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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 14h

WE'RE HIRING!

The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING

I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions

Please share widely!

Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social · 19h

Just sayin' 😉

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

With 4 econ hist prizes in a row they should give it to Steve Ruggles already and get it over with

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 1d

Economists! We’re hiring an assistant professor who focuses on domestic labor or public economics. The Humphrey School is wonderful and Minneapolis is the best city ever in my humble opinion.

More details here:
hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Job Description
Assistant Professor
About the Job
The Humphrey School of Public Affairs seeks applications for a full-time, tenure track faculty position at the assistant professor or advanced assistant professor level in social policy with a field of specialization in the domestic (U.S.) applied policy areas of labor or public economics. The faculty member will join a vibrant community of interdisciplinary scholars at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and support graduate students pursuing the Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) and other master's-level professional degree programs, and the Ph.D. in Public Affairs program.
Successful candidates must demonstrate the potential to develop an innovative and socially impactful research portfolio that addresses contemporary questions related to social policy.

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Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 1d

P<.05, obviously.

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 1d

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.

It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets.

Thread 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Thomas Davidson @thomasdavidson.bsky.social · 5d

There is one week left to apply to join us at Rutgers! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Sociology as part of a cluster of new hires in data science and AI.

Applications are due next Wednesday, 10/15.

Assistant Professor in Computational Sociology

The Department of Sociology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, seeks applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level specializing in Computational Sociology. The search i...

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Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 7d

I resent this! 🤣🤣

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Paul Quelle-Horreur 😱🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 11d

Interview with @epopppp.bsky.social that clarifies what it might mean to reject what she calls "the economic style of reasoning". In the 2nd answer below, she describes deontology as it's usually thought of in ethics these days: as the view that consequences aren't the *only* thing that matter.

DA: You argue that particular forms of expertise carry implicit theories of policies within them. What
is the implicit theory of policy in economic expertise?
EPB: The economic style has some values, epistemological positions and a theory of politics attached to it. Your question prompts me to spell these out a little more explicitly than I do in the book. First, the economic style of reasoning prioritizes consequentialist over deontological values. Economics is all about tradeoffs, not absolutes. So, any time we say something is a right we should protect regardless of cost, or that we want to limit the concentration of economic power, not because of any direct effects, but simply because we think that is a good thing-well, that conflicts with the economic style of reasoning. You can see this kind of conflict happen, for example, when people with disabilities are given the right to access public transportation. Well, it turns out that the cost of making the New York subways wheelchair-accessible is billions of dollars. If a policy is rights-based, you have to do it regardless; economic logic would dictate otherwise.

Is the economic style of reasoning not just about taking the reality of limited resources into account?
Could any policy goal not be attained in a more or less efficient manner?
This is a really good question, because I would never say that we shouldn't consider tradeoffs or try to increase efficiency. I don't think the problem is considering efficiency per se. But there are a couple of issues here.
One is recognizing efficiency as one value among many, and not just giving it top billing by default.
Maybe we do think that some universal benefits are so important that we should just pay for them because that's the kind of society we want to live in, even if that's less efficient. I mean, we pay for everyone to have K-12 [from kindergarten to 12" grade] education in the U.S., even though many families could afford to pay for their children's education themselves. That doesn't mean you don't recognize the cost at some level. It just means that you don't see formal cost-effectiveness as a sort of trump card that trounces everything else.

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NBER @nber.org · 14d

Studying a survey of Danish mothers' pre-birth beliefs about how their career will unfold finds they accurately anticipate their eventual return to work but underestimate the duration of the career interruption, from Andrew Caplin, Søren Leth-Petersen, and Chris... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34289

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 15d

Of you've never seen it, La Operación, classic 1982 documentary, is on youtube:
youtu.be/cGeustqUI78

La Operacion (English)

YouTube video by Pretzel!

youtu.be

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Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 15d

This is the “how many times can you cite yourself “ challenge

Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 15d

Money I don’t have but hey

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Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 15d

Damn I wish I was still going to be around in 2139 I would bet them soooo much money on how wrong they are

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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 15d

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 16d

NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social

Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr

Research on fertility and families enhanced with new harmonised cohort data | CLS

Harmonised data on the fertility histories of four British cohorts are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service.

bit.ly

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 16d

Study on maternal (ethnic and socioeconomic) characteristics and child mortality in the UK. The study uses linkage of the 2011 census with birth and death registrations.

Educational differences, heightened risk of unemployed & Pakistani mothers stand out.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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NBER @nber.org · 15d

Electric vehicle adoption reduces air pollution and improves infant health, lowering rates of very low birth weight, prematurity, and child asthma, from Cavit Baran, Janet Currie, Bahadir Dursun, and Erdal Tekin https://www.nber.org/papers/w34278

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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 18d

So grateful for this support from the amazing @dianeravitch.bsky.social
We’re SO CLOSE to our end-of-quarter fundraising goal. Please consider chipping in too! 👇

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Josh Cowen Is Running for Congress as a Champion for Public Schools!

You may have read about Josh Cowen . He’s a professor of Education Policy at Michigan State University. For twenty years, he worked on voucher research, hoping to find definitive evidence tha…

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Neal Caren @haphazardsoc.bsky.social · 18d

Carolina Sociology is hiring!

• Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods
• Open rank in population health.

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Assistant Professor

This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · Sep 8

This new study shows: in Germany, it has become much harder for children to earn more than their parents, now about as hard as in the US: "parental income has become much more important for educational outcomes of children"

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UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social · 20d

“People should not be concerned about the U.S. population into the future.”

PBS News Hour interviewed Nicholas Mark about the pronatalism movement encouraging Americans to have more children. @pbsnews.org @nickdemark.bsky.social

A look inside the pronatalism movement encouraging Americans to have more children

The U.S. fertility rate reached an all-time low in 2024, according to the CDC. This trend has sparked fear among many on the right, from Elon Musk to Donald Trump, who believe Americans should have mo...

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Taylor Odle @taylorodle.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 Come join us in Ed Policy at @uwmadison.bsky.social! We're hiring an Asst/Assoc Prof studying the intersection of education and the environment. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant or Associate Professor in Educational Policy Studies - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · 25d

Recruiting for a new study on men’s sexual health experiences! Please share :)

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Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 22d

Pretty soon we will be back to calling them “confinements”

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Laura Lindberg @lauralindberg.bsky.social · 22d

Shouldn’t compare the 2022-2023 NSFG to prior waves: indeed, NCHS no longer provides the weights needed to test for change over time correctly

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