John Holbein

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This new paper shows that when trust in baby formula collapsed in Israel in 2003, many new mothers chose breastfeeding over work.

Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap* Abstract. Does flexible pay increase the gender wage gap? To answer this question, we analyze the wages of public school teachers in Wisconsin, where a 201

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Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

Being homeless is brutal.

Even being sheltered doesn't close the heightened mortality risk that the homeless face.

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Homeless individuals face 3.5 times the mortality risk of the housed.

This difference survives a lot of observable controls.

What else do you notice in this figure?

especially if you're on the job market

I'm such an introvert that I (irrationally) thought I was the only one who did this

Your tone is making it sound like this paper shouldn't have been published because we already knew this. Is that your point?

The effect of publishing peer review reports on referee behavior in five scholarly journals - Nature Communications To increase transparency in science, some scholarly journals have begun publishing peer review reports. Here, the authors show how this policy shift affects reviewer behavior by analyzing data from fi...

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Can you guess what happened when Elsevier piloted publishing peer review reports?

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(Among other things) Bros tended to write more constructive reports.

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations"

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"Non-White scientists endure longer waiting times between the submission and acceptance of their manuscripts, and upon publication, their papers receive fewer citations than would be expected based on textual similarity."

Do Universities Improve Local Economic Resilience? Abstract. We use a novel identification strategy to investigate whether regional universities make their local economies more resilient. Our strategy is based on state governments using similar site-s...

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Universities help their communities offset the negative effects of recessions.

lol, the idea that I was smarter than anyone as a PhD student is very generous. :)

Undergraduate Gender Diversity and the Direction of Scientific Research (July 2025) - Can diversity lead to greater research focus on populations under-represented in science? Between 1960 and 1990, 76 all-male US universities transitioned to coeducation. Using a generali...

"Undergraduate Gender Diversity and the Direction of Scientific Research"

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When universities in the U.S. transitioned to co-ed, scientists--and especially male scientists--began writing a lot more about gender-related issues.

As women became a larger share of undergraduate student bodies in the United States over the course of the 20th century, research on gender-related topics increased in science as a direct result.

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This figure shows the percent of political science articles that at least have a reproduction archive. {a pretty low bar in and of itself, but still}

Steady improvement, but still a long way to go!

Many junior scholars struggle with managing a research pipeline.

So, academics: how do you do manage your pipeline?

How many projects are you working on at one time?

How do you know if you have too many/too few projects?

Other tips that you have?

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Wow.

Research findings with p-values marginally less than 0.05 attract 60 to 110% higher Altmetric scores than those with p-values marginally above 0.05.

p-hacking means more popular attention!

p-hacking FTW!

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