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Patrick Präg

@ppraeg.bsky.social

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I'm a sociologist working at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) I also have a website: patrickpraeg.com

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Abel Aussant @abelaussant.bsky.social · 8h

I'm excited to share my new paper: "What Do Culture Vouchers Really Buy? Evidence from France's ‘pass Culture’ Policy Effects" now published on SocArxiv. This research dives into a major cultural policy experiment.

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

#sociology #culturalpolicy #culturalconsumption

The image showcases the paper title and its abstract. You can read it in PDF format here: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/pmdvy_v1

The image report regression model results. It shows the net effect of ‘pass Culture’ grant spending on 12-month participation likelihood of several cultural practices. For a full description of the results, read section 7.2.2 in the linked article.

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Understanding Society @usociety.bsky.social · 8h

You can also listen direct on our website

Breathing unequal air in the UK - Understanding Society

Does pollution affect immigrant populations disproportionately?

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk

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Manuel Schechtl @schechtlm.bsky.social · 10h

Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · 13h

Das Wehrdienst-Losverfahren könnte mindestens eine Subvention für die deutsche Sozialwissenschaft sein

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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Iikka Korhonen, Dominique Meurs , and 3 more Richard S.J. Tol, Iikka Korhonen, Dominique Meurs, Patrick Präg, Samuel Coavoux, Pierre Boyer

undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 We economists at @crestumr.bsky.social IPParis are hiring🚨

We have 3 positions:
1 assistant prof in econometrics (ENSAE
1 assistant prof in Digital Economics and IO (Telecom)
1 assistant or associate, all fields (Polytechnique)

econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Please circulate! #econsky

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Reposted by Ingmar Weber, Bruno Arpino, Patrick Präg

Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · 20h

New @pnas.org paper constructing subnational estimates of internet and mobile adoption by gender, including gender gaps, for 117 low- and middle- income countries from 2015 through 2025.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mapping subnational gender gaps in internet and mobile adoption using social media data | PNAS

The digital revolution has ushered in many societal and economic benefits. Yet access to digital technologies such as mobile phones and internet re...

www.pnas.org

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Anica Waldendorf @awaldendorf.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to announce the launch of a new working group at Nuffield College, the Generative² Social Science Lab (co-organised with @pablogerbas.bsky.social). We will have our first meeting tomorrow at 11:00am, come join us! More details here: github.com/gen2socscila...

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The Generative² Social Science Lab is a collaborative research forum based at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. - gen2socscilab/Generative2-Social-Science-Lab

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Reposted by Michael H. Whitworth, Patrick Präg

The Record Deck 🛥🎵🎶 @therecorddeckuk.bsky.social · 4d

The floating record shop is open in Jericho, Oxford
Saturday, Sunday and Monday
11am to 5pm.
Pop down for a rummage
#vinylforsale
#canaltraders

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Reposted by Nicholas A. Christakis, Dave O’Brien, Erika Franklin Fowler , and 3 more Nicholas A. Christakis, Dave O’Brien, Erika Franklin Fowler, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Andrew L. Whitehead, Patrick Präg

Pat Hastings @ophastings.bsky.social · 5d

The GSS asked the same people about their childhood income rank three different times. 56% changed their answer, even though what was trying to be measured couldn’t change! We dig into this in a new article at @socialindicators.bsky.social.   

doi.org/10.1007/s112...

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Growing up Different(ly than Last Time We Asked): Social Status and Changing Reports of Childhood Income Rank - Social Indicators Research

How we remember our past can be shaped by the realities of our present. This study examines how changes to present circumstances influence retrospective reports of family income rank at age 16. While retrospective survey data can be used to assess the long-term effects of childhood conditions, present-day circumstances may “anchor” memories, causing shifts in how individuals recall and report past experiences. Using panel data from the 2006–2014 General Social Surveys (8,602 observations from 2,883 individuals in the United States), we analyze how changes in objective and subjective indicators of current social status—income, financial satisfaction, and perceived income relative to others—are associated with changes in reports of childhood income rank, and how this varies by sex and race/ethnicity. Fixed-effects models reveal no significant association between changes in income and in childhood income rank. However, changes in subjective measures of social status show contrasting effects, as increases in current financial satisfaction are associated with decreases in childhood income rank, but increases in current perceived relative income are associated with increases in childhood income rank. We argue these opposing effects follow from theories of anchoring in recall bias. We further find these effects are stronger among males but are consistent across racial/ethnic groups. This demographic heterogeneity suggests that recall bias is not evenly distributed across the population and has important implications for how different groups perceive their own pasts. Our findings further highlight the malleability of retrospective perceptions and their sensitivity to current social conditions, offering methodological insights into survey reliability and recall bias.

