Olivier Godechot
@oliviergodechot.bsky.social
Social scientist
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New article "Stressful discrimination: two field experiments on social interaction" by Martin Aranguren shows that stressful discrimination is a mechanism that includes but is more encompassing than perceived discrimination (the focus of most research in the area).
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Stressful discrimination: two field experiments on social interaction
Abstract. Interactional incidents are a common object of survey studies on perceived discrimination and of field experiments on discrimination in social in
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November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New article "Stressful discrimination: two field experiments on social interaction" by Martin Aranguren shows that stressful discrimination is a mechanism that includes but is more encompassing than perceived discrimination (the focus of most research in the area).
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En analysant près de 8 000 recrutements à la maîtrise de conférences en France entre 2017 et 2024, Olivier Godechot, Rachel Issiakou, Yann Renisio et Adrien Rougier reviennent sur la question ancienne et controversée du localisme académique.
Le localisme universitaire, nouvelles évaluations
En analysant près de 8 000 recrutements à la maîtrise de conférences en France entre 2017 et 2024, Olivier Godechot, Rachel Issiakou, Yann Renisio et Adrien Rougier reviennent sur la question ancienne et controversée du localisme académique.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
En analysant près de 8 000 recrutements à la maîtrise de conférences en France entre 2017 et 2024, Olivier Godechot, Rachel Issiakou, Yann Renisio et Adrien Rougier reviennent sur la question ancienne et controversée du localisme académique.
The AxPo Observatory on Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po is offering a 2-year postdoctoral position focusing on socioeconomic polarization and fragmentation.
Ph.Ds in sociology, economics, political science, and related fields are encouraged to apply.
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Ph.Ds in sociology, economics, political science, and related fields are encouraged to apply.
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Call for Applications for Postdoctoral Research Position
Call for Applications for Postdoctoral Research Position at the AxPo Observatory of Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po, Paris, FranceGeneral informationPosition Definition: Post-doctoral resea...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The AxPo Observatory on Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po is offering a 2-year postdoctoral position focusing on socioeconomic polarization and fragmentation.
Ph.Ds in sociology, economics, political science, and related fields are encouraged to apply.
www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/applica...
Ph.Ds in sociology, economics, political science, and related fields are encouraged to apply.
www.sciencespo.fr/axpo/applica...
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Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol. Come hear a fascinating talk on the new book by Sanyu Mojola Monday November 17 at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social and the Urban School of @sciencespo.bsky.social. @ucpress.bsky.social
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Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol
CRIS Lectures: book talk with Sanyu A. Mojola - Death by Design Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol
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November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol. Come hear a fascinating talk on the new book by Sanyu Mojola Monday November 17 at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social and the Urban School of @sciencespo.bsky.social. @ucpress.bsky.social
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
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Si ça ne crée pas un scandale d’Etat, c’est qu’on ne vit pas en démocratie.
Mediapart et « Libération » révèlent des images inédites du 25 mars 2023. Elles montrent des consignes prohibées et dangereuses données par la hiérarchie.
Enquête vidéo de @camillepolloni.bsky.social et @laurawoj1.bsky.social 👉 www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Enquête vidéo de @camillepolloni.bsky.social et @laurawoj1.bsky.social 👉 www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Si ça ne crée pas un scandale d’Etat, c’est qu’on ne vit pas en démocratie.
Quand les hedge funds imposent aux milliardaires des frais de gestion 2/20 (2% annuel des actifs sous mandat, 20% des profits), c'est de la juste rétribution de la création de valeur. Mais si c'est l'État, avec la taxe dite 'Zucman' (2/0), c'est du bolchévisme sanguinaire...
October 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Quand les hedge funds imposent aux milliardaires des frais de gestion 2/20 (2% annuel des actifs sous mandat, 20% des profits), c'est de la juste rétribution de la création de valeur. Mais si c'est l'État, avec la taxe dite 'Zucman' (2/0), c'est du bolchévisme sanguinaire...
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✨CREST Sociology is hiring ✨
Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology
Details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le
Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology
Details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le
October 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
✨CREST Sociology is hiring ✨
Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology
Details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le
Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology
Details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le
It seems that machines learned to solve the unsolvable age-time-cohort decomposition...
A new approach to handling the age-time-cohort problem based on proxy variables and machine learning, from David Bruns-Smith, Emi Nakamura, and Jón Steinsson www.nber.org/papers/w34380
October 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It seems that machines learned to solve the unsolvable age-time-cohort decomposition...
Macron invente le remaniement premier ministériel.
October 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Macron invente le remaniement premier ministériel.
La féminisation marche mieux que le neutre.
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(D'où peut-être un argument en faveur du féminin générique italisé : olivier.godechot.free.fr/hoparticle.p...)
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(D'où peut-être un argument en faveur du féminin générique italisé : olivier.godechot.free.fr/hoparticle.p...)
L’écriture inclusive, une arme contre les stéréotypes de genre
Une étude montre que les formulations d’écriture inclusive rendant visibles à la fois le masculin et le féminin – comme « étudiants et étudiantes » – sont les plus efficaces pour réduire les stéréotyp...
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September 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
La féminisation marche mieux que le neutre.
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(D'où peut-être un argument en faveur du féminin générique italisé : olivier.godechot.free.fr/hoparticle.p...)
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(D'où peut-être un argument en faveur du féminin générique italisé : olivier.godechot.free.fr/hoparticle.p...)
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We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗
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Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
September 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
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Reposting with correct link! sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
September 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Reposting with correct link! sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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Today marks the end of my fellowship at AxPo @sciencespo.bsky.social. Grateful for the freedom to pursue my research and for the brilliant colleagues who made this journey so rewarding. In particular @oliviergodechot.bsky.social, Allison Rovny, Noam Titelman, Ulysse Lojkine, Meryem Bezzaz.
