"Alle sprechen über die Bedeutung von Weiterbildung im Strukturwandel - doch noch immer erreicht sie zu wenige [...]", meint Martin Ehlert, Leiter des #NEPS am
@wzb.bsky.social
. Er leitet beim diesjährigen #LERNBPF25 das Forum II "Weiterbildung inklusiv, digital und zukunftsorientiert gestalten".

You: "I should really submit that abstract on wealth inequality."
Also you: waits until the last possible second.

🔥 THE LAST POSSIBLE SECOND IS NOW 🔥

CfP for our Wealth Conference closes APRIL 28.

Submit or regret it!
www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates...

Social scientists: there's still room for sponsored questions on 2024 GSS Follow-On Survey, a web-based survey of ≈1000 respondents from the 2024 baseline GSS. Can link to baseline items, have a short panel. Follow-On fielded Jan-Feb 2025.

For more info: gss.norc.org/Documents/ot...

Please RT.

96% of published findings in psychology are statistically significant. There are 2 options. 1) We study effects with more than 90% power, and more than 90% probability of being true. 2) There is MASSIVE publication bias.

Hint: the answer is 2.

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

welcome, (fast ganz) neuer Kollege - seit Oktober 23 - an unserem Department, @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social

www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...

Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text.

“In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “

Should you start the abstract of your sociology article with a rhetorical question?

Maybe for Sociology of Education.

Probably not for Demography.

For enjoyers of binned scatter plots: "On Binscatter" by Cattaneo et al is now out in AER. It comes with Stata, R, and Python packages for binned scatter plots.

Interesting working paper on the effect of wealth taxation on the super-rich. 1%p increase in average wealth tax rate on the top 2% decreases the stock of wealthy taxpayers by at most 2%, reduction of at most .03% in employment and at most .1% in aggregate value-added www.nber.org/papers/w32153

Interesse an empirischer Bildungsforschung, Daten(management) und einer unbefristete E14-Stelle mit Dienstsitz Frankfurt?👇

Have you also been looking for literature on the new DiD vs. TWFE estimators in Sociology? Below is a paper that provides an intuitive explanation along with simulations! 👇

German social scientists on this website, does anyone know how to cite an article of the Grundgesetz (specifically art.6.1) with Zotero, APA style? Danke im Voraus :)

#sociology #demography

I am looking for a student assistant working with me on SOEP data generation and research in social stratification / inequalities in education www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...
Maybe interesting for your students?