Peter Damgaard

Earnings expectations of “First-in Family” university students and their role for major choice How do students’ earnings expectations differ by being the first in their family to attend university (FiF) and how do they affect field of study choi…

Interesting paper by ‪@alisonandrew.bsky.social and ‪@abicadams.bsky.social‬ on first-in family university students, very relevant for risk-aversion debate www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Forskere skulle gøre deres projekt »spiseligt for erhvervet« for at få adgang til data om dyrevelfærd Den tidligere landbrugsstyrelse har givet ejerskab over data indsamlet af offentligt ansatte på de danske slagterier til Landbrug & Fødevarer. Det kan være et brud på offentlighedsloven og brud på EU-...

Landbruget har alt, alt for megen magt i Danmark. Som i: mafialignende magt.

Her er et gavelink til en helt gak historie om at lade landbruget eje offentlige kontroldata. Det svarer til at give alle data om lungekræft til tobaksfabrikanterne og lade dem bestemme, hvilke forskere, der får adgang.

We were lucky enough to have our YouGov/The Economist poll in field when the US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. You can see the partisan realignment in real time

Many articles are written to be published, not to be read.

I propose this new badge to help me know when to save my breath.

The regression table examines factors influencing daily housework hours for women and men, highlighting key findings: - **Female Interviewer:** Women spend more time on housework with a female interviewer, increasing the gender gap. - **Paid Work Time:** More paid work reduces housework time for both genders, more so for men. - **Income:** Higher income correlates with less housework for both. - **Marital Status:** Married women do more housework; married men do less. - **Children:** Having children increases housework for both, with significant effects across all child age groups. - **Interview Length:** Longer interviews slightly increase men's housework time. The model explains 16.7% of the variance for women and 9.09% for men, based on 18,965 individuals and 110,544 observations. (Summarized by mistral)

Interesting paper on effect of interviewer gender on gender gap in reported housework. "women tend to report significantly more hours of housework when interviewed by a woman rather than by a man" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How can we better study coproduction in public services? This Early View article shows how causal diagrams clarify its links to volunteering, participation, and more!

By @ggvanryzin.bsky.social

Read article here: doi.org/10.1111/psj....

#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal

VizDex A library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization.

Introducing VizDex!

An ever-growing library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization.

vizdexproject.com

Very excited to share a new preprint.

@jesperasring.bsky.social and I study how politicians engage with evidence in the real world.

Link: osf.io/8zv9s

🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing?
We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023).
📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t.
📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher.
w/ @hudde.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Screenshot of the draft's title page

📄 Whose expert knowledge informs policymaking around the world?

@rsenninger.bsky.social and I analyze data from 1.2 million government policy documents from 185 countries—and find a prominent pattern:

🌍 Policy evidence is overwhelmingly sourced from the Global North.

Preprint: osf.io/w8q3y

🧪🧵👇

Introducing the Medical Evidence Project And the quest to make less dead people

Friends, I have news.

It is very good news.

You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid.

jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...

If you're a researcher (or, less likely, a policymaker) reading this, you'll definitely want to read on. Featuring a dataset that may include you - and findings that make a solid case for hanging out in this space and sharing your work.

Which occupations carry the highest risk of sexual harassment—and who is doing the harassing?

Our new study finds two distinct patterns depending on whether harassment comes from inside or outside the workplace.

CEPR WP: cepr.org/publications...
Ungated: drive.google.com/file/d/1jPOV...

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good_description/good_description_ddk_agb.pdf at main · ddekadt/good_description Homepage of "Good Description" by Daniel de Kadt & Anna Grzymala-Busse - ddekadt/good_description

🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨

What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description?

We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers.

Two main contributions...

🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc

This week we have been happy have @drelizabethbell.bsky.social from University of Texas, Austin as a guest. She has presented her recent work on "Administrative Burden and the Access-Fraud Trade-Off" with @sebjilke.bsky.social , followed by an engaging discussion. Thanks for your visit, Elizabeth!

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

In a frequentist setting, I prefer overlaying CIs that are visually distinct (for instance by thickness) corresponding to explicitly stated percentages, e.g. 90, 95 or 99 (see example). As others have stated, the lack of a clear connection between the shading/width and confidence level is a problem

NEW ARTICLE: CREST Sociology's @scoavoux.bsky.social, @eollion.bsky.social, and @ppraeg.bsky.social's Machine Bias in Sociological Methods & Research, on why we can't use LLMs to generate meaningful survey data

Link: doi.org/10.1177/0049...
Preprint at @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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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

This is brilliant. Well worth a slow, deliberative read! As someone currently struggling with a big writing job, is reassuring that it IS hard! It's not just me!

Currently in FirstView: “Decoupling Visualization and Testing when Presenting Confidence Intervals” by David Armstrong and @olsisblue.bsky.social. They develop a way to present estimates and confidence intervals to accurately visualize the underlying pairwise tests.

Want to talk about how you can target your research to JPART?

We are offering 1:1 meet the editors sessions at #ASPA2025 & #IRSPM2025 & #PMRC2025 & #EGPA2025

We start with ASPA in D.C. next week - book your time below:

calendar.app.google/Fh9YAJviLdwK...

@sassmikkelsen.bsky.social

Hey so this is out now!

Ever wondered when to measure covariates in a survey experiment? Our paper goes through the tradeoffs of measuring them pre vs post treatment using nonparametric bounds.

cup.org/4htpJf6

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.


I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

Until this weekend, I did not know that this is how Daniel Kahneman died. I am neither surprised nor disturbed, and I expect this to become more common.

www.wsj.com/arts-cul...

From the CrappyDesign community on Reddit: This graph comparing average women's height around the world is...well... (Source https://morethanmyheight.com/) Explore this post and more from the CrappyDesign community

This is a classic example of how (not) to visualize data www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesi...

I'm getting the feeling that my current research on difference-in-differences with non-binary treatments has no shot at NSF funding.

Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.

I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New in Social Forces: Breathing Unequal Air😷

Our study shows that immigrant minorities in England & Germany face higher air pollution exposure🏭—and moving doesn’t help🚶. In England, disparities are 3x larger than in Germany

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
#EnvironmentalJustice #Inequality #AirPollution