Igor Geyn
@roguski.bsky.social
Political Science PhD candidate @polisciUCLA and data scientist (ex list: PG&E, BGOV, others. Representation in local politics, climate, ed policy, and statistical methods.
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Appendix A7 most striking graph for me:
October 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Appendix A7 most striking graph for me:
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In recent years, white turnout has spiked. But turnout among Black and other non-white Americans has stagnated. @devincaughey.bsky.social, Bernard Fraga, @rpgriffin.bsky.social & I have a summary in @goodauth.bsky.social of our work on turnout in U.S. elections. goodauthority.org/news/2024-br...
2024 brought high voter turnout – but a growing racial gap
New data shows that while white turnout has spiked, turnout among Black and other non-white Americans has stagnated.
goodauthority.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
In recent years, white turnout has spiked. But turnout among Black and other non-white Americans has stagnated. @devincaughey.bsky.social, Bernard Fraga, @rpgriffin.bsky.social & I have a summary in @goodauth.bsky.social of our work on turnout in U.S. elections. goodauthority.org/news/2024-br...
It's possible that the almost-certainly-short-term deployment of federal agents/NG is going to abate crime in D.C. (I'm skeptical), but it seems--at a minimum--a good idea to also consider the many research-backed ideas presented by @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social and others.
youtu.be/BbLDpIXnNkk?...
youtu.be/BbLDpIXnNkk?...
August 17, 2025 at 4:44 AM
It's possible that the almost-certainly-short-term deployment of federal agents/NG is going to abate crime in D.C. (I'm skeptical), but it seems--at a minimum--a good idea to also consider the many research-backed ideas presented by @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social and others.
youtu.be/BbLDpIXnNkk?...
youtu.be/BbLDpIXnNkk?...
Cross-posting to offset some bad karma (posting to X) with good karma.
I wrote up a quick tweet thread covering a super-interesting AEJ: EP paper on natural disasters and special interest pandering, which is forthcoming in the same edition as my paper with Daniel Firoozi.
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I wrote up a quick tweet thread covering a super-interesting AEJ: EP paper on natural disasters and special interest pandering, which is forthcoming in the same edition as my paper with Daniel Firoozi.
x.com/GeynIgor/sta...
August 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Cross-posting to offset some bad karma (posting to X) with good karma.
I wrote up a quick tweet thread covering a super-interesting AEJ: EP paper on natural disasters and special interest pandering, which is forthcoming in the same edition as my paper with Daniel Firoozi.
x.com/GeynIgor/sta...
I wrote up a quick tweet thread covering a super-interesting AEJ: EP paper on natural disasters and special interest pandering, which is forthcoming in the same edition as my paper with Daniel Firoozi.
x.com/GeynIgor/sta...
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38 states have legalized sports betting, but little is known about the financial, social, and behavioral impacts.
@arnoldventures.bsky.social is committed to building the evidence base with our newest RFP.
LOIs due 9/15 and details here: www.arnoldventures.org/causal-resea...
@arnoldventures.bsky.social is committed to building the evidence base with our newest RFP.
LOIs due 9/15 and details here: www.arnoldventures.org/causal-resea...
July 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
38 states have legalized sports betting, but little is known about the financial, social, and behavioral impacts.
@arnoldventures.bsky.social is committed to building the evidence base with our newest RFP.
LOIs due 9/15 and details here: www.arnoldventures.org/causal-resea...
@arnoldventures.bsky.social is committed to building the evidence base with our newest RFP.
LOIs due 9/15 and details here: www.arnoldventures.org/causal-resea...
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I noticed only because I update the @calmatters.org Trump lawsuit tracker, but the URL for the FEMA memo from April that cancelled $4.5B in disaster-prevention grants is now dead. The multi-state suit linked to this: www.fema.gov/press-releas.... It's a 404 error. But it lives on the Wayback Machine
www.fema.gov
July 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I noticed only because I update the @calmatters.org Trump lawsuit tracker, but the URL for the FEMA memo from April that cancelled $4.5B in disaster-prevention grants is now dead. The multi-state suit linked to this: www.fema.gov/press-releas.... It's a 404 error. But it lives on the Wayback Machine
What are some good things to read to learn more about production approaches to causal inference--for example in tech--for someone who's mostly been exposed to one-off analyses a la academic papers?
June 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
What are some good things to read to learn more about production approaches to causal inference--for example in tech--for someone who's mostly been exposed to one-off analyses a la academic papers?
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one last post on international students -- public opinion is not in the administration's favor on this, and universities should not let them forget it
June 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
one last post on international students -- public opinion is not in the administration's favor on this, and universities should not let them forget it
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Medicaid is the primary payer for maternity care in the U.S. It finances about 4 in 10 (41%) births nationally — nearly half in rural communities (47%).
Our new brief covers more facts you may find surprising.
Our new brief covers more facts you may find surprising.