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · 6d

interesting paper by @benjaminarold.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social and Larissa Zirold in the effect of mandatory religious education Germany using NEPS, ALLBUS, and SOEP data jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl...

Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?

We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in model...

jhr.uwpress.org

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 7d

New APSR sure to spark discussion argues:

Confederate monuments actually reduced violence against Black people historically & that their recent removals have increased anti-Black hate crimes

Monuments "act as a substitute for performative violence in constructing a white supremacist social order"

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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 7d

Synthetic non-parametric UKB phenotypes straight from an R package. It pulls all the required summary data from the UKB website.. Somewhat tempted to go totally overboad and have it simulate synthetic genomes, with plausible SNP h2's and "real" top hits (which i'd pull from GWAS cat & nealelab)..

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 New paper in @sfjournal.bsky.social: Blending In or Moving On? @enlar.bsky.social @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, and I study how the share of immigrant coworkers affects whether immigrants stay or leave their job. Here’s what we find 👇

Link to paper: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

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Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Patrick Präg

Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 7d

Join us at INET Oxford (@inetoxford.bsky.social)! I'm hiring one post-doctoral researcher and three research assistants in the field of inequality, social policy, and social mobility to join our research team. Deadline: October 24. Read more and apply: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Vacancies

Jobs and Vacancies at INET Oxford, The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

www.inet.ox.ac.uk

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 9d

A study of over 500,000 Brits and Australians finds that people who never have sex are more educated, less likely to use alcohol and smoke, more nervous, lonelier, and unhappier. Regions with high income inequality had more sexless residents. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Phenotypic associations of sexlessness with health, psychological, and behavioral outcomes.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 9d

New policy at SocArXiv: We now require the submitting author to have an ORCID linked from the OSF profile page, with a name that matches that on the paper and the OSF account.
@orcid.org @cos.io
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Reposted by Philip N. Cohen, Rebecca Sear, Cameron Campbell , and 4 more Philip N. Cohen, Rebecca Sear, Cameron Campbell, Valerie Mueller, Patrick Präg, Alice Reid, David W. Lawson

Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS

There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

www.pnas.org

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Reposted by Richard McElreath, Gordon Hodson, Martin Tomko , and 2 more Richard McElreath, Gordon Hodson, Martin Tomko, Barrett, Patrick Präg

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 9d

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

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Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Pierre Bataille, Étienne Ollion , and 6 more Samuel L. Perry, Pierre Bataille, Étienne Ollion, Patrick Präg, Baptiste Coulmont, Xavier Molénat, Eugene McCann, Southern Africa, David W. Lawson

Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 12d

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 13d

Missing data means AI will be as dumb as we are?

Interesting paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.12388

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N. T. Rinders @rinders.bsky.social · 13d

Dieses Drama bei den Amis ist nicht mehr zu ertragen wir brauchen jetzt erstmal eine Notregierung des woken US-Militärs mit geistigem Beistand des woken US-Papstes

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 14d

TOMORROW 12 NOON Paris time: CREST Sociology seminar by @sungju.bsky.social: "The Paradox of Place: How Emotional Connections Shape Community Responses to Flood Risks"

In person at ENSAE or on-line on Zoom!

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 14d

Oh wow could this (mutatis mutandis) also apply to European sociology

Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · 14d

Totally agree with the diagnosis, not sure about the suggestion of the two track system. it might create weird selection and sorting.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...

we should change the reward and publication system.

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Reposted by Diane Coyle, Caroline Krafft, Scott A. Imberman , and 1 more Diane Coyle, Caroline Krafft, Scott A. Imberman, Patrick Präg

Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · 14d

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 15d

good openly accessible qualitative interview question response transcript datasets?

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 15d

Any submission rule we make will be ingested by LLMs and used to make AI slop submissions that comply. However, it is helpful for us when authors accidentally leave in the ChatGPT comments.

Please take such work elsewhere.

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · 16d

Interesting paper on teacher bias by student SES www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Teacher bias by student SES or measurement error in ability? A cautionary tale for observational studies

Teachers act as judges of academic merit, but unfair evaluations beyond students' true abilities may perpetuate inequality based on socioeconomic stat…

www.sciencedirect.com

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