David Brady
@davebrady72.bsky.social
Public policy professor, Price School USC @priceschool.usc.edu, father, poverty/social policy/racial inequality/immigration/policymakers, posts do not speak for employer, https://bradydave.wordpress.com
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David Brady
@davebrady72.bsky.social
· Oct 26
The Increase in Refugees to Germany and Exclusionary Beliefs and Behaviors1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 3
In 2015–16, Germany experienced a rapid and controversial increase in refugees that varied substantially across German districts. This increase provides unique leverage for analyzing how fractionaliza...
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More than 1 million refugees migrated to Germany in 2015-2016.
How did this affect Germans’ exclusionary beliefs & behaviors?
New at American Journal of Sociology w/Giesselmann & @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social
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How did this affect Germans’ exclusionary beliefs & behaviors?
New at American Journal of Sociology w/Giesselmann & @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
In @latimes.com: “For the fiscal year 2024…UCLA reported $8.35 million in football ticket sales…and just $738,373 in revenue from game programs, novelties, parking and food and concessions.”
College football OFTEN does NOT making nearly as much $ as it spends.
www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/...
College football OFTEN does NOT making nearly as much $ as it spends.
www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/...
UCLA Unlocked: See you at SoFi? A stadium switch could come as soon as 2026
It's not a done deal yet, but the Bruins could abandon the Rose Bowl for SoFi Stadium as soon as next season.
www.latimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In @latimes.com: “For the fiscal year 2024…UCLA reported $8.35 million in football ticket sales…and just $738,373 in revenue from game programs, novelties, parking and food and concessions.”
College football OFTEN does NOT making nearly as much $ as it spends.
www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/...
College football OFTEN does NOT making nearly as much $ as it spends.
www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/...
Interesting discussion on causality by @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social including our paper joint necessity of external, internal and construct validity:
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Inequality Readers. Generally, My Best Guess
IBE, in y.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Interesting discussion on causality by @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social including our paper joint necessity of external, internal and construct validity:
substack.com/@asocial/not...
substack.com/@asocial/not...
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So much to say about Nancy Pelosi, now retiring
Plausibly the most effective House leader of modern times
A telling episode, from early 2010 when Democrats were *this* close to giving up on what eventually became the ACA
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Plausibly the most effective House leader of modern times
A telling episode, from early 2010 when Democrats were *this* close to giving up on what eventually became the ACA
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
So much to say about Nancy Pelosi, now retiring
Plausibly the most effective House leader of modern times
A telling episode, from early 2010 when Democrats were *this* close to giving up on what eventually became the ACA
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Plausibly the most effective House leader of modern times
A telling episode, from early 2010 when Democrats were *this* close to giving up on what eventually became the ACA
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
This new trick in Economics of pretending almost everything everyone defines as the welfare state is not the welfare state…and then declaring PRE-distribution not redistribution drives inequality is not intellectually serious.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/10/26/d...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/10/26/d...
Do Predistribution People Know How to Read?
How many times will they fall for the same exact measurement tricks?
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November 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This new trick in Economics of pretending almost everything everyone defines as the welfare state is not the welfare state…and then declaring PRE-distribution not redistribution drives inequality is not intellectually serious.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/10/26/d...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/10/26/d...
Russ Roberts’ “Econ Talk” is one of the most interesting podcasts.
This episode with @davidbessis.bsky.social is truly fascinating.
It got me thinking we should train students to think of research as “a dialogue between intuition and evidence.”
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This episode with @davidbessis.bsky.social is truly fascinating.
It got me thinking we should train students to think of research as “a dialogue between intuition and evidence.”
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis)
Podcast Episode · EconTalk · 10/27/2025 · 1h 22m
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November 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Russ Roberts’ “Econ Talk” is one of the most interesting podcasts.
This episode with @davidbessis.bsky.social is truly fascinating.
It got me thinking we should train students to think of research as “a dialogue between intuition and evidence.”
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
This episode with @davidbessis.bsky.social is truly fascinating.
It got me thinking we should train students to think of research as “a dialogue between intuition and evidence.”
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
I feel this: “The reason I have no hope for my own team is that the man who owns the franchise will never try hard enough to reach the World Series. But after what happened to the Blue Jays, I see a silver lining: There are worse things than hopelessness.”
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
The World Series Outcome Was Astonishing—and, Frankly, Obscene
The Los Angeles Dodgers had so many dumb things go right at the exact right moment.
slate.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I feel this: “The reason I have no hope for my own team is that the man who owns the franchise will never try hard enough to reach the World Series. But after what happened to the Blue Jays, I see a silver lining: There are worse things than hopelessness.”
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
This Colin Sheridan is one helluva writer.
November 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This Colin Sheridan is one helluva writer.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college–noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college–noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Interesting episode in politics of data sharing in state welfare programs. Efforts to reduce administrative burdens & increase access led to unanticipated challenges.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
The feds want to know more about the people on food stamps. How Newsom responded
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 593 by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, a Democrat from Oakland, that forbids state and local departments from sharing sensitive personal data to increase food stamp ...
www.latimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Interesting episode in politics of data sharing in state welfare programs. Efforts to reduce administrative burdens & increase access led to unanticipated challenges.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Every time I try to explain to a normie why politicized hiring is bad for universities or government, will use Belichick as an example
just catching up on Bill Belichick’s disastrous year as UNC coach and discovering the exact mechanics of how he secured the job. www.theringer.com/2025/10/31/c...
