I will write a short thread on the paper once it is published in the journal, but here are the key recommendations (of which some, granted, are obvious). The paper is available at @socarxiv.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...

Political science also has qualitative work, this should be no excuse for the lack of reproducability criteria in empirical papers. It also seems correct to me that the credibility revolution has not fully reached sociology, even for quantitative empirical papers.

Even if you do not care about the political beliefs of researchers, columns II and III on transparency and causal identification in sociology should worry you (although, of course, there is valuable descriptive research):

Open questions on how inequality in the post-COVID period in subjective well-being persist, but I hope that our ongoing Special Issue (which I edit together with @jacquelinekroh.bsky.social and @patzinaalex.bsky.social) sheds some light on the long-term processes: link.springer.com/collections/...

E) A paper on the short-term effects of COVID-19 on well-being, with a focus on basic income support (with @sebbaehr.bsky.social @jepatste.bsky.social Corinna Frodermann, Julian Kohlruss and Mark Trappmann): www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

D) Paper on gender inequality in the effect of COVID-19 incidence rates on subjective wellbeing (w/ @jacquelinekroh.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

C) Paper on mental health of the population before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic (w/ Maksym Obrizan and Rasmus Hoffmann): journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

B) Paper on mental health and subjective wellbeing of young people in the school-to-work transition and the relation of health declines with educational decision-making (w/ @maltesandner.bsky.social Silke Anger, Sarah Bernhard and Hans Dietrich): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@patzinaalex.bsky.social and I contributed to the following papers recently:

A) Paper on subjective wellbeing of young people in the school-to-work-transition (w/ @neugebauer.bsky.social @maltesandner.bsky.social and Hans Dietrich): academic.oup.com/esr/article/...

The paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1093/ser/... 10/10 //End of Thread

Overall, we find negative effects of disability on labor market outcomes. However, our findings reveal that many individuals still remain employed. Targeted measures for disabled individuals could support the integration of disabled individuals in the labor market. 9/10

Regarding channels of the effects, we find a substantial increase in days in nonemployment. Furthermore, for those who remain employed, we find an increased likelihood to work part-time, change the employer and work in less demanding jobs. 8/10

These effects are mirrored by decreasing pay. Both annual labor earnings and daily wages decrease for those who become disabled. 7/10

We begin by investigating employment effects: employment overall and also in days worked per year decreases substantially after becoming disabled. 6/10

In our main analysis, we match individuals two years before reporting a disability to comparable individuals who do not become disabled using propensity score matching. We then compare the treatment and control groups’ labor market trajectories using an event study approach. 5/10

The data allows us to investigate labor market outcomes before and after disability is registered with German authorities. Descriptively, we observe a substantial drop in earnings and days employed after becoming disabled. 4/10