5 Key Facts About Medicaid and Pregnancy | KFF
This brief examines Medicaid’s pregnancy and postpartum coverage and its support for strengthening and improving maternal health outcomes.
www.kff.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Medicaid is the primary payer for maternity care in the U.S. It finances about 4 in 10 (41%) births nationally — nearly half in rural communities (47%).
Our new brief covers more facts you may find surprising.
Our new brief covers more facts you may find surprising.
*me, at age 20, looking up from an econometrics problem set, calculus homework, or paper about the politics of the Seljuk Empire*
"Yes, the single most important question for me right now is learning about freedom and liberty, things of which I know nothing and have no reference for."
"Yes, the single most important question for me right now is learning about freedom and liberty, things of which I know nothing and have no reference for."
very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together."
May 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
*me, at age 20, looking up from an econometrics problem set, calculus homework, or paper about the politics of the Seljuk Empire*
"Yes, the single most important question for me right now is learning about freedom and liberty, things of which I know nothing and have no reference for."
"Yes, the single most important question for me right now is learning about freedom and liberty, things of which I know nothing and have no reference for."
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Our community must take this issue very seriously!
ideally, we'd post these publicly:
raw_no_pii.csv
cleaning.R
clean.rds
analysis.R
but destroy or archive privately:
raw.csv
remove_pii.R
(was glad to see in this thread political science apparently does better than other fields but still)
ideally, we'd post these publicly:
raw_no_pii.csv
cleaning.R
clean.rds
analysis.R
but destroy or archive privately:
raw.csv
remove_pii.R
(was glad to see in this thread political science apparently does better than other fields but still)
We did not want to start the week like this, but here we are. Yet again our chair’s inbox is filled with messages from replicators who have opened “replication” folders only to find names, Social Insurance Numbers, mental-health diagnoses and incomes of study participants. 🧵
May 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Our community must take this issue very seriously!
ideally, we'd post these publicly:
raw_no_pii.csv
cleaning.R
clean.rds
analysis.R
but destroy or archive privately:
raw.csv
remove_pii.R
(was glad to see in this thread political science apparently does better than other fields but still)
ideally, we'd post these publicly:
raw_no_pii.csv
cleaning.R
clean.rds
analysis.R
but destroy or archive privately:
raw.csv
remove_pii.R
(was glad to see in this thread political science apparently does better than other fields but still)
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Do Tuition Subsidies Raise Political Participation?" by Daniel Firoozi and Igor Geyn. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Do Tuition Subsidies Raise Political Participation?
(Forthcoming Article) - Civic externalities motivate education expenditures, but estimates of the civic returns to large-scale education subsidies are scarce. We use 16 million financial aid applicati...
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May 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Do Tuition Subsidies Raise Political Participation?" by Daniel Firoozi and Igor Geyn. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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I am hiring a PhD student on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes as part of my VICI funded project. This is a 4 year paid position in a welcoming and collaborative environment. Find out more or apply at www.tue.nl/werken-bij-t...
PhD on Metascience
www.tue.nl
April 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I am hiring a PhD student on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes as part of my VICI funded project. This is a 4 year paid position in a welcoming and collaborative environment. Find out more or apply at www.tue.nl/werken-bij-t...
#edresearch #education research friends—the CRDC website has a (seemingly) random smattering data on its website. What I've been able to find is excellent, but many years missing.
Does anyone know where I might the missing years? Many thanks!
civilrightsdata.ed.gov/data
Does anyone know where I might the missing years? Many thanks!
civilrightsdata.ed.gov/data
April 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
#edresearch #education research friends—the CRDC website has a (seemingly) random smattering data on its website. What I've been able to find is excellent, but many years missing.
Does anyone know where I might the missing years? Many thanks!
civilrightsdata.ed.gov/data
Does anyone know where I might the missing years? Many thanks!
civilrightsdata.ed.gov/data
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New visualization tool alert!
The vayr package version 1.0.0 is now on CRAN.
It contains position adjustments for ggplot2 that help with overplotting in pleasing ways. My favorite is position_sunflower().
- install.packages("vayr")
- alexandercoppock.com/vayr
#rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz
The vayr package version 1.0.0 is now on CRAN.
It contains position adjustments for ggplot2 that help with overplotting in pleasing ways. My favorite is position_sunflower().
- install.packages("vayr")
- alexandercoppock.com/vayr
#rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz
April 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
New visualization tool alert!
The vayr package version 1.0.0 is now on CRAN.
It contains position adjustments for ggplot2 that help with overplotting in pleasing ways. My favorite is position_sunflower().
- install.packages("vayr")
- alexandercoppock.com/vayr
#rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz
The vayr package version 1.0.0 is now on CRAN.
It contains position adjustments for ggplot2 that help with overplotting in pleasing ways. My favorite is position_sunflower().
