Bastian Betthaeuser

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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🚨 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....

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/...

ISSUE #1 ISI has a newsletter now, isn't it exciting?

🚀 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

RC28 Online Meeting on Educational Inequalities 20th - 21st January, 2026 - Call for Papers

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...

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.

🆕🔥
"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!

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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...

Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value

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/

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.

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
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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

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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.

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...

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...

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...

📣 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...

Great list! I'd love to join if there's space.

Great list — would love to join if there's space.

Great list! I'd love to join, if there's space left.

📣 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...

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...

📣 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...

🚨 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

Please get in touch if you or someone you know would be keen to join our research team as a
⭐️Postdoc,
⭐️Doctoral Researcher,
⭐️Predoc, or
⭐️Research Assistant
The project will be based at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social in Paris. Start date and conditions are flexible.

✨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 🇪🇺

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

📣 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...

The front cover of the book Born to Rule by Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman.

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...

🥳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...

❗New methods paper out on OSF ❗

A new R-squared for multilevel models 👀👀

Resolves a long-standing R-squared oddity identified by Snijders/Bosker 30 years ago!

with the amazing Anders Holm

#sociology #erc

Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...