Jan Mewes

And don’t even think about qualitative interview studies 😬

I ran a simple model with new public data then used 1 prompt to make ChatGPT guess what the model would produce. With 10 seconds of "thinking," it was very close. The implications of this are catastrophic. The American Sociological Association should do something about this but it doesn't care to
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Schweden wäre so ein negatives Beispiel wo Einkommen noch stärker und Vermögen noch weniger (so gut wie gar nicht) als in D besteuert wird. Mit der Folge dass die Vermögensverteilung in ihrer Ungleichheit nur von den USA überboten wird. Allerdings sind die staatlichen Finanzen (noch) gut

I only use it for code review. Especially when the code has an error. 😵‍💫Would absolutely not give access to data, let alone personal data

Migrant rent penalties in the German housing market Abstract. We investigate whether migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics using nationally representative data from the 2018 German Microcensus. The d...

For a change, something we made ourselves: Together with my colleagues Tobias Roth, Andreas Horr, and @nataliebackes.bsky.social, we examined ethnic rent penalties. Do migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics? direct.mit.edu/euso/article...

We spent months training grad student RAs and GPT-5 mini still beat them by a lot

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Compared with a year ago, White Protestants and religiously unaffiliated adults now have significantly less confidence that Trump acts ethically in office. For example, 26% of White nonevangelical Protestants are extremely or very confident Trump acts ethically in office, down from 38%. And the share of religious “nones” who have a lot of confidence in Trump’s ethics now stands at 10%, down from 16%. Confidence in Trump’s ethics has remained low among Black Protestants.

Extremely or very confident Donald Trump acts ethically in office
White evangelicals 40%
US adult avg. 21%
Unaffiliated 10%
Black Protestants 7%
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/09/white-evangelicals-remain-among-trumps-strongest-supporters-but-theyre-less-supportive-than-a-year-ago/

In the Portuguese presidential election, very clear victory of the centre-left candidate Segura against the radical right Ventura.

But, but, the headlines said the effects occurred overnight and were so positive that Australian parents hardly recognised their sullen teens?

Figure 1 from the paper. Econ: from 2008 to 2024, methods aiming for causal inference have increased, theoretical work has decreased. Psych: Mostly experimental or descriptive correlational work.

Just learned about this study looking at methodological trends in psych and econ over time: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art....

Matches my perception well: Nobody in psych bothers to (explicitly) try causal inference unless they conducted an experiment, not a lot of theoretical work either.

ICE agents to 'support' US security at Winter Olympics in Italy, sparking anger Agents from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) force will support US security operations at the Winter Olympics in Italy in February, the organisation said on Tuesday, sparking anger fro...

Insane! At all levels, really. First of all, they have nothing to do outside of the U.S. Second, they are among the worst-trained of the dozens of security and law enforcement services the U.S. has.

What this shows, however, is that the Trump Administration sees ICE as its personal military.

Am 12. Januar 2026 ist Matthias Koenig gestorben. In einem Nachruf würdigt Monika Wohlrab-Sahr den Soziologen als integeren Menschen und akribischen Wissenschaftler, der hochgradig normative Fragen mit Herzblut und analytischer Distanz zu behandeln verstand.

www.soziopolis.de/matthias-koe...

An experimental study on institutions and social norms of tax payment Abstract. The production of public goods, which are fundamental to well-functioning societies, requires the payment of taxes, but taxpayers have clear ince

New OA In ESR

How do institutions and social norms affect tax payment?
@lucaspasin.bsky.social #Aaszekely @squazzoni.bsky.social find that in low-quality institutions contexts, social norms can trigger vicious cycles of evasion, even when evasion is socially disapproved
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf057

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Do generous welfare policies foster political trust? Matthijs Gillissen, @silkegoubin.bsky.social & Anna Ruelens examine the long-term effects of welfare generosity on trust in political institutions. Read more:
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@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

A Research Agenda for Political Trust ‘Low trust in government provides the fuel for democratic backsliding. There is no more important topic for scholars to confront. This volume is invaluable because it provides important insights on tr...

Out now:
*A Research Agenda for Political Trust*

This excellent collection of papers points out future directions for political trust research: the unanswered questions, problems, promising theoretical pathways, and methodological innovations.
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And: it's open access!

Grattis till din nya stilling! Lycka till :)

Førsteamanuensis i statsvitenskap (292199) | UiT Norges arktiske universitet Stillingstittel: Førsteamanuensis i statsvitenskap (292199), Arbeidsgiver: UiT Norges arktiske universitet, Søknadsfrist: mandag 9. februar 2026

Siden jeg nå har gått over til rektoratet er min gamle stilling ledig. Det er en fantastisk fin jobb med gode kollegaer på et av de beste universitetene man kan jobbe på. Løp og søk!! www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

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The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.

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In a future without immigrants...

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

The foreign policy of a personalist dictatorship. There are no constraints.

An old favourite - “I never truly feel the Christmas spirit until I see the "Tony Blair being held back from attacking you in the pub" card”

Liebe Soziologiebubble, die ZTS lädt ein zum
Schwerpunkt 100 Jahre Niklas Luhmann. Wir freuen uns, wenn Ihr den Call teilen mögt.

Another update on American Sociological Review’s failure to meet current social science standards In the most recent volume, two-thirds of papers based on quantitative analysis provided replication packages.

Two-thirds of quantitative articles in the latest volume of American Sociological Review provide at least their code and a link to the data, which is progress over past years but still very bad.

DN Debatt. ”Fast i fattigdom? Du är inte ensam – allt färre klättrar i inkomst” Från 1990-talet och fram till 2011 hade människor med låga inkomster allt större möjligheter att röra sig uppåt, även om inkomstklyftorna…

Idag: släpp av ESO-rapport om individuell inkomströrlighet. Läs debattartikeln om hur den ändrats sedan 1991 här:
www.dn.se/debatt/fast-...

A good question.

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On the (Mis) Use of the Fixed Effects Estimator Data that span multiple units and time periods allow controlling for time-invariant heterogeneity correlated with the covariates. While researchers can do this in different ways, the fixed effects es....

"On the (Mis) Use of the Fixed Effects Estimator"

(by @dlmillimet.bsky.social and Marc F. Bellemare)

published in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...