Pat Hastings

Excited to share that my new book (w/ Xiang Zhou), Causal Mediation Analysis, is now out from CUP.

Order at tinyurl.com/3hspt6em with discount code CMA2025.

Includes software for Stata and R, available here: causalmedanalysis.github.io.

Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen.

Gender of adults or children? We have a project right now looking at how parents spend differently on boys vs girls. Could be very relevant. I look forward to seeing it!

Congratulations! Excited to see your great work ahead.

@ninabandelj.bsky.social’s Overinvested!

Thinking about submitting some inequality-related research to ASA, but not sure what session it should go in? Or feel like it doesn't fit any of the session topics? Perfect! I’m organizing the Open Call session for @asa-ipm.bsky.social. Deadline: Feb 25.

(Now back to working on my ASA paper...)

Thinking about submitting some inequality-related research to ASA, but not sure what session it should go in? Or feel like it doesn't fit any of the session topics? Perfect! I’m organizing the Open Call session for @asa-ipm.bsky.social. Deadline: Feb 25.

(Now back to working on my ASA paper...)

Horsetooth Rez!

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Please convert your nicely formatted PDF into MS Word to upload into our online system where we will convert it back into a not-so-nicely formatted PDF for our reviewers. Thank you.

Being interdisciplinary mostly means everyone agrees your work is interesting but not for their journal.

I wrote a Substack post about the latest set of academics tied to Epstein:

open.substack.com/pub/davebrad...

1. Each Soc Sci discipline thinks they're more scientific than others...
2. ... exception being Anth
3. Soc. think that only Psych is more scientific than them.
4. Poli Sci thinks both Psych and Econ are more scientific
5. Psych has v. high opinion of itself
6. Econ has v. low opinion of others

a man is holding his finger to his forehead while thinking . ALT: a man is holding his finger to his forehead while thinking .

Or… I link to my Google Scholar on my website.

New post on Substack

open.substack.com/pub/davebrad...

👀 new work on KHB!? What have we all been doing wrong now?! 🫣

www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

Mom groups and other parent communities are popular across the U.S. and in plenty of online circles, providing space for parents to ask questions, share anxieties and build connections that make them feel less alone as they navigate raising tiny humans. At least, that's the goal. "These spaces that give advice and companionship are also places where parents are going to implicitly or explicitly compare themselves to other people and their parenting," said Orestes P. Hastings, associate professor of sociology at Colorado State University who studies parenting. "It's just sort of unavoidable."

A quote in USA Today on celebrities and toxic mom groups wasn't where I pictured my research taking me, but it turns out parenting issues really are everywhere.

I have a preprint included in this new Chicago LLM study, so I got the email and took the survey. I don’t think the LLM’s suggested extensions of my study were very good, which is sort of comforting.

But fwiw, I think this is a cool project and 100% agree with Laura here:

Relative Poverty Has Small Problems with Short-Term Business Cycles, But Absolute Poverty Has Large Problems with Long-Term Economic Development A prominent critique of relative poverty measures isn’t a very big problem. However, a related concern with absolute poverty measures is a much bigger problem.

open.substack.com/pub/davebrad...

Logistic regression model as Cowboy Woody in nightmare sequence from Toy Story 2. Woody is being thrown away by his owner Andy, with caption: "I Don't Want to Play with You Anymore."

When you learn about the linear probability model

post a picture of your PhD graduation day

FYI, if you try to measure the strength of civil society (what Hahrie, Milan, and I call civic opportunity in our 2023 Nature Human Behaviour paper), you may want to consider using our org-, county-, and ZIP code-level datasets published in Scientific Data: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I think some neighborhood questions were included, which might capture whatever would have been the neighborhood effect. Although, the genetic data might not add much given all the parental data. Plus several of the outcomes were really more about the parents anyway.

One post says we don’t need as many year in reviews on apps. The other post is a year in review on this app.

Can’t even credit the algorithm. This is just chronological order. 😚🤌

screenshot of my post

Big new blogpost!

My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.

--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Congratulations! 🎉

Front cover of The Division of Rationalized Labor. The cover includes four pictures: pen and paper, microscope, factory tower, police badge. Modern-looking yellow lines and graphs are superimposed.

My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…

If you want to channel your frustration with bad excess mortality modelling into some productive science, come join our "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Sign-ups are welcome through January/February!

www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]

Title: Explaining the Extracurricular Investment Gap for School-age Children between Married and Cohabiting Families. Abstract: Existing research finds that differences in economic resources explain a much larger share of the spending gap between married and single parents than between married and cohabiting parents. This study focuses on extracurricular spending and considers three non-economic explanations for why children in cohabiting families receive less than those in married households: the greater prevalence of non-biological parents in cohabiting households, the relatively shorter duration of cohabiting relationships, and potentially lower levels of relational commitment. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and its 2014 and 2019 Child Development Supplement, I first reproduce established differences in parental spending by family structure. Accounting for biological parent status and relationship duration does little to further reduce the gap between married and cohabiting parents. These findings suggest that unmeasured aspects of commitment may shape family-structure differences in extracurricular investments, but they also highlight the need for continued research given the growing complexity of U.S. family living arrangements and the importance of parental financial investments for children’s development and long-term outcomes.

New working paper on family structure & parental investment in extracurriculars. Economic resources explain much of the spending gap between married & cohabiting families. What remains isn't explained by biological relatedness or relationship duration. Feedback welcome!
doi.org/10.31235/osf...