduring cuts to social services.

The article, in Criminology, is free, and I summarize it below.
doi.org/10.1111/1745...

Need to analyze repeated measures or panel data? Watch the 1st hour of @vaiseys.bsky.social's "Longitudinal Data Analysis Using #Rstats" seminar on YouTube! Join Feb 27-Mar 1 for more on using panel data to model the evolution of outcomes & improve your causal inferences.

Some of the most important lottery anomalies from the behavioral risk literature (e.g., probability weighting and loss aversion) actually have nothing to do with risk.

They also arise in perfectly deterministic settings.

Lead article in the latest AER issue:
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Got mad enough about this that I turned this thread into a blog.

Kamala Harris did not engage in overt identity politics.

Donald Trump did. It probably helped him.

And yet, pundits like Weiss, Stephens & Dowd treat identity politics *only* as a failed Dem tactic.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

not today of all days please