November 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Every time I try to explain to a normie why politicized hiring is bad for universities or government, will use Belichick as an example
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Another step in the de-professionalization and politicization of DOD.
"The head of an office that helps organize technical research and disburse billions of dollars for the Navy is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGEr with no apparent naval experience."
www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...
"The head of an office that helps organize technical research and disburse billions of dollars for the Navy is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGEr with no apparent naval experience."
www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...
SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr
The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.
www.thebulwark.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Another step in the de-professionalization and politicization of DOD.
"The head of an office that helps organize technical research and disburse billions of dollars for the Navy is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGEr with no apparent naval experience."
www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...
"The head of an office that helps organize technical research and disburse billions of dollars for the Navy is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGEr with no apparent naval experience."
www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...
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May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
October 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
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Sociologists are far behind economists and political scientists when it comes to sharing data and code, as @jeremyfreese.bsky.social wrote nearly 20 years ago. Alas, there has been little change since then, especially in flagship @asanews.bsky.social journals.
boydetective.net/docs/freese-...
boydetective.net/docs/freese-...
boydetective.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Sociologists are far behind economists and political scientists when it comes to sharing data and code, as @jeremyfreese.bsky.social wrote nearly 20 years ago. Alas, there has been little change since then, especially in flagship @asanews.bsky.social journals.
boydetective.net/docs/freese-...
boydetective.net/docs/freese-...
Clarifying and useful explainer on theories of egalitarianism. And why that equality vs equity meme is lame:
substack.com/@josephheath...
substack.com/@josephheath...
Why philosophers hate that ‘equity’ meme
If you want to annoy your favorite philosopher, one of the best ways to do it these days is to mention the “kids standing on boxes equity meme.” To call it the bane of our existence would be something...
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October 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Clarifying and useful explainer on theories of egalitarianism. And why that equality vs equity meme is lame:
substack.com/@josephheath...
substack.com/@josephheath...
Am I the only Indiana University alumnus that finds it very unusual that IU football has become this power house? They’re steamrolling UCLA and going to be 8-0. It’s wild.
October 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Am I the only Indiana University alumnus that finds it very unusual that IU football has become this power house? They’re steamrolling UCLA and going to be 8-0. It’s wild.
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California is readying a one-time 5% tax on billionaires for the 2026 ballot that would go toward compensating for Trump's Medicaid cuts. The architects see it as a national model.
It will be announced today.
It will be announced today.
October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
California is readying a one-time 5% tax on billionaires for the 2026 ballot that would go toward compensating for Trump's Medicaid cuts. The architects see it as a national model.
It will be announced today.
It will be announced today.
Really excited to see Tom Mueller’s new book _The Case for Rural America_.
uncpress.org/978146969151...
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uncpress.org/978146969151...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Really excited to see Tom Mueller’s new book _The Case for Rural America_.
uncpress.org/978146969151...
uncpress-us-new.imgix.net/covers/97814...
uncpress.org/978146969151...
uncpress-us-new.imgix.net/covers/97814...
The cost of health insurance rose steeply for a third year in a row in 2025, reaching just under $27,000 for a family plan, according to an annual survey
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
The Average Cost of a Family Health Insurance Plan Is Now $27,000
Higher spending on chronic diseases, weight-loss drugs and hospital bills helped drive the increase.
www.wsj.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The cost of health insurance rose steeply for a third year in a row in 2025, reaching just under $27,000 for a family plan, according to an annual survey
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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University of Arizona rejects the compact:
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://president.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/Suresh-Garimella-to-Sec-Linda-McMahon.pdf
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://president.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/Suresh-Garimella-to-Sec-Linda-McMahon.pdf
October 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
University of Arizona rejects the compact:
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://president.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/Suresh-Garimella-to-Sec-Linda-McMahon.pdf
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://president.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/Suresh-Garimella-to-Sec-Linda-McMahon.pdf
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In the middle of a shutdown, NIH appointed a new head for its institute on environmental health sciences. The new NIEHS director, Kyle Walsh, is a Duke neurosurgeon who studies glial cells. He also calls VP JD Vance, who officiated his wedding, one of his closest friends.
October 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
In the middle of a shutdown, NIH appointed a new head for its institute on environmental health sciences. The new NIEHS director, Kyle Walsh, is a Duke neurosurgeon who studies glial cells. He also calls VP JD Vance, who officiated his wedding, one of his closest friends.
These scholars Hernandez & Laird have built a compelling body of evidence & powerful framework for understanding & affecting energy poverty. Really looking forward to reading their new book.
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IRP Book Talk: Diana Hernandez and Jennifer Laird on Energy Insecurity
Podcast Episode · Poverty Research & Policy · 10/14/2025 · 41m
podcasts.apple.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
These scholars Hernandez & Laird have built a compelling body of evidence & powerful framework for understanding & affecting energy poverty. Really looking forward to reading their new book.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula is really the best at explaining the opioid crisis. Every time she talks on the issue, you gain a significantly deeper understanding. Strong recommend this episode and even this entire really good podcast series.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
The Changing Nature of the Opioid Crisis
Podcast Episode · PricePod - Public Policy Conversations · 10/01/2025 · 43m
podcasts.apple.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula is really the best at explaining the opioid crisis. Every time she talks on the issue, you gain a significantly deeper understanding. Strong recommend this episode and even this entire really good podcast series.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...