- install.packages("vayr")
- alexandercoppock.com/vayr
#rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz
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we have now posted the 2024 Cooperative Election Study common content dataset to the @harvarddataverse.bsky.social! data from 60,000 American adults interviewed before & after the election. thanks to @today.yougov.com & Caroline Soler for getting this data produced & posted doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...
dataverse.harvard.edu
April 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
we have now posted the 2024 Cooperative Election Study common content dataset to the @harvarddataverse.bsky.social! data from 60,000 American adults interviewed before & after the election. thanks to @today.yougov.com & Caroline Soler for getting this data produced & posted doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...
Headline overstates the results a bit (IMO), but still makes you think: of what quality is the typical regained job, if 'Liberation' is somehow able to reshore in some industries?
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Blue-collar workers are less satisfied at work, less attached to their jobs than other U.S. workers
Among blue-collar workers, 43% say they feel extremely or very satisfied with their jobs; by comparison, 53% of other workers express this level of satisfaction.
www.pewresearch.org
April 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Headline overstates the results a bit (IMO), but still makes you think: of what quality is the typical regained job, if 'Liberation' is somehow able to reshore in some industries?
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Really cool new working paper by @cohodes.bsky.social and @camarnzen.bsky.social ! Definitely worth checking out if you’re interested in the intersection of education and political economy.
“a significant portion of the gender gap in voting can be attributed to the rise in women’s education.”
@camarnzen.bsky.social @cohodes.bsky.social
@camarnzen.bsky.social @cohodes.bsky.social
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Women outvote men in the U.S.—and over half of the gap is explained by women's higher levels of educational attainment.
🔍 Authors: Cameron J. Arnzen, Sarah R. Cohodes
📄 bit.ly/4hgORFJ
🔍 Authors: Cameron J. Arnzen, Sarah R. Cohodes
📄 bit.ly/4hgORFJ
March 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Really cool new working paper by @cohodes.bsky.social and @camarnzen.bsky.social ! Definitely worth checking out if you’re interested in the intersection of education and political economy.
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1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
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If you live in one of the 50 states, you have an important political power that I (a resident of DC) do not: you have a senator. And I'm asking you to take 5 minutes today to use that power to speak up for my family, my city, and our county by calling your senators and asking them to oppose the CR
March 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
If you live in one of the 50 states, you have an important political power that I (a resident of DC) do not: you have a senator. And I'm asking you to take 5 minutes today to use that power to speak up for my family, my city, and our county by calling your senators and asking them to oppose the CR
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I'm beginning to put together the summer schedule for the ViCE seminar. If you have a paper related to crime or the criminal justice system that you'd like to present, please email me!
Current & past schedules:
jenniferdoleac.com/vice-seminar/
Current & past schedules:
jenniferdoleac.com/vice-seminar/
March 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I'm beginning to put together the summer schedule for the ViCE seminar. If you have a paper related to crime or the criminal justice system that you'd like to present, please email me!
Current & past schedules:
jenniferdoleac.com/vice-seminar/
Current & past schedules:
jenniferdoleac.com/vice-seminar/
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As markets plummet again today from Trump's chaotic economic policies, ask yourself: Why would billionaires back policies that tank their own stock values?
It’s the taxes.
I wrote a step-by-step explainer of how billionaires avoid paying taxes. People are often surprised when I explain it.🧵
It’s the taxes.
I wrote a step-by-step explainer of how billionaires avoid paying taxes. People are often surprised when I explain it.🧵
Buy, Borrow, Die: How Billionaires Legally Avoid Paying Taxes While the Rest of Us Can't
A Step-by-Step Guide to How the Ultra-Wealthy Minimize Their Tax Burden While Their Fortunes Multiply
open.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
As markets plummet again today from Trump's chaotic economic policies, ask yourself: Why would billionaires back policies that tank their own stock values?
It’s the taxes.
I wrote a step-by-step explainer of how billionaires avoid paying taxes. People are often surprised when I explain it.🧵
It’s the taxes.
I wrote a step-by-step explainer of how billionaires avoid paying taxes. People are often surprised when I explain it.🧵
Belle and Sebastian's bio on Spotify written as if to set off every DOGE alert known to man.
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Belle and Sebastian's bio on Spotify written as if to set off every DOGE alert known to man.
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Feather River College is still reeling from the 2021 Dixie Fire, which destroyed hundreds of homes. The college is one of many schools that have tried — and failed — to secure state grants to build more student housing. calmatters.org/education/hi...
📝 Adam Echelman
📸 Fred Greaves
📝 Adam Echelman
📸 Fred Greaves
February 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Feather River College is still reeling from the 2021 Dixie Fire, which destroyed hundreds of homes. The college is one of many schools that have tried — and failed — to secure state grants to build more student housing. calmatters.org/education/hi...
📝 Adam Echelman
📸 Fred Greaves
📝 Adam Echelman
📸 Fred Greaves