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Can social capital remedy structural inequality? Economic mobility in a longitudinal population-scale social network The promise of equal opportunity is a cornerstone of modern societies, yet upward economic mobility remains out of reach for many. Using a decade of population-scale social network data from the Nethe...

Can social capital remedy structural inequality? Economic mobility in a longitudinal population-scale social network arxiv.org/abs/2508.05275

For example, we've recently learned that virtually all state-level DiD's are probably incredibly underpowered.

"Social scientific methods are not as they should be." Some chronic problems that i'm pretty sure you've come across are outlined below 👇 and you can read more here - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The origins of large-scale structure in family networks Family relations are the most fundamental of all social networks and encompass everyone. Family networks grow as individuals have children, creating connections between families, which over time creat...

The origins of large-scale structure in family networks arxiv.org/abs/2508.02336

3 year Research Associate post working on evaluation of #CommunityWealthBuilding working with me @uofglasgow.bsky.social and colleagues from @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social and Lancaster: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

I often think that scholars, and people more broadly, have wonky understandings of the world because they fall into either/or thought. There are numerous examples, & each results in the same thing - overly reductive, simplistic & uncreative thought. It's anathema to good social science. More 👇

This looks interesting.

"Bounding causal effects in survey experiments with noncompliance or inattention"

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wvzck...

Past New Yorker cover with people inside a gym (that they likely drove to) riding on stationary bikes with a bunch of bikeshare bikes outside the gym mostly unused.

What if we designed cities, and the land-uses, densities, services and infrastructure that make them what they are, so that daily activity and exercise was just an ordinary, “invisible” part of every day life?

It’s actually not that hard. We just have to change our priorities. #HealthyCities

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The role of intellectuals is to challenge authority, not serve it.

a data breach revealing peer reviewer identities would really spice things up for academia

Scotland

«La verdad no tiene defensa frente a un tonto con la determinación de querer una mentira» Mark Twain.

Gabon guztioi! ¡Buenas noches, preciosidades!!

En días como hoy, conviene recordar que... ⤵️

every time
i add fixed effects
i whisper
“forgive me”
to the theory

Handbook of Experimental Development Economics ‘This volume fills a huge void by introducing us to recent developments in the burgeoning field of behavioural development economics. It is a valuable addition to the knowledge base in the area. I exp...

Out today: a great handbook for anyone doing #experiments in #development economics. Yes, I have a chapter in it on household behaviour, but I'm recommending it because it has been written and edited by a talented group of economists who know their stuff.
#EconSky

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My optimal setup as an applied microeconomist.

Call for papers for the Opportunity Insights conference this fall is now open!

opportunityinsights.org/updates/2025...

Linear Scaling Causal Discovery from High-Dimensional Time Series by Dynamical Community Detection A new statistical test identifies groups of variables that are mutually coupled and can be represented in a causal graph as single, aggregated nodes, which allows the extraction of hierarchical struct...

Linear Scaling Causal Discovery from High-Dimensional Time Series by Dynamical Community Detection link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

Yo! I'm looking for examples of good political science articles that theoretically or engage with space/context/place.

Can you help me out?

If something can be destroyed by the truth, then let it - be it a person, a government, or an empire built on lies.

Advancing the psychology of social class with large-scale replications in four countries - Nature Human Behaviour Social class is assumed to be associated with many different individual outcomes and behaviours. This Registered Report aimed to replicate 35 key hypotheses from 17 correlational and 5 experimental st...

50% success.

LOL

This looks a must read for those interested in triple differences (DDD) designs.

It shows that the standard way many estimate DDD is wrong.

It shows why and gives you tools that work with covariates and staggered adoption.

Bonus: free R package.

arxiv.org/abs/2505.09942

Bioconductor and ggplot2 4.0.0: What’s Changing and How to Prepare – Bioconductor community blog Preparing for the upcoming update - key changes, potential breakages, and what developers and users can do

ggplot2 4.0.0 is coming soon, and is moving some of the internals from S3 to the new S7 OOP system. This is worth a read if you're developing packages with ggplot2 (bioconductor or otherwise) blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-0... #Rstats

🚨 Call for Papers – Deadline Extended!
Contribute to the Special Issue on Machine Learning in Geography – Challenges & Perspectives 🌍🤖

🔗 https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/announcement/view/1

#GeoAI #MachineLearning #Geography #CFP

A screenshot of the chapter

A screenshot of the chapter

A screenshot of the chapter

Chapter 11: Writing Geoalgorithms 💻🧩🔁

Focuses on developing reusable and reproducible code for spatial tasks in R. Demonstrates algorithm design using examples like calculating polygon centroids.

🔗 https://r.geocompx.org/algorithms

#rstats #rspatial #geocompx