August 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Today marks the end of my fellowship at AxPo @sciencespo.bsky.social. Grateful for the freedom to pursue my research and for the brilliant colleagues who made this journey so rewarding. In particular @oliviergodechot.bsky.social, Allison Rovny, Noam Titelman, Ulysse Lojkine, Meryem Bezzaz.
In the midst of the summer torpor, our paper with @msafi.bsky.social and Matthew Soener, “Organizational Intersectionality” was finally published at @wesjnl.bsky.social .
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August 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
In the midst of the summer torpor, our paper with @msafi.bsky.social and Matthew Soener, “Organizational Intersectionality” was finally published at @wesjnl.bsky.social .
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Romain Huret annonce le décès d’Éric Brian (www.linkedin.com/posts/romain...). C’est une grande perte. Connu pour son caractère bien trempé, Éric Brian etait d’une très grande générosité intellectuelle
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August 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Romain Huret annonce le décès d’Éric Brian (www.linkedin.com/posts/romain...). C’est une grande perte. Connu pour son caractère bien trempé, Éric Brian etait d’une très grande générosité intellectuelle
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One year after its publication in AJS, our article, the "Great Separation", follows its route. We were lucky, honored and deligthed to receive:
- the RC28 Significant Scholarship Award 2025 on august 5th
- the AJS Gould Prize on august 9th (www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ajs...)
- the RC28 Significant Scholarship Award 2025 on august 5th
- the AJS Gould Prize on august 9th (www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ajs...)
It’s there ! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... . With a little work (9 years), some data points (1 billion +) from a handful of OECD countries (12) during a couple of years (30) and a few coauthors (28: 1/n
The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 2
Earnings segregation at work is an understudied topic in social science, despite the workplace being an everyday nexus for social mixing, cohesion, contact, claims making, and resource exchange. It is...
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August 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
One year after its publication in AJS, our article, the "Great Separation", follows its route. We were lucky, honored and deligthed to receive:
- the RC28 Significant Scholarship Award 2025 on august 5th
- the AJS Gould Prize on august 9th (www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ajs...)
- the RC28 Significant Scholarship Award 2025 on august 5th
- the AJS Gould Prize on august 9th (www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ajs...)
Michel Callon passed away July 28th. Following Latour, he narrowed down the performativity of science program to a domain where it was reasonable: economics. He was also a generous and open-minded mentor to a whole generation of economic sociologists.
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August 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Michel Callon passed away July 28th. Following Latour, he narrowed down the performativity of science program to a domain where it was reasonable: economics. He was also a generous and open-minded mentor to a whole generation of economic sociologists.
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu?fbclid=IwY2x...
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Je suis triste ce soir d’apprendre la mort de Michel Callon, que j’ai commencé à lire au mitan des années 1980, en même temps que son ami et co-auteur Bruno Latour. Quel choc ce fut, en 1986, de lire son article (devenu célèbre) sur les coquilles Saint-Jacques dans la baie de Saint-Brieuc…
August 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Je suis triste ce soir d’apprendre la mort de Michel Callon, que j’ai commencé à lire au mitan des années 1980, en même temps que son ami et co-auteur Bruno Latour. Quel choc ce fut, en 1986, de lire son article (devenu célèbre) sur les coquilles Saint-Jacques dans la baie de Saint-Brieuc…
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As @oliviergodechot.bsky.social notes, in some ways this could be seen as an example of "big" science:
coauthors: 29
years it took: 9
countries: 12
pages (w/ appendices): 111
observations: 1,164,687,821
But it can be summarized in one 5-word sentence: Top earners increasingly work together. PERIOD.
coauthors: 29
years it took: 9
countries: 12
pages (w/ appendices): 111
observations: 1,164,687,821
But it can be summarized in one 5-word sentence: Top earners increasingly work together. PERIOD.
August 7, 2025 at 5:10 AM
As @oliviergodechot.bsky.social notes, in some ways this could be seen as an example of "big" science:
coauthors: 29
years it took: 9
countries: 12
pages (w/ appendices): 111
observations: 1,164,687,821
But it can be summarized in one 5-word sentence: Top earners increasingly work together. PERIOD.
coauthors: 29
years it took: 9
countries: 12
pages (w/ appendices): 111
observations: 1,164,687,821
But it can be summarized in one 5-word sentence: Top earners increasingly work together. PERIOD.
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So excited to receive this award on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and 27 other coauthors!
Congrats to @andrewpenner.bsky.social and a host of co-authors on winning the award for significant scholarship from @isa-rc28.bsky.social, presented by RC president @jenniebrand.bsky.social.
August 7, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So excited to receive this award on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and 27 other coauthors!
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My today's Substack.
New Capitalism II:
Compositional vs income inequality
Are all class-based societies unequal?
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Compositional vs income inequality
Are all class-based societies unequal?
branko2f7.substack.com/p/new-capita...
New Capitalism II: Compositional vs income inequality
Are all class-based societies unequal?
branko2f7.substack.com
July 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
My today's Substack.
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Very pleased that our local projections dif-in-dif paper is now out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Joint with @dgirardi.bsky.social, Jorda, and Taylor.
It's a tool that we think many applied economists will find useful (indeed many already have).
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It's a tool that we think many applied economists will find useful (indeed many already have).
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July 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Very pleased that our local projections dif-in-dif paper is now out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Joint with @dgirardi.bsky.social, Jorda, and Taylor.
It's a tool that we think many applied economists will find useful (indeed many already have).
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It's a tool that we think many applied economists will find useful (indeed many already have).
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IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9
Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature
Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...
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July 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9
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The Opposite of Doom
anti-doomer sentence of the day: "Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last"
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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July 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The Opposite